NRL 2019 - Round 24 - Match Thread

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13min:  Pearce try. Lino converts. Knights 6 - 4

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20min: SKD claims a try but I think he knocked on trying to ground it.  NO TRY

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28min: Mitch Barnett try after Knights got repeat sets on the Titans line. Lino converts.  12 - 4

 

32min: Lino takes the intercept 5m off his own line and the Knights go the length for Hymel Hunt to score. Lino converts. 18 - 4

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37min: Connor Watson try.  Lino converts. 24 - 4

Why did the Titans just make an interchange. They got a 2-minute rest while the goal kick was taken and there was only 2 minutes to HT.

HT:   Newcastle  24     Gold Coast   4

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41min: Ryley Jacks 40/20 but the restart is so slow because even the Tights didn't realise it was a 40/20

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45min: Bradman Best gets his first NRL try. Kallum Watkins won't want to see that replay.

Lino kick is blown offline by the wind.  28 - 4

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52min: Sione Mata'utia try. Lino converts.  34 - 4

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Hymel Hunt crosses in the corner but offload from Bradman was forward.

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They took Watkins off, replaced by Tanah Boyd, a 7 on debut. Boyd to halves, Peachey to centre.

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78min: Lachlan Fitzgibbon try. Lino missed the kick.

FT:   Newcastle  38   Titans  4

[Sports Prophet]

Glad that is over. Let’s get to the real business

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[Futtocks]

Morning all.

I watched most of the second half of this, and it was grim viewing from a Titans perspective. As for Watkins, this isn't a decline in abilities; this is a plummet.

Newcastle unrecognisable from the previous round, though.

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2 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

Glad that is over. Let’s get to the real business

That was one of those "contractual obligations" games.

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1 minute ago, Futtocks said:

Morning all.

I watched most of the second half of this, and it was grim viewing from a Titans perspective. As for Watkins, this isn't a decline in abilities; this is a plummet.

Newcastle unrecognisable from the previous round, though.

It's perverse but you almost hope, for his sake, that he's playing injured.

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Last time the Storm lost both home and away in the same season to the same team?

GO

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Wests Tigers about 2 years ago?

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I was wrong. It was Wests last year.

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and Cronulla in 2018

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Asofa Solomona plays his 100th NRL game.

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6min: The Fox try.

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Smith converts.  Storm 6 - 0

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10min: T-Turbo off with some bodily malfunction or damage

 

Update: possible pec injury.

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13min: DCE 40/20

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19min: Justin Olam try. Smith the Elder converts.  12 - 0