Round 18: Newcastle Knights vs Parramatta Eels

[rhugh89]

FRIDAY 13TH JULY, 2018 @ 7:55PM
MCDONALD JONES STADIUM, NEWCASTLE


OFFICIALS

REFEREES: ADAM GEE AND TIM ROBY
SIDELINE OFFICIALS: RICKEY MCFARLANE AND MICHAEL WISE
VIDEO REFEREES: JARED MAXWELL AND LUKE PATTEN

LOWER GRADES

ISP: NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS HAVE THE BYE

JERSEY FLEGG: NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS VS CANTERBURY BULLDOGS
MCDONALD JONES STADIUM, NEWCASTLE
FRIDAY JULY 13TH, 2018 @ 5:45PM​

KNIGHTS TEAM

1. NICK MEANEY
2. KEN SIO
3. SIONE MATA'UTIA
4. CORY DENNISS
5. SHAUN KENNY-DOWALL
6. CONNOR WATSON
7. MITCHELL PEARCE (C)
8. JOSH KING
9. DANNY LEVI
10. DANIEL SAIFITI
11. AIDAN GUERRA
12. MITCH BARNETT
13. HERMAN ESE'ESE

14. NATHAN ROSS
15. CHRIS HEIGHINGTON
16. JAMIE BUHRER (C)
17. JACOB LILLYMAN

18. LUKE YATES
19. SAM STONE
20. JACK COGGER
21. JJ FELISE

STATS

PLAYER AND TEAM STATS
MATCH STATS
HISTORICAL STATS


UPCOMING MILESTONES

- MITCH BARNETT REQUIRES 2 MORE GAMES TO REACH 50 NRL GAMES
- SHAUN KENNY-DOWALL REQUIRES 4 MORE GAMES TO REACH 250 NRL GAMES
- HERMAN ESE'ESE REQUIRES 4 MORE GAMES TO REACH 50 NRL GAMES​

 

[Wobbles]

Friday the 13th, what could possibly go wrong haha

 

[MattyM]

Friday the 13th, what could possibly go wrong haha

Better yet - what could possibly go right?

 

[Wobbles]

Better yet - what could possibly go right?

Ironically that was my 666th post

 

[cowboyman]

Said at the start of the year if Denniss is anywhere near first grade then you will be struggling again. By god is he awful. Surely Brown can’t pick and stick with him?

Eels are there for the taking with or without Ponga though. Score early against them and they will pull up stumps for the night.

Watson for first try in the first 10 minutes.

 

[mozza]

Denniss has been pretty solid outside of Saturday. He did looked out of depth though. Him out and Ross in is a no brainer for the Parra game.

 

[member 2299]

mozza this is COREY Denniss you are talking about?

He has been hopeless in defence for three years.

 

[Grandpa Joe]

Denniss has been pretty solid outside of Saturday. He did looked out of depth though. Him out and Ross in is a no brainer for the Parra game.

Yeah this week was shocking aside from that his been reasonable, surprised at everyones lynching after one shocker.

 

[Chief Longhorn]

He hasn't been reasonable at all in defence!
He gets dragged out of position far too much, especially when on the short side at the play the ball!
I can think of at least 4 tries which were scored down his side due to him following the ball from outside in at the ruck!
Blake Ferguson scored two beauties which eventually cost us the Roosters game!
Rushing across works well when the dummy half actually passes the ball that way, but Denniss goes way too early and every team is on to it!
One on one he goes alright most times, but positionally he is poor!

 

[member 2299]

Watch it LongProng!

You will be called a lyncher also agreeing with me!~

 

[Nickwpearce]

Yeah this week was shocking aside from that his been reasonable, surprised at everyones lynching after one shocker.

He has had one decent game... the win against parra, after that he has been well behind ross.

Not 1st grade standard at all...

 

[Chief Longhorn]

You really have to understand the game to see how out of his depth he is at times!
He is still young though, I give him some hope of developing into a solid first grader, Ross is currently the better option.

 

[mozza]

mozza this is COREY Denniss you are talking about?

He has been hopeless in defence for three years.

Not really. Other than last weekend he’s been on par defensively with anyone else whose played left centre for us this year.

 

[Billy]

Brown correctly points out that the poor defence on our edges comes from our middle players not sliding and his response to the problems the left side was having was to move Stone to the right and Barnett to the left.
In at least one of the tries scored against us Denniss was defending about 15 metres of the line by himself and tried to rush up to take the guy with the ball - which was about all he could have done.
The only time in the last 2 years our defence has looked good was when Ross was playing fullback and spent all game shouting at guys to slide in defence.

 

[Billy]

https://www.newcastleknights.com.au/news/2018/07/03/browns-options-replacing-griffin-and-ponga/

Brown talking about options.

Fullback options - Watson, Meaney, Ross
5/8 - doesn't say
Half - Pearce
Hooker - Levi, Buhrer, Watson, Starling

 

[Grandpa Joe]

He has had one decent game... the win against parra, after that he has been well behind ross.

Not 1st grade standard at all...

Have you seen Ross this year? I'd say that's debatable, and that's not praising Dennis!

 

[member 2299]

And Ross Dawg has proved he has no idea of defensive reads or positioning at fullback.

 

[slotmachine]

Other than last weekend he’s been on par defensively with anyone else whose played left centre for us this year.

And miles better than the right centre.

 

[Chief Longhorn]

As I said it is not so much his defence in general play that is a problem, at least no worse than anyone else we've had there!
It is when he is defending the short side when the opposition has a play the ball, he shoots infield too early leaving too much distance between him and the sideline!
Opposition sides are now running short side plays at him with great success and he still hasn't worked it out!

 

[slotmachine]

Fair. Our right centre is a year older with 70 more first grade games and still makes the same defensive error consistently.

Maybe we should move Dennis one in and have Cogger defend at centre.