R20 | Knights 12-28 Roosters @ Hunter | Sunday 3.00pm

[Jobdog]

1. Darius Boyd
2. James McManus 3. Dane Gagai 4. Joey Leilua 5. Akuila Uate
6. Jarrod Mullen 7. Tyrone Roberts
8. David Fa'alogo 9. Danny Buderus 10. Willie Mason
11. Robbie Rochow 12. Beau Scott
13. Jeremy Smith

Interchange: 14. Craig Gower 15. Chris Houston 16. Neville Costigan 17. Korbin Sims
Reserve: 18. Zane Tetevano

1. Anthony Minichiello
2. Daniel Tupou 3. Michael Jennings 4. Shaun Kenny-Dowall 5. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
6. James Maloney 7. Mitchell Pearce
8. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves 9. Jake Friend 10. Luke O'Donnell
11. Boyd Cordner 12. Sonny Bill Williams
13. Frank-Paul Nuuausala

Interchange: 14. Daniel Mortimer 15. Mitchell Aubusson 16. Aidan Guerra 17. Sam Moa
Reserve: 19. Isaac Liu

Referees:
Jared Maxwell and Gavin Morris

Sideline Officials: Steve Carrall and Nick Beashel
Video Referees: Steve Clark and Justin Morgan


Holden Cup Under 20's Round 20
Knights v Roosters @ Hunter, Sun 12:45pm

VB NSW Cup Round 20
Newcastle Knights (NEW) v Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (CRO/MEL) @ Cessnock Sports Ground, Sat 5:00pm
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[Jono078]

Huge game! Hopefully a 25k+ crowd.

Should be a sweet game too.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Knights by 28

 

[Zoidberg]

I think we can get this. Being at home is a big advantage for us. Roosters give away quite a few penalties so we need to make the most of our attacking opportunities.

 

[Yosh]

Us by 1. Gower to kick the winning field goal.

 

[undertaker]

Stat of the day: If we beat the Roosters, it will be the first time we have won 4 in a row since Rd 11 2006. 7 years ago....hard to believe it's been that long since that happened.

 

[rnb11]

hopefully dave replaces snow he made just shy of 100m in just 9 carries and 25 tackles, no misses and a tackle bust in 25 odd minutes against penrith. not to mention his first game back after a bad injury. We will need that sort of go forward to go near making up for the loss of snowden.

 

[Yosh]

David Fa'alogo is amazing. Is Cuthbo back? I think we could really use what he offers the team.

 

[The Showstopper]

Our biggest match in years. Finally we are in a place to make a big statement and be optimistic about it.. Anyone who thinks this is just another game is kidding themselves. If we win this and then beat Melbourne we are entitled to believe we can win this thing. Please lads do not let this chance slip by. Boyd needs to really make his presence felt. He is the X factor we need to be at his best to win.

 

[Haffa]

Driving down from Brisbane on saturday for this one. Pumped. Feels like a semi-final.

 

[Jobdog]

Our biggest match in years. Finally we are in a place to make a big statement and be optimistic about it.. Anyone who thinks this is just another game is kidding themselves. If we win this and then beat Melbourne we are entitled to believe we can win this thing. Please lads do not let this chance slip by. Boyd needs to really make his presence felt. He is the X factor we need to be at his best to win.

Would not surprise me if Darius is just about our best player for the rest of the year. Much more involved last Sunday and it was about this time last year he started to actually look interested.

 

[RHCP]

I think we can win this. It's going to be massive and I think a big home crowd will be able to drive us home.

Part of the reason the Roosters have such staunch defence because they run the opposition ragged with their great attack. If we can slow down their play the balls and win the middle we should win this game.

 

[slotmachine]

We don't get numbers in the tackle so no hope of slow play the balls.

Our game is built around low mistakes and good kicking, so even if the opposition make 50-60m a set they're still coming off their own line so not in a position to threaten.

 

[Rod]

Team named. Fa'alogo starting for Snowden and Sims into the 17.

 

[raider89]

No Gidley, no Cuthbertson....do you think Benny's playing games?

 

[Rod]

No Gidley, no Cuthbertson....do you think Benny's playing games?

Gidley is out injured for at least another month, not sure what is up with Cuthbo though.

 

[raider89]

Gidley is out injured for at least another month, not sure what is up with Cuthbo though.

OK, I thought Gidley was supposed to be back last week - did he get re-injured?

 

[Rod]

Yeah he had a setback and they extended his return by at least another month.

 

[rnb11]

cuthbertson returned last weekend in the nsw cup and was quite average, must be the bald head. i'd say wayne is letting him getting more match fitness and hesitant changing a winning side.

 

[Nuffy]

So Dave F will be Kades replacement and Korbin onto the bench.

Everyone is going to need to go 10% harder to make up for Kades 160 plus metres.