'Heads may roll' as disastrous record equalled

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Heads whitethorn rotation erstwhile the Knights clasp an interior reappraisal aft their play of symptom mercifully came to an extremity pursuing different dense loss, this clip to Cronulla, yesterday.

The 38-16 decision was the club's 10th nonaccomplishment astatine location - equalling the grounds for the Knights' worst play astatine McDonald Jones Stadium successful nine history.

Respected caput of show Hayden Knowles has already parted company with the Knights precocious for daring to question the club's culture, which is intelligibly connected tilt.

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Coach Adam O'Brien has mislaid overmuch of the playing radical and contempt having a adjacent State of Origin pack, the Knights person failed to occurrence up front.

Club supremo Phil Gardner has stated O'Brien's occupation is harmless for 2023 - but that whitethorn alteration erstwhile helium interviews unit and players.

The Knights traditionally occurrence up connected the yearly Old Boys Day - but were sadly out-gunned by the talented Cronulla outfit arsenic fans sat done overmuch of the crippled successful silence.

Raiders acceptable to bash immoderate harm successful the finals

Canberra person snuck into the finals successful eighth spot - but with 11 wins from their past 15 games person built up plentifulness of momentum and can't beryllium taken lightly.

The demolition of the hapless Tigers astatine Leichhardt yesterday showed conscionable however overmuch dense artillery the Raiders person and they participate the finals with a confident, thing to suffer attitude.

Fiery guardant Hudson Young, who bagged 2 tries against the Tigers, is 1 of the large improvers this season.

Young has present scored 13 tries successful 2023 - the astir by a Raiders guardant since large Ben Kennedy mode backmost successful 1997.

Calamitous decorativeness for Brisbane

The Broncos earned themselves an unwanted portion of league past as they crumbled to a disappointing loss to the Dragons astatine Kogarah.

Never earlier successful the NRL epoch has a squad been successful the apical 4 aft 19 rounds and missed retired connected the finals.

And aft a good archetypal fractional of the season, it's hard to consciousness atrocious for the Broncos, whose playoff hopes disappeared with hardly a whimper successful caller weeks.

With truthful overmuch connected the line, the Broncos meekly surrendered to a Dragons squad that had thing to play for.

The station mortems person already started successful Brisbane - and they won't beryllium pretty.

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North Queensland's unsung hero

Scott Drinkwater isn't 1 of the glamour fullbacks successful the NRL, but helium comes into the last bid successful red-hot signifier for the Cowboys.

The accordant Drinkwater had different good crippled successful the Cowboys' 38-8 triumph implicit the babe Panthers connected Saturday night, scoring a effort and having a manus successful respective others.

Recently signed to a caller semipermanent woody with the Cowboys, Drinkwater is the cleanable fig 1 for the team's attacking benignant of football.

He's scored 11 tries this season, creating 15 much and rival defences volition request to support a adjacent oculus connected him successful the last series.

Feagai's connection for Griffin

After playing each play connected the wing, Mathew Feagai was fixed a accidental successful his preferred presumption of centre for the last 2 games of the twelvemonth by Dragons manager Anthony Griffin.

And Feagai responded with a five-star show successful the Dragons' 22-12 triumph that ended the Broncos slim finals hopes connected Saturday.

Feagai was successful everything, scoring 2 tries, including 1 of the champion solo efforts of the season, ran for implicit 150 metres and defended well.

It was a wide connection from subordinate to manager - springiness maine a ace person to the play adjacent twelvemonth - and Feagai surely deserves archetypal spell astatine a centre spot successful 2023 connected that performance.

Fermor re-writes past books

The Titans person had small to observe successful 2022, but did acceptable a nine grounds successful their singular 27-26 past gasp triumph implicit the Warriors connected Saturday night.

Beau Fermor - the team's astir accordant subordinate each play - became the archetypal Titan to people tries successful 5 consecutive games.

A powerhouse borderline runner, Fermor really scored six tries successful his past 5 games - a good effort successful a squad struggling for wins.

Big and hard to stop, Fermor gives the Titans thing to physique connected for adjacent twelvemonth aft a mediocre play from the nine successful 2022.

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Warriors crumble again

Could immoderate squad different than the Warriors pb a crippled 26-12 with 5 minutes to play and get beat?

Possibly the Tigers - but adjacent they would bent connected for the win… you would think.

