Match Discussion: Round 9 vs Bulldogs @ Suncorp Stadium

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NRL 2019 - Round 9
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v Newcastle Knights
Suncorp Stadium, Milton (TICKETS)
Saturday 11 May 2019

Gates 1:30pm / Bulldogs v Knights 3pm / Warriors v Dragons 5:30pm / Storm v Eels 7:35pm

1. Nick Meaney 2. Jayden Okunbor 3. Kerrod Holland 4. Will Hopoate 5. Reimis Smith 6. Jack Cogger 7. Lachlan Lewis 8. Aiden Tolman 9. Jeremy Marshall-King 10. Dylan Napa 11. Josh Jackson 12. Corey Harawira-Naera 13. Rhyse Martin
Interchange: 14. Fa'amanu Brown 15. Danny Fualalo 16. Adam Elliot 17. Sauaso Sue 19. Kieran Foran 21. Marcelo Montoya 22. Ofahiki Ogden 23. Chris Smith

1. Kalyn Ponga 2. Edrick Lee 3. Hymel Hunt 4. Sione Mata'utia 5. Shaun Kenny-Dowall 6. Connor Watson 7. Mitchell Pearce 8. David Klemmer 9. Danny Levi 10. Daniel Saifiti 11. Lachlan Fitzgibbon 12. Mitchell Barnett 13. Tim Glasby
Interchange: 14. Kurt Mann 15. Herman Ese'ese 16. James Gavet 17. Josh King 18. Mason Lino 19. Pasami Saulo 20. Jamie Buhrer 21. Jesse Ramien

Referees: Matt Cecchin, Tim Roby
Sideline Officials: Rickey McFarlane, Chris McMillan
Video Referees: Steve Chiddy, Bryan Norrie

Feeder club info
Bulldogs: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs (NSWRL: Canterbury Cup, Jersey Flegg Cup U20s)
Knights: Newcastle Knights (NSWRL: Canterbury Cup, Jersey Flegg Cup U20s)
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[Loose Cannon]

Heading up, anyone else?

 

[Yosh]

Us by 13 again. Can't see us losing in this form. We will keep improving and go 6-7 wins in a row before we lose.

 

[Knight Vision]

Us by 13 again. Can't see us losing in this form. We will keep improving and go 6-7 wins in a row before we lose.

Can see us winning the next 2 - Then we have Roosters ( home ) and then the bye. So another 6 points come the end of round 12 we should be sitting on 12 points.

Then we have Bunnies ( away after SOO ) and Storm ( away ) - round 14 = 12 points with 11 more rounds ( 22 points to go ) in which we can lose no more than 3 games to have any hope of making the 8

Hope we can cause an upset out of the Roosters, Bunnies, Storm games.

 

[Silent Knight]

Heading up, anyone else?

Yep, I live up here. Knights membership team said my ticket will be in the mail this week. Going to the players event as well.

 

[Yosh]

Can see us winning the next 2 - Then we have Roosters ( home ) and then the bye. So another 6 points come the end of round 12 we should be sitting on 12 points.

Then we have Bunnies ( away after SOO ) and Storm ( away ) - round 14 = 12 points with 11 more rounds ( 22 points to go ) in which we can lose no more than 3 games to have any hope of making the 8

Hope we can cause an upset out of the Roosters, Bunnies, Storm games.

Anything can happen around SOO time. Hopefully Ponga and Klemmer can back up. Will Ponga be fullback fulltime for the Maroons now?

 

[Swarzey]

Would expect this team, in the same form of the last two weeks, to absolutely slaughter this Bulldogs team. But I won't quite hold my breath. Can't see us losing though.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Seems like one of those games that we should win and win well, but will probably get flogged in.

 

[Spot On]

A much harder game this week imo. Warriors were absolute shit on the w/e.

We"ll be in trouble if the Dogs can control Klem's metres.

 

[Mr_Knightside]

The bulldogs have been tough to beat in the last few weeks. They won’t be pushovers even though their side doesn’t look great on paper. If we aren’t switched on we’ll be beaten like we were last year.

If we turn up with the same attitude and application that we have over the last 2 weeks I think we’ll win but it won’t be a flogging, I’m thinking it’ll be 20-10 or something similar.

 

[Zoidberg]

We need to have that same attitude every week. There are no easy wins in the comp.

 

[Yosh]

A much harder game this week imo. Warriors were absolute shit on the w/e.

We"ll be in trouble if the Dogs can control Klem's metres.

I dunno. We aren't really reliant on him. He is great to have on the team but Pearce is kicking like genius, Levi is dynamic out of dummy half and our other forwards are making left right and centre.

 

[Spot On]

We are extremely reliant on him atm. Each time Klem has registered 200m + we have won.

Limit Klemmer to just over 100m and we will struggle Yosh. I doubt Pay will encourage his middles to let Klemmer roll forward as the Warriors did last week. He'll be hit a lot lower surely.

Levi can help immensely no doubt and his running will be needed. Amazing how good he can be when encouraged to play to his strengths.

Pearce's short kicking game is far from genius when it counts mate. Hopefully he can address that now he has found some form.

 

[Pedge1971]

Yep. Klemmers metres get us on the front foot and little fast guys like Levi, Watson and Ponga have the platform to do their thing. Been very evident in the last 2 weeks.

 

[NoSchitSherlock]

Ramien only picked on the extended bench with Sione at centre again. I reckon that will change.
https://www.newcastleknights.com.au/news/2019/05/07/knights-v-bulldogs-round-9-nrl-team/

 

[Matt23]

I'm moderately confident here, I wouldn't be surprised if we lost narrowly in golden point

 

[Silent Knight]

Did anyone claim their free ticket for this game as part of their Qld Knights membership and end up with a dud seat? They’ve put me behind the video screen FFS.

 

[aqua_duck]

Assuming Ramien comes in for Sione and Sione moves to the bench, it'll be interesting to see who drops off out of Ese'ese, Gavet and King.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

Assuming Ramien comes in for Sione and Sione moves to the bench, it'll be interesting to see who drops off out of Ese'ese, Gavet and King.

Hopefully Gavet

 

[PhilGould]

I'm glad King replaced the feet that used to be at the end of his arms with actual hands but I'd still drop him over Ese'ese and Gavet any day.