Red and Blue Knight said:
Yeh we get abused by other fans if we say "We have key players injured"
Just comes to show what were capable of near full strength and why injury management has to be our main off season focus.
We will have a gun side next year and i'll be slipping a confident $100 on us for the premiership, i think we'll give it a real shake.
The problem being that opposition fans are ill-informed of the Knights' improving players. One fan came on this forum recently and bagged out Clint Newton as a waste of space... he clearly hadn't seen Newton's incredible performance. Others are not aware how good David Seage is as a fullback... hence they look over Seage's name in the list of injuries and label him a small-time premier-leaguer, which is far from the case.
The point being that if you add Matt & Kurt Gidley, Reynoldson, Brown, Mullen, Thaiday and others to our existing team, and have the likes of Hall and others fit and ready to come in as back-ups, the Knights are in a far better position. Nevertheless, the club had lost some steel, some toughness before now.
The most encouraging thing is that, in the past month, the Knights have regained their toughness... if you maintain such an intensity for more than just a few games, you're not wooden-spoon contenders. Defensively, the difference is pronounced.
