Win ugly

[brad]

Ugly win but its 2 points. The critics will write we were lucky, who f.....g cares. No team goes through a season without a bit of luck on their side and an ugly win .

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Agreed, Brad. Even though the refs wrongly awarded us a try, I thought we were were the better team on an absolute dog of a night to play footy.

 

[The '47ers]

Newcastle are a bloody tough opponent, they dig in and aren't your typical wooden spooner type no hopers. I feel for them most weeks, they just need that one great player to glue it all together

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

I have marvelled a number of times in the last couple of years at certain teams getting lucky, but tonight I realise you have to be good enough to take advantage of good luck.

Aku's winning smile was too much for the officials!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Newcastle never gave up, they deserve great credit for their effort.

 

[Snake]

Every week the Knights turn up and compete, but they don't have the class to match it with the opposition.

A typical moment to sum up Newcastle's season, was the Sironen try. The Knights were well in the contest and defending stoutly, only for one simple lapse. It was just one player putting an arm out and grabbing and that's all it takes to swing a tight game...but this happens to them every week. They hang in and hang in and one lapse and the opposition get one up...

Danny Levi looks a good footballer. He throws some really nice passes from dummy half; crisp service on the ad line and a good dart.

 

[God]

Lots of heap of **** penalties on the back of atrocious conditions. A wins a win, the conditions suited Newcastle's negative play style. In the dry they get toweled up.

Who cares the bye next week and in the dry we are a different team.

The 6pm games a joke though. Regardless of the weather try making it to brookvale from the other side of Sydney after work on a Friday....

 

[sheridanstand78]

There are some major lessons to be learned from tonights game. Never play expansive football in the conditions we had tonight. Not enough running straight. Young Sirro showed how it should be done with his try and we needed more of that. Indiscipline was again an issue, too many penalties late in tackle counts did us no favours. The positives were our stout goal line defence. I think the 5 day turn around was telling as Drugcastle had 2 more days to recover and the conditions were most certainly a leveler tonight. It was an escape tonight and we will need to be a hell of a lot better in our next game against the Sharks.

 

[Harvies elbow]

Yeah we won ugly.
Not great watching.
But geez I love how this mob played for each other.
Keep it.
Build on it and I reckon that's what Baz will do going on what he said the other day.
A team that plays for each other is gold.
Go Manly.

 

[eaglebuzz]

Just glad that they didn't pull off the ambush. They came close though.

 

[robbiea]

Its hard to be dominant against any team playing in that much rain and mud.Happy to take those two points.

 

[Mr Manly 007]

I still reckon , on a dry field 2pm - 3pm weekend start with 6 to 7 days turn around : Manly would have flogged the knights by 40+.
The wet and boggy conditions , with manly having such a short turn around narrowed the true gap between these 2 sides.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

The team are starting to shed their '2005 skin' and sport their '2006 skin.' A year that really started to demonstrate that team's ability to 'win ugly.'

Who knows, maybe by Round 26 they will be showing off their '2008 skin.'

 

[robbiea]

The team are starting to shed their '2005 skin' and sport their '2006 skin.' A year that really started to demonstrate that team's ability to 'win ugly.'

Who knows, maybe by Round 26 they will be showing off their '2008 skin.'

What about their 2004 skin ?

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

What about their 2004 skin ?

That was so last year.