Trial vs Dragons @ Maitland

[Johns Magic]

For general comments

 

[Tom155]

Getting hammered

 

[Johns Magic]

Good D from our best team.

Attack stifled with plenty of opportunities with our best team.

Roberts-Davis no thanks.

Star Toa - exciting talent(not been able to show it today) but stay on your wing in defence son. Not sure how much wing he’s played?

Mann underwhelming but I would like to give him a chance with Ponga in the team. Until Lino can tighten up his D I still feel Mann could be the better option despite Lino being the better playmaker.

 

[Tom155]

Mann & Fitzgibbon were unimpressive i thought

Hoy was very good again

 

[slotmachine]

Our middle forwards and brailey were impressive

 

[Johns Magic]

I was hoping Hoy was a good passer but didn’t see that tonight.

 

[Bartwah]

Brailey very impressive in his first outing. Always had the pack on the front foot. Left hand side didn’t have much polish, but Ponga should clean that up

 

[Tom155]

Full Time - 38-12

 

[PhilGould]

Top side looked solid for an opening trial without their best attacking player.

I won't read too much into the rest with players being moved around so much but I'd think O'Brien won't be too impressed with a few individual defensive efforts.

 

[slotmachine]

really good press conference from the coach, not a happy boy regarding second half effort.

 

[ryana87]

Where do you watch the press conference?

 

[Frederick]

Where do you watch the press conference?

It's on the knights website

 

[Jono078]

I could be wrong but man this forum is dead this off season. People caring less about the Knights?

I enjoyed watching the first half. Second half felt far too similar to previous seasons for my liking.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

I could be wrong but man this forum is dead this off season. People caring less about the Knights?

I enjoyed watching the first half. Second half felt far too similar to previous seasons for my liking.

People will care and post more during the season I'm sure

 

[PhilGould]

Been a pretty uneventful pre-season. No one has gotten into fights outside nightclubs or punched taxi drivers. Pearce, Klemmer and Ponga's signings all happened during the past 3 pre-seasons which kept interest up too.

 

[Knight76]

Probably a bit of a burnout factor also after another disappointing year last year that was supposed to be our return to the 8. This year is supposed to be our return to the 8, they are apparently the fittest they have been, had the best pre season, focussed on defenczzzzzzzzzzzz.

Heard it all before and getting sick of putting my faith in to this pre season BS.

I'll worry about it more when the NRL starts and we see where we are at!

 

[Johns Magic]

Yep I am done with annual pre-season hype. Bring on the footy and let’s talk reality.

 

[Mr_Knightside]

Normally I’d be reading a lot of NRL related media over the off-season but personally I needed a break from it all after how disappointing we were to close out 2019, that final match against Penrith was basically rock bottom and one of the worst performances I’ve seen from a Knights side over the years (yes even including that 2016 season) and it was nice to switch off a bit. I still kept an eye on the forums from time to time but I removed all NRL stuff from my FB and Twitter feeds just for a break.

I’m looking forward to the footy coming back but I’ve toned down my excitement levels this year because I’m so sick of being disappointed year in year out. This club has been in a “rebuilding phase” since Joey retired in 2007 and I just want to see us turn up and put a fairly consistent year on the board to really give us fans something real to believe in.

 

[Yosh]

Just watched the game.

Klem is a class apart. He must be at least 40% machine.

Jayden looks really good. It feels like his play is "smooth". Levi was either electric and dangerous, 20% of the time, or really clunky 80% of the time. Jayden's service seems much smoother. Hence, our go forward looked really smooth.

Sione hopefully gets to play right centre week in week out. Has some terrible reads sometimes but his first contact is crushing sometimes.

 

[Knight Vision]

Sione hopefully gets to play right centre week in week out. Has some terrible reads sometimes but his first contact is crushing sometimes.

Sione is a second row, he's bulked up too much now to have the movement to be effective in D for centre. The game seems to be moving toward more mobile forwards which should see guys his size be more valuable. They also add some versatility should a centre go down during the match.