NRL Round 21 - Knights Vs Roosters - 6:00pm Friday, 24th of July - McDonald Jones Stadium
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mozza
Game on broheim
Couldn’t be prouder of them. The resilience was amazing. Injuries and bad calls should have resulted in a big loss but they just kept fighting.
Manulelua was unbelievable. Did what he does in Cup every week against a highly rated forward pack. Mooney, Crossland, Dom and Marzhew were also brilliant.
Manulelua was unbelievable. Did what he does in Cup every week against a highly rated forward pack. Mooney, Crossland, Dom and Marzhew were also brilliant.
Battler
Matthew Johns
Lucas won't be playing for a long time.
slotmachine
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
No chance for Lucas. Hopefully brown is MCL again and 4-6 weeks
NotTheSpooners2026
Jeff Doyle
Oh well decent year for us should be very proud of that effort, probably slide out of the 8 now can't help the Newcastle injury curse
I'm worried this could be career ending....didn't a Broncos player suffer a similar injury a while back and had to retire
NotTheSpooners2026
Jeff Doyle
Yes Goal kicking again cost us a win two weeks in a row
2 point loss
2 point loss
2 point loss
1 point loss
1000 injuries
Tubby
Steve Linnane
This game:
Really needed to convert more of that field position to points in the first half. But what a great effort under adversity. Such a deflating game though.
Moving forward:
As suspect as Sandon is in defence he is still a great creative half. I feel we are better positioned now than previously to cover an injury like Brown. Francis coming of age is a fair replacement for Lucas. I hope the boys don't drop their heads from these past 2 results. Making the finals this year will be a great result
Really needed to convert more of that field position to points in the first half. But what a great effort under adversity. Such a deflating game though.
Moving forward:
As suspect as Sandon is in defence he is still a great creative half. I feel we are better positioned now than previously to cover an injury like Brown. Francis coming of age is a fair replacement for Lucas. I hope the boys don't drop their heads from these past 2 results. Making the finals this year will be a great result
Jharal Yow Yeh. Hopefully no where near as bad as his one
Jharal Yow Yeh
Bailey simonsson this year had the same injury and he's back next week after injuring his ankle in round 4
KriKri
Nathan Ross
Hard to see how it improves for us now, if you said at the start of the year we’d just missed out on the 8 I’d be thrilled but it would be so deflating after starting so strong.
Unfortunately there were a few players tonight who I just don’t think are ready for top grade. Hopwood needs to work on his agility. The days of big lumbering forwards is over, and unless he can turn it around he’s really going to struggle in first grade.
Smith I’m just not sure on either. He’ll get a chance to play first grade for a long time now so we’ll see how he goes. There are others in juniors coming through who can replace him in due course if it doesn’t work out.
Unfortunately there were a few players tonight who I just don’t think are ready for top grade. Hopwood needs to work on his agility. The days of big lumbering forwards is over, and unless he can turn it around he’s really going to struggle in first grade.
Smith I’m just not sure on either. He’ll get a chance to play first grade for a long time now so we’ll see how he goes. There are others in juniors coming through who can replace him in due course if it doesn’t work out.
I'm still optimistic. Ponga, Sharpe, Smith, Crossland is still a good spine. Smith just needs to remove some of those frantic plays from his game. Manuleleua huge game, he's no Lucas, but has some serious talent and slots straight in for Lucas, surely. Brodie Jones has always been a reliable player, thought he was among our best tonight.
danknights
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
If we played like we did tonight the last few games we win and win well. We just never find the consistency I know we are capable of.
The Seagull
Dan Tolar
The bunker missed the elbow from Walker, off course he's a roster
NotTheSpooners2026
Jeff Doyle
Include the storm its 7 points
Battler
Matthew Johns
Yeah I reckon Mooney has been flagged, a bit like Phoenix and his line speed.