Finals Week 2 vs Warriors - 4:05pm Sunday 20th of September - Eden Park

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Knights hero’s clutch play you may have missed; X-factor to worry Panthers: Player Ratings

Knights hero’s clutch play you may have missed; X-factor to worry Panthers: Player Ratings
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Some rough ratings by Fox. They all should go up a half at least!
Hopwood 6 (34 tackles, none missed. 7)
Graham 5.5 (great run and was showing some Phoenix signs of desperation. 6.5)
Croker 7 (8.5 Yeo style in the 1st half. 8)
Crossy 8.5 (if that’s not a 10 on D alone, what is? 9.5!)
 
How’s this for some ******** in Frizells one. “But, he nearly cost his side the match in the dying second when he could have been penalised for an escort - if the Warriors didn’t already use their Captain’s Challenge.” How do you get marked down for that?
 
krustykraz said:
The last 10mins of that game felt like an eternity
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Before the game I had the 2023 finals match going through my mind.

As we entered the final 10 I had last year’s Halasima final second try going through my mind.

And then Ponga went off with an HIA with under ten minutes left, the same happened in round 1, 2023 vs the Warriors in Wellington, I had flashbacks to that game too!

Feels great to come out on the right side vs the Warriors in NZ, for once.
 
Billy said:
The gameplan was audacious.

The old saying is forwards win finals and the backs determine by how much.

In this game our wingers had 20 runs each and our back 6 all ran an average of about 15 times each and well over 100 metres, while our forwards all tackled their hearts out - 53 to Crossland, 46 to McEwen etc, with only Crouch running for 100+ metres.

The plan was obviously for our experienced backs to take on a massive workload and for our young forwards to just concentrate on tackling their big pack.

Conventional wisdom would say that could never work.
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We were never going to win playing conventionally against their pack. Same will go with Penrith. Backs will have to do the running and the forwards tackle for their lives. Hopefully just make the most of any opportunities they get. Won’t be able to bomb any tries against Penrith though
 
Just got home from the pub and a thousand celebratory schooners. What a great win. Defensively the last few weeks we’ve been fantastic. The outside backs were excellent especially Marzhew.

Our forwards deserve a huge rap too. Lachlan Crouch was immense off the bench. Friz, Hopwood and Crossland were all great particularly defensively.

So proud of them. Already got my tickets for next week.. Bring on the smug.
 
The Best knock on went in our favour for sure. I reckon it probably did hit the Warriors player but there wasn’t sufficient evidence to overturn it.

Marzhew dropped the ball too imo. Was a loose carry.

No issue with the Frizell one though he was competing for the ball and the Warriors player made contact with him trying to milk a penalty. Was 100% the right call.
 
mozza said:
The Best knock on went in our favour for sure. I reckon it probably did hit the Warriors player but there wasn’t sufficient evidence to overturn it.

Marzhew dropped the ball too imo. Was a loose carry.

No issue with the Frizell one though he was competing for the ball and the Warriors player made contact with him trying to milk a penalty. Was 100% the right call.
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Maybe it’s my tv but there was a deviation as it went past his thumb. You could see it on both angles they showed
 
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