Round 5: Newcastle Knights vs Melbourne Storm

[Levil Kinevil]

Storm are just way better in the ruck than us.

 

[Grandpa Joe]

Half time can't come quick enough.

 

[Grandpa Joe]

Have a look at them strolling up the middle. Starting forwards have to be on straight after half time.

 

[Ak-47]

Must be something about Storm we just cant get our heads into the matches for along time now

 

[Grandpa Joe]

Set restart in your own 30 should be a straight penalty.

 

[slotmachine]

Storm are just way better in the ruck than us.

We have faster play the balls and make more metres per set. They're winning because we keep dropping the ball and possession is 40:60

 

[Levil Kinevil]

Also the ten is more like a 12 or 13 lol

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as Aku'd]

Second half needs to be about focus, effort and pride. Let’s not lose this by 20+!!!!

WTF! Professional foul! And what’s with the 2? We 18 down lols

 

[danknights]

Everything we have done over the first 4 weeks is being undone here. Dropped balls, lapses in concentration, defensive errors. We are playing a pretty bland game here. We need speed around the ruck 2nd half.

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as Aku'd]

Geez. We been bad but Storm been so good at being dirty little grubs.

 

[slotmachine]

Errors 7:2 is the story of the first half. Storm haven't been that good

 

[danknights]

We need to concentrate on us not the storm........

 

[mozza]

Really poor in attack. Defence has been decent other than a few brain farts.

Voss and Alexander are f*cking insufferable, have muted it.

 

[rhugh89]

Fix the errors and we can win this

Should've been a sin bin for Kaufusi too

 

[knights22]

Games not over, we've been ****house but overall our defence has held up. The first try was lazy, the Lee one was a poor effort and the third was a poor effort. But they should have a lot more based on how many sets they've had in our 20.
Second half we need to stop these silly errors, build some pressure by completing sets. We've cracked them open a few times, Mann was starting to play into the game & we have Ponga & Hoy on the bench still. Build pressure and then destroy them with our quick runners through the middle.

 

[Battler]

We look frustrated. Melbourne haven't been that good, we're just self-destructing.

 

[Ak-47]

I feel Pearce should take the line on more in that half, there was some little gaps there from the storm but instead we kept shifting wide.

 

[Ljackson]

We need to get some width with our passing and start directing traffic towards their second rowers and halves. Also need to get 3 people in the tackle and hold them down longer , otherwise Smith will shred us to threads.

 

[OnTilt]

I feel Pearce should take the line on more in that half, there was some little gaps there from the storm but instead we kept shifting wide.

Pearce is tired he has had to make a heap of tackles, someone else needs to stand up. Mann looking dangerous.

 

[Battler]

yeah, we're losing the ruck pretty badly.