Round 8: Newcastle Knights v GC Titans @ EAS

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I'm one of Vuna's biggest baggers, but he had an outstanding game. He was loaded with aggression, exactly what's been needed from him all year. Perhaps Smith finally got him to understand he is too big and quick to not be able to hurt players when he has the ball. He was dynamite. Pato seemed like he'd been fed some angry pills too.
 
Hey guys, great game again. I haven't seen it on TV yet but from the game that Scott Prince try looked nowhere near the line and we booed for about 10 minutes... was it closer than our bias eyes could see? ;)
 
Definitely didn't look like a try to me! I think he only gave it because Prince got up nodding his head excitedly!

And I see at LeagueHQ that Cartwright was whinging about the Naiqama try, that looked an obvious try to me, Naiqama didn't touch it!

One thing that Cartwright did complain about which was true was the final penalty awarded to Hilder, tough call against the Gold Coast.
 
jamesgould said:
Definitely didn't look like a try to me! I think he only gave it because Prince got up nodding his head excitedly!

And I see at LeagueHQ that Cartwright was whinging about the Naiqama try, that looked an obvious try to me, Naiqama didn't touch it!

One thing that Cartwright did complain about which was true was the final penalty awarded to Hilder, tough call against the Gold Coast.
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Tough titties, it wouldn't have been a close game if Prince's try, or should I call it Badgers try wasn't called lol.

Also Anthony Quinn walked past me last night, super exciting :D
 
Smith calls for penalties clarification

Should an NRL match have 20 penalties or four penalties?

Newcastle coach Brian Smith says the league should make up its mind.

"It's hard to know," he said after the Knights' gutsy 13-12 win over high-flying Gold Coast.

"We're going from some games where we've had massive, like I think we had 20 penalties in a game.

"And then tonight it was pretty obvious I thought that either the referee had instruction or he sort of seemed to have an attitude that there wasn't going to be a lot of penalties.

"That's good but it would be great if we all knew that that's how it was going to be all the time."

Referee Gavin Badger awarded only eight penalties during Saturday night's absorbing tussle at EnergyAustralia Stadium for a 4-4 count.

Out at Penrith, whistle-blower Ben Cummins was struck in the head by a missile from the crowd at fulltime - despite the Panthers winning a big penalty count 10-4.

"In the days where you could talk to a referee, as a coach I found myself standing in the tunnel next to the ref as we were waiting for the players to come back out," Smith said.

"(We) had a bit of a casual conversation - I thought it was casual anyway - and I told him that all week at training we've been practising this tap ... and I told him in intricate detail about how good a tap move this was.

"And he looked at me and eventually he said: `Well, what are you telling me for?'

"I said: `Well there's no chance of us getting the tap on in this game to show everyone if you don't give us a (pause) penalty'.

"I was starting to wonder again tonight for a while in the second half if it was going to get like that again."

Titans coach John Cartwright said the lack of penalties at the ruck Saturday night shackled two teams who like to play a free-flowing brand of football.

"The game to me seemed like a real wrestle-athon at the play-the-ball," he said.

Retired refereeing legend Bill Harrigan made controlling a game with minimal penalties his trademark, but Smith said he'd just like a ruling on what his side could expect each week.

"If we all knew we were all going to have two or three or four penalties in a game, if that was the way we were going to look at the game, well let me tell you we wouldn't practice those fancy taps that I was talking about," he said.

"You'd work on something else."

"In the golden days the Magpies used to come out and try to give 10 penalties away.

"At one stage Souths were like that in the 80s and Ronny Willey was coaching, they'd come out and rip everyone's heads off and do all that stuff that was aggressive.

"(Now) everyone's trying hard not to give penalties away."

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Even though hes not our team I wanna give Preston Campbell a wrap :D He was one of my favourite plays back in his Penrith days and its great to see him finding form again after last year when he was pretty quiet.
 
He did well to run Vuna down then Friend came in and finished the tackle.

On the penalties, i think it was controlled fairly yesterday, although they were reluctant to give some, the game flowed well.
 
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He did well to run Vuna down then Friend came in and finished the tackle.
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That was one of the weirdest takes I've ever seen. Didn't look to tackle him normally, instead swiping him across the legs with his whole body. But heck it worked, good on the little guy.
 
4-4 but we didnt get any until the 79th minute in the 2nd half.

Milked by Hilder :lol: who got Players Player last night.

U23 said:
That was one of the weirdest takes I've ever seen. Didn't look to tackle him normally, instead swiping him across the legs with his whole body. But heck it worked, good on the little guy.
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Grass cut.
 
jamesgould said:
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On Paterson, no way he should go back tot he bench. Tonight showed what he can do when he starts the match.
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yep pato was great last night.

defensively I have never seen him better

that was a big statement towards the country selectors too :icon_biggrin:

and matty hilder was awesome
I know we signed de gois...but hilder played great at hooker :icon_mrgreen:
 
The Prince try really ****ed me off. He was deadset short of the line, then when he was over the line, the ball had jarred loose. Our defense was great, which was the best part of the win. Hilder was very good in filling Bedsey's shoes.
 
corey hughes is sh*t...he gives too many penalties away

but back to pato

corey would have been disappointed in not making country side

i'm glad he had a good game last night
 
After last nights performance, i see hilder starting next yr and Degois off the bench. Hopefully he can keep up his form cause we will be needing him to put in big efforts again around origin time this yr.
 
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