The Knights were always going to struggle, only a few changes in the team. They never had the cattle last year and they dont this year. So I expected them to be where they are at the moment.
we finished 8th last year, and our roster improved substantially over the off season, as did our coach.
only a few changes to the team?
Darius Boyd
Kade Snowden
Adam Cuthbertson
Alex McKinnon
Timana Tahu
Zeb Taia back from season ending injury
that's the list of new players compared to what we ran out with last year, then you have Gidley changing positions. so effectively 7 changes to the starting 17 alone. we had blokes like Dan Tolar, Cameron Ciraldo and Shannon McDonnell running out week after week as regular first graders last year, and we made 8th. our team has changed plenty. unless your definition of "few" is substantially different to mine, you're talking out of your arse.
a NZ international, Junior Sau, is currently playing reserve grade for us. last year we would have run anyone with the tag "international" as a walk up start. actually, i don't even need to speculate on that, we
DID do that with Antonio Kaufusi.
we were playing much better football last year with a much worse roster. that is a disappointment in anyones eyes, and i'm not sure how you can spin it any other way. to say we were always going to struggle is nonsense - no-one knew what we were going to do, period. to this day, no-one really knows how we'll perform this year. we were, and still are, a completely unknown quantity.