The Warriors were the amended squad for 75 minutes astatine Mount Smart Stadium before crumbling to a precocious Titans surge.

The crippled emphasised what the 15 Aussie clubs each judge - the Warriors tin beryllium a menace astatine times but conflict to lucifer it with the large boys for the afloat 80 minutes.

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Crichton eyeing Aussie call-up

Roosters back-rower Angus Crichton is accelerated playing his mode into a Kangaroos jumper.

The rampaging back-rower was the champion subordinate connected the tract successful Friday night's 26-16 triumph implicit Souths, scoring 1 effort and mounting up another.

The Roosters person present won 8 games successful a enactment and Crichton has been a cardinal fig successful their awesome precocious run.

He is playing arsenic good arsenic astatine anytime successful his vocation and Kangaroos manager Mal Meninga is doubtless keeping a adjacent oculus connected his signifier coming into the finals.

Lesson for Souths successful Roosters defeat

Rabbitohs manager Jason Demetriou needs to find a mode to amended support slightly-built halfback Lachlan Ilias successful circular 2 of the derby against arch rivals the Roosters adjacent weekend.

The Roosters intelligibly targeted Ilias connected the Rabbitohs' close borderline defence connected Friday nighttime and came up trumps.

Ilias struggled with his reads and the size of Roosters back-rowers Angus Chrichton and Egan Butcher.

The youngster missed 4 tackles - and 3 of them led to tries arsenic the Roosters opened the caller Allianz Stadium successful slashing benignant with a 26-16 win.

Roosters manager Trent Robinson is definite to again effort to isolate Ilias successful defence successful the opening play of the finals, leaving Demetriou with a dilemma and lone a fewer days to hole it.

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TPJ backmost to his best

Tevita Pangai Junior near a lasting content connected incoming Bulldogs manager Cameron Ciraldo successful the club's last crippled of the 2022 season.

Pangai, often criticised for his endowment but deficiency of involvement, came up with arguably his champion show of the twelvemonth successful the thrilling 21-20 triumph implicit Manly.

The large antheral ran for 161 metres, his second-best haul of the year, and produced a effort assistance with a fantastic walk successful atrocious conditions.

Pangai has had a mixed play but was a cardinal fig successful the Bulldogs' comeback aft a fearfulness commencement saw them trailing 16-0 successful speedy time.

A subordinate with x-factor skills, Pangai could thrive nether a caller manager and playing successful a stronger battalion successful 2023.

Manly's shambolic end

I moved location to the bluish beaches 4 years agone and was instantly impressed with the pridefulness the locals had successful their beloved Manly team.

But implicit the past mates of months, the Sea Eagles faithful person go embarrassed by their team's efforts.

Ever since the infamous rainbow jersey debacle, the Sea Eagles person been a nine divided and immoderate players person intelligibly not been putting successful connected the field.

The nine that looked finals bound finished the twelvemonth with 7 consecutive losses - galore successful woeful fashion.

Against the lowly Bulldogs past weekend, they led 16-0 aboriginal lone to suffer 20-21 and galore players marched disconnected the tract good and genuinely acceptable to commencement their disconnected play break.

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Huge aboriginal for Penisini

A mates of years ago, Will Penisini was playing GPS rugby national for the Kings School.

Fast guardant to 2022 and Penisini is shaping arsenic 1 of Parramatta's attacking aces successful the NRL last series.

The 20-year-old was dynamic successful the 22-14 triumph implicit the Storm connected Thursday night, scoring a determined effort and making respective different beardown bursts.

For a youngster, helium reads the play good successful defence and has the assurance of the players astir him.

The kid has a immense aboriginal and volition lone get amended arsenic helium gains acquisition extracurricular playmakers Mitchell Moses and Dylan Brown.

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Crunch telephone for Storm

Melbourne tin hide astir winning the comp unless they tin get Jahrome Hughes backmost connected the tract successful adjacent weekend's finals.

Hughes was a precocious withdrawal from the squad that was outclassed by the Eels connected Thursday night.

And the effect didn't astonishment maine fixed the lack of Hughes - the antheral astatine the bosom and psyche of the Storm's attack.

Melbourne looked similar a mislaid legion with the shot astatine CommBank Stadium and request Hughes backmost desperately to telephone the shots.

The Storm person missed a apical 4 spot for the archetypal clip since 2014 but person the onslaught powerfulness to triumph the premiership… if Hughes is retired determination arsenic conductor.

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