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I ♥ James McManus
If it wasn't Sailor out it would've been MacDougall haha, maybe they both will be out. :tongue:
Round 17: Knights v Dragons @ EAS Stadium
- Thread starter Ms.Nobody
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If it wasn't Sailor out it would've been MacDougall haha, maybe they both will be out. :tongue:
If they are both out then they can have a punch-up on the sideline.
Theknightsrule7
Matthew Gidley
Would be great if we beat them!!! Its our only game against them this year, we need to beat them 
btw Will they wear their home or away kit this week?
btw Will they wear their home or away kit this week?
~knights1~
Ben Kennedy
I love that game, a sentimental favourite from years back. Doogs with the points decision over Blacklock in both their comebacks.
Newcastle Forever
NEW-CAS-TLE
I remember that game well, I was there
It was right after Origin wasn't it?
We have to win this game, otherwise we are goooooooorne
The Saints surely can't make it 7 in a row can they?
does anyone else think that the whole Maddog with the flu is a load of BS?, i mean he has had it like on and off for ages now, and the flu is contagious its a miricle no one else has got it on the team. Also i thought once u had it, getting it bak in the same season was minimal, but maybe its just Maddog's immune system playing up in his old age 
does anyone else think that the whole Maddog with the flu is a load of BS?, i mean he has had it like on and off for ages now, and the flu is contagious its a miricle no one else has got it on the team. Also i thought once u had it, getting it bak in the same season was minimal, but maybe its just Maddog's immune system playing up in his old age
Yes, but it's Mad Dog. He has always been like this. Gives the future a go... Lulia
Lulia?! He was terrible against Manly!
Was that directed at me? If so, I was being 110% sarcastic in that post hence the
"Future=Lulia"
Oh.
knight-no-7
Moderator
Some Good news:
Herald
Fans rally in support of Knights: Call to arms puts Newcastle on target for biggest crowd
BY BRETT KEEBLE
30/06/2008
THE Knights are on track to attract their biggest home crowd of the season for the game against St George Illawarra at EnergyAustralia Stadium on Saturday night.
After his call to arms in The Herald last Thursday, Knights chief executive Steve Burraston has been buoyed by the response from fans and expects that to continue when discounted tickets for the rest of the season go on sale today.
Burraston said the Knights had to increase their home-crowd season average from the current mark of 19,020 to 20,000 by year's end, or the club would record another financial loss. If that trend continued, he warned, he would consider long-term options including privatisation, mergers, moving games away from EAS or winding the club up.
By close of business yesterday, 13,952 tickets had been sold for the Dragons game and Burraston was confident it would outdraw the season-high 21,614 who attended the match against Brisbane on April 13.
"Our biggest pre-sales for a game this year was the Broncos, but it rained on the day of the game so we ended up with one of our worst game-day walk-up sales," Burraston said. "At the moment, Newcastle has rallied behind us and I thank them for that. We're about five per cent ahead of where we were at the same time for the Broncos, and about five times over what we were for the Warriors [15,489] and that was our worst to date. I'm fairly confident the people of Newcastle will continue to rally behind us, from the responses I'm getting in letters, emails, phone calls and general conversations."
Passes covering the final four and final three games will be discounted by 30 per cent and those ticket packages go on sale from 9am today at the Knights Kingdom shop at the club's EAS offices. Those tickets do not include the Dragons game.
"The amount of positive responses we've received are probably 10 or 20 times more than anything negative, and most of the negative responses are generally misunderstandings of how things are priced or what we're doing or what I actually said last week," Burraston said.
"We've really received very little to no feedback that is critical of the team, the board, the management, the coach or the Knights. It's all been fairly positive.
"What people have told me is they're really feeling the pinch, and I've said from day one that I understand that . . . and, predominantly, they're blaming that for the reason why they can't afford to buy tickets or season tickets.
"We've listened to what they've said and our reaction is to sell packages for our last four games and our last three games that will reduce ticket prices by 30 per cent."
Six teams have a bye this weekend so the Knights-Dragons game is the only NRL match scheduled on Saturday.
Dual international Wendell Sailor may be a surprise starter at EAS.
The St George Illawarra winger is on the verge of returning from a cheekbone fracture suffered last month in his NRL comeback match after a two-year ban for cocaine use.
Dragons coach Nathan Brown said Sailor's fitness would be assessed today, and the winger was some chance of earning first-grade selection for the match.
Herald
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Ben Kennedy
haha bring on 'superman '