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Message: [QUOTE="Porthoz, post: 2366656, member: 2221"] It's amazing how the Knights went from a real serious test to crappy within 2 hours. I wonder what happened? Oh wait... [icon_shady 4 wins on the trot and 5 second halves straight without a try against us. Best defense in the league by far. Given the circumstances today (rain, greasy field), our attack wasn't even that bad. We scored 4 tries, which would have given us a 25-6 win if Parker had his kicking boots on. Wallace did quite well, bar that one crappy pass. His kicking game was quite good and reminded me of the Wallace of 2008. Plenty of room for improvement still. Hodges was the standout IMO, getting involved in key moments both in defense and attack to give us the advantage. Big wraps on Beale too, who had a very good game, except when he went to hooker, where his defense wasn't up to par and the Knights were just powering through the ruck. Not really his fault though, it's not his strongest suit and shouldn't have been there. For Macca's stint on the bench, I would've shifted Wallace to hooker, Locky to HB and Norman 5/8. Locky, Yow Yeh, Reed, Glenn, Thaiday, Hannant and Te'o were good, as was Gillett, except that he's trying a bit too hard and still throws that stupid offload. Parker was the usual workhorse, but you could see he wasn't as sharp as he has been recently, which also showed in his kicking. Undoubtedly after-effects of that bug. From the Bench, Dodds was hitting hard in defense as usual, Carlaw wasn't flash but didn't disappoint either, Kenny tried hard and made a very good try saving try towards the end of the game. Norman wasn't on the field long enough to do much good, or wrong, but he somehow didn't really looked like he belonged... [icon_shru What made me happy was that despite rotating 3 forwards, our engine room didn't suffer too much and we still defended with plenty of gusto. This was never going to be a high scoring game, nor a show of skill, so I'm overall pretty pleased with the result. [/QUOTE]

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