Round 21: Newcastle Knights vs Parramatta Eels

What is your prediction for this game ??

  • Knights 13+

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Knights 1-12

    Votes: 6 37.5%

  • Draw

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Eels 1-12

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Eels 13+

    Votes: 9 56.3%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
Apparently Gavet is out with a minor hamstring strain and Levi will come into the starting side with Watson on the bench for impact.
 
Billy said:
Apparently Gavet is out with a minor hamstring strain and Levi will come into the starting side with Watson on the bench for impact.
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Hope so will be good if Levi can go hard and then bring Watson on when there forwards are struggling.
 
Also Levi's partner had a baby the night before the Manly game, so Levi probably wasn't available to play last week.
 
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Billy said:
Also Levi's partner had a baby the night before the Manly game, so Levi probably wasn't available to play last week.
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I asked why Levi was dropped on the Q@A live cross and the assistant coach's answer was because of his defence against the Tigers. Levi made 26 tackles missed 1 and 3 of their 4 tries were scored while he was off the field. Blaming Levi's defence for the loss against the Tigers takes the saying clutching at straws to a whole new level.
 
krustykraz said:
Nathan Brown is in doubt with an ankle injury. That would help us masively, he is a good player.
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Just had an image of Nathan Brown the coach ruling himself out. He's watching the match from the couch from the perspective of a supporter.
The team's playing terribly, he turns off the match with 20 mins to go and cancels his Fox subscription on the spot...
 
Beaumont said:
I asked why Levi was dropped on the Q@A live cross and the assistant coach's answer was because of his defence against the Tigers. Levi made 26 tackles missed 1 and 3 of their 4 tries were scored while he was off the field. Blaming Levi's defence for the loss against the Tigers takes the saying clutching at straws to a whole new level.
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I'd hate to think how much money our club wastes on their media department with crap like that.

Dump 90% of it, and hire some extra football operations staff.
 
Billy said:
We have been over it before, but articles on the Knights website and in the Herald today where Dsaf is saying Jsaf is potentially better than him.
Jacob was the most likely to go forward when they were in under 20s. Both of them were not very agile and anyone with a decent step could get around them, but Jacob was a bit thinner, more agile, definitely faster and played 80 minutes in the second row. One game he even filled in at centre - that was in reserve grade from memory.
The fact is that our scouts went to see Jacob play in the old Jim Beam cup, which is Sydney semi pro comp, about the same level as the real NRL, when he was 18, and I think Daniel was playing in the central coast comp and our scouts didn't even look at him, so he pretty much showed up at our NYC preseason as Jacob's twin, sight unseen (on the footy field anyway).

So basically, Jacob is faster and more agile and before injuries was fitter, so if he can have a decent run of injury free footy, he can be the better player of the twins, as he always was up till they hit firstgrade.
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I have always said this .
I never saw any of the younger games but just in first grade a few times Jacob has outplayed Daniel easily and was the one on the field to be feared . He was just never consistant enough .
 
Beaumont said:
I asked why Levi was dropped on the Q@A live cross and the assistant coach's answer was because of his defence against the Tigers. Levi made 26 tackles missed 1 and 3 of their 4 tries were scored while he was off the field. Blaming Levi's defence for the loss against the Tigers takes the saying clutching at straws to a whole new level.
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To be fair, just last year one of the player's partners had a baby and there were articles about it before the baby was born, but after the player had to drop out of training for a very long time and never got back to any sort of form, so something probably went wrong.
With Levi, nothing was said before the birth, and now they are talking about it, so you would assume all is well.
I think keeping the birth out of the public eye was the right way to go, given what happened last year.
 
Glad Levi is in. He turns into a Issac Luke/Damien Cook/Cameron Smith blend for games against Parra.
 
Interesting that the training photos today are from the NSWRL high performance centre, so the squad is staying in Sydney for a couple of days.

Squad reduction - Gavet and Momoisea out and Levi listed on the bench, but Brown says he is likely to start.
 
Beaumont said:
I asked why Levi was dropped on the Q@A live cross and the assistant coach's answer was because of his defence against the Tigers. Levi made 26 tackles missed 1 and 3 of their 4 tries were scored while he was off the field. Blaming Levi's defence for the loss against the Tigers takes the saying clutching at straws to a whole new level.
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I had a similar argument about Mann NOT having a shocker, but that didn’t wash on here.
 
I reckon Watson and Sione on the bench makes it too small. I’d prefer a big bench against the Eels. I like Sione off the bench normally but would prefer a bigger body, particularly with both Levi and Watson playing.
 
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