NRL Round 18 - Knights Vs Dolphins - 4:05pm Sunday, 5th of July - McDonald Jones Stadium

[jamesgould]

Our last Origin affected game of the year, a lot will be riding on who is out of both sides. It’s a huge match up though - the battle for second place! Both sides currently on a four-way logjam for second with 24 points … does our place on the table flatter us?

 

[Newygirl]

Based on the Fins performance against the Wahs, they’ll flog us regardless of how many they have missing, the way the knights have been playing.

There’ll need to be a serious improvement in attitude, concentration, and intensity for starters. Would seriously recommend a brain transplant for a number of them

 

[Lefty]

Our last Origin affected game of the year, a lot will be riding on who is out of both sides. It’s a huge match up though - the battle for second place! Both sides currently on a four-way logjam for second with 24 points … does our place on the table flatter us?

Yes! We need to lift dramatically to be competitive against the top teams.

 

[Owey]

I've never quite been sure what the phins trai has been full of, but I hope this time it's a Trai Fuller errors

 

[Grug]

Based on this weekend we might have a bit of a struggle on our hands, but surely we can’t play that poorly twice in a row. All I can hope is that history repeats, as the last time I flew down to watch a Knights game with the Missus was 2008 against Manly and we were no chance then.

 

[Alex]

All the Tigers fans whinging on social media believing that they were dudded by the refs is comedy gold

 

[Mclovin]

I think we will aim up, we have really only dropped our standards against lower teams and although we dropped off in moments against the storm we did aim up against them.

 

[Tim]

Based on this weekend we might have a bit of a struggle on our hands, but surely we can’t play that poorly twice in a row.

I feel like we already have played that poorly twice in a row. Maybe we can't play that poorly 3 times in a row

 

[Sheent14]

Phins (H), Bunnies (A), Sharks (A), Roosters (H), Broncos (A), Raiders (A). That's our next 6 games. Definitely a step up in competition for the most part. We need to learn from these performances and improve. We won't scrape away with many wins in this next sequence of games if we keep playing at this level.

 

[mattam10]

No Best or ponga for this game. But they’ll be missing Bostock as well.

 

[Newygirl]

No Best or ponga for this game. But they’ll be missing Bostock as well.

They’ll also be missing Flegler, Katoa, Plath, Hammer, Cobbo and Finefuiaki most likely

 

[mozza]

Scapegoating Lucas and benching your best back in the first 2 games is dumb.
Keeping absolute plodders like Robson, Yeo and Radley is even dumber.

Daley is cooked.

 

[Defence wins games]

Based on this weekend we might have a bit of a struggle on our hands, but surely we can’t play that poorly twice in a row. All I can hope is that history repeats, as the last time I flew down to watch a Knights game with the Missus was 2008 against Manly and we were no chance then.

The Knights have put 2 horror games together now: against Saints last week and the bludger we saw today against the Tigers.
A repeat of the poor mindset and sloppy execution against the Phins next week at home will definitely see our for and against drift well into negative territory.
Our recent performances make us look like pretenders, compared to the gun teams above us.
The only positive coming out of the last 2 games is our defence, notably against sides well out of the top 8, and the possible try of the season executed by Dom and Best that saved our blushes.
It’s a case next weekend of bringing our A game, or be thumped by a genuine premiership contender, even with the game played at home and both teams effected by Origin outs.

 

[Defence wins games]

I think we will aim up, we have really only dropped our standards against lower teams and although we dropped off in moments against the storm we did aim up against them.

The lesson there are no easy games in the NRL, you bring your best or run the risk of having your pants pulled down.

 

[Billy]

I read several posts last week about how we needed to defend a lot better.
Wests threw everything but the kitchen sink at us today, and we kept them to 1 try, which is the lowest score against us all year. Even Saints put 2 tries on us.
It would be nice to put attack and defence together eventually, but winning with defence was good against a side with plenty of attacking threats.

 

[Tobe Fair]

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I read several posts last week about how we needed to defend a lot better.
Wests threw everything but the kitchen sink at us today, and we kept them to 1 try, which is the lowest score against us all year. Even Saints put 2 tries on us.
It would be nice to put attack and defence together eventually, but winning with defence was good against a side with plenty of attacking threats.

It will happen Billy.
We can't play at our best every game, it is just not possible. Our improvement in attack has fallen away but our defence is so well organised. Once our attack is back on song those stupid passes will disappear. The team that face us when it all comes together will not recover let's hope it is the Dolphins.
Looking forward to it all working i have waited a long time for a great year and it is here.

 

[Brad tighe]

Real danger game. Dolphins will have 7 out. We will have two out.

We should dust them.

 

[Frank McWilliams]

I’ll be happy with a win, by how much doesn’t matter, 2 points is 2 points and 2 they didn’t get.
Big win would be great

 

[HarVeeGee13]

The Phins attack has always looked slick even when they are light on troops, surely our guys will know that.

 

[Jon Snow]

Wouldn’t mind seeing sharpe in the centres again for this one, Hunt fullback. Our halves have been directionless in the past few weeks, so would like to see Sandon come in and steer the team around.