Winners
The Wests Tigers couldn t get the win against the Titans but it was through no lack of effort from their five-eighth Adam Doueihi, who registered his best NRL Fantasy score of 103 with a try and two try assists to go with five busts and a stack of run and kick metres.
Tom Trbojevic finished with an even 100 as his remarkable run continued on the back of two tries, four try assists and eight busts.
Nathan Cleary was back to his high-scoring ways, barely raising a sweat in cranking out 88 for the second-top score of the week. Jason Taumalolo was also back to his best, almost reaching his very high break-even with a powerful 84 against Brisbane.
O Brien hails character building Knights comeback
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The Newcastle Knights scored 24 unanswered points in the second half to continue Canberra’s form slump, beating the Raiders 24-16 at McDonalds Park in Wagga Wagga.
Looking dispirited and low on confidence in the first half, the Knights rallied from 16-0 down to continue the misery for the Raiders in second halves in 2021. It was a relief. to turn that around in the second half and come back I wouldn’t have asked for that earlier in the week, but it was what we needed, it was character building,” Knights coach Adam O’Brien said.
Newcastle Knights coach Adam O’Brien has warned his players to get excited and get hungry before their season slips away.
Speaking after their 38-4 thrashing at the hands of the Sydney Roosters at McDonald Jones Stadium on Saturday night, O’Brien struggled to explain Newcastle’s erratic performance in which they trailed 20-0 after as many minutes on their way to a fifth loss from their past six matches.
Facing a game against the equally desperate Canberra Raiders at Wagga Wagga next Saturday, the Knights have slipped to 11th after posting just three wins from their first eight games. Those have come against the last-placed Bulldogs, and courtesy of late tries against the Sharks and Warriors.