NRL Round 24 - Knights Vs Titans - 2:00pm Sunday, 16th of August - McDonald Jones Stadium

[jamesgould]

Ponga needs to ice those passes man. Happens far too often, he is awful at passing on the fly.

A lot of the time he seems to pass while falling, which doesn't make it easy. Maybe his positioning for the pass is the major issue.

 

[MattyM]

Can Kalyn just not?

 

[JOJO82]

We could go into halftime behind....that would be funny

 

[Sheent14]

Gameplan: run at Sandon Smith

 

[slotmachine]

And another. Sigh

 

[KPGreatness]

Ponga with another error

 

[ImissVuna]

Was really thinking we would make a massive statement this game. Was looking that way but we just can’t hold momentum

 

[jamesgould]

Gameplan: run at Sandon Smith

It's like watching Steve Simpson on Jason Taylor in the 2001 Grand Final atm.

 

[Macca89]

Titans have usually been our bogey team. We just struggle against teams we should beat

 

[MattyM]

Give this team a rocket Holbrook.

 

[JOJO82]

Titans are in this due to us gifting them ball

 

[jamesgould]

It's like watching Steve Simpson on Jason Taylor in the 2001 Grand Final atm.

And in saying that, we have to protect him better as well ... can't let the Titans get him one on one so easily.

 

[ImissVuna]

Quite deflating going into half time. Need to fix up the stupid stuff because I still think we sit comfortable top 3 if we just don’t let teams back in

 

[Newygirl]

Maybe sit out ponga his errors have been extremely costly

Yeah sure the Knights are going to bench KP

 

[Henry01]

The hate Ponga gets on here is unbelievable!! The knights don’t make finals without him if we are being fair dinkum. People calling for him to get dropped, good luck replacing him.

Watch if we lose, it will be Ponga and Sandon Smiths fault according to the forum.

 

[Jon Snow]

Titans seem to play well when their bench comes on, it’s a good bench with Haas, Bai and Morrin. They usually fade out with errors later on. We just need to hit a bit more of a lead and put the pressure on them to score. Gotta win from here, get it done knights.

 

[SportsFan]

Titans are in this due to us gifting them ball

Yeah missing a bit of polish at the end of the second half. We got lazy

 

[HarVeeGee13]

Titans have usually been our bogey team. We just struggle against teams we should beat

We have not been good enough to have a “bogey team” since the early 2000’s.

 

[Brad tighe]

We are clearly the better team- hold onto the ball we put 50 past these losers.

 

[KPGreatness]

My take on the first half:
We got carried heavily with penalties and not skill to get out of our end for most of that

No ponga once meant we couldn’t win but right now as of last week and this, I think with ponga we struggle to win, he has been crap for two weeks.

Smith is a bad defender I’m not going to argue that (something that Holbrook knows and seems to fail on having a workaround for it so partially his fault as well) but he does need help, normally when I have raised questions over Marzhew and Hunt for their defence over this year people have come back with “they need help” but seems like no one is saying that for Sandon again I know he is the weekly punching bag but can we not let extreme bias cloud our thoughts? We can’t have one solution of “he needs help” for one set of players and “he is crap” for another it makes zero sense and smells of bias.

Hunt is going good, much better than last week, we seem to not wanting to give Young the ball.

We desperately need to learn how to catch and hold a ball.

All this attack from the Tits has been when we started making crap errors and dropping the ball.