Around the Grounds

[ryan.a87]

Our defence hasn’t been the problem per se

we just make so many errors in attack that we are defending so much and fatigue sets in

if we just hold onto the friggin ball, they won’t be as gassed and the points agasint should drop a fair bit

 

[Woody90]

Our defence has been fine.

Our problem is that our “attack” and recurrent errors keep putting us on the back foot.

Obviously more time having to defend our line means more tries conceded. To be honest I think other than the Dogs I’d say we’ve shown a lot more in defence than most teams, but it’s not going to mean anything if we can’t score points or hold the ball.

 

[Jono078]

I'd argue this has been our best defence of the last 10 years - and that's with the added pressure of a shit attack and being first in errors.

We get those other things clicking then we very well could have conceded half the points we have so far.

 

[Mr_Knightside]

It all comes back to dropping less ball. Pretty simple.

I don’t even care if the attack takes a little while to click as long as we are giving ourselves a chance in games by controlling the ball and controlling the game. At the moment we’re doing neither and we’re digging ourselves a hole.

 

[Yosh]

What's everyone's opinion of Dan Saifiti so far? I know he was bit of a meme here but the general concensus is that he has been great for the Phins this season.

 

[perverse]

What's everyone's opinion of Dan Saifiti so far? I know he was bit of a meme here but the general concensus is that he has been great for the Phins this season.

Dans problem wasn't that he was a terrible player. Never was. It was that he was considerably overpaid. Still has a drop ball and silly moment in him though.

Our biggest problem with recruitment lately seems to be that we're very keen to offload the overpaid players (good) but seem quite hopeless at having an able replacement lined up before offloading (bad). Our pack is very under strength this year, and a good part of it is because we didn't replace Dan. We just marched on and expected a bunch of kids to fill the gap.

 

[slotmachine]

Our pack is very under strength this year, and a good part of it is because we didn't replace Dan. We just marched on and expected a bunch of kids to fill the gap.

Going to be worse in 2026

 

[Mr_Knightside]

Going to be worse in 2026

Yeah that’s a possibility but I doubt the current brains trust thinks that the situation with our front row is going to work long term. Clearly we need to recruit a couple of good first grade quality front rowers.

 

[Haffa]

We are getting the spoon. Parramatta might score more points today than we have all year.

 

[Knight Tales]

Yeah that’s a possibility but I doubt the current brains trust thinks that the situation with our front row is going to work long term. Clearly we need to recruit a couple of good first grade quality front rowers.

Brains trust?

 

[Burwood]

Consistency from match officials ruins the NRL. Schiller gets binned, Moses gets away with just a penalty.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Consistency from match officials ruins the NRL. Schiller gets binned, Moses gets away with just a penalty.

Consistency is overrated!

I would be happy if Knights were less consistent with their performance.

 

[Yosh]

Wish we threw the $1.3m at Moses for 5 years instead!

 

[Woody90]

Wish we threw the $1.3m at Moses for 5 years instead!

You realise he was never available right?

 

[Yosh]

You realise he was never available right?

Hence the wish bit.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Dom dropped to reserves

 

[Woody90]

Dom dropped to reserves

Wouldn’t be surprised if the Roosters try and offload him. I’d take him back if they were willing to chip in a large amount of his salary. We’re short winger depth. He’d need a lot of work though and not sure we can take on another error prone player right now.

 

[Knight Tales]

Dom is clearly not happy at the Roosters. He lacks the swagger he had here. I believe he’d return tomorrow if a deal could be struck. It won’t be.

 

[ryan.a87]

Will trade Cogger and Hastings for Dom and Watson plz

 

[HarVeeGee]

The only Roosters players I’d be keen to poach are Nafahu Whyte, Siua Wong or Blake Steep.