Newcastle Knights vs Sydney Roosters @ EAS Stadium

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First Grade Team Round 19


Tuesday, 17 July 2007 - Newcastle Knights


KNIGHTS v ROOSTERS

EnergyAustralia Stadium

Round 19

Saturday 21 July, 2007

FIRST GRADE

Coach: Brian Smith


Kurt Gidley
James McManus
Brad Tighe
Adam MacDougall
Cooper Vuna
Daniel Abraham
Luke Walsh
Mitchell Sargent
Danny Buderus (C)
Adam Woolnough
Steve Simpson
Zeb Taia
Reegan Tanner

Interchange:

Michael Young
George Carmont
Jesse Royal
Matthew White
Jarrod Mullen
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That team looks fine to me. It'll beat the Roosters for sure.

An away loss to the competition frontrunners, with the personnel we have out, is not a good reason for mass changes.
 
I was wondering if Buderus would be picked. He was on and off last night and they put Seu Seu on the bench because they didn't think Buderus would last the match. I would rather he miss a week or 2 and get his leg right 4 the business end, rather then battleing on and not playing at his best.
 
Mullo is a slim chance for Saturdays game, and Pato is no chance, he has an on going shoulder problem.

No Good.

I am confident we can get a win, hopefully a 20,000+ Crowd but Im pushing for it.
 
Buderus to miss Roosters clash

July 18, 2007 NEWCASTLE captain Danny Buderus is likely to miss the Knights' Saturday night NRL clash with the Sydney Roosters with a grade one medial ligament tear in his knee.

Buderus has been sent for scans today but club doctor Neil Halpin expects the hooker to be ruled out for one to two weeks.

Halpin says young New South Wales halfback Jarrod Mullen should return on Saturday after a quadricep injury kept him sidelined for the past two weeks.

Saturday's clash is looming as a must-win for both sides because they have the worst for and against records in the National Rugby League and need to win to have any chance of securing a finals berth.

AAP
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JUST GREAT! I have a bad feeling we might loose this week.. hopefully the home crowd can get us home
 
Knights v Roosters preview
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 11:31 AM

Now that Brad ‘Freddy’ Fittler has achieved the customary first-up win for a new coach the big question is can he sustain the winning feeling?

One of the more peculiar phenomena in world sport is the one that sees a side, no matter how poor they were prior, win when they gain a new coach mid-season.

The Roosters were no exception with their 23-12 win over Cronulla giving the side new-found optimism for a strong finish to the year.

Fittler has named an unchanged line-up for the trip to Newcastle, the only minor adjustment coming with Sam Perrett wearing the number one jersey this week – the former winger/centre was impressive at the back in the number five jersey against the Sharks.

The match could be one to remember for winger Amos Roberts; it will be his 150th in the NRL.

The Knights must regroup for this must-win match after being punished by the Storm to the tune of 44-0. In their previous three visits to Olympic Park they have been outscored 144-16 with the average losing margin 42-6.

Brian Smith has named Cory Paterson in the side in the place of Terence Seu Seu but the young hooker is heavily tipped to get a recall with Knights skipper Danny Buderus finally succumbing to injuries.
Jarrod Mullen has once again been named on an extended bench; the young pivot is desperate to return from a quad injury.
The Knights need these two competition points like humans need water to survive.

Currently in 10th spot, the Knights are in a precarious position thanks mainly to their woeful -147 differential and they face an uphill battle to make the playoffs unless they string some good victories together.

They face the Warriors and Manly in coming weeks, both away from home, so a win against the 15th-placed Roosters is imperative.

Watch out Knights: Some of the Roosters older heads lifted remarkably with the change of coach and showed they still have what it takes to trouble anyone against the Sharks.

Craig Fitzgibbon made 13 runs for 90 metres and added a massive 46 tackles to take his season tally to 673 tackles, the most in the NRL and 57 more than his nearest rival in Micheal Luck, while Craig Wing was back to his destructive best with seven runs for 64 metres, 31 tackles, six kicks for 229 metres, a line break and a great individual try.

It was also good to see prop Lopini Paea (11 runs for 89 metres, 19 tackles and a line break) repay Fittler for letting him start the match. Paea missed most of last year through suspension and he is hell bent on proving he is more than just an impact bench player.

Watch out Roosters: The Knights left Melbourne with ‘their pants pulled down’ and will be itching for a chance to atone. The last time they were humbled this season (a 71-6 loss to Brisbane) the Knights backed up with a 22-18 win against none other than the Roosters.

Brian Smith knows better than most a week is a long time in football – or in this case five days – and the lead-up will be all about boosting confidence.

It appeared as if the Knights went out already beaten against the Storm, something many teams are guilty of – but you can rest assured their attitude will be different against the Roosters in front of their proud and parochial home fans.

Where it will be won: Just like last week for both teams, this one is all about attitude.

The Roosters brought a better attitude to their contest and won, the Knights went to Melbourne half convinced they couldn’t win and when the Storm got going it all fell apart.

Can the Roosters continue the warm and fuzzy thoughts?

Can the Knights rebound from the humiliation? Fragile minds will lose this clash – if doubts surface because Buderus is missing or because the Roosters concede some early points then the opposition will pounce.

Stay mentally strong, stick to the game plan and the two points will be yours.

The History: Played 33; Knights 14, Roosters 17, drawn 2. Both draws between the two teams came at EnergyAustralia Stadium and considering just 16 matches have been played between the sides at the venue it’s a high percentage.

Apart from that honours are shared seven wins a piece so someone can move ahead in this clash.

The Roosters don’t mind travelling up the F3, having won their past three games in Newcastle.

The Knights beat the Roosters 22-18 earlier this year on the Central Coast and also won there in 2006 but the six games prior to that fell the Roosters’ way.

