Round 25 | Canterbury 32-22 Newcastle @ ANZ | Sat 27th August | Kick-off: 5.30pm

[Rusty]

Absolutely f**king woeful.

Kurt Gidley's not a captain's arsehole. Always cames up with errors when we are under pressure.

 

[CycloneSteve]

See, that is what you are SUPPOSED to do when you have the ball inside your opposition 20. Mount pressure and score. Not that hard Knights

 

[Matt23]

26 unanswered points in the 2nd half is unacceptable, too many shirt grabbers

 

[aqua_duck]

We are a disgrace, first up contact in the tackle is abysmal, worse than Toyota cup standard, they just offloading at will

 

[RABK]

Boys against men in defense, they are making 20 metres every run. Really pathetic second half, they simply don't deserve to be in the finals so this is only justice.

 

[K-Man]

Does Rick Stone have the worst half time speech in the NRL? I honestly do blame him because it has happened too many times. Of all teams, we should NEVER be complacent in a second half.... ever. But we are all the time, and Stone just wears this dumb look like "oh I didn't see this coming. We will work on it for next week". I'm over it

 

[Tom155]

heartless, pathetic what more can i say?

 

[RABK]

They should be made to walk the F3 home. I'm no captain emo - but that was simply inexcusable. Absolutely disgraceful effort and Stone and the lot of them ought to be given 10 lashes of a whip first thing monday morning.

 

[K-Man]

There is only one positive - I can stop thinking about the ridiculous dream I started having a few weeks about us actually being able to make a serious challenge in the finals.

Now at least we don't have to suffer last-round heartache against the Bunnies... they will do us by 30 and that will be that. What a pathetic second half.

I'm pretty happy Stone has been demoted.

 

[Nuffy]

Nothing to say really, been watching and in utter disbelief.

Teams that have got nothing to play for have more heart than we do, frankly the top 8 will be embarassing if we are it. Souths deserve it far more because they have put in a run and are in form.

I am sick to the back teeth of hearing Knights players b*llshit on about spirit, heart and doing it for the fans. The reality is that they are kidding themselves more than us. The club had spirit but its long gone squander by the current group of pretenders.

Frankly, the rot set in when the below strength Cowboys towelled up our team of rubbish footballers.

Nothing more to say really, other than Bennett has got far more work to do than he can possibly imagine.

Mullen and Kidley are arguably the worse halves pairing in the comp, with nearly 300 FG games between them. Let them both go and lets start again.

 

[Matt23]

9/10 that try doesn't get awarded, I guarantee, if that had been at the other end of the field it would have been ruled lost ball.

 

[Silent Knight]

If I was Rick Stone I wouldn't even walk down to the change room after the game. I'd walk out of ANZ Stadium, jump in my car and drive back to Newcastle.

 

[Mr48Volts]

Bring on Wayne Bennett

 

[Alex28]

Farewell 2011 season. It was real.

The most pathetic second half we have put in this year. Disgraceful.

If by some miracle we do manage to beat Souths next week we are wasting our time, and most importantly the time of Rugby League fans by playing. Give it to a team with a bit more heart.

 

[aqua_duck]

Ryan Stig, party's over, he's been worked out

 

[Matt23]

Heartless, spineless, downright disgraceful performance.

 

[aqua_duck]

I'm glad De Gois is gone, he's simply rubbish

 

[Silent Knight]

Farewell 2011 season. It was real.

The most pathetic second half we have put in this year. Disgraceful.

If by some miracle we do manage to beat Souths next week we are wasting our time, and most importantly the time of Rugby League fans by playing. Give it to a team with a bit more heart.

I would gladly give our top 8 spot to any other team based on this performance, but it had to be f***ing Souffs, the gutter trash of the league.

 

[Fast Eddie]

Ryan Stig, party's over, he's been worked out

True that.

 

[Rudderriffic]

One of the worst 40 minutes any Newcastle side has played ever. No heart when defending, wasteful fifth tackle options, and horrible ball control.