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Knights all of sudden have had some great recruitment. Schiller as a backup winger/centre with starting upside is a good pick up.

We should look at a winger that's an Arial threat but my guess is we just pull up players from our development system and not make signings.

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Levi isn't the issue. His service this year is better than woolfords last year and he is looking pretty good so far. The structure in attack was there but with no fullback to exploit the space created. I lost count of the number of times fogs or the second rowers had acres of space next to them for...

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Levi isn't the issue. His service this year is better than woolfords last year and he is looking pretty good so far. The structure in attack was there but with no fullback to exploit the space created. I lost count of the number of times fogs or the second rowers had acres of space next to them for ...

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There was space everywhere but Chevy was no where near it. He is 18 and first game but it might be a rough few weeks in attack until raps gets back.
That left side 6, centre and wing are so deep in attack they were no chance. Very disjointed but a win is a win.

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If your going to pay sanders 500k than it has to be 4 to 5 years to get a return on investment. I think the 700k to strange is pretty crazy 5 games into his career. I do however accept that the raiders do not try to extract value out of contracts and will generally bump contracts if they believe pla...

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PNGRaider37 wrote: ↑April 9, 2024, 9:46 am I think the "GOAT debate" (Johns, JT, Locky, Stuart,Smith, etc.) Need its own thread...

Cronk was better than JT. JTs career was over rated. Great player yes but not deserving to be on this list.

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Fogs needs to get his goal kicking right. Is been dreadful this year.

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The only thing that kills me about Schiller is his lack of effort. Up the effort Schiller!

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Mariota is just slinking through games at the moment unnoticed. For me this is game needs to be a bit of a marker for Mariota. I play him at 13 with smithies at 12 to start and he has 30 mins to take it to Parramatta. It'll be a good test because Parramatta are a more physical pack than ours, he get...

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Well Turuva first made a household name for himself playing fullback for Fiji and it's his preferred position so I don't think he needs to be "converted". I also don't think 21yo premiership winning fullbacks who can also kill it on the wing are a dime a dozen. Besides, we currently have ...

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We were outworked and out enthused, coupled with errors and that's the game. At the end of the day fogs is our half and we know what he does well and doesn't but we do need to see some playmaking from strange at some point weather good or bad. We need to see more from Mariota also. He has really str...

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Puru is an interesting one. He looks really fast this year which again is a thumbs up to the fitness coaches but if he is not the back up 13 and that goes to hors if smithies gets injured than I would probably release trev and play him starting 9 with woolford off the bench. If he isn't back up 13 t...

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If we were looking at england 9s for me it would be brad oNeil from the warriors. He is a robust 9 who is defensively solid and can play in the forwards. He isn't exceptional but there are very few of those available either here or in England. Other option is one of Newcastle's 9s which for me would...

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I had noticed both the mistackles and the low work rate but sometimes you see what you want to see... men lie, women lie... numbers dont 2 games is admittedly a very small sample size and that could very easily normalise over the next 3-4 weeks and i'll check back in on that after round 5 but i too...

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As is usual for me, I'll be interested to see how DL performs defensively against the Warriors pack. I was curious about this, because i felt the same about his performance defensively being poor, in both work rate and efficiency, but understanding my own bias i wanted to get a more objective look ...

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The players he “lost” left. Hodgo, Bateman, GWilly, Sutton. EW stayed and backed the coach, got rewarded for his loyalty. Not saying it’s the smartest decision by the club because he’s still here 3 years later on big coin and not contributing. But it’s happened. I have no agenda. Ricky makes some g...

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Or… and go with me here, I know it sounds crazy… but perhaps Stuart might simply have the players he selected in front of Mariota and has consistently selected in front of Mariota, still in front of Mariota? Much was made of Ata starting the final 2 games of last year and many of us assumed he’d ju...

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Although I don't think EW should be in the team as others are past him, I can understand as the captain u put him in. If nothing else to give him a chance to show he is good enough or realize he isn't. It will save u headaches of a disgruntled player later in the season. EW will have 3 tough games t...

