NYC Round 11 - Knights vs Broncos

[Big Pete]

Newcastle Knights vs Brisbane Broncos
Hunter Stadium, Monday 25 May 2015
Kick Off 4:45pm

1. Dylan Phythian 2. Fuaimamao Uta 3. Josh Birch 4. Braden Robson 5. Ken Tofilau 6. Brock Lamb 7. Jack Cogger 8. Jacob Saifiti 9. Danny Levi 10. Daniel Saifiti 11. Bradie Smith 12. Luke Yates 13. Faitotoa Faitotoa
Interchange: 14. Jake McNamara 15. Ben Stone 16. Josh King 17. Sam Apthorpe 18. Scott Tofa-Timoteo 19. Bryce Donovan

1. Paul Byrnes 2. Jonas Pearson 3. Jordan Drew 4. Jarryd Dodd 5. Jack Tuttle 6. Jayden Nikorima 7. Will Brimson 8. Sam Lavea 9. Jayden Berrell 10. Lindsay Collins 11. Jaydn Sua 12. Alex Barr 13. Jai Arrow (c)
Interchange: 14. Kalolo Saitaua 15. Keegan Hipgrave 16. George Fai 17. Lachlan Lanskey

 

[Big Pete]

10th hosting 1st.

Broncos are coming off a huge victory against the Cowboys where the likes of S'ua, Barr and Lavea dominated the middle while Newcastle got spanked by the Tigers.

The key will be replicating that performance from Townsville and giving the likes of Nikorima and Drew room to poke holes through the Knights defence in the middle which was very flimsy on Sunday.

Levi is a huge in for the Knights. They missed him last week and not only is he dangerous in his own right, he also compliments the likes of Lamb/Cogger who are very talented in their own right. In fact, I'd go as far to say that on their day they're right up there with Nikorima/Taylor as the best halves combination in the competition.

That's the key though, on their day. Unfortunately both are young and still need to learn how to back up and how to compete when things aren't going their way.

 

[Ari Gold]

I never bother to check, but are the Monday games on Fox?

 

[Big Pete]

Nope.

Unless the Knights choose to stream the game, it won't be available to the public.

 

[Super Freak]

It really is disappointing that they don't at least stream the games.

I guess they're doing it in an attempt to get more people to the game.

 

[coreyh88]

Last week we looked slick. A very well oiled machine. looked nrl quality. I also liked what I saw from the 7. His passes are extremely wuick and give his outside men room to work with. Our 6 (jikorima I assume) put a nice chip over the top in the later stages to his winger to score. the sort of attacking kick we never see from our first grade team. They were all doing the 1%'s better than most NRL teams including ours. such as line speed/kick chase/kick pressure etc. I'd be shocked if we didn't win it this year.

 

[Kelleher]

Also read the piece on the young backrower S'ua running 280m on the stat sheet, pretty impressive. Also impressive was Tuttle first game back staking claim on 3 tries to his name. I hope they don't take the Knights easily though, they have the firepower in there to do some damage, especially at home.

 

[Big Pete]

Both teams 1-17.

Kick Off at 4:45pm

 

[Big Pete]

Nikorima may have broken the record for fastest try in the NYC.

If he doesn't at least play one NRL game for the Broncos I'm going to be a bitter grumpy old man.

Broncos 6-0 after a minute.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Must have made some quick ground to get that try

 

[Big Pete]

Berrell scores beneath the posts.

12-0 Broncos

15 gone.

Good start for the Broncos.

 

[mitch222]

They should broadcast all NYC games on foxsports at least. Hell they manage to do that with the VFL FFS. You at the game [MENTION=1899]Big Pete[/MENTION] ?

 

[Big Pete]

Just following along on Twitter [MENTION=8605]mitch222[/MENTION].

Byrnes scores a 35m solo try to restore the Broncos lead.

18-6

27 gone.

 

[Big Pete]

Nikorima in again.

I wish I had @1910 as my Secret Santa.

If he could just burn me off a compilation of Jayden highlights I'd be one happy Broncos fan.

24-6 Broncos

 

[austin71]

Nikorima in for his 2nd... 24 - 6

 

[Big Pete]

Broncos carving the Knights up now.

Hipgrave crosses over for another meat pie.

30-6

45 gone.

The Broncos should be on their way to win #9.

And as I type this up Jarryd Dodd crosses over.

36-6 Broncos.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

@brisbanebroncos: And that's 50! Paul Byrnes' second try makes it Broncos NYC 52 Knights NYC 6 with 10 mins to go

 

[Socnorb]

It would appear the new 7 if fitting in well.