Knights V Warriors :: Match Thread *Contains Spoilers*

[CycloneSteve]

I'm just totally annoyed that we have now lost 3 games out of the past 4, and the last two, to teams in the bottom 4 of the comp. A win last week sees us into 2nd position on the ladder and now we will be most likely out of the top 8 after this week. Bring on the bye, at least its a certain 2 points.

 

[Karmawave]

They missed Gidley heaps, but even more so highlighted in those kind of conditions because of the high workrate he has...

Can get away with not having Gids in the dry conditions ( and playing at home ) , but we were always up against it in NZ in the wet without him.

The Warriors, in reality, were the bet of the round.

 

[Jono078]

As I said in another thread, 8-6 looks very sh*t now.

The last 2 games we've lost to the Warriors and Eels? They were about the 2 sh*ttest teams in the comp when we went in to play them.

I hope all gets sorted after the BYE otherwise our season is gonna go off track very quick.

 

[Zoidberg]

I hate this.
The way we go, we can beat the better teams to win the premiership, but we lose to lower teams so we wont even make the top 8.
Soooooo damn frustrating.

 

[Apey]

As I said in another thread, 8-6 looks very sh*t now.

The last 2 games we've lost to the Warriors and Eels? They were about the 2 sh*ttest teams in the comp when we went in to play them.

I hope all gets sorted after the BYE otherwise our season is gonna go off track very quick.

agreed.

If we lose against the Rabbitohs I'm jumping off EAS :lol:

Goodbye world.. I hate how you taunt thee with signs of success then provide failure :crazy:

 

[Super Sub]

Soooooo angry right now, what a disgusting attacking performance... And that defence, where on earth was that stoic defensive attitude the rest of the year???? Arguably our best defensive game also happened to be our worst attacking game... I HATE playing the warriors at Mt Smart, bar none, I would rather go to Melbourne and try and beat the storm than try and beat Warriors at Mt Smart... I seriously hated watching that game. Only my ridiculously obsessive nature as a die-hard knights supporter kept me intersted, based on the abstract notion that we might, just might, manage to pull our finger out and score a try, hey maybe even win the game, or maybe even make the finals for once, but no. A disappointing performance when I expected so much better from them off the back of a terrible effort last week, wow, Johns retires so the boys use Bedsy as their crutch, then he heads off and Kurt becomes our crutch, well sorry fellas we just didn't have a crutch to prop ourselves up on tonight did we... What an abysmal performance, so frustrating!

I am writing this angry rant because I am a trying to work off the annual frustration of supporting the knights, every time I think we have turned a corner and are ready to take this competition on we lose to middle table teams who have only managed 2 or 3 wins between them over the last 6-7 weeks and have both lost to Cronulla before playing us. This happens every year, the boys build a bit of a name for themselves and then just play like total **** for the rest of the year!

It doesn't matter if we can beat the whole top 4, we're not finals material if we cannot comfortably beat the middle table teams. Smithy better bring a fire hose to the next training session and turn it on full blast on the whole squad and tell them whichever 17 players are the last left standing get to play our next game.

I'll probably cop some criticism for this post but I don't care, this has been building in me for about the last 3 years, and another look at the list of teams we have lost to tells the whole story, Tigers, Rabbitohs, Parramatta, Warriors, 4 games that if we are serious about winning we will mop the floor with... What a joke, I just wish it was a bit funnier.

 

[Serc]

Huge Wes hate in here tonight...and while he's been decidedly average all year, I can't remember him putting a foot wrong tonight aside from getting the ball bumped out in that tackle early in the game? Took a number of important kicks sent to his wing and made a lot of metres.

Frustrating (and boring) game to watch...still out of sorts across the park in general like last week...bring on the bye I guess!

 

[Karmawave]

Goodbye world.. I hate how you taunt thee with signs of success then provide failure :crazy:

That could be the theme for Brian Smith's entire coaching career...

