Match Discussion: Round 22 vs Knights @ Hunter Stadium

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NRL 2016 - Round 22
Newcastle Knights v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Hunter Stadium, New Lambton (TICKETS)
Saturday 6 August 2016

Gates open 10:30am / U20s 10:40am / ISP NSW 12:40pm / NRL 3pm

1. Jake Mamo 2. Nathan Ross 3. Dane Gagai 4. Peter Mata'utia 5. Brendan Elliott 6. Jarrod Mullen 7. Trent Hodkinson 8. Sam Mataora 9. Danny Levi 10. Daniel Saifiti 11. Korbin Sims 12. Pauli Pauli 13. Jeremy Smith
Interchange: 14. Chris Adams 15. Pat Mata'utia 16. Jacob Saifiti 17. Mickey Paea 18. David Bhana

1. William Hopoate 2. Brett Morris 3. Josh Morris 4. Curtis Rona 5. Sam Perrett 6. Josh Reynolds 7. Moses Mbye 8. Aiden Tolman 9. Michael Lichaa 10. James Graham 11. Josh Jackson 12. Raymond Faitala-Mariner 13. David Klemmer
Interchange: 14. Sam Kasiano 15. Danny Fualalo 16. Tony Williams 17. Tim Browne

Referees: Henry Perenara, Chris Butler
Sideline Officials: Rohan Best, Belinda Sleeman
Video Referees: Bernard Sutton, Steve Chiddy, Ben Galea

ISP NSW
Mounties v Canterbury @ Aubrey Keech Reserve, Fri 8pm
Newtown v Newcastle @ Hunter Stadium, Sat 12:40pm

Head to Head
Overall 43 - Knights 20, Bulldogs 22, Drawn 1
At Hunter Stadium 19 - Knights 12, Bulldogs 7
Last 5 - Knights 3, Bulldogs 2​

 

[Whoosh]

Dogs 22 - 12

 

[Timmah]

We'll breeze to an early lead before Newcastle find their feet.

30-10

 

[Packy]

Geez we are not a very good team at the moment. We'll falling across the line against shit teams. Having said that I still honestly believe if we find a run of form we are a chance.

 

[Timmah]

On the contrary. When the Dragons were in their 2009-2011 prime they still fell to a pretty rubbish Canberra team. Newcastle are always a tough prospect at Hunter and despite not playing our best we still won comfortably. Yeah they came back to level it with momentum (40/20s will help that sort of thing) but we righted the ship, got possession back and controlled it til the end.

We're lacking some quality in our spine, no doubt about that, but we're still sitting in the top four with a brilliant forward pack. Our true test is NQ at Belmore in Round 25. If we're competitive there we're on the right track.