NRL Round 23 - Knights V Tigers - 4:05pm Sunday 11 August - McDonald Jones Stadium

Knights squad reduced to 19. Lucas out replaced by Mapa. Cant & Pryce on extended bench.

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NRL Squad Update: Knights v Tigers

nib Newcastle Knights Head Coach Adam O'Brien has reduced his squad to 19 for their Round 23 battle against the Wests Tigers at McDonald Jones Stadium this Sunday afternoon.
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Just before picking up my iPad I was thinking that Mapa maybe didn’t have food poisoning but serious nerves about upcoming game against Tigers that will likely define his career and his life.
I hope he has a big game, plays well but I don’t see him being offered an extension
 
Oliver said:
I would like to know AOB thinking with continuing playing KPP on the left. KPP has been struggling the last few weeks. Why not give him a crack on the right?
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KPP has been average for nearly 20 rounds. Made disappointing by the fact he showed a very high ceiling in the first month of footy despite a preseason spent rehabilitating an ankle
 
Does anybody actually think we will win this game? Issue for me is tigers can score points, we struggle.
 
I think today is a huge worry. The Tigers have been scoring points pretty well lately. There’s a certain freedom teams sometimes play with when there’s no longer any pressure on them to achieve anything, and that’s dangerous for a side playing as cagey and conservative as we are atm. Wests have still been losing because their defence is so bad, but we’ve looked like we’d struggle to score points against the Castleford Tigers lately, let alone Wests.
 
Bit of rain they reckon in Newcastle. Stopping around 1pm. Be interesting too see if we can manage to throw the ball around or be stuck in our rubbish attacking set ways.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
I think today is a huge worry. The Tigers have been scoring points pretty well lately. There’s a certain freedom teams sometimes play with when there’s no longer any pressure on them to achieve anything, and that’s dangerous for a side playing as cagey and conservative as we are atm. Wests have still been losing because their defence is so bad, but we’ve looked like we’d struggle to score points against the Castleford Tigers lately, let alone Wests.
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Yep as I said last week , Tigers not coming here to get in the grind .
 
knights80 said:
Getting to the point of not even caring if we get beat today, just wanna see some attack from us.
40-38 loss is more entertaining at least then trucking the ball up to bomb it and winning or losing by like 14-12
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I agree but don't get your hopes up.
 
Yeah I was confident earlier in the week, but with these injuries I’m now expecting us to get flogged. 😂
 
I'm not confident at all. These have been the types of games we regularly lose, the ones we're expected to win. This team is so depressing to support. I was ready to deactivate my logon and put the ipad away. Reading all the negatives around our team is not good for the head. I just hope they have a go today. Surely if they get a touch up by the Tigers the blowtorch has to be applied to not only the coaching staff but the players as well.
 
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