 

[Michelle Leslie]

sorry bout the loss boys and girls
I am a shark but I had to cringe every time I saw Ben Rogers tonight you poor buggers
That guy is a head case.
Did any of you notice him shaking his head constantly in the first half.
I thought it was a prodigy video

You will be back guys
sh*t game
Get rid of rogers, he is a nutter

 

[Karmawave]

Yeah unfortunately our only backup half right now is playing for Penrith Michelle.

 

[Adsy]

Someone really should have told Mullo and Rogers that it was raining. Worst wet weather football I have ever seen from a pair of halves.

 

[Karmawave]

I still don't believe its panic stations at all.

I expected the loss tonight as I am sure most did - the Warriors started $1.50 favourites after all... Plenty of quality footy teams have gone over the NZ in the wet, and irrespective of season form, come away scoring hardly a point and on the end of a loss.

Can't win em all.

 

[CJG 182]

What a depressing game.

McDonnell apart from that early brain snap looked dangerous at times.

Wes is embarrassing two weeks in a row.

Sau's involvement in recent weeks is getting lower and lower

Hopefully Jimmy has a speedy recovery.

Uate... does he even care? For most of the night looked disinterested. And somebody please teach him the rules.

Rogers... well the less said the better. Should never be allowed to kick the ball, and should be told strictly stop trying his horrible chip n chases. He hasn't gotten to one yet. Matt Hilder to 5/8 next week.

Mullen had a shocker until the last 10-15. Did anyone notice how much Joey loves him? All night in commentary any time he could he was pumping up Mullen, it was amusing.

Of the forwards I thought Isaac had a pretty poor game in attack but was solid in defence.
Wicks is going from strength to strength. Faas's involvement also seems to have dropped. Taia suffered from playing centre. Hilder was great in the middle.

Abysmal game.

 

[Rolla]

I think the great Uate experiment is over. The guy offers nothing in both attack and defence. Rogers was very ordinary tonight but I am not quite ready to call for his head yet. House, Zeb and Wicksy were our best tonight I thought and Hilder was decent as well.

How can you single out Aku in that performance? He didnt do alot wrong? He worked hard....Do you expect him to run around their team each time he gets the ball with 7 men in front of him? he didnt get any quality ball.

I thought wicksy was great! I think rogers proved he can't lift his workrate without lifting errors. Without gidley to chime in in the halves rogers is not the man for the job. Mcdonell was ok, one lack of urgency (amongst other things)cost us a try and another should of seen vatuvai score, but offered nothing in the line in attack, perhaps this came from being new to the team. Mika wasnt bad, i think id have him there over Marv (who wasnt necessarily bad).

i hope we see a fresher team in a fortnight

 

[Serc]

Yeah unfortunately our only backup half right now is playing for Penrith Michelle.

...winning games with kicking games to Braith Anasta at fullback and missing a fair handful of tackles per game.

 

[CJG 182]

Unfortunately our only other option at the moment is sidelined with injury serc.

 

[Karmawave]

What a depressing game.

McDonnell apart from that early brain snap looked dangerous at times.

That early brain snap?! Anyone else other than Manu who doesn't have concrete for hands scores that try and we're down 12-0.

It's a HUGE error he has had in his game ever since he started his first grade career.

And then the drop ball trying to play it soon after?

On another day, against another team, there's 12 points right there he could have cost us.

The only thing dangerous about him, is to his own team.

He has been bumbling, stumbling and fumbling his way through his entire first grade career, and nothing has changed. In fact he outdid himself tonight with that first brain snap, and while it might not show in the scorebook , it sure won't be forgotten anytime soon by most footy fans who witnessed it...

 

[IanG]

What were they doing kicking when they weren't going for a 40/20 or on the last tackle. Way too much dropped ball for my liking. Though with it pissing down rain over there you could forgive that to a degree. I'm sure the Knights will be glad for the BYE next weekend.

Very disappointed. Lucky to be in it for most of the game with it only being 6-0 for most of the game.

 

[Karmawave]

...winning games with kicking games to Braith Anasta at fullback and missing a fair handful of tackles per game.

Oh was Braith in the team last week when he was Ch 9 man of the match?

 

[Liam]

Holy sh*t, Karma is the positive one in this thread.