NRL Round 19 - Knights Vs Rabbitohs - 2:00pm Sunday, 12th of July - Accor Stadium
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Newygirl
Clint Newton
He did well but the fact that the halves only put one bad kick up for Dom is horrendous from them.
Cleary or any decent half would be kicking all day at that mismatch. He’s a foot taller than him ffs.
Not sure what it is but when Smith plays in the halves Brown takes a back seat. Smith just doesn’t always seem to be on the same page. Whereas with Sharpe at 6, KP and Brown link up more together and those two play well off each other. Just think with Smith in the halves, it overcomplicates things too much. Too many cooks. Sharpe in the halves, simplifies things
Defence wins games
Todd Bates
Wow!
frankLauda
Tony Butterfield
Yeah. I don’t get the persistence with trying to go around teams. Sure once there’s some momentum and push through the middle, then throw it wide. And we seem to have joy playing back under. Just a bit of execution let us down also. Hopefully another learning lesson this game. I feel we sort this out we will pump some teams.
Lynchyknight
Darren Albert
I think that score line flatters us big time
Outside the first 10 mins when we conceded those 2 obstructions which I think was fair both was no tries
It was all rabbits from then on
It was 26-6 with 15 mins to go only reason we got back into the game was rabbits was exhausted after losing 2 players in first 15 mins but credit where is due we did keep playing
Massive game against the sharks on Friday, we win back into top 4.. we lose not only does the top 4 break away from us on points but 3 of the 4 teams right behind us likely win next week and put massive pressure on us
Outside the first 10 mins when we conceded those 2 obstructions which I think was fair both was no tries
It was all rabbits from then on
It was 26-6 with 15 mins to go only reason we got back into the game was rabbits was exhausted after losing 2 players in first 15 mins but credit where is due we did keep playing
Massive game against the sharks on Friday, we win back into top 4.. we lose not only does the top 4 break away from us on points but 3 of the 4 teams right behind us likely win next week and put massive pressure on us
MontyBrogan
Rodney Howe
Back from the game - 80 minutes of sitting in the Souths members section with my family (all Souths members) wasn't the most fun.
Few on here are definitely right that Souths lifted for the Arrow event, nearly 31k there today which is more than they usually get - they're a less talented team, but played better on the day and deserved the result I thought. Could have stolen it if any of our four disallowed tries had gone slightly differently, but we put ourselves in that position.
Few other thoughts watching from the ground:
- We kept going at that right edge, especially after Gray came on, but it never really looked right. Part of that is Gagai having a pretty poor game and not putting Dom in the right positions, and part of it was Cant not being able to offer a quality or credible inside/straight option to hold their edge and create space. He often got his lines wrong, and even when they were right he wasn't enough of a threat to actually break the line. Really missed McEwen - what happened to him? Late scratch?
- On the same point, noticed KP and Brown started deliberately changing our structure on that side to have Gagai the decoy, with Ponga receiving one-in from Young. Worked better and led to a try and an almost try if Ponga could have managed the flick pass not going forward.
- Very impressed with Ponga's effort in the last 10 (all game, but the last 10 especially) after playing Origin earlier in the week. Two tries and constantly making efforts to support potential offloads out of our own end. Skimming through the comments here it seems people are bashing him about the last pass, but we don't get within a try without him.
- How was the tackle to deny Crouch not a penalty try or at least a sin bin? Dufty jumps to make high contact as the last defender, and that's the only thing that prevents a try... Maybe I'm missing something as I was certainly the only person in my section remonstrating the decision
Few on here are definitely right that Souths lifted for the Arrow event, nearly 31k there today which is more than they usually get - they're a less talented team, but played better on the day and deserved the result I thought. Could have stolen it if any of our four disallowed tries had gone slightly differently, but we put ourselves in that position.
Few other thoughts watching from the ground:
- We kept going at that right edge, especially after Gray came on, but it never really looked right. Part of that is Gagai having a pretty poor game and not putting Dom in the right positions, and part of it was Cant not being able to offer a quality or credible inside/straight option to hold their edge and create space. He often got his lines wrong, and even when they were right he wasn't enough of a threat to actually break the line. Really missed McEwen - what happened to him? Late scratch?
- On the same point, noticed KP and Brown started deliberately changing our structure on that side to have Gagai the decoy, with Ponga receiving one-in from Young. Worked better and led to a try and an almost try if Ponga could have managed the flick pass not going forward.
- Very impressed with Ponga's effort in the last 10 (all game, but the last 10 especially) after playing Origin earlier in the week. Two tries and constantly making efforts to support potential offloads out of our own end. Skimming through the comments here it seems people are bashing him about the last pass, but we don't get within a try without him.
- How was the tackle to deny Crouch not a penalty try or at least a sin bin? Dufty jumps to make high contact as the last defender, and that's the only thing that prevents a try... Maybe I'm missing something as I was certainly the only person in my section remonstrating the decision
Frank McWilliams
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
Some of our passes were casual, not well directed, poor old Young often had to slow, almost jump to take passes that allowed the defense to close in, he should get the ball in full flight without slowing or stuttering, the difference was a few yards or many yards including breaking through
Smith has been pretty poor all year in the halves and goes too sideways for mine and jams everyone in.
Smith is a big improvement on who we had last year. I certainly didn't see what you have seen. I have been very happy with the teams attacking style and if we could remove the panic from the attack we would of won today.
Graham was throwing them NFL style for a lot of the game too, was a miracle none got picked up.
Whether that’s misdirected passes or players over-running, it goes back to attention to detail.
HarVeeGee13
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
I don’t think he’s been poor but you’re kind of right, Brown & Sharpe in the halves with Kalyn has worked better than Brown & Sandon and we now have a decent sample size. It’s exactly the same thing as how the Broncos look better with Ezra & even Billy Walters at 6 than with Reyno/Hunt in the halves together, and how Clifford is absolutely the best foil to Dearden & Drinky because of how simple his game is & how little he wants the ball.
When you have a fullback as a key playmaker you can run into a too many cooks problem and Sharpe has genuinely combined better with Ponga on that edge because his game is simpler and honestly on that left edge you do not need to create an overlap for him, you just need to give him time & space. By doing too much lead up work even if Sandon does give him numbers, he’s not giving him room. Get him the ball quick & early.
& yeah I think also Brown being forced to be the dominant half by not having Sandon there has been better for the team.