NRL Round 18 - Knights Vs Dolphins - 4:05pm Sunday, 5th of July - McDonald Jones Stadium

[Grug]

I thought yesterday was a massive improvement and we bashed the Dolphins in the first half. There was an application and focus on physicality that was lacking at the start of games in recent weeks. Second half thought the Dolphins played pretty well and we handled that and the conditions to win.

We were at ground level on the half way. There was an application from the Knights defence that we know is there in short periods but this time was most of the game. There wasn’t the big hit noises but it was brutal nonetheless. Missus and kid were grimacing watching the drive from the Knights in defence without knowing what they were looking at.

 

[R_A]

curious how long it is before we see cameras set up at the 40m and 10m lines. Probably not necessary now, but with the emergence of the short kickoffs and drop outs, it’s inevitable some games will be decided by decisions like this.

Yeah the way the AFL do to determine whether goals have been touched by the defenders which negate it to a behind

 

[slotmachine]

66 point drubbings are too gauche, I'll take 1 point wins thanks.

 

[usa3617]

Dolphins recent results in injury/absence affected games:

48-10 win over Roosters (similarly Origin affected, Dolphins missing Hammer, Cobbo, Flegler, Kulikefu, Bostock; Roosters missing Teddy, Marky Mark, Walker, Robson, Radley… so with 5 guys out each the Dolphins were way, way better than another top four team…)
Sleepwalked to a 36-22 win over a full strength Tigers with their Origin guys out again besides Kulikefu who backed up to play off the bench. No Katoa (late scratching)
Beat the Wahs 26-24 last week with Katoa coming off injured 15 mins in

The Dolphins are really good and our boys aimed up and got it done. Very happy with the win.

big difference is that we got them without 6 of their origin stars. And we still barely beat them. All of those stars played for the phins against the warriors and the warriors were depleted as ****. In all honesty, it was pretty poor on the Phins that their full strength side only beat the warriors B team by 2 pts. So with the benefit of hindsight, which is always dangerous, phins have been poor for a number of weeks now.