NRL Round 3 - Knights Vs Warriors - 3:00pm Saturday, 21st March - McDonald Jones Stadium

mozza said:
Sharpe was our last hope of victory imo. Sad to say just can’t see us having enough points to win. I get they’ve got more outs but ours are more important.

I’m sure they’ll have a fair crack but I can see a 24-6 type score occurring with our lone try coming in the 79th minute of course.
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The difficulty with the new spine will be them being able to get good ball to our other attacking targets. That being Best and Lucas, particularly with Hunt being and out and out runner and not a fullback that doubles as a distributor.
 
Very curious to see how we go.

I’m interested to see Smith, Crossland, Graham and Hunt again.

Unfortunately most of the fallout (media - not here) from the game has been our injuries and how dreadful Manly were, but I think our team did great. I’d be interested to see what they dish up with a) better opposition and b) time to prepare.

Hunt played one of his best games last week. Hoping he can back it up with a solid performance this week.
Smith Crossland and Graham all solid in adversity.
 
bremsstrahlung said:
Very curious to see how we go.

I’m interested to see Smith, Crossland, Graham and Hunt again.

Unfortunately most of the fallout (media - not here) from the game has been our injuries and how dreadful Manly were, but I think our team did great. I’d be interested to see what they dish up with a) better opposition and b) time to prepare.

Hunt played one of his best games last week. Hoping he can back it up with a solid performance this week.
Smith Crossland and Graham all solid in adversity.
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they were objectively dreadful.

What worries me is our pts completely dried up in the second half after KP and Brown didn't return. I also felt that we started to lose the middle in that second half against Manly's geriatric pack. We're going to have to be better against a much bigger and more physical forward pack side that will give us nothing. They've only conceded 24 pts in the opening 2 weeks against two premiership contenders. I don't expect Sandon to have nearly as much time and space as the eagles gave us last week.

To also be perfectly candid, we've only beaten two contenders for the wooden spoon so far. We'd be in line for another spoon if we didn't convincingly beat them as we have. Maybe I am just a miserable old fart (guilty as charged). But before we get too excited, we should remember we won the first 2 games of last year too before everything turned to custard. I'm personally reserving any judgment on this team until after the next 3 games which will tell us where we are really at.
 
usa3617 said:
they were objectively dreadful.

What worries me is our pts completely dried up in the second half after KP and Brown didn't return. I also felt that we started to lose the middle in that second half against Manly's geriatric pack. We're going to have to be better against a much bigger and more physical forward pack side that will give us nothing. They've only conceded 24 pts in the opening 2 weeks against two premiership contenders. I don't expect Sandon to have nearly as much time and space as the eagles gave us last week.

To also be perfectly candid, we've only beaten two contenders for the wooden spoon so far. We'd be in line for another spoon if we didn't convincingly beat them as we have. Maybe I am just a miserable old fart (guilty as charged). But before we get too excited, we should remember we won the first 2 games of last year too before everything turned to custard. I'm personally reserving any judgment on this team until after the next 3 games which will tell us where we are really at.
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We didn’t look as awesome but we did score half of our tries after Ponga went off and one of those after Brown left.
Manly scored two tries when we had our full compliment and only one after we were using a makeshift team.
After losing attacking players of that calibre not to mention how they organise the defensive line, the rest of the team did astonishingly well.
We can only hope that now it is planned and not makeshift on the run they can do equal or (as they should) better.
And from memory most ‘experts’ had the three of us all sitting in the 8-12. Can’t recall seeing anyone slating either of the teams for wooden spoon.
 
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Predicting a Wahs 26-12 win. We'll be competitive for 65 minutes and then they'll score a few tries late to win convincingly.

KP and DylBro both out will be a too much of a blow for us. Hopefully I'm wrong and we win the match.
 
usa3617 said:
they were objectively dreadful.

What worries me is our pts completely dried up in the second half after KP and Brown didn't return. I also felt that we started to lose the middle in that second half against Manly's geriatric pack. We're going to have to be better against a much bigger and more physical forward pack side that will give us nothing. They've only conceded 24 pts in the opening 2 weeks against two premiership contenders. I don't expect Sandon to have nearly as much time and space as the eagles gave us last week.

