2025 pre season thread

Kurriboy said:
Sharp to 7 is going to be given 2-3 games by the press and if we aren't winning, they will start the drums beating, not working, have an experienced half we paid good money for in lower grades, last season swapped the halves around and this year starting with a new halves combo etc etc.

It's brave I'll give him that.
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IMO we are in all sorts of we put Sharp at 7, we will get the spoon. 6 I can partly get around with speed and run first mentality but we need someone to control play tempo structure and expecting that from him wouldn’t be fair. Don’t get this in anyway wrong I’m a huge supporter of Sharp and have wrapped him on her repeatedly
 
Mackdadday said:
Just read a report from the strictlyfootypod about the knights opposed session today (I think).
-Ponga fb of course.
-Sharpe/Gamble halves
-Schiller taking Sharpe's wing spot.
-Lucas/Frizzel second row.
-Tom Cant at lock. Elliot playing with second team. :oops:
-Crossland 9.
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Very surprised by Elliot playing with the second team. He is off contract as well.
 
That checks out with the training pics posted today, the white shirts seemed to be the first team but Cant being among it was the one thing that threw me off - I figured Elliott might’ve had a niggle and not been training if it was the case. FWIW Frizell, KPP and Lucas were all in white so either one of them was playing somewhere other than second-row or they were being just rotated. KPP was wearing a bib over it at one point.

On the halfback vs five-eighth talk I think it’s a bit of an outdated debate. Plenty of teams just run a left half and right half and rarely have them connect on the field anyway regardless of who wears 6 or 7, no different to a centre or second-rower. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Sharpe in the #7 jersey even if Gamble handles more of the traditional halfback duties i.e kicking.
 
mullenmagic said:
That checks out with the training pics posted today, the white shirts seemed to be the first team but Cant being among it was the one thing that threw me off - I figured Elliott might’ve had a niggle and not been training if it was the case. FWIW Frizell, KPP and Lucas were all in white so either one of them was playing somewhere other than second-row or they were being just rotated. KPP was wearing a bib over it at one point.

On the halfback vs five-eighth talk I think it’s a bit of an outdated debate. Plenty of teams just run a left half and right half and rarely have them connect on the field anyway regardless of who wears 6 or 7, no different to a centre or second-rower. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Sharpe in the #7 jersey even if Gamble handles more of the traditional halfback duties i.e kicking.
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I think KPP is big enough to play frf easily. I’d prefer him on an edge and Frizz in the rotation though. IMO pay KPP 750k as a prop or Leo 900k I’m easily taking KPP. That’s just my opinion
 
krustykraz said:
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Welcome the Knights' new strike centre!

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Lol at Sharpe playing 7. It's at best a toss of the coin if he can work at 6.

Re the '6 & 7' are interchangeable argument. They can be interchangeable but it requires certain competencies from each of them, strategic kicking for instance. In most NRL set-ups, the starting halves aren't interchangeable and that's why they make a good paring.
 
Reading too much into who is playing where as who is being trialled in what position, let’s see what happens in trials for our first clue, obviously 6 and 7 are weak spots so trialling a few in those positions searching for an answer is expected but not done deal
 
mullenmagic said:
That checks out with the training pics posted today, the white shirts seemed to be the first team but Cant being among it was the one thing that threw me off - I figured Elliott might’ve had a niggle and not been training if it was the case. FWIW Frizell, KPP and Lucas were all in white so either one of them was playing somewhere other than second-row or they were being just rotated. KPP was wearing a bib over it at one point.

On the halfback vs five-eighth talk I think it’s a bit of an outdated debate. Plenty of teams just run a left half and right half and rarely have them connect on the field anyway regardless of who wears 6 or 7, no different to a centre or second-rower. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Sharpe in the #7 jersey even if Gamble handles more of the traditional halfback duties i.e kicking.
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Agree. The old half back / five-eight roles have largely been done away with now in favour of a left / right position on the field.

Call me an old romantic but we all know what happened the last time a lad from Cessnock wore the 7 jersey! (I’m not comparing Sharpe with Joey before someone calls me out)
 
Frank McWilliams said:
Reading too much into who is playing where as who is being trialled in what position, let’s see what happens in trials for our first clue, obviously 6 and 7 are weak spots so trialling a few in those positions searching for an answer is expected but not done deal
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It’s been a long off season. Only natural people are going to speculate re possible options of how the side will line up when we’ve gotten very little info but little bits of info are starting to filter through.
 
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