Match Discussion: Round 3 vs Gold Coast @ Cbus Super Stadium, Robina / Yugambeh

[perverse]

It's been a while since we've seen Ponga be this ineffective. It's a bit of a shock but hopefully we don't see too many of them this year. It's really hard to express how bad Cogger was for us tonight. Killed everything including our spirit it seems.

 

[Tom155]

less forward the one they let go for the GC 1st try

 

[Loose Cannon]

Vossy claims Tits can put the cue away. 79.38 and 26-6. Big call.

 

[Dr Dr Gimedanews]

forget about the lack of Ponga, Cogger bad etc. It's not about the points we didnt score - we let in 26

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

And the decade long curse continues...

 

[Zoidberg]

Terrible performance. Brings my expectations back to reality. We are not even close to being a top 4 team.

 

[slotmachine]

Absolutely putrid. Not sure if KP or cogger was worse.

Lost the game in the first 15 with lack of patience, needed to get points and momentum and were chasing the game when we came away with zilch

 

[Walk On Home Boy]

I'm just glad the club has long since identified the biggest problem at the club and have moved Heaven and Earth to fix it.

Cogger must surely have played his last match for us.

 

[Seage]

Terrible performance. Brings my expectations back to reality. We are not even close to being a top 4 team.

To be fair, what made you think we were? You've been around long enough. You know what we are. We know what we are.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Absolutely putrid. Not sure if KP or cogger was worse.

Lost the game in the first 15 with lack of patience, needed to get points and momentum and were chasing the game when we came away with zilch

KP was definitely off his game tonight but he was nowhere near as bad as Cogger.

I would honestly prefer if we threw Jesse Southwell at halfback than to play Cogger in the team ever again.

 

[Zoidberg]

To be fair, what made you think we were? You've been around long enough. You know what we are. We know what we are.

Blind optimism.
I have seen enough to show we could possibly be close to pushing for a top 4 with consistent performances and a bit of luck. We get neither from this team.

 

[The Axe of Druss]

The worst performance I've seen us put in for quite awhile. Definitely Pongas worst ever in our colours

I got paid double overtime to attend so there's at least that

 

[Woody90]

Look, it obviously just wasn’t our night which it never is up there, so I’m not reading into this game specially…BUT, what always concerns me is how if we have one of these games where a couple of players are off and things just aren’t going right, the whole team collectively loses their minds and it goes from bad to diabolical.

We’ll bounce back as we usually do after one of them but when you see the top teams like Penrith and Storm, if a few of their key players are off it doesn’t effect the rest of the squad.

The only players that seemed immune to it tonight were Best and Gagai. They were way too good for that team out there tonight.

 

[slotmachine]

with consistent performances

Been over 20 years since we've seen that from a Knights side.

 

[perverse]

God I can't believe how bad that was. The game had bad juju written all over it, but I honestly didn't expect it to be that bad.

 

[Rod]

As others noted it wasn't even the forwards that were out that were the problem. We were more than matching them in the forwards (I will note that Croker was strong today) but the spine was just horrific. No direction or structure whatsoever.

Ponga had one of those games where he looks tired of having to do everything himself. Last week he was constantly over calling Cogger at first receiver. Tonight he didn't bother.

Sharpe will be fine but made a few errors tonight. Put it down to exuberance.

Cogger, nuff said and Phoenix had a shocker.

Marzhew was the other one who was awful but his runs out of our end are so valuable to us that we just have to take the games like this from him on the chin.

 

[Zoidberg]

Been over 20 years since we've seen that from a Knights side.

2015-2017 were pretty consistent.

 

[Woody90]

forget about the lack of Ponga, Cogger bad etc. It's not about the points we didnt score - we let in 26

Tbf the Titans usually score a lot of points. The idea is that you have to out score them and that’s not going to happen when you make a heap of errors, your halfback is horrible, and best attacking weapon wasn’t spotted off Nobbys after he made some errors early on.

 

[Apey]

I'd put Hastings back in and I'm very anti Hastings at this point, lol.

 

[Walk On Home Boy]

Look, it obviously just wasn’t our night which it never is up there, so I’m not reading into this game specially…BUT, what always concerns me is how if we have one of these games where a couple of players are off and things just aren’t going right, the whole team collectively loses their minds and it goes from bad to diabolical.

We’ll bounce back as we usually do after one of them but when you see the top teams like Penrith and Storm, if a few of their key players are off it doesn’t effect the rest of the squad.

The only players that seemed immune to it tonight were Best and Gagai. They were way too good for that team out there tonight.

A lot of it is leadership or lack thereof. Frizell is quiet, Gagai isn't a leader, Ponga definitely isn't.

I honestly believe if we had say, Gamble out there tonight, things go a lot differently.