NRL Round 21 - Knights Vs Roosters - 6:00pm Friday, 24th of July - McDonald Jones Stadium

I'm going to read through the game thread later but wanted to say this without being swayed by other comments. Just got home from the game. First up, what a great effort, I'm so proud of them. We had great players right across the park. Second up, it was around this time last year we lost Dylan Lucas and literally had nothing left in attack the rest of the year. Losing Brown and Lucas tonight, the depth of the club means we still have Manuleleua and McKewn as gun edge forwards and Ponga, Sharpe and Smith in the halves. We can still go deep. Last up, wtf is going on with the crack downs now? No disruptor penalty on Young last week. Direct shoulder to Manu's face and Friz has his nose spread across his face and no bins? Have they put them away? No one should go to the bin for the rest of the year. These changes mid season are a complete farce. I'm equal parts proud of the boys and so pissed about that game.
 
Well I was hopeful of a win but that was gone for me when we lost Ponga and Crouch along with Gagai and McEwen but the boys put up a fight despite losing Lucas and Brown.
Late in game thought we might snatch a win but didn’t happen, was super impressed with the whole team effort, things just didn’t quite come off. Injuries, positional changes, unable to utilise other bench options due to HIA’s and other injuries.
Hard to give MOTM awards to a few when many deserved it, thought Croker was great, huge effort along with Manu, Jones and Crossland but nothing wrong with effort of the others.
Probably the best and biggest team effort considering our missing players and those injured during game.
Expect Ponga and McEwen back next week, Gags probably but Hunt did good, Sharp 6, Smith 7, Croker, Manu and McEwn back 3 with Mooney, Frizell, Hopwood and Jones up front/bench, ESL for Cant and maybe The Gambler to bench.
Think we are still in race for top 8, top 4 could be a struggle but on today’s effort might be possible
 
Early injury prognosis
Lucas dislocated L ankle with a bone fracture, Ankle relocated itself but still a fracture and probably ligament damage. Season ending .
Brown failed knee stability test. They are thinking ligament damage, probably ACL. Scans will confirm what the damage is , but they are thinking best case scenario it’s a PCL or MCL and will be season ending anyway.
What a sh*t night.
 
ACL for Brown?
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Guessing we won't see DylBro till just before Magic Round next year.

Might be time to finally getting around to binge watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia after saying I was going to watch it at the start of the year.
 
Joey1245 said:
Is it just me or is everyone over the reffing? Bunker stepped in for the two head highs then we got done for a shoulder charge that we had to challenge? It’s simply not good enough??
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I didn't have a problem with the shoulder charge call because that's what it looked like live...that's what the challenge is for (and why they shouldn't be wasted early in the match).
 
We got a grand total of 9 games in which Ponga, Sharpe, Brown, Crossland all started. 6 wins and 3 losses, all three by 2 points. +78 for/against.

Brown will end his first season as a Knight with 9 wins, 6 losses, +54 F/A. 2 wins, 2 losses, -18 in games he missed so far, and 27 points conceded, vs 22 on average when he’s playing.
 
I'm dirty on the world right now...

So Sandon missed two goals, the second being the penalty. The first was the first try scored by Manuleleua. I love that guy and he had a monster break out game, but...he was celebrating that try from 20 out. Teddy had given up on the inside, Manu could have improved the position even by 5 metres to give Sandon an easier conversion. We lost by a point. That lack of attention to detail could have been the difference in the end. He needs to have that drilled in to him.
 
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