Worst year ever?

The ladder wont suggest so but 2014 was an absolute bludger of a year.
Coming off a prelim in 2013 we had 3 wins on the board across the first 14 or 15 rounds, mckinnons injury, bossman not paying his bills and then bennett walking out. that year was the catalyst for the rebuild and the next 3 years of misery.
dads army in 2013 feels like a lifetime ago.
 
EASBay17 said:
The ladder wont suggest so but 2014 was an absolute bludger of a year.
Coming off a prelim in 2013 we had 3 wins on the board across the first 14 or 15 rounds, mckinnons injury, bossman not paying his bills and then bennett walking out. that year was the catalyst for the rebuild and the next 3 years of misery.
dads army in 2013 feels like a lifetime ago.
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And the “Master Coach’s” legacy lives on till this day. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.
 
For me, I feel this year is the worst I've felt about the club / footy in general. I will admit, other factors outside of football probably exaggerate that gutted feeling, so it's particularly deflating when my main source of escapism (footy) has also been another repeating smack in the face.

But for mine, any year Newcastle come last is a bad year. Any year where Brisbane win a GF is a bad year. And this year, well, would you look at that: Newcastle wooden spooners and Brisbane premiers. In the same season. Oh joy. And NSW lose the almost unlosable Origin series. Fantastic. And a fair chunk of our better NRLW players are all walking out the door. Just great.

Thank heavens its now the off-season ... but apart from hopefully watching a new, fresh, hopefully exciting style of play under a new coach, there's a fair degree of cynicism for 2026 too.

But I'll be watching and supporting ... because that's what we all do!
 
Someone else mentioned that the disappointment of this year was the expectation that most of us had was at least making the 8. For me, the giving up after the Warriors game stings. I know a lot of young guys in the side, but we still had a lot of competent FGers still playing. And AOB ball I well and truly had enough of.

In 2014, as noted by @EASBay17, looking back, that was the catalyst from which we have never fully recovered. Brown comes in to do a 3 - 4 year rebuild. To AOB, who I feel inherited a good rooster, with mixed results. The club should have let AOB walk last year. They probably should have let him walk in 22, but I understand the rationale of giving him some time.

On the up next year with New Coaches and new faces.
 
Die Hard said:
It was the worst year from my point of view, my mother was a Knights Tragic and loved football, watched every game. She passed away a couple of days after the last Panthers v Knights game in August. The worst season of the knights to be your last.
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100%. Very sorry to hear of your loss. And to have nothing good football-wise to distract you.

My father died very suddenly and unexpectedly right at the start of the epic run we had in 2023. The last Knights game he saw was the 66-nil thrashing we gave Canterbury. Knights had the bye the following week, and he went on the Tuesday that followed that. The winning streak we had going then eased the devastation and gave me something to enjoy in those otherwise bleak times.

I can't imagine going through that AND not have that glimmer of enjoyment on the weekends. So again, condolences to you and everyone around you, mate.
 
Was thinking about it. Part of the problem I feel this club has is paying overs for players. You hear at other the top clubs the top players willing to take unders so the team has the best chance to compete for titles. Not sure who’s on what at the Broncos but you can’t argue they have a stacked roster.

We definitely paid overs for Brown, but hopefully the likes of Lucus, Sharpe, etc can consider taking a bit less. Having players that want to stay at the club and play for Newcastle.
 
It has been a bad year for sure, but we were having a real dig up until the deflating loss to the warriors where I think we were still top 3 defensively. Injuries to key attacking players caught up with us at the end of the year. Through those last rounds, I can understand how it got to where it did. I took heart at those times that it had become inevitable the coach would go, we have a genuine star on the way amongst a pretty good roster overhaul and we have a batch of juniors who really give hope for next year. And that's the difference for mine. We ended the year with hope, which tempers how bad this year got.

Thats different to the two years I feel were the absolute worst for me. 2022 was worse in a lot of ways. We were going in to games, at home, early in that season knowing we were about to be lapped. We blooded Crokes and Jones with not a lot of other juniors looking likely for '23 and no big signings. A lot on here were hoping we would just show up every week at the end of that season. There was a lot less hope of green shoots at the end of 22.

The absolute worst for me was 2014. On paper, we finished 12th, which doesnt seem so bad. But that year was a nightmare. We made our last prelim the year before. On that night, we got physically dominated by the roosters and our coach nominated the lack of a big man being the piece of the puzzle we needed to sign. He got his man headed in to 2014 only for him to head to gaol instead of the training paddock. Among the injuries was of course the life changing moment for Alex. That in itself would have been a lot to come back from. Then it emerged the money bags owner was going under and players weren't getting paid. The supercoach opted out of helping us out of the hole a series of name players followed him out the door. At the end of that season, it was back to running on the smell of an oily rag with no real hope of success on the horizon.

It was a bad end to this year, but I'll take this over 2014 every time. We are financially stable, have a talent guru spending the cap in the right way and a chance to rebrand on field under a more attacking coach.
 
2014 was of course, right off the bat, a terrible year with McKinnon’s injury. But the way everyone pulled together for Alex, and a couple of inspiring wins to end the season (Roosters and Storm with Kidley’s sideline conversion) meant for me it wasn’t a total wipeout. It felt like the Knights and general footy community was really united with the RiseForAlex thing, haven’t really seen that since.
 
As bad as this year was. 2022 was somehow worse imo, at least this year we finally ripped the band aid and moved on AOB.

I'm from the "didn't watch the NRL until Covid" fame so avoided the 2015-2017 era. So I can't comment on those years and deliberately haven't watched any Knights games in those years on replay.
 
Voss and Brandy harshly bagged the Knighted fella yesterday on radio before the latter replied back.

Just seen the video before on Instagram.
 
Seems unnecessarily harsh from Vossy and Brandy to rip into a genuine fan, but to be fair I do get sick of that guy popping up in every single comment section on every single rugby league related post on instagram lol.
 
So what did this bloke say that caught their attention in the first place?

But really when you have full time professional media personalities going in on an amateur podcaster or youtuber thats pretty rank. Kind of gives the Knighted legitimacy of his opinion if Vossy and Brandy are specifically commenting on his stuff.
 
alexwilliams said:
This season was the first that I couldn't bring myself to go to half of our home games even though I was a member. They drained all hope out of me this year lol
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A kindred spirit here as we felt the same, as members since day 1.
It was incredible painful to watch our guys at most games as they were predictably bad and the opposition didn’t even have to think.
That the team and coach persisted with the same bone headed style was unforgivable and drained every bit of passion and hope out of us and people around us.
Our 2026 membership papers came in the mail this week, and for the first time ever we are weighing up whether to not renew and give our seats up, which we kept even throughout the previous spoon years.
There comes a time when the pleasure derived from membership is evaporated away by the basket case that is the Knights, particularly over the last 20 odd years.
You can only keep banging your head against the wall so many times until it really starts to hurt. We are at that spot atm with our Knights.
 
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