TeamList Team List Tuesday (2023 Finals Week 2) - Warriors vs Knights

[MXRecord]

Got to be that guy. Don't under estimate the Knights, they're on form and if we need to be on our game.

 

[Wrighty]

Got to be that guy. Don't under estimate the Knights, they're on form and if we need to be on our game.

If we play the team list 1-17 as on the team list and so do they - then we are almost evenly matched with them except we have a more experienced bench. If we can stay in it the first 20 minutes then look for us to accelerate around the 20 minute mark.

There will be so many motifs
1) can SJ last 80 minutes
2) can egan last 80 minutes
3) can CNK last 80 minutes

Will Ford give away stupid piggy back penalties
Will Montoya continue his form slump

The game is in our hands. At our potential we are the better side. However we can easily have a number of things go wrong tomorrow to lose.
Knights have been great this year. We only beat them round one as Ponga got an HIA with ten minutes left.

 

[~Navigator~]

Got to be that guy. Don't under estimate the Knights, they're on form and if we need to be on our game.

To be honest I think the Knights played their grand final last week

 

[Inruin]

If we play the team list 1-17 as on the team list and so do they - then we are almost evenly matched with them except we have a more experienced bench. If we can stay in it the first 20 minutes then look for us to accelerate around the 20 minute mark.

There will be so many motifs
1) can SJ last 80 minutes
2) can egan last 80 minutes
3) can CNK last 80 minutes

Will Ford give away stupid piggy back penalties
Will Montoya continue his form slump

The game is in our hands. At our potential we are the better side. However we can easily have a number of things go wrong tomorrow to lose.
Knights have been great this year. We only beat them round one as Ponga got an HIA with ten minutes left.

For me this is the game that the whole team really need to stand up and prove that they believe in AW and what he is trying to achieve. Apart from some nervousness around a sudden death game they have everything pretty much going for them. If they cant perform in front of a massive , vocal home crowd with as close to a full strength team as we have probably had all season, with the effort and improvement that the coaches have been trying to instill then some questions really would need to be asked of the players. This is the game that they need to repay the coach by showing they can do what they have been training to do. Resilience, discipline, completions, getting in to the grind, limiting errors and taking their chances. As much as this has been an amazing season, it will be a fairly hollow feeling if we go out meekly by not doing those things.

 

[Kondom]

I’d like an Adam Pompey length of the field try at the death just for the LOLz.

ADAM POMPEY ADAM POMPEY WHATS HE DOING ADAM POMPEY PUT THE BALL DOWN SON.

 

[Wrighty]

The Knights player I fear the most is Frizell. He has heart and character.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

I don't discount the Knights and obviously they've played well to get to where they are. Similar to us, they haven't beaten any of the Premiership heavyweights, but I just can't shake the feeling that were a much better team than them.

There have been glimpses against the big teams in Storm, Penrith and Broncos this year, as well as big patches of games against the next rung down - Sharks, Raiders, Eels - that we CAN be a great team. Even last week with our intensity and defence against Penny at times...we looked epic I thought.
If we play half a game like that (and one decent half) I think we blow the Knights off the park. But the problem is, we often do lots well and then shit the bed with errors and penalties. That usually comes because we're fatigued and have put ourselves under pressure by dumb and low percentage plays, which I really hope we tidy up. SJ will certainly help with that.

If we get in to our groove and play error free, strong defence type finals footy I think we'll beat them by 18. If Jazz and Ford get in to a 'who can give away the most penaltys and error' competition I think it will be a long, sad night for us

 

[Wrighty]

I don't discount the Knights and obviously they've played well to get to where they are. Similar to us, they haven't beaten any of the Premiership heavyweights, but I just can't shake the feeling that were a much better team than them.

There have been glimpses against the big teams in Storm, Penrith and Broncos this year, as well as big patches of games against the next rung down - Sharks, Raiders, Eels - that we CAN be a great team. Even last week with our intensity and defence against Penny at times...we looked epic I thought.
If we play half a game like that (and one decent half) I think we blow the Knights off the park. But the problem is, we often do lots well and then shit the bed with errors and penalties. That usually comes because we're fatigued and have put ourselves under pressure by dumb and low percentage plays, which I really hope we tidy up. SJ will certainly help with that.

If we get in to our groove and play error free, strong defence type finals footy I think we'll beat them by 18. If Jazz and Ford get in to a 'who can give away the most penaltys and error' competition I think it will be a long, sad night for us

Great post

 

[Wrighty]

Meanwhile, the Knights will be without halfback Jackson Hastings (ankle) and back-rower Lachlan Fitzgibbon (shoulder) when they head across the Tasman to face the Warriors.

Hastings lasted only 40 minutes against the Raiders on Sunday after aggravating the ankle injury which saw him miss the last three games of the regular season.

Fitzgibbon has succumbed to a shoulder concern he has been carrying for the past month and will be replaced by Dylan Lucas.

NRL Casualty Ward: Calf sidelines Hughes; Triple blow for Roosters

All the latest injury news for the 2023 NRL Telstra Premiership.

www.nrl.com

 

[CWC]

I am not buying SJ is playing until fact checkers have confirmed it

 

[unclesteve]

I don't normally make predictions but Warriors in a close one. Home ground and Knights coming off a tough game and travelling.....

Also go the Roosters just because fuck the Storm

 

[Lets Eat (YeahNah)]

Does anyone else get the nervous shits on finals game day?

No, just me, ok

usually settles down after a couple of drinks so will be starting early tomorrow.

You go from Up The Gutzz
To Empty your Gutzz

Does it happen every game or is it a lucky charm kinda deal

 

[LEVI]

Fuck the noise, this is our year. This isn't an underdog story, its a FUCKING HOSTILE TAKEOVER and the first victim of the New Warriors Order are the Newcastle knights. UP THE WAHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[RobRoyMcCoy]

I work for the main sponsor and I just won 2 x tickets in the Upper Eastern!! Bay 38 so very near Bruce's normal spot. STOKED!!!

 

[Possum11]

I am quietly confident we can win tomorrow & upset the broncos in the preliminary final

 

[Canadian_Warriors_Fan]

Big out for the Knights

 

[Whiteknight]

Big out for the Knights

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Sweet, the stars are aligning nicely for a good win

 

[UpTheWahs]

Big out for the Knights

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Sweet as. Just Ponga, Dom Young and Marzhew left then.

 

[Bruce]

Maybe it is the conspiracy theorist in me but this is not the body language of someone confident SJ will be playing...

I think he has been doing interviews non stop...he is allowed to look tired.

 

[BabylonPink]

To be honest I think the Knights played their grand final last week

And we play ours this week :'(