Match Discussion: Round 21 vs Melbourne @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton / Awabakal

[Woody90]

"What about the Storm? Couldn't even beat the Knights leading 12-0"

 

[Zoidberg]

- So happy with the performance and the win. That’s our new standard. Need to play like that (or better) in all our games.
- Can’t believe Storm got more set restarts than we did. All night they were so slow to get off us.
- A few sets we had in the attacking zone in the last 15 when we were only up by 6, and KP didn’t touch the ball. I get that you have to change it up but use your strengths.

 

[Nuke]

I just wanna say, before I go through 16 pages of posts about this game thus far:

Suck a big, fat one, Melbourne.

It's always a good day when Newcastle wins and Melbourne loses. And when it's Newcastle who causes Melbourne to lose, it's just that much better. 2nd only to Newcastle beating Brisbane.

 

[Pleb]

Did Daniel Saifiti not get back in 2nd half didn’t notice. Really hope he gets a reaming embarrassing that we are a better team with our highest paid forward not on the field

 

[mozza91]

God damn that was erotic!
Plenty of great performances tonight. That’s the best 80 minutes we’ve put together in years.

Special mention to Crossland he’s improving each week and was close to our best tonight. Fitzy deserves a wrap too he was enormous.

Also Hethrington gets daps aswell. Didn’t even slap anyone and there’s a heap of pricks in that Melbourne side who deserve a slap.

 

[Apey]

Yeah Crossland had maybe his best game for us. You notice his effort plays more when he's making less error plays.

Up the lads.

 

[Woosh]

The whole side played with balls tonight.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

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The whole side played with balls tonight.

He was asking for a punch tonight

 

[Apey]

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The whole side played with balls tonight.

@SLRBRONCOS (behave)

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

@SLRBRONCOS (behave)

good lord that is hot

 

[mozza91]

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The whole side played with balls tonight.

Gags is a lucky man

 

[Apey]

How good is getting the NRLW and NRL double though. One of those rare weekends where it's not absolutely depressing following this club.

 

[Nuke]

Having now read all 16 pages, based on the comments, I am very happy that I missed the first 15mins of the game.
I turned it on, and within 30secs, Dom scored and the game was -mostly- flowing our direction.

A good all-round performance today. I am absolutely stoked.
Up the Knights!

I can't wait to be cheering them on in person in 2 weeks here in Perth. I was a tad concerned for a lot of the season that it would just be a disappointing day that day.

 

[Haffa]

Having now read all 16 pages, based on the comments, I am very happy that I missed the first 15mins of the game.
I turned it on, and within 30secs, Dom scored and the game was -mostly- flowing our direction.

A good all-round performance today. I am absolutely stoked.
Up the Knights!

I can't wait to be cheering them on in person in 2 weeks here in Perth. I was a tad concerned for a lot of the season that it would just be a disappointing day that day.

The first 10 minutes were dreadful. It looked like they were going to get flogged by 50+

 

[Woody90]

The first 10 minutes were dreadful. It looked like they were going to get flogged by 50+

Regardless of where we finish this year, there’s no doubt we are improving. Last season we definitely would have lost that by 50+ after being deadset asleep for the first 10 minutes.

 

[Nuke]

That's what I was referring to. The comments here from those first 10mins were painting a very dire picture. How quick we are to judge the attitude / coach / everything when the game doesn't go right. I'll put my hand up too. Plenty of times I'm doing this too, and no doubt, I'd've been doing the same today had I seen the opening minutes as evefyone else did.

 

[Knight Tales]

Cowboys into the 8 and now we have Souths and Parra Looking over their shoulders.

 

[Nuke]

I just had a peek at the ladder too. Most amazing thing, compared to goodness-knows how many previous years, is the +/- column. We're on +50.

'+' anything is amazing for us. Okay, that 66-nil win over Canterbury did the trick for us, but I'msure in recent years we're -90 or more by now.

 

[Not_Chicken_Hunter]

We should win this easily

Yep

 

[Old dog]

Watched it late, taped, was very down hearted ar down 12-0 early then we fought back. slowly back in it, DSaf injured but not a loss, Thompson amd JSaf . Hetherington, Hethereringtondid well and Croker killed them. gamble had a little mixed game but was his best, hard to find a not so good when all were good. Our back five were very good, our halves were good, bit disappointed in Elliott, seems to make some bad choices when to run and pass