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Welcome to the last game of Super Saturday this Easter long weekend as the Newcastle Knights play host to the St George Illawarra Dragons at Hunter Stadium. Join The Roar for live scores and coverage from 7:30pm (AEDT).
Newcastle is the only remaining undefeated team in the competition with wins over the Cowboys, Titans, Warriors and Panthers.
St George meanwhile has steadied the ship to be 2-2. Following two consecutive losses to start the season, they managed to overcome the Raiders and Sea Eagles in their past two outings.
The Knights have made a couple of changes to their side from last week. James McManus returns which sees Sione Mata’utia slide onto an extended bench whilst Tariq Sims packs down in the back-row.
No changes for the Dragons with only Rory O’Brien grabbing a spot on an extended bench.
These two sides have met 29 times since the merger with the Dragons holding a 19-10 advantage. They are yet to draw a match.
Last year they met in round 26 which saw Newcastle run over the top of the Dragons, 40-10.
Newcastle have been very impressive this season and are unexpectedly sitting atop the NRL ladder after four rounds.
Coach, Rick Stone, has done away with the grinding game plan instituted Wayne Bennett and has allowed the side more freedom which has seen Jarrod Mullen seemingly play with more freedom.
St George started very slowly with questions over their creativity with just a combined eight points scored in their opening two rounds.
However, they rallied against the Canberra Raiders to score a 22-20 win before managing to grind out a 12-4 win against Manly last week.
The Knights, so far, have been impressive both home and away. Their forward pack has been brutal against the opposing halves. See Beau Scott harassing Johnathan Thurston.
Their back-line contains plenty of points via the services of Jarrod Mullen and Tyrone Roberts and it’s clear how much confidence Rick Stone has in his charges when he can drop a player of Mata’utia’s quality and replace him with Akuila Uate.
The Dragons will be up against it. Their previous two wins haven’t been pretty, their forwards have been bullied on occasions and they have struggled to score points in three of their four games
Their back-line does have plenty of skill in it with the likes of Josh Dugan, Gareth Widdop, Benji Marshall, Eto Nabuli and Jason Nightingale but without a dominant forward pack, they can be easily contained.
Join me live at 7:30pm (AEDT) for all the live scores and opinions.
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