Around the Grounds

[Jono078]

Depleted and out of form Chooks side beat us at home. It’s was worse than the Parra game for mine.

That's fair. Nice we have a couple of solid options I suppose..

 

[mozza91]

That's fair. Nice we have a couple of solid options I suppose..

It’s nice that we’re near the end of the season and a 2 point loss to the Roosters was our worst performance. It would’ve been close to our best in 2022.

 

[Woody90]

Honestly the fact that we’re all talking about how bad we were in the Roosters game and it being our worst of the season shows we’ve definitely made improvement this year. If we’d played that game last season it would have been considered one of our better ones because at least we were competitive and not flogged.

Obviously we were so bad last year we don’t want just improving on shit to be the benchmark and we have a whole heap of improvement still left to do.

 

[Volcom6685]

To be fair we were terrible in the first half . Second half we dominated just couldn’t finish our opportunities. We were tearing their edges to shreds

Honestly the fact that we’re all talking about how bad we were in the Roosters game and it being our worst of the season shows we’ve definitely made improvement this year. If we’d played that game last season it would have been considered one of our better ones because at least we were competitive and not flogged.

Obviously we were so bad last year we don’t want just improving on shit to be the benchmark and we have a heap of improvement still left to do.

 

[Rod]

The Eels performance was comfortably the worst. They botched about 5 tries and still scored 43, it should have been 65+. We looked totally disinterested that day.

 

[Woody90]

Penriths defence is incredible. Can’t see anyone beating them for the next couple of years.

 

[Jono078]

Penriths defence is incredible. Can’t see anyone beating them for the next couple of years.

They’ll poop themselves when Gamble and Ponga are running Towards them!

 

[Jono078]

Just thought I'd share some interesting and positive reading;

I'm big on stats and data and have a monte carlo simulation which ranks the Knights as the 5th best team as of right now - Behind the NRL's top 4 teams and marginally ahead of the Rabbitohs.

Also we currently sit in 9th and here's how we've faired against teams above us;

2 games against the Panthers, both losses but one could have easily been a win
1 game against the Broncos. A loss which was also minutes away from a win
2 games against the Warriors. We're 1-1 and could have been 2-0 with a bit of luck
1 game against the Storm. A beautiful win
2 games against the raiders. 2 great wins
0 games against the Rabbitohs
1 game against the Sharks - a bad loss
1 game against the Cowboys - a narrow loss

All up that's 10 games for 4 wins, which could have been 7 wins with a bit of luck. Basically my point is, there's no one we can't hang with on our day. You can say those teams had off days against us but I'd like to think we forced that a bit. We've also come on leaps and bounds since some of those losses.

Today is a big day though. We lose to the Dolphins and it's basically season over and it undoes the last 4 weeks worth of good work.

 

[Yosh]

We should be beating the Dolphins by 40 today. That's why I'm scared. However, I am slowly becoming a believer and I think we will win comfortably.

 

[Jono078]

Further to the above, we can further break down the 10 games as follows;

You can see below we've actually scored more tries than our opponents and usually it's the goal kicking that is the difference in those tighter games.

	Games	Knights tries	Knights goals	Oppenent tries	opponent goals	Other notes
1	L 12-20 Warriors	2	2	4	2	Kalyn went off for HIA in the 68th minute and we were down 14-12 at the time. Crossland sinbin in the 57th minute as well
2	W 24-14 Raiders	5	2	2	2
3	W 34-24 Warriors	6	5	4	4
4	L 15-16 Panthers	3	1	2	1	Panthers converted 2/2 penalty goals throughout the game and we had 0/1. 2 Nathan Cleary field goals to win
5	L 16-18 Cowboys	3	2	3	3	Goal kicking the difference
6	L 6-26 Sharks	1	1	4	4
7	L 20-24 Broncos	4	2	4	4	Goal kicking the difference plus conceded the final try in the last 5 minutes of the game
8	L 12-20 Panthers	2	2	4	2
9	W 26-18 Storm	5	2	3	3
10	W 28-6 Raiders	4	4	1	1
	TOTAL	35	23	31	26
			65.7%		83.9%

 

[Yosh]

Ponga's goal kicking has imprived out of sight recently. His percentage is rising slowly but his technique looks elite! Hopefully we start winning those tight games.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

We should be beating the Dolphins by 40 today. That's why I'm scared. However, I am slowly becoming a believer and I think we will win comfortably.

I couldn't care less if we win by 40 or by 4. Just as long as we win lol

 

[Zoidberg]

I couldn't care less if we win by 40 or by 4. Just as long as we win lol

Agree. However a good win of 18 plus points will be a bit easier on the nerves.

 

[perverse]

Our edges are just so lethal.

 

[Knight Tales]

Hopefully Souths and Cronulla beat the living crap out of each other tonight.

 

[Tom155]

Great save by Latrell

 

[Tom155]

Bunnies have been awful so far

About to be 14-0

 

[Knight Tales]

Souths are cooked. Latrell is way off the pace. We need an in form Souths and Cronulla IMO. It does not help us if we cruise to victory over them. We need them to
Push us and bring finals intensity early. So if we do get there we are ready.

 

[Knight Tales]

And yet no one can score points like them. Cody Walker is a freak .

 

[Yosh]

Doesn't Latrell hate the Knights? Probably score 8 tries against and injure 5 of our players in the process.