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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3426116, member: 1899"] Send Ponga to Pro Wrestling school so he can learn how to fall onto the ground without hurting himself. That's at least twice now he's concussed himself from hitting the ground. That was a frustrating performance from the Knights. The scoreline won't indicate it but they had some opportunities early in the game to make life difficult for the Roosters. They failed to take them and just allowed the Roosters to hit back far too easily. The issue I have with the Newcastle is their inability to play to their strengths. On paper they have a wonderful pack but they just have them go through the motions. Their entire game plan should revolve around their pack, gaining that ascendency in the middle, making teams work it out from corners and then testing teams out down short sides when the opportunities arise. Too often I just saw forwards lumbering it up or playing out the back to the halves without any momentum. The passing was poor and their formations failed to ask any serious questions of the Roosters. If it was me, I'd have Saifiti and Klemmer playing flatter, big runs off the back fence, Frizell coming back on the inside looking to attack behind the ruck and then double up by having Ponga take on that right hand edge or go with Saifiti. On the last have Clune kick for a corner, have Edrick chase and just look to smash the recipient and take it from there. When people think Newcastle they tend to think banana kicks and Gidley flick passes and they forget how rugged their forwards were, how tenacious Buderus was around the ruck and how much Joey would like to step and take the line on. When they got on top the party tricks would come out, but it was all built off the hard work of guys like Simpson, Peden, Kennedy, Parsons, Harragon etc. [/QUOTE]

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