Storm v Knights 1/5/22

[Bullucked]

On paper a walk up start
It has been a very few surprising results this round (to me anyway). Warriors over the Raiders, Bulldogs over the Roosters and Cowboys over the Eels, let's hope we can buck this trend.
Go Storm

[Scooter]

Storm 19 man squad
1 Ryan Papenhuyzen
2 Nick Meaney
3 Reimis Smith
4 Justin Olam
5 Xavier Coates
6 Cameron Munster
7 Jahrome Hughes
8 Jesse Bromwich
9 Harry Grant
10 Nelson Asofa-Solomona
11 Felise Kaufusi
12 Kenny Bromwich
13 Josh King
14 Brandon Smith
15 Tyran Wishart
16 Trent Loiero
17 Tepai Moeroa
18 Chris Lewis
21 Jordan Grant

[Scooter]

Knights 19 man squad
1 Kalyn Ponga
2 Edrick Lee
3 Simi Sasagi
4 Bradman Best
5 Enari Tuala
6 Jake Clifford
7 Adam Clune
8 David Klemmer
9 Chris Randall
10 Daniel Safiti
11 Tyson Frizell
12 Brodie Jones
14 Phoenix Crossland
15 Jacob Safiti
16 Leo Thompson
17 Sauaso Sue
19 Jack Johns
21 Pasami Saulo
18 Tex Hoy

[Mattpoet]

I take it Reimis Smith is ok then

[Mattpoet]

We're 1-18

[sallymay]

I’m a bit nervous about this game …I mean we should win easy but I’m not sure we will

[blazza18]

Hard to really evaluate us because we’re scoring off really poor defensive breakdowns. In saying that we’ve been very clinical in what we want to do.

[Mattpoet]

Olam's second try just unbelievable, nobody should fall off a tackle like that at this level for starters but for everyone else to sleep on it too, their coach would have had a heart attack.

[Mattpoet]

One of the strangest games I've ever seen right down to the opening kick off of each half

[Mattpoet]

Potentially a big week next week with Kenny Bromwich due to play game 200 and NAS due for game 150

[RobbieRoss]

On the back of last week, that was pretty ruthless.

Surely blokes from other clubs have to be seeing what happens to players like Xavier Coates, Nick Meaney and Josh King when they come into the Storm system and say to their managers “ get me in there “.

Meaney and King are playing their roles to perfection . Not flashy , but do the right thing .

Coates is flashy , but he certainly knows how to find the try line.

A great shame for Tepai , but opens the door for Tui to come back if he is not too rusty - I see he played good minutes today and finished the game.

[nacho]

Way to back up last week. Ruthless and opportunistic in attack.

If you reeeeeally wanted to find something to work on, when Munster went off, there were a few sets where the boys were kinda just passing it around looking for something to happen. That was weird.

[yourhero]

I feel for Tepai. He played his best game last week since returning from Union. He was really giving his all in those tough hit ups from kick-offs.

Hopefully not too serious and he can get back soon.

[yourhero]

How frigging good has Josh King been? Quiet workhorse.

212 metres against his old club this week.

Probably doesn’t have a single Dally M point to his name, but he is killing it and deserves some credit.

A Bellamy special - He has come from minimal minutes in a struggling Newcastle team, to starting and long minutes, trusted to be the main workhorse in the best pack in the NRL. Crazy.

[blazza18]

Surely blokes from other clubs have to be seeing what happens to players like Xavier Coates, Nick Meaney and Josh King when they come into the Storm system and say to their managers “ get me in there “.

Have always wondered why this doesn't happen more.

Not saying anything bad about him but Josh King played two games for us, was fine and fox sports are talking about him like he's on the cusp of origin lol. That's gotta be quite appealing to players.