Re: Wayne Bennet's 2015 Team Line Up
You're right. The Knights roster is no better than the Broncos. Hence the difference in how our teams should be finishing. Their team is no where near as good as ours in almost every position this week.
I'll preface all of this by saying that this post has barely anything to do with you. I just want to set the record straight in the hope that people actually read this instead of constantly repeating the same misguided points over and over again.
And they got smashed by 40 points by a lesser team.
Add in the missing players and I doubt the result changes, just the scoreline.
Not really my concern.
My concern is this revisionist history being used to excuse Bennett.
It was only around July that the majority of Rugby League fans (namely Broncos fans) have come out and declared the Knights roster a rabble. So uncoachable that not even the great Wayne Bennett could steer them outside of the bottom four. And that's Bennett, the greatest of all time - if some joe blow coach like Rick Stone took over, I bet he wouldn't be able to win a game, right?
Give me a break.
Now, you maybe in the minority of people who didn't rate them as a finals bound team, but the majority of the Rugby League fraternity had them as a Top 8 team and that was after the Auckland 9s. The prevailing thought was that the Knights finished the season so well and showed so much upside that surely they'd find more consistency and steel themselves.
Instead it's been one of their worst seasons.
Thoughts of Newcastle having one of the best backlines in the world, a potential Origin halves in Mullen/Roberts and the like disappeared and now they're considered a joke.
The sad thing is, statistically speaking, Wayne Bennett is the second worst coach the Newcastle Knights have had in their history.
27 seasons in the competition and Bennett currently sits as the second worst coach in their history.
Heck, if they dish up more performances like today, he may even end up being their worst. It might be mathematically impossible because Alan McMahon spent 3 and a bit seasons there but he wouldn't be too far off and honestly, McMahon had a whole lot less to work with than Wayne did as far as resources and talent roster went.
I just get sick of that line after line of excuses being made for him.
Why don't fans just accept his stint at the Knights for what it was and just say that he'll have a different roster to work with and issues that you believe he can deal with?
It's better than these revisionist historians who constantly try and excuse Bennett for everything.
It's also a lot better than filling up the Broncos boards with Newcastle updates. If anyone has the urge to do that, I implore them to go and sign up for Marathon or whatever the Knights board is called because honestly it's a vapid post designed only to interfere with any worthwhile discussion.
That goes both ways too. When I click on a Broncos thread on a Broncos board, I don't care about the score from some random Knights v Souths game, unless you're pointing out how Souths scored those points or the mistakes Newcastle were making, I seriously don't care.
And doing it out of 'revenge' or spite is stupid. Some of you really need to take's ning's advice and grow up.
