Round 15 Discussion

[Morkel]

Ricky has never been good with halves.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Sharks are terrible even with their "stars" back. The pressure will be on our boys to keep them tryless with it looking like they will go three games without scoring.

 

[Bucking Beads]

The Sharks are just too vulnerable on the edges. They should be going hard after some decent backs.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Chris Sandow yells "How much are they paying you" to the ref and gets ten in the bin! Hilarious and to make it worse, Storm score where he would have been defending.

 

[Brett]

I've gotta say, it's pretty sweet watching Hayne and the Eels get thumped.

 

[Alec]

Chris Sandow yells "How much are they paying you" to the ref and gets ten in the bin! Hilarious and to make it worse, Storm score where he would have been defending.

I am fucking glad someone is calling out the refs on their ineptness. Glad it's not a Bronco too.

 

[broncos4life]

Chris Sandow yells "How much are they paying you" to the ref and gets ten in the bin! Hilarious and to make it worse, Storm score where he would have been defending.

Haha that's awesome. Someone had to say it!

 

[Big Pete]

Newcastle Knights
1. Darius Boyd 2. James McManus 3. Dane Gagai 4. Joseph Leilua 5. Akuila Uate 6. Jarrod Mullen 9. Kurt Gidley 15. Korbin Sims 14. Adam Clysdale 10. Willie Mason 11. Beau Scott 12. Robbie Rochow 13. Jeremy Smith
7. Tyrone Roberts 17. Chris Houston 18. Joseph Tapine 19. Clint Newton

North Queensland Cowboys
1. Michael Morgan 20. Curtis Rona 2. Matthew Wright 4. Kane Linnett 5. Antonio Winterstein 6. Johnathan Thurston 7. Ray Thompson 15. Glenn Hall 9. Rory Kostjasyn 10. James Tamou 11. Ethan Lowe 12. Tariq Sims 13. Scott Bolton
14. Robert Lui 16. Ashton Sims 17. Jason Taumalolo 24. John Asiata

 

[Ari Gold]

That's a positive. It's about time Korbin started, particularly with a forward exodus coming. Think Kidley to halfback is a positive too, he's not been effective at hooker and they need to know if Clydesdale is part of their future. Thought Tapine has looked promising in the limited viewing I've had too. He's another who should be regularly making the bench at the expense of Fa'alogo or Newton.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Cowboys letting another season slip away.

 

[Big Pete]

Newcastle 36
North Queensland 28

Newcastle finally break their 7 game losing streak with a comfortable win over the Cowboys. Final scoreline won't show it, but it was 26-6 with less than 20 to go and the Cows just scored a couple of late and controversial tries to shorten the gap.

Game will mean little come September but nice to see the Knights rewarded for trying out new combinations and to be fair, the win was overdue. They should have beaten the Tigers really but just found a way to lose it.

Cows were busted and it showed. Just too soft in defence and lack the combinations and personnel in attack. They may have scored 28 points, but the first try was a gift and the rest was really just a combination of a devil may care attitude and the Knights switching off something fierce towards the end. That and inept refereeing as per usual.

I don't know if you can really say the Knights turned a corner or anything at the end of the day. I suppose there were some improvements, but I saw them put in a similar if not better performance against the Tigers and just fall short. The difference tonight is the quality of the opposition. Cows would have struggled against Cronulla tonight.

 

[jarro65]

I tipped the Knights by 8 points.

Driving home from work i was listening to the call on MMM and heard that they had 2 minutes to go and were 14 points in front.

Wham bam .... quick try to the Cowboys and a handy conversion (from the sideline) by Thurston and there you go, Knights by 8 :takdir:

 

[Rally Towel]

First perfect round of tipping for me in a while. Been burnt far too many times by the Cowboys derping it up against easybeats in the road.

That second Lui try... Far out. Most ridiculous decision ever.

 

[Browny]

What happened? I missed the game due to the wife wanting to watch House Rules

 

[Porthoz]

What happened? I missed the game due to the wife wanting to watch House Rules

 

[Browny]

Pfft married for 9 years and 4 kids honeymoon is over lol

 

[Big Pete]

47 seconds into it.

 

[Browny]

Did the video ref give it or on field?