NRL Round 10 - Knights Vs Dragons - 3:00pm Saturday, 9th of May - WIN Stadium
- Thread starter jamesgould
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Yeah, i liked the patience early. Do the basics right and our class was always going to be too much for them. Didn't give em a sniff at any point.
Defence wins games
Todd Bates
Yes, I really like McEwen’s rip and tear in attack particularly. This young bloke gets better every game.
alexwilliams
Mark Hughes
Sorry about all the stats but here's another, this is our most points scored after round 10 since 2006 
Keep em coming Alex!! All good news.Sorry about all the stats but here's another, this is our most points scored after round 10 since 2006
alexwilliams
Mark Hughes
I should have pointed out, at this point in 2006 we scored 313 points and we've scored 276 so far this year
Billy
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
It's a pity we couldn't find a spot for Matt McEwen in Ball this year.
Matt is a hooker who is 10kg smaller than Jermaine, but if anything, he takes more angry pills than Jermaine.
I don't think Lantry liked him flaring up time after time - but angry can be good.
I hope we see him get a run next year in Flegg.
Matt is a hooker who is 10kg smaller than Jermaine, but if anything, he takes more angry pills than Jermaine.
I don't think Lantry liked him flaring up time after time - but angry can be good.
I hope we see him get a run next year in Flegg.
Ahhh yes the only time we scored 70 points
25-6, 70-32, 22-26 (I think), 46-22, 54-6 one of the more impressive starts I’ve seen and the warriors loss was just because Joey didn’t play
Played the minor premiers in 2005 eels and high ranked dogs in that stretch as well as the second place in 2005 dragons
Yeah they were loaded with talent. Joey humbly credited the forwards for being all over them , similar with the bulldogs game which they led 46-6 before taking their foot off the pedal, was nice to see everyone healthy after the previous year and a few dally m player of the year medals gone begging if it weren’t for injuries (no disrespect to the others)
Yeah, you can throw the other two backrowers in to that as well.
Watching the game live it looked like we won at a canter. Taking nothing way from the team, they were great, and executed our attack, and defended well. We were also into a decent breeze first half. Good to see us playing and functioning as a team.
Dragons really have no attack, I can’t remember a point in the game where I was worried they were going to threaten something. Val Holmes in particular needs to be put out to pasture. Laughable how much attack we ran at him, and not the 80kg rookie half on the other edge.
Not sure why they didn’t give Manu a run when we were well and truly up. Thought Sandon looked like he struggled with contact, so bit to work on there too. Other than that top notch performance all round.
Dragons really have no attack, I can’t remember a point in the game where I was worried they were going to threaten something. Val Holmes in particular needs to be put out to pasture. Laughable how much attack we ran at him, and not the 80kg rookie half on the other edge.
Not sure why they didn’t give Manu a run when we were well and truly up. Thought Sandon looked like he struggled with contact, so bit to work on there too. Other than that top notch performance all round.
MontyBrogan
Max Chapman
Find me another game where there isn't at least a 10 minute period where a side doesn't show up on the red bull tracker. I know everyone wants the Knights to completely dominate for 80 minutes and win 50-0 every week - but we need to be realistic. The Dragons are a bad team - but they're a bad NRL team full of professional athletes. It's not realistic to dominate unilaterally - even though that should of course be the attitude the players take onto the field.View attachment 8111
It’s this 10 min period that Newcastle switch off for that’s a worry. It was enough for Souths to almost win and a better team could. Otherwise a solid showing today.
To me that graph shows a positive not a negative - momentum was against us for a 10 minute period, and we responded by scoring a try out of nowhere, then another a few minutes later. That's the response you should want
Frank McWilliams
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Huge game, huge result, expected but not expected if you know what I mean.
Team played really well, especially first half, our 1-7 all very good. Fwds good but as his big critic I have to say I thought Saulo had his best game so far but it was the backs that starred. The Croker injury and moving Crossland to 13 with Smith to 9 seemed to disjoint us, things didn’t flow the same. Smith looked a little lost almost not interested.
Gags still looks ok but could do with a break,mwas least effective of our 1-7.
Team played really well, especially first half, our 1-7 all very good. Fwds good but as his big critic I have to say I thought Saulo had his best game so far but it was the backs that starred. The Croker injury and moving Crossland to 13 with Smith to 9 seemed to disjoint us, things didn’t flow the same. Smith looked a little lost almost not interested.
Gags still looks ok but could do with a break,mwas least effective of our 1-7.