Round 17 Panthers V Knights - Saturday 24 June 5:30pm - BlueBet Stadium, Penrith

That’s it another year down the drain. Unfit, not interested, salary taken up by the most overrated players in nrl. Ponga gagai safiti. Poorly coached. I have travelled the world in my early years staunchly wearing knights gear and loving the team. I was at 1997 and 2001 gfs Last 20 years I have been let down and let down again but stayed true. Last few years the fact the players just don’t seem to care has turned me into a really cynical and negative person. So good bye knights I can be so much less negative without you
 
Dylan Lucas topped the tackle count for the second week in a row - 47 this week, 52 last week.
He only ran short metres both weeks.
If you'd have asked me 2 weeks ago I'd have said he'll run a lot of metres but will struggle to have the fitness to defend in the forwards and might only be good for 20 tackles.
Elliott looked good I thought, but I see he missed 13 tackles. A middle forward can't do that.
 
Had the ball with about 2 minutes left, 8 points down, desperately need a try. Sure it's unlikely, but we didn't even look like we wanted to try. Just looked ready for the game to end. That is massive red flags, think the confidence is getting shot now after failing to grab the 2 points in some close ones lately. Can't even jag a win anymore.
 
Joshhh said:
Had the ball with about 2 minutes left, 8 points down, desperately need a try. Sure it's unlikely, but we didn't even look like we wanted to try. Just looked ready for the game to end. That is massive red flags, think the confidence is getting shot now after failing to grab the 2 points in some close ones lately. Can't even jag a win anymore.
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Same as last week we were actually coming home strong and seemed to stop playing with 5 mins to go when we were still 2 behind.
 
When Fitzgibbon came into firstgrade I was always pointing out how low his defensive numbers were.
He was making about 20 tackles a game on average and it took most of a season before he could last 80 minutes.
I remember going through his numbers to see when he finally made 30 tackles in a game and it took about 18 months.
Lucas has played 80 minutes in his first 2 games at second row and is 1 tackle short of averaging 50 tackles a game, and Lucas has only played a handful of games at second row in any grade.
 
Joshhh said:
Had the ball with about 2 minutes left, 8 points down, desperately need a try. Sure it's unlikely, but we didn't even look like we wanted to try. Just looked ready for the game to end. That is massive red flags, think the confidence is getting shot now after failing to grab the 2 points in some close ones lately. Can't even jag a win anymore.
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I’ve said it a few times, but they’re perfectly happy with a close loss. Keep the scoreline moderately respectable, job done.
 
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