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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3391326, member: 1899"] I don't think it's all that surprising for the Knights. Ever since Pearce left and Brailey tore his achilles they weren't expected to do all that much this season and the Round 1 result came as a huge surprise. However with the benefit of hindsight it's easy to put a chunk of that down to the Roosters form. The other chunk is that Newcastle are missing players who stood up for them - namely Dominic Young, Dane Gagai and Lachlan Fitzgibbon. On top of that both Clune and Daniel Saifiti appear to be playing injured. Saifiti rushed back early after Thompson broke his leg in the pre-season and he's been a shell of himself. Even Ponga seems to be carrying a lot of niggles judging by the way he picks himself up after tackles. Keep in mind, their second game was against Wests who were absolutely awful on the day and it's pretty easy to figure out why they've struggled against Penrith, Melbourne, Parramatta, Cronulla and Manly. The only winnable game was against the Dragons and there was maybe only a few cms between them potentially winning the game at the death with Su'A going extremely close to being off-side. [/QUOTE]

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