'Ugly': Bennett's brutal assessment as streak continues

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There's a saying successful athletics astir being capable to triumph ugly, and according to Wayne Bennett, that's precisely what his Dolphins broadside did against the Knights to proceed the imagination commencement to their NRL tenure.

"It was the good, the atrocious and the ugly," helium said aft the game.

"The bully was the 30-something points we scored, and the atrocious was the 20 we gave up, and determination was a batch of rubbish successful between."

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Indeed, the archetypal fractional was riddled with errors from some sides, but the Dolphins managed to enactment successful the contention and play retired the afloat 80 minutes to travel distant 36-20 winners.

"Of the 3 games it surely would person been our poorest show tonight," Bennett said.

"But we inactive managed to bent successful there, which we're bully astatine doing and getting a effect our way."

Discipline was an contented arsenic good - Felise Kaufusi made 3 errors and past recovered himself connected study doubly and misdeed binned successful 2 abstracted second-half incidents.

In the first, helium appeared to driblet his enarthrosis into Jamayne Isaako erstwhile determination was different thing other happening successful a tackle.

Then with 11 minutes near and the crippled successful the equilibrium astatine 26-20, Kaufusi flew retired of the Dolphins enactment and deed Jackson Hastings precocious and successful the backmost heavy successful his ain half.

He was sent to the misdeed bin, but would reappear concisely successful the last minute. Hastings meantime was sent for an HIA, and his nighttime finished.

While Knights manager Adam O'Brien said Hastings was fine, the aforesaid couldn't beryllium said for prop Daniel Saifiti, who came disconnected mid-way done the 2nd fractional with a enarthrosis complaint.

Replays showed his limb was awkwardly bent down his backmost arsenic the momentum of a tackle rolled helium and the Dolphins defender implicit it.

O'Brien said Saifiti's prognosis "wasn't great", but hoped the seven-day turnaround up of their adjacent clash against the Raiders would let for immoderate niggles to heal.

"He'll person to spell to scans, but determination wasn't overmuch affirmative quality … from unit truthful it doesn't look great," helium said.

"It's a spot dire successful the mediate determination astatine the moment. The five-day [turnaround] came astatine a beauteous atrocious clip for us, we got a longer turnaround present and truthful we tin beryllium down erstwhile the particulate settles and marque immoderate plans."

It's different wounded headache for the Knights who were already without Kalyn Ponga, Jayden Brailey, Tyson Frizell and Jacob Saifiti.

Meanwhile, it was a nighttime to retrieve for Dolphins winger Tesi Nui, who scored a sensational chapeau trick.

Jamayne Isaako kicked 4 from 7 and scored 2 tries to instrumentality his points tally to 16 for the night.

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