Conclusion: A big Novocastrian crowd should be on hand to boost the Knights to a much-needed win both for their finals chances and their confidence.

The pressure is all on the home side it seems, sure the Roosters want to win and maybe even make a fairytale run towards an improbable finals berth but the Knights have a real shot at the top eight.

The short turn-around could hurt them – 21 teams have lost after Monday night Football, 12 have won. The Knights have backed up four times from Monday games, for four losses
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Match officials: Referee – Tony Archer; Sideline Officials – Mohamed Fajajo & Steve Lyons; Video ref – Phil Cooley.

Televised: FoxSports 3 – Delayed 9.30pm

* Statistics: NRL Stats.
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WHERE has patterson been named??? I would say carmont was named as a replacement on the bench for seu seu. Hopefully Patterson is OK
 
First Grade

1. Kurt Gidley
2. James McManus
3. Brad Tighe
4. Adam MacDougall
5. Cooper Vuna
6. Daniel Abraham
7. Luke Walsh
8. Mitchell Sargent
19. Terrence Seu Seu
10. Adam Woolnough
11. Steve Simpson
12. Zeb Taia
13. Reegan Tanner

Interchange:

14. Michael Young
15. Cory Paterson
16. Jesse Royal
17. Matthew White
20. George Carmont

Coach: Brian Smith
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This was the side on the knights news email which is different to the others, patterson is in this side whereas Mullen is not, Carmont is in jersy 20 for some reason. Which is the official side, the one in Bigleague???? This week has been really confusing.
 
Well Mullen is gone for a month, so this one has probably been updated to account for that.
 
Mullo hurt his shoulder last night at training.

That team is the real team with all the changes. Cory has come good in the last few days. I hope Tighe gets dumped for Carmont. But it will never happen.
 
yeh better him getting his injuries know then when he is in carrer best form, like Joey was always getting serious injuries at the back end of his carrer when he was in his best form. I rekon if joey didnt get injured we would have won the comp in 02
 
It just said on the news that it could be season ending. This is worse case scenario and they are aiming for 4 and best case less then 4. It had a big thing in the paper on all our injuries 2day (newcastle herald) our team of injured players is better then our actual team.
 
Knights' Mullen facing shoulder surgery
Friday, July 20, 2007 - 5:45 PM

Newcastle's dire NRL season of injury could turn worse on Monday with scans to determine if young five-eighth Jarrod Mullen requires season-ending shoulder surgery.

Mullen dislocated his shoulder at training on Wednesday and although x-rays cleared him of bone damage, he requires an MRI scan to examine damage to his rotator cuff.

If Mullen, 20, does need surgery he will be sidelined for five months, joining Andrew Johns (retired) and five other Newcastle players ruled out for the season.

"(Jarrod) has done okay with the x-ray but he needs a scan to see if he has done damage to his rotator cuff or not," coach Brian Smith told reporters.

"He is looking at two, maybe four weeks or five months off for a shoulder reconstruction."

Newcastle have been hit harder by injuries than any other NRL club this season, and Smith believes it is no coincidence that they've also played the most Monday night games this season.

The Knights coach described the NRL's re-introduction of two byes for next season as "piddling around" and claimed the hectic schedule was responsible for captain Danny Buderus's knee and Achilles problems which have sidelined him this weekend.

Smith said he regrets allowing Buderus to play against the Bulldogs in round eight, just three days after the NSW hooker turned out in the City-Country clash at Coffs Harbour.

Buderus played a mammoth three games in six days that week and in hindsight Smith said that was the beginning of the champion hooker's downfall this year.

"Bedsy is made of steel, everybody knows that. He is the toughest of players, we've all got huge admiration for the guy," said Smith.

"But everyone has got a breaking point.

"I'm a goose for not standing him down after the Country game. I should have never let him play.

"When a player's saying he wants to play and offers so much to your team it's tough and I was not tough enough to pull my head in and say no, this is not the one for you.

"We lost the bloody game anyway and you cannot imagine how peed off I was with myself after that.

"As every day has gone by since ... we have had to try manage his training program and he gradually can do less and less in training.

"This is not just happening with Bedsy, this is happening all over the league with lots of players over all of the clubs."
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Further injury news.......Simposn is out :(

Meanwhile, a knee injury to Steve Simpson and the ongoing absence of Jarrod Mullen has added to Smith's woes before his team's game against the rejuvenated Roosters at EnergyAustralia Stadium tonight.

Smith has described the spate of injuries at the Knights as the worst he's encountered in his 25-year coaching career.

Buderus, who has been replaced by Terence Seu Seu, is no certainty to even return next weekend against the Warriors in Auckland.

"Simmo has been nursing this knee thing for a while now, and he pulled up sore last night," Smith said yesterday.

Cory Paterson will take Simpson's place in the run-on side, and Kirk Reynoldson will come off the bench.

Fullback Kurt Gidley will captain the Knights. And in another reshuffle, Smith said George Carmont would return to the centres, Brad Tighe would switch to five-eighth, with Daniel Abraham the likely 18th man.

Mullen's fate will be determined by an MRI scan on Monday. He partially dislocated his left shoulder at training on Wednesday and, though X-rays on Thursday cleared him of a fracture, the scan will determine whether he plays again this season.
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Lordy Lou!

Reynoldson being back is a good thing though, we've missed him quite a bit, I believe.
 
Im glad they're sitting bedsy out then risking him causing further injury... damn simpsons another set back though. I rekn this game will be a really close one like most of newcastles victories this year..

What is annoying me is all the players getting injured, not just for newcastle, but all the clubs having their big name players crashing 3/4's of the way through a season.. i like what fatty said on the footy show thursday night how the season should be cut back down to 22 rounds.
 
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