Round 25 V Knights

[Crush]

And Hornby

Unlikely.
Dean is Craigs son so he is a shoe in.
Timmins has been around the team for years and is a perfect replacement for Paul McGregor.
Mick Potter an experienced NRL coach.
Matt Head has done an amazing job with the ISP team

 

[Old Timer]

Our form today will answer our finals performance. It's unlikely to be good but I hope im wrong. They need to prove us fans wrong.

Our past 10 weeks form is there for all to see, so todays game will indicate very little unless we win by a huge margin and no despite all the recent losses 2 points is not a huge margin.
If anyone thinks that a victory over a team with nothing to play for and at least 4 players out is in anyway a form guide they are kidding themselves.
The even more curious thing for me is that if Lomax has a more than decent game will he be dropped for Aitken if he is fit next weekend?
I can here the "well the boys did the job for us in the early part of the season and there is no reason why they cant do it now" mantra coming out straight away.
Regardless of the result today no doubt the presser will be something to behold with Mc Fookknuckle's pearls of wisdom being an uplifting message for us all.
Stay tuned for more "despicable" behaviour by our unruly fan base.

 

[MilanDragon]

Come on lads! Put in a shift and get us a result - a big result. I’m not overly confident but there is still that 5% hope that just maybe we can pull something special out and go on a run.

Sadly it’s all to do with hope and not much to do with fact and form.

 

[getsmarty]

NRL FAN SURVEY


https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/08/31/nrl-official-fans-poll-have-your-say/

 

[getsmarty]

NRL Late Mail: Round 25 team news, updated team lists, player ins and outs
NRL Premiership

• August 31, 2018 10:31pm
• by Staff writers
• Source: FOX SPORTS

NRL Late Mail round 25.Source: FOX SPORTS
NEWCASTLE have lost veteran prop Jacob Lillyman for their clash with St George Illawarra on Saturday.

Lillyman was named on the bench to play his final NRL game before he retires at the end of the year, but a groin injury has seen him withdraw from the side.

JJ Felise has been promoted from the reserves.


Round 25
Tom Starling has been cleared by the NRL to make his first-grade debut.

Read on for all the Round 25 late mail and updated squads.


SATURDAY

Newcastle Knights v St George Illawarra Dragons at McDonald Jones Stadium, 3pm

Knights: 1. Nick Meaney 2. Ken Sio 3. Sione Mata’utia 4. Cory Denniss 5. Shaun Kenny-dowall 6. Jack Cogger 7. Mitchell Pearce 8. Herman Ese’ese 9. Danny Levi 10. Daniel Saifiti 11. Jamie Buhrer 12. Mitchell Barnett 13. Aidan Guerra

Interchange: 14. Tom Starling 15. Chris Heighington 17. Josh King 18. JJ Felise

Reserves: 19. Pasami Saulo 20. Brock Lamb

Players cut: 16. Jacob Lillyman 21. Luke Yates

Dragons: 1. Matthew Dufty 2. Nene Macdonald 3. Zac Lomax 4. Timoteo Lafai 5. Jordan Pereira 6. Kurt Mann 7. Ben Hunt 8. James Graham 9. Cameron McInnes 10. Leeson Ah Mau 11. Tyson Frizell 12. Tariq Sims 13. Jack de Belin

Interchange: 14. Jeremy Latimore 15. Jai Field 16. Blake Lawrie 17. Luciano Leilua

Reserves: 19. Patrick Herbert 20. Hame Sele

Players cut: 18. Reece Robson 21. Jacob Host

Late mail: The NRL has cleared young Tom Starling to play so he will make his debut off the bench.


https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/f1eed5439da41a5329a3ea7dc70ac02d

 

[ALSGI]

NRL FAN SURVEY


https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/08/31/nrl-official-fans-poll-have-your-say/

Pretty poor survey.
Off course they don’t ask any hard questions and nowhere to make a comment about anything.
Typical.

 

[Crush]

Our past 10 weeks form is there for all to see, so todays game will indicate very little unless we win by a huge margin and no despite all the recent losses 2 points is not a huge margin.
If anyone thinks that a victory over a team with nothing to play for and at least 4 players out is in anyway a form guide they are kidding themselves.
The even more curious thing for me is that if Lomax has a more than decent game will he be dropped for Aitken if he is fit next weekend?
I can here the "well the boys did the job for us in the early part of the season and there is no reason why they cant do it now" mantra coming out straight away.
Regardless of the result today no doubt the presser will be something to behold with Mc Fookknuckle's pearls of wisdom being an uplifting message for us all.
Stay tuned for more "despicable" behaviour by our unruly fan base.

Cmon OT. Its the last week of footy. First day of spring. The sun is shining, birds are cheaping!
I'm feeling positive that we will have a big game today. Hunt and Duff will bounce back to electric form, lomax will score a hatrick, JDB will jog instead of walk.
Its all pointing towards a premiership mate, dont be a hater.

