Second pre-season trial - Knights Vs Bulldogs - 6:00pm Saturday, 14th February - McDonald Jones Stadium

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I'm waiting to see how our attack looks when we have Ponga and Sharpe back. It could look radically different to today.
As good as KP and Sharpe are, they can’t do too much if there’s no go forward.

They’d need to spread the ball early from their own end to make metres but they also lack the basic catch and pass skills to do that a lot of the time

Would love to know wtf they’ve been doing all summer?

Some of the young guys look promising McEwen, ESL, Manuleula and even Crouch. Not sure what the point of Crokes is at this point
 
My trial 2 takes
Only a couple as I don’t want to rate them all

Fletcher Hunt:
Had moments but he is definitely not a NRL fullback.

Smith/Brown:
I think they both showed moments but i would have swapped those sides as Smith played better on the right against the Dragons and Brown has always been a left sided player.

Phoenix Crossland:
Very meh not a threat from dummy half at all meaning the dogs weren’t scared to leave him and they could focus on the others, needs to change that and as of right now Arthur is the better at that.

Greg Marzhew:
Another meh game from him, without his metres he is barely a reserve grader, will never do anything as a team with him as a genuine starter.

Justin Holbrook:
Made horrible choices such as swapping Smith and Brown, didn’t carry Arthur and used Cant as a hooker instead, didn’t seem to know/care about trying to change things.

Jermaine McEwen:
Meh game nothing special did little in attack had some alright defensive moments.



Overall:
Not many played good at all and some had moments, now I don’t think Ponga and or Sharpe make a difference here, to many players doing to little.

I hope this is a case of taking it easy for Vegas but I do hope Holbrook swaps Smith and Brown, I did like moments but again for now I’ll put it down to positions and Vegas, I guess we will see by round 1 where there will be no excuses.
 
Smashed in the forwards, huge error count doesn't matter how many Ferrari's the Knights might have in the back line when that happens.

Was hoping to be top 8 competitive, will be lucky to not go back to back with the spoon if that performance is indicative of where we're at.

PS. Young 1 error, 92m. Marz 1 error, 208 meters. If Sharpe is going to a wing IDK what Holbrook will do there.
 
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