To be fair I thought we were pretty decent in the first half, two of their tries were off kicks and they only scored once by putting it through the hands. If our attack was actually NRL quality we could have scored a couple of tries and still been in the match at half time.
The second half was crap and we started falling off tackles and getting destroyed up the middle. At least we scored points though.
My thoughts:
- the Saifitis were both good, they've finished the season strongly, I wasn't sold on Jacob earlier in the year but he's been great over the last few weeks
- Sione is a weapon, we can build our club around this kid and the Saifitis if we can hold onto them for the next 10 years (big if)
- Pythian was good on debut, great to see him score a try and seemed to pass well out of dummy half, would like to see more of him next year
- Denniss was terrible today, probably worst on field, hard to point the finger though because it probably doesn't even rate in the top 5 worst performances from Knights players this year which is saying something. He's in over his head but hopefully he'll be better for the run.
- Mamo was rubbish for most of the game but his try was pretty special which at least provided a highlight for the afternoon. For mine if he can't grow a passing game he has no hope of being a fullback, we had a situation earlier in the first half where we had a 3 on 2 on the left in the opposition 20 metre zone and Mamo threw a dummy and ran it himself and lost the ball, any other team would have scored there, literally any other team...
- We have been getting absolutely killed by the refs all year, there were some absolutely BS penalties that have gone against us and I can't remember the last 50/50 that went our way. Hopefully next year will be different.