 

[ALSGI]

Cmon OT. Its the last week of footy. First day of spring. The sun is shining, birds are cheaping!
I'm feeling positive that we will have a big game today. Hunt and Duff will bounce back to electric form, lomax will score a hatrick, JDB will jog instead of walk.
Its all pointing towards a premiership mate, dont be a hater.

What about Lafai? Is today the day he’s been building towards?

 

[ALSGI]

3 and a half hours to go people.

Time to polish the rego plates and get my medication from Dan Murphys.

 

[LINESPEED]

Our past 10 weeks form is there for all to see, so todays game will indicate very little unless we win by a huge margin and no despite all the recent losses 2 points is not a huge margin.
If anyone thinks that a victory over a team with nothing to play for and at least 4 players out is in anyway a form guide they are kidding themselves.
The even more curious thing for me is that if Lomax has a more than decent game will he be dropped for Aitken if he is fit next weekend?
I can here the "well the boys did the job for us in the early part of the season and there is no reason why they cant do it now" mantra coming out straight away.
Regardless of the result today no doubt the presser will be something to behold with Mc Fookknuckle's pearls of wisdom being an uplifting message for us all.
Stay tuned for more "despicable" behaviour by our unruly fan base.

If McTFD is retained the Latkens will be our centres for 2019/20 come what may.

Part of Hunt's obvious disillusionment is the fact that he knows that there's no one in the backline who line breaks with any regularity.
That's why he's better off at 9 - where he can have Frizell, Luc & Sims running off him with better speed?

 

[Old Timer]

If McTFD is retained the Latkens will be our centres for 2019/20 come what may.

Part of Hunt's obvious disillusionment is the fact that he knows that there's no one in the backline who line breaks with any regularity.
That's why he's better off at 9 - where he can have Frizell, Luc & Sims running off him with better speed?

You have made a great point here.
One centre who can only run in a straight line with no pass and the other centre, so slow that if he stands back to take a run up he will never make the hole the halves are trying to create.
JDB also causes that frustration when he loiters around the halves.
Widdop also must be pissed off with as well thus all the balls over the top or kicks for Nene.

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

Candidates below
Dean Young
Mick Potter
Shaun Timmins
Matt Head

You forgot Wayne Collins.

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

Our past 10 weeks form is there for all to see, so todays game will indicate very little unless we win by a huge margin and no despite all the recent losses 2 points is not a huge margin.
If anyone thinks that a victory over a team with nothing to play for and at least 4 players out is in anyway a form guide they are kidding themselves.
The even more curious thing for me is that if Lomax has a more than decent game will he be dropped for Aitken if he is fit next weekend?
I can here the "well the boys did the job for us in the early part of the season and there is no reason why they cant do it now" mantra coming out straight away.
Regardless of the result today no doubt the presser will be something to behold with Mc Fookknuckle's pearls of wisdom being an uplifting message for us all.
Stay tuned for more "despicable" behaviour by our unruly fan base.

I think we all accept that your third paragraph is a rhetorical question. Of course Aitken will be reinstated as soon as he’s available.

 

[Crush]

What about Lafai? Is today the day he’s been building towards?

The last 3 and a half years have all been leading to today. He will step through the opposition from within our own 20 meter line, run the length of the field with the quickest of knights backs giving chase but nobody will catch him, not today. Tim Lafai today is your day my man, make us all gasp!

 

[OzDragon]

I’m oddly pumped for this game.

 

[Mark D]

Game day and even after the absolute humiliation of last week here we are again... I’m pumped and hoping they rip in.. let’s go lads ..Feel like I’m going into battle with you all this week... Have feeling Sims is gonna have a massive game and hope Lomax kills it and forces Mary into make the centre position his.

 

[ALSGI]

The last 3 and a half years have all been leading to today. He will step through the opposition from within our own 20 meter line, run the length of the field with the quickest of knights backs giving chase but nobody will catch him, not today. Tim Lafai today is your day my man, make us all gasp!

Haha, love it.
He actually did run 80m for try against Roosters a couple years ago, in the CS I think.
Does anyone remember that?

 

[VodkaSaint]

Ive been on a low since we Lost Vaughn , Just goes to show we need a couple of big forwards up front.

 

[My man Gasnier]

Haha, love it.
He actually did run 80m for try against Roosters a couple years ago, in the CS I think.
Does anyone remember that?

I remember him doing it against the raiders? We had a 20 meter restart and Leilua was busy picking nightingale or someone up after he shoved them...Then lafai took the tap and had no one to tackle him for 80 meters.

I think that was the same game that we won in golden point after aitken intercepted that rapana pass. What a game for the pair! Enough to cement their spots for 5 years.

 

[Crush]

Haha, love it.
He actually did run 80m for try against Roosters a couple years ago, in the CS I think.
Does anyone remember that?

You started taking that Dan Murphy's medication early mate?
Since when do we play Roosters in charity shield!?
I do remember the try though, I think Duges put him down the sideline and he ran the length. He looked like he was running backwards he was that slow.