Newcastle Knights Essay
Newcastle Knights scored 23 points in the final 12 minutes to record an astonishing comeback victory over the Canterbury Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs were leading 34-12 in the 68th minute, before the Knights piled on four consecutive tries without the Bulldogs touching the ball once in this period.
A Carlos Tuimavave field goal in the final minute gave the Knights the lead and ultimately the 35-34 victory in ridiculous circumstances.
Chase Stanley and Pat O’Hanlon from the Bulldogs were sent to the sin bin early in the second half along with Joseph Tapine and Ben Tupou from the Knights after an all-in scuffle that spilled over the sideline.
Tyrone Phillips added a hatrick to his try scoring hot streak in what was an extremely eventual match. …show more content…
Jaline Graham opened the scoring for the Bulldogs when he capatalised on a Knights error and scored a runaway try from inside his own half.
Phillips was millimetres away from scoring an incredibly athletic try in the 10th minute, before the Knights marched up field and bombed a certain chance almost immediately afterwards.
The Knights eventually got on the board through Sam Mataora, who powered his way through to lock up the scores at 6-all.
Phillips scored a freakish try half an hour into the contest after he received a Lindon McGrady cutout pass inside his own half and beat two defenders on his way to the line.
An incredible offload by Jacob Loko allowed Phillips to score again in the right corner shortly afterwards, before the Bulldogs scored one of the tries off the season off the kickoff.
Instead of simply taking a regular hit up off the kickoff, the ball was spread to the left wing for Damien Cook to race away and score their third long range try of the half.
That try meant the Bulldogs headed into halftime up 24-6.
Eight minutes into the half, both teams were reduced to eleven men for ten minutes due to the four sin binned players.
Both teams took advantage of the spread defense, as Phillips completed his hatrick in the 52nd minute while Nathan Ross scored for the Knights four minutes later – injuring his shoulder in the process.
A loose pass by the Knights on their own line gifted Brad Clark an easy try, which increased the Bulldogs lead to 34-12 and seemingly put the game to bed.
In the 67th minute, the Bulldogs threw the ball out while on the attack, and they conceded 23 points without touching the ball again.
Lachlan Fitzgibbon finished a left hand raid by the Knights to score in the 68th minute, before Holland ran over Graham to score off the kickoff set to decrease the deficit to 34-24.
The momentum of the Knights was near unstoppable, as they marched up field again off the kickoff only for Tapine to score. Holland missed his first kick of the day and the score remained 34-28.
The Bulldogs kicked off and gave away a penalty a few tackles later, which gifted the Knights more field position before Jaelen Feeney was held up.
Just two tackles later, Fitzgibbon bended the defence backwards and used his long reach to plant the ball down and lock up the scores at 34-all with only minutes remaining.
The shell shocked Bulldogs attempted a short kickoff, but it did not go 10 metres which gave Carlos Tuimavave the field position to slot a clutch field goal and secure a remarkable victory for the Knights.
It was one of the comebacks of the season, and an extremely important victory for the Knights who would have been in immediate danger of dropping out of the top eight if they did not pick up a win.
The Bulldogs will play the North Sydney Bears at Leichhardt Oval next week. The Knights have a bye, but will return in two weeks to take on the Illawarra Cutters at Hunter
Stadium.
The Bulldogs were leading 34-12 in the 68th minute, before the Knights piled on four consecutive tries without the Bulldogs touching the ball once in this period.
A Carlos Tuimavave field goal in the final minute gave the Knights the lead and ultimately the 35-34 victory in ridiculous circumstances.
Chase Stanley and Pat O’Hanlon from the Bulldogs were sent to the sin bin early in the second half along with Joseph Tapine and Ben Tupou from the Knights after an all-in scuffle that spilled over the sideline.
Tyrone Phillips added a hatrick to his try scoring hot streak in what was an extremely eventual match. …show more content…
Jaline Graham opened the scoring for the Bulldogs when he capatalised on a Knights error and scored a runaway try from inside his own half.
Phillips was millimetres away from scoring an incredibly athletic try in the 10th minute, before the Knights marched up field and bombed a certain chance almost immediately afterwards.
The Knights eventually got on the board through Sam Mataora, who powered his way through to lock up the scores at 6-all.
Phillips scored a freakish try half an hour into the contest after he received a Lindon McGrady cutout pass inside his own half and beat two defenders on his way to the line.
An incredible offload by Jacob Loko allowed Phillips to score again in the right corner shortly afterwards, before the Bulldogs scored one of the tries off the season off the kickoff.
Instead of simply taking a regular hit up off the kickoff, the ball was spread to the left wing for Damien Cook to race away and score their third long range try of the half.
That try meant the Bulldogs headed into halftime up 24-6.
Eight minutes into the half, both teams were reduced to eleven men for ten minutes due to the four sin binned players.
Both teams took advantage of the spread defense, as Phillips completed his hatrick in the 52nd minute while Nathan Ross scored for the Knights four minutes later – injuring his shoulder in the process.
A loose pass by the Knights on their own line gifted Brad Clark an easy try, which increased the Bulldogs lead to 34-12 and seemingly put the game to bed.
In the 67th minute, the Bulldogs threw the ball out while on the attack, and they conceded 23 points without touching the ball again.
Lachlan Fitzgibbon finished a left hand raid by the Knights to score in the 68th minute, before Holland ran over Graham to score off the kickoff set to decrease the deficit to 34-24.
The momentum of the Knights was near unstoppable, as they marched up field again off the kickoff only for Tapine to score. Holland missed his first kick of the day and the score remained 34-28.
The Bulldogs kicked off and gave away a penalty a few tackles later, which gifted the Knights more field position before Jaelen Feeney was held up.
Just two tackles later, Fitzgibbon bended the defence backwards and used his long reach to plant the ball down and lock up the scores at 34-all with only minutes remaining.
The shell shocked Bulldogs attempted a short kickoff, but it did not go 10 metres which gave Carlos Tuimavave the field position to slot a clutch field goal and secure a remarkable victory for the Knights.
It was one of the comebacks of the season, and an extremely important victory for the Knights who would have been in immediate danger of dropping out of the top eight if they did not pick up a win.
The Bulldogs will play the North Sydney Bears at Leichhardt Oval next week. The Knights have a bye, but will return in two weeks to take on the Illawarra Cutters at Hunter
Stadium.