Rd 15: Warriors Vs Knights

[Queenslander]

Warriors Vs Knights
Ericsson Stadium
Sun 2pm

Referee: Jarred Maxwell

Game Notes:

Warriors: The Warriors have not beaten the Knights at Ericsson Stadium since 1999; the Warriors beat the Knights (minus Andew Johns) 26-22 at Energy Australia Stadium in round four.

Knights: Danny Buderus will not fly with the team to New Zealand and Riley Brown will slot in to dummy half; Newcastle have only won two of the last games after the bye.

Warriors
1. Brent Webb
2. Patrick Ah Van
3. Tony Martin
4. Simon Mannering
5. Manu Vatuvei
6. Jerome Ropati
7. Grant Rovelli
8. Ruben Wiki (vc)
9. Nathan Fien
10. Steve Price (c)
11. Awen Guttenbeil
12. Louis Anderson
13. Sione Faumuina

Interchange:

14. Lance Hohaia
15. Evarn Tuimavave
16. Wairangi Koopu
17. Micheal Luck
20. Sam Rapira
21. Clinton Toopi

Knights
1. David Seage
2. Brian Carney
3. Matthew Gidley
4. George Carmont
5. Anthony Quinn
6. Kurt Gidley
7. Andrew Johns (c)
8. Craig Smith
9. Danny Buderus
10. Josh Perry
11. Steve Simpson
12. Clint Newton
13. Reegan Tanner

Interchange:

14. Luke Davico
15. Adam Woolnough
16. Todd Lowrie
17. Riley Brown
18. Kirk Reynoldson

****Use This Thread for Game Day Spoilers***

[DeeGan]

I am taking a Johns led Newcastle side though I think it will be closer than some suggest especially with Buderus being rested after Origin. Joey needed the week off and he normally comes up huge after a break.

[Luke]

Knights by 1-12. We are slowly getting all out players back.

[The Original Idiot]

Warriors by 16. Johns hasn't been great over the past month or so, Warriors I think will miss out on the top 8 purely because of their salary cap woes.

[Luke]

Buderus is going to be rested and Seage is out and Hinton comes into the the team.

So our team should look like this.

19. Nathan Hinton
2. Brian Carney
3. Matthew Gidley
4. George Carmont
5. Anthony Quinn
6. Kurt Gidley
7. Andrew Johns (c)
8. Craig Smith
17. Riley Brown
10. Josh Perry
11. Steve Simpson
12. Clint Newton
13. Reegan Tanner

Interchange:

14. Luke Davico
15. Adam Woolnough
16. Todd Lowrie
18. Kirk Reynoldson

[The Original Idiot]

Spoiler: Warriors 8 Newcastle 0, more details soon.

[The Original Idiot]

Warriors in again, 14-0
Fien has two tries.

[Luke]

The knights played crap i cant believe we had so many dropped balls. Hagan needs some serious changes to the team. Well done Warriors they deserved to win.

[Eel 33]

Very poor effort by the Knights, although they did add some respectability to the scoreboard at the back end of the game.

[mb63]

This result surprised me.I thought Knights were a good thing today.

[Kallan]

Damn you knights!! You ruined my perfect round of tipping!!!

[Super Cronk]

Biggest upset for a long time IMO. Johns wasnt impressed and gave his team a spray afterwards.

[Supergoose]

I picked the Warriors and still only got 4 right! I reckon the Warriors are going better than most think and will prove difficult to beat at home. They seem to have settled on their best line-up and are getting excellent contributions all over the park and are not dropping the pill nearly as much. Knights form has been ordinary for a while now. I'm sure they will pick up but the Warriors are on a roll. I thought this was one of the easier games to pick this round (darn those Broncos and Cowboys)