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The warriors will run 2 lead runners at strange all day long and if u don't have a centre who can make good decisions than it's trouble. My guess is cotric but this is one where it will come down to how they train through the week.

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Raiders Lim! wrote: ↑March 18, 2024, 10:23 pm
greeneyed wrote: ↑March 18, 2024, 9:58 pm
All we got...

We are a small team who likes to fly under the radar so its to be expected.
Do we even have a rivalry with another NRL team.
We should get more than a footnote but we also have to cultivate a media following.

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I'd assume EW would make his way back through NSW cup. Hors coming back would mean Mariota drops back to NSW cup. I don't think anyone has played badly but between saulo, guler and Mariota over the last 2 games only, guler and saulo have outperformed Mariota. Im finding it hard to find a spot for El...

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The raiders and tigers should really cultivate this game into a real grudge match. You get the feeling that both teams don't like each other but we seem to play it down. Personally I'd like to see the raiders really gaslight the tigers and cultivate the hatred between teams. For me this game should ...

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Assume savage is there to also back up rapa then the question is who is better hoppa or cotric. Hoppa is better rucking it out, Cotric is better defensively, Hoppa was better in attack last game. Either hoppa gets better in defence or cotric gets better rucking it out. It's not anymore complicated t...

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Cotric dropping out is probably about right. Having savage spell rapa when needed is a better option than hoppa or cotric spelling rapa and hoppa had a pretty good game, probably our best outside back from an attacking perspective. Personally I want to see if savage can keep some consistency and see...

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I think there was a pretty healthy dose of each Certainly it seems clear that CNK wanted to be home and close to his kids, and struggled in his final year here and i can understand that Conversely it was clear we as a club has decided we were going in other directions at fullback but his emotions o...

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I think there was a pretty healthy dose of each Certainly it seems clear that CNK wanted to be home and close to his kids, and struggled in his final year here and i can understand that Conversely it was clear we as a club has decided we were going in other directions at fullback but his emotions o...

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The Knights hype never made much sense to me They're a Ponga team... and he's always going to be a player where if you get him on the wrong day, you're probably losing the game. But outside of Ponga they have: - bad halves, bottom 3-4 in the league at both spots - bad hooker, when Brailey is hurt, ...

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Next week will be interesting because I don't see hoppa being dropped which means either cotric or savage. You would think savage stays because he can spell rapa when needed but in the trials hoppa went back to fullback for a spell when savage was on the field. I think we need to keep Savage but I d...

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Love to win. Love that start for us. Smithies has immediately erased any apprehension i had for him. Savage... STRONG.... Strange and Hoskings are players we need to invest time into. Two players in my crosshairs... Levi and Hoppa... both pretty awful first halves, but bounced back and had good 2nd...

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Saulo has been good. Right side defense has been good.
Left side attack has been non existent and is only a matter of time before it's broken open.
Strange needs to get into the game and start calling for the ball.

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Botman wrote: ↑March 7, 2024, 7:15 pm Fogs kicking game has been absymal so far. Not close to good enough for our #1 half

The balls are travelling much further this year than last. This will be the year of the 40/20!

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Billy Walker wrote: ↑March 3, 2024, 12:44 am When are we expecting the next update in this saga?

When the club doctors say they aren't comfortable clearing him and raiders request dispensation.

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Smithies looked exactly as advertised. He is a great defensive player. He dominates the ruck and provides time for the defence to get set. His passing hits the mark but he hasn't so far shown an ability to play short or engage the defence which hopefully he developes as the season goes. He doesn't m...

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Predicted team: 1. Rapana 2. Cotric 3. Timoko 4. Schiller 5. Savage 6. Strange 7. Fogarty 8. Papalii 9. Levi 10. Tapine 11. Young 12. Whitehead 13. Smithies 14. Starling 15. Mariota 16. Hosking 17. Mooney 18. Hopoate I'd be quite happy if that is the team. It's 90+% of the team I'd like to see. I c...

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If Ethan Strange doesn't get the 6 jumper to start the season I think Ricky is making a mistake. He outplayed Weekes in both trials both with and without the ball. If I'm being completely honest I think Cook looked better than Weekes with his limited opportunities in both trial games. The only way ...

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