Match Discussion: Round 11 vs Roosters @ McDonald Jones Stadium

[Life's Good]

What a feeling it must be for you guys. If you haven’t already, take a look at the Dragons run in 2005. From a terrible start to a strong finish. Brown knows what he’s doing.
That win will make your weekend sweeter.

 

[Seage]

And the two Roosters try were off a terrible penalty and Connor Watson mistake. Thats a huge credit to our defence.

 

[Lynoman]

Conner Watson mom for mine.

 

[Seage]

And did I miss something? I feel like i didnt see DSaf in the second half.

 

[Yosh]

Meh. Those two tries mean nothing. That defensive set after Ponga went off means everything. We drove them back again and again for the 80 minutes. Made their forward pack look like little school kids.

I didn't get to see much Cheif back in the day but he is gonna have some competition soon from Klemmer as the greatest forward in Knights history.

Pearce looks more like Joey every week!

 

[Burns]

Any word yet on injuries?

 

[Frederick]

 

[aqua_duck]

Any word yet on injuries?

Levi high ankle sprain I think I heard, could be anything from 1-2 weeks to 7-8 weeks

 

[Mr_Knightside]

What a game! That’s been our best win since that 2013 finals match against the Storm! This was our chance to stand up and make other teams take notice and they will have to now.

Our forward pack actually bullied the Roosters pack, we’ve been the whipping boys of the NRL now for so long it feels surreal to see us dominate a side that has been good for so long.

Imo the refs ruined the second half by giving the Roosters penalty after penalty that they didn’t deserve and the game became a bit of a farce for the last 20 mins or so. That tackle from JWH was a deliberate late shot and while the tackle itself wasn’t high he ran out from a position that he shouldn’t have been in anyway and hit Ponga late, he had absolutely no intention of pulling out of that tackle. As a minimum it should have been a penalty and maybe even a sin-bin. And then to rub it in further Tedesco slips over and runs into an arm and gets a penalty about 3 mins later.

All that being said if that had been last year after a couple of injury setbacks we would have dropped our bundle and become a rabble but if anything we actually increased our aggression and our forwards were brutal.

There really weren’t any bad performances tonight from any of our side. I’m so stoked after watching that and sort of disappointed that we have a bye next week because I wanted to see us rip into Souths.

 

[Jono078]

We currently sit on 4th and on averages, have the 4th best attack and 4th best defense.

Feels good to say we're a 4th placed team midway through the season, but really our record of 6-5 means were 2 losses in a row from being outside of the 8.

Bunnies up next. If we top them, man it is time to get excited about our prospects.

 

[Pedge1971]

Looking forward to the battle between Ramien and Latrell. If Ramien has a big game against Latrell it could just about secure him a blues jumper

Thanks Tinkerman Robinson for that. Nice player management dickhead!

 

[Zoidberg]

Another fantastic team performance. Everyone’s effort is full on, putting in the extras to get a loose ball, cover in defence, follow up a half break.
Still disappointed Cronk didn’t play to give us a better idea against a (closer to) full strength team but I reckon we still would’ve won on that performance.
Hearing the crowd on the tv was so good too, let’s keep up that atmosphere on all our home games.
Very proud Knights supporter.

 

[Silent Knight]

We f***ing killed them! Defense like that every week and we'll shake this competition to it's core.

In saying that though Souffs will be an even tougher nut to crack. Their forward pack will not be pushovers like Maria was.

 

[Noname36]

If someone had have told us last year that we'd have the 4th best defence mid way through this year I would have said they were crazy.

Attack yes but for a club that's historically abysmal defensively I'm very happy (Titans debacle aside).

 

[Bartwah]

Finally back home from the game. That is EASILY the best performance I’ve seen the boys play live. What an absolutely amazing crowd to be a part of.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Just got home from the game, WOW. Fantastic crowd, atmosphere and result. I was quietly confident we'd win but nothing like that haha . Fantastic game boys.

 

[Yosh]

The past five weeks, surely we have been the best team in the comp!!

 

[Silent Knight]

Where are all the Connor Watson doubters now?

I never doubted him. Not for one minute. Every week he comes out there brimming with confidence.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

Based on that performance, I reckon Watson for hooker against Souffs if Levi is out. Leaves Mann to possibly fullback with Ponga SOO.

 

[Pedge1971]

KRISTIAN WOOLF - TAKE A BOW YOU EFFING GENIUS!!!!!!

Sack Brown though right ol mate?