To also be perfectly candid, we've only beaten two contenders for the wooden spoon so far. We'd be in line for another spoon if we didn't convincingly beat them as we have. Maybe I am just a miserable old fart (guilty as charged). But before we get too excited, we should remember we won the first 2 games of last year too before everything turned to custard. I'm personally reserving any judgment on this team until after the next 3 games which will tell us where we are really at.
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I thought we created chances we just didn’t ice in the second half, Manly are lucky it wasn’t 50.
 
I thought they did really well as a makeshift team in the second half against Manly. I'm thinking they may still do OK as they would have trained all week without KP and DB and I'm pretty sure Sharpe was always a long shot at best. Ligament injuries are 4-6 weeks.
 
usa3617 said:
they were objectively dreadful
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Crazy that they thought Manly would mount a comeback. And almost made it sound as if it was expected.
I would have personally been disappointed if we let a 20 point lead slip.
Yes sometimes there is always a bit of not doing anything too stupid to allow easy field position and they did try their hand but I was happy enough with the way it panned out all things considered.
Didn’t panic when Manly scored first in the second half and commentators made it sound like the comeback was on lol
 
Not expecting to much with the missing trio but I am expecting a huge effort from those playing.
Score line might get blown out but effort must remain, a good start to the season needs to be followed by effort despite the missing stars.
Happy with the selections, Hunt at 1 seemed obvious and Gamble is the experience we need, expect Frizell to start on bench with Croker starting, it’s still a good side without the big three
 
R_A said:
Crazy that they thought Manly would mount a comeback. And almost made it sound as if it was expected.
I would have personally been disappointed if we let a 20 point lead slip.
Yes sometimes there is always a bit of not doing anything too stupid to allow easy field position and they did try their hand but I was happy enough with the way it panned out all things considered.
Didn’t panic when Manly scored first in the second half and commentators made it sound like the comeback was on lol
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I mean we are the reigning wooden spooners. I think it was fair enough to think we wouldn’t hold the lead. I sure didn’t think we would.
 
Beer Me Strength said:
I mean we are the reigning wooden spooners.
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Completely different teams/coaches then and now, can't compare. Everyones trying to impress a new coach in the honeymoon phase, just very different circumstances.
Maybe if this match was round 25 last year I wouldn't be surprised if they let a lead slip otherwise...
 
im hoping for an all time performance from our forwards/middles only way we are winning this game they are just another world of ruck speed when they get it going.
 
R_A said:
Crazy that they thought Manly would mount a comeback. And almost made it sound as if it was expected.
I would have personally been disappointed if we let a 20 point lead slip.
Yes sometimes there is always a bit of not doing anything too stupid to allow easy field position and they did try their hand but I was happy enough with the way it panned out all things considered.
Didn’t panic when Manly scored first in the second half and commentators made it sound like the comeback was on lol
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I personally wouldn't have been surprised. Not because of any bad play from us, just the way the game is going with the crazy momentum shifts. You let in only 1 or 2 tries during that period when the ref is shafting you with the 6 agains and you'll probably go a long way to winning the game. Everyone is going to get a 40-0 hiding at some pt during the season imo unless you are Penrith or Melbourne.
 
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usa3617 said:
I personally wouldn't have been surprised. Not because of any bad play from us, just the way the game is going with the crazy momentum shifts. You let in only 1 or 2 tries during that period when the ref is shafting you with the 6 agains and you'll probably go a long way to winning the game. Everyone is going to get a 40-0 hiding at some pt during the season imo unless you are Penrith or Melbourne.
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Yep we have had a few hidings from Manly at Brooky before and ones that have ended with horror injury concerns in the past. Something about a team being able to score 30 in a half even with the concerns of Ponga and then Brown (Yes they were injured pretty much when tries were scored) but they still even finished off that half strongly, its not like they were clinging on for that break.
Im trying to think of the last time we blew a lead that big for some time, there was that Dragons game in 2017 I think we lead something like 28-10 only to lose. But then there were a lot of those sorts of games in 2H. Lot of guys probably played before their time and looked gassed.
 
I’m hoping we can maintain our good defensive habits. I think we were in the top 4 teams for almost 2/3 thirds of the season last year before we drastically fell away. Our defence has looked pretty good the first two games.
 
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