ROUND 1 - Knights V Warriors - Friday 3 March, 6:00pm - Sky Stadium, Wellington

Lefty said:
I support Labor because they are committed to social justice (a fairer society) and good services such as Medicare, the NDIS quality infrastructure such as full fibre NBN.
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Off track with the thread but yes I get those points and definitely support, it's a shame doctors and such have moved away from Medicare for patients, takes away the bottom dollar most households would likely save. So hard for a government to implement strategies over 4 years, it's just not long enough to control the biggest things.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
Robson is really good, also maybe the most underrated player in the comp, but trying to slap that name through to the keeper alongside Grant and Api is a little like when legislator tacks a somewhat unpopular rider onto a really popular bill hahaha.

If I was sorting all the #9’s into tiers I’d personally have Harry Grant on the top one, on his own. I recognise Api has been a very important part of that Penrith machine, and that they were mediocre for a few years before he arrived, but the thing about that was that all of the hookers Penny had in the years leading up to that were dog**** - that team was ready to be great, and they were being held back.

We’ll get a pretty good test of my theory that Grant is in a class of his own now that Api is at Wests - albeit with a stronger roster than the absolute dog**** Harry was able to make competitive when he played there for a year (as a rookie!) - because we can make something closer to a direct comparison. I think Harry is a once-in-a-generation player and he’s probably the single player I’d most want the Knights to sign if I had my pick of anyone in the comp, sorry Jayden…

Tier 1: Harry Grant.
Tier 2: Damien Cook, Api Koroisau.
Tier 3: Reed Mahoney, Reece Robson, Jayden Brailey, Blayke Brailey, Brandon Smith (though he needs to get in better shape, he’s a game-breaker), and it’s starting to seem like Jeremy Marshall-King might belong here too now.

No particular order within tiers, before anyone leaps down my throat.

Josh Hodgson used to be one of the better ones going but for me he’s like Robbie Farah, terrific during his peak years, but I have serious doubts about his hero-ball style now he’s so far past his physical prime.

Never really know how to rate guys like Cory Paix and Tom Starling, where you need to have someone play the first 20-30 minutes of the game for them, but I quite like both of them as well.
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You don't mention Wayde Egan?
 
Watcher said:
Warriors here, we are the same after loss however, it could have gone either way. I think your spine is going to be great with time together. My view is both starting lineups cancelled each other out. I think our Bench won the game. Your Bench looked a bit under done to me and needed more minutes.
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Thanks for your assessment Watcher - I'll give it 6 to 8 rounds or so before I'm prepared to say whether our spine will be up to a competitive first grade standard...there is still a lot of work to do and my personal concern is Hastings - I have been expecting to see him play and execute a lot more of the controlling role we need from him in general (like Pearce did) but I don't see him touching the ball enough and organising the troops at this stage.

I've got to wonder how much of that is Adzy's influence on reducing that focus to try and get Ponga involved as a creative half, before we have been able to set any sort of platform and get any forward dominance, from fatiguing and breaking the opposition defence down.

I've also got to say, we are still light on in the forwards for quality, impact and the mental fortitude to maintain sustained effort under fatigue - the Safs are 5 minutes of impact but then they go missing for 5 minutes. I fear Elliot will consistently do 1 good thing and then 2 dumb things that will make his contribution a net negative. Hetherington seems way off match fitness and we don't have the depth off the bench to maintain any benefit we may have, if our starting forwards do manage to dominate

We also still have no consistent line speed in defence - after 5 minutes we revert to sitting on our heels and having 2 tacklers both going high and not dominating the ruck ...all in all, we have individuals who are mentally weak, a fragile roster with no depth and a coaching team that doesn't seem to be able to develop and get the best out of our current roster.

I do live in hope that these things will improve over the season...but I have been a Knights fan and supporter for too long to realistically think that wishing it so will make us do any better this year, than we have in the past few seasons
 
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