Match Discussion: Round 20 vs Cowboys @ 1300SMILES Stadium

[Old dog]

Watson now in doubt too, Cogger and Lamb travelling up on standby *shudders*

Cogger listed Lamb not

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Cogger listed Lamb not

I should have said or not and lol

 

[Pedge1971]

If the 2 Dans stand up again amd get us parity in the middle then we have a good chance is all our backs as listed are fit.

If KP is not fit dont risk him. Young Meaney will be solid at the back if not quite that explosive.

 

[Yosh]

If the 2 Dans stand up again amd get us parity in the middle then we have a good chance is all our backs as listed are fit.

If KP is not fit dont risk him. Young Meaney will be solid at the back if not quite that explosive.

I don't want to sound like I'm hounding the guy but I would have loved to have seen Denniss be the one to move to the Dogs and us kept Meaney to play back up fullback, wing and centre...

 

[Still Nutty]

Aaahh...the Perenara factor to contend with again .

If we can continue to improve and build on the last 2 weeks AND we get back up to having our completions around or up above 85% we should be able to grind this out.

I hope Ponga is good to go and I think we are defensively much stronger with Denniss out of our backline.

I also hope they don't give us the double whammy of having Scott and Mclean right to come back for this game

 

[Frederick]

Came across this little tidbit in the NRL.com preview of the game:

"Knights Stat Attack: Newcastle have the best set completion rate in the Telstra Premiership this season with 80%. The Cowboys were the best in the competition last year, alongside the Warriors, also with 80%."

 

[Haffa]

Came across this little tidbit in the NRL.com preview of the game:

"Knights Stat Attack: Newcastle have the best set completion rate in the Telstra Premiership this season with 80%. The Cowboys were the best in the competition last year, alongside the Warriors, also with 80%."

I’d love to know the percentage of a pointless run or shit kick on the end of those sets.

 

[Frederick]

I’d love to know the percentage of a pointless run or shit kick on the end of those sets.

I'd imagine that when Pearce was out and Cogger/Lamb were running the show it would be somewhere up near 98%

 

[Old dog]

Came across this little tidbit in the NRL.com preview of the game:

"Knights Stat Attack: Newcastle have the best set completion rate in the Telstra Premiership this season with 80%. The Cowboys were the best in the competition last year, alongside the Warriors, also with 80%."

So why aren't we doing better, hanging on to the ball is not all its cracked up to be or have we ignored other relevant stats and concentrated on the one success, so completion rates are invalid to success. If I am wrong please explain,

 

[Spot On]

As has been said ad nauseum this year, our defence has been our problem.

 

[slotmachine]

So why aren't we doing better,

Worst defence in the comp.
Attack with cogger/lamb at half not much better

 

[Knight Vision]

Aaahh...the Perenara factor to contend with again

This cant be understated IMHO , the guy hates us for some reason. Was going to tip us to win until I saw this post. Ummm , no 50/50 calls thats for sure, we are going to have a long day unless we are on song.

 

[PhilGould]

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Oh joy, so Cogger is back then

 

[PhilGould]

Cogger was decent when playing with Pearce earlier in the year. Hopefully he won't be as bad as he has been lately.

 

[Dave_]

I haven't been following reggies but why not Lamb over Cogger? I really don't know how Cogger could possibly a worse player and he's not here next season anyway.

 

[Zoidberg]

And another week with someone from our spine injured

 

[Glendale]

And another week with someone from our spine injured

So infuriating... It’s been since literally round 3!!

 

[mozza91]

Just keep Meaney at fullback and play Ponga at pivot. Cogger is not up to First Grade.

 

[Joel-22]

Just keep Meaney at fullback and play Ponga at pivot. Cogger is not up to First Grade.

If we're serious about winning this game - that's exactly what we would do.