Ex-Knights Watch

slotmachine said:
I like to daydream about the timeline where Carrigan didn't mess up Hastings leg, and also the one where Hastings wasn't a giant ****head that gets everyone he's ever played with off him.
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Yep - a fit Hastings that could manage to last more than 1 season without seriously pissing off all his team mates is by far our best halfback option.
 
Chaister said:
I understand your point re Cogger being more of a facilitator, but to me other than a few games at the end of the season when the whole team was humming, he wasn’t really helping facilitate KP or the outside backs (I’m taking earlier before KP got injured). We’ll never really know how much of an individual impact Cogger had on those final few games, but I’m a bit hesitant to say that Cogger did better in that situation than say Gamble or Hastings could have, as when we were in a bad situation earlier in the year, Cogger wasn’t any better than they were, a lot of people would argue he was worse. I think we also need to put those last few games into context: we beat the Titans and Souths who were horrendous, Dolphins who were sliding, then got beaten by a Cowboys side who got flogged by the Sharks the following week.

Your points re Penrith are valid, however it doesn’t really impact us or whether Cogger is the right half for us. We know they’re a special system and can make players look better than they are. I (unfortunately lol) work with a lot of Penrith supporters and most of them equally like Schneider.

I just don’t think he’s the best halfback option for us tbh. Seems AOB doesn’t either as I doubt he’d lose his place in the pecking order for Gamble who isn’t even a halfback after 1 trial game if AOB really had faith in him.
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The ‘Wow’ react is about the Schneider part, every Panthers fan I’ve ever met wants to murder him 😆. I guess that’s the difference between anecdotes and data.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
The ‘Wow’ react is about the Schneider part, every Panthers fan I’ve ever met wants to murder him 😆. I guess that’s the difference between anecdotes and data.
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Haha yeah I guess for a lot of them knowing they don’t have to have either Schneider or Cogger as their first choice halfback means they’re not all going to get worked up over it. Must be nice to have a Cleary.
 
I don’t see Dom seeing out the year at the Roosters. He just hasn’t fitted in there well at all and the Roosters is the one club that’s not afraid to show you the door. There would be plenty of clubs interested in his signature but not for what he signed with at the Roosters. I wonder if POS would try to lure him back.
 
Oliver said:
I don’t see Dom seeing out the year at the Roosters. He just hasn’t fitted in there well at all and the Roosters is the one club that’s not afraid to show you the door. There would be plenty of clubs interested in his signature but not for what he signed with at the Roosters. I wonder if POS would try to lure him back.
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Would we even want him back? This time last year I would have said absolutely but I’m not too interested now. He’s more of a liability than an asset.
 
I think if the Roosters did let him go, other sides would be expecting them to pay a bit of the freight, though. His value has definitely decreased in the last year.
 
Good Times said:
He's 23. He has a long career ahead of him and will be fine.
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I’m not so sure to be honest. I loved him when he was here but he’s going backwards and wingers typically enter their peak years earlier. He’s got a lot of work to do. I’d have him back if the Roosters paid a lot of his contract in the hope he could get back to where he was. Simply because Schiller is still a bit of an unknown. Definitely not at what we’d wanted to pay him before though, and definitely not more than whatever Marzhew is on.
 
We have no dramas in the wing department. At some point they will start getting opportunities and they will score plenty. We know how strong and powerful and fast Marzhew is but once they start putting up high balls on the right side of the field then you will see why Schiller was a real coup of a signing. (Happy to preempt being a fan…again) 🤣
 
Article in the Herald this morning where Fitzgibbon talks about how he, Luke Yates and Mitch Barnett are all in Las Vegas this week and all met 13 years ago playing SG Ball for the Knights. Fitz says he had a long break due to shoulder surgery and this is his second game back.

I remember watching that side. Yates was easily the best player in those days. He led the team and dominated in the forwards and made all the state sides, while Fitz and Barny were just average players. Fitz and Barny grew and Yates didn't, but he's still a very under rated player who has been a standout in the ESL for years.

www.newcastleherald.com.au

'Wild ride rugby league': Fitzgibbon's Vegas reunion 13 years in the making

Which trio playing at Allegiant Stadium were together at Knights?
www.newcastleherald.com.au www.newcastleherald.com.au
 
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Billy said:
Article in the Herald this morning where Fitzgibbon talks about how he, Luke Yates and Mitch Barnett are all in Las Vegas this week and all met 13 years ago playing SG Ball for the Knights. Fitz says he had a long break due to shoulder surgery and this is his second game back.

I remember watching that side. Yates was easily the best player in those days. He led the team and dominated in the forwards and made all the state sides, while Fitz and Barny were just average players. Fitz and Barny grew and Yates didn't, but he's still a very under rated player who has been a standout in the ESL for years.

www.newcastleherald.com.au

'Wild ride rugby league': Fitzgibbon's Vegas reunion 13 years in the making

Which trio playing at Allegiant Stadium were together at Knights?
www.newcastleherald.com.au www.newcastleherald.com.au
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Yates was a few years before his time. He would smash it now with the small mobile big motor forwards.
 
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