Thieves Like Us
John Morris
Yeah. Mullen, Walsh, Dureau and even Lamb were good young halves produced by the club.
2025 pre season thread
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Brett kimmorley was a long time ago but also after joey.
mullenmagic
Matthew Gidley
Mullen was the only one of those to do anything of note at NRL level, and I'd say league-wide (so not just Knights fans) he's remembered more as an underachiever or disappointment rather than a great player. Regardless that's a depressing list if it's the 4 best since the mid90s.
krustykraz
Paul the Chief Harragon
The list of good halves that the club has purchased is even worse.
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Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Kimmorley was a great player but you're struggling bigtime if the last great halfback you produced retired 15 years ago.
Mullo was never a halfback despite the clubs best efforts of trying to force a square peg in a round hole, only played about a third of his career there.
Mullo was never a halfback despite the clubs best efforts of trying to force a square peg in a round hole, only played about a third of his career there.
Yikes!
Thieves Like Us
John Morris
Good shout.
Thieves Like Us
John Morris
Which team has produced the best halves over the last 20 years? Penrith outside of Cleary? nope! Brisbane? Definitely not.
Any takers?
Any takers?
What I would give to have a mullen in our team, cracking kicking game and great passer left or right.
Billy
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Mullen spent years playing with a 6 on his jersey alongside Tyrone Roberts in the 7 jersey.
Mullen did almost all the tactical kicks, received the ball double the amount, got the majority of try assists etc.
By any measure, Mullen was our halfback and Roberts was a pretty low workrate 5/8, no matter what number they liked to wear.
Talking of Roberts, on paper he was one of our most successful halves, nearly 200 games across 11 years for 5 clubs, but the secret to his success was that he had such a low workrate in attack and defence that he hardly ever got injured.
Mullen did almost all the tactical kicks, received the ball double the amount, got the majority of try assists etc.
By any measure, Mullen was our halfback and Roberts was a pretty low workrate 5/8, no matter what number they liked to wear.
Talking of Roberts, on paper he was one of our most successful halves, nearly 200 games across 11 years for 5 clubs, but the secret to his success was that he had such a low workrate in attack and defence that he hardly ever got injured.
Personally I'd put Tyrone Roberts ahead of the aforementioned Mullen, Walsh, Dureau and Lamb as our best locally-produced post-Joey halfback (Mullen was of course a much better five-eighth).
It's unfortunate we didn't stick with him instead of flying in Hodkinson. Bennett said as such at the time, I seem to remember.
I remember the 2013 finals match vs the Storm, he stood up massively and was one of, if not our best player in the win. Mullen had one of his worst games after a great season and seemed to be affected by the pressure quite badly.
It's unfortunate we didn't stick with him instead of flying in Hodkinson. Bennett said as such at the time, I seem to remember.
I remember the 2013 finals match vs the Storm, he stood up massively and was one of, if not our best player in the win. Mullen had one of his worst games after a great season and seemed to be affected by the pressure quite badly.
slotmachine
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Sums up his career in one sentence, not that the game did him any favours anointing him the next Joey as a kid.
The Origin halfback selection at 20 after 20-odd games didn’t help either. And then being hung out to dry and never selected again.
Billy
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Can the Knights really win the premiership? This player's answer will surprise you
Newcastle have made the finals four out of the five past seasons.
The "best pre-season ever" article we have been waiting for.
Matt Croker and Greg Mazhew quoted as saying we are going for the premiership this year.
Croker says the new recruits are something special, but says the real driving force has been the young players who have all been training hard from October (formal training didn't start till November) and says they set a very high bar and the older guys have lifted to match them.
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KPGreatness
Greg Smith
Surely they realise they say this every year…Can the Knights really win the premiership? This player's answer will surprise you
Newcastle have made the finals four out of the five past seasons.www.newcastleherald.com.au
The "best pre-season ever" article we have been waiting for.
Matt Croker and Greg Mazhew quoted as saying we are going for the premiership this year.
Croker says the new recruits are something special, but says the real driving force has been the young players who have all been training hard from October (formal training didn't start till November) and says they set a very high bar and the older guys have lifted to match them.
Billy
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Well if they aren't going into every year thinking they will give the premiership a shot, they should pack it in and get a real job.
