7m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 6:18am<\/p>\n
53′ Newcastle line break as Dragons winger is down<\/p>\n
Dragons winger\u00a0Mathew Feagai is down, deep in his own half.<\/p>\n
So when the Dragons kick to Newcastle fullback Kalyn Ponga, they are defending with 12 players.<\/p>\n
Ponga notices the winger is down, and that is where he runs.<\/p>\n
Ponga passes to Dom Young, who makes a big line break. Young’s pass was knocked down, stopping a certain Knights try.<\/p>\n
Feagai has been helped from the field.<\/p>\n
It looks like a leg injury, which he may have sustained before being tackled in the previous set.<\/p>\n
20m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 6:05am<\/p>\n
Second half of Dragons vs Knights begins<\/p>\n
The Newcastle Knights will have the first use of the footy in the second half.<\/p>\n
They hold a 32-point lead, and they have a nice set, until a forward pass is called on tackle four.<\/p>\n
It was a forward pass. That is one of the worst I have seen from dummy-half. It was\u00a0Sandon Smith who threw the footy forward.<\/p>\n
The Dragons will have their first set of the half, beginning on the halfway.<\/p>\n
26m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:59am<\/p>\n
Dragons fans wondering if the club has bigger issues than coaching<\/p>\n
Anyone at St George reckon it might not be the coach that\u2019s the issue?<\/p>\n
– Toothless Dragon<\/p>\n
Hello\u00a0Toothless Dragon.<\/p>\n
Sacking Shane Flanagan was not going to fix their issues, but it felt like the first of many steps.<\/p>\n
The Dragons appear to have problems from top to bottom.<\/p>\n
Sadly, when you read the team lists each week, you have a sense the Dragons’ roster is just not strong enough to compete against everyone else.<\/p>\n
34m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:51am<\/p>\n
Dragons booed off the field at half-time<\/p>\n
You can hear the boos from some of the Dragons fans as half-time was called.<\/p>\n
Their club is winless, and coming off a bye, and is 32-0 down at the break against Newcastle.<\/p>\n
41m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:44am<\/p>\n
37′ Dom Young has a double for Newcastle<\/p>\n
It is a second try for Newcastle winger Dom Young.<\/p>\n
It started deep in Newcastle’s half. when a nice pop-pass from\u00a0Kalyn Ponga leads to Greg Marzhew running down the left wing.<\/p>\n
The Knights then stay patient for the next few plays, marching from halfway down to the goal-line.<\/p>\n
An offload from the centre of the field leads to the Dragons shifting to the right, and Dom Young scores untouched.<\/p>\n
Dragons 0<\/p>\n
Knights 32<\/p>\n
46m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:39am<\/p>\n
33′ TRY: Dylan Lucas scores for the Knights<\/p>\n
Knights fullback Kalyn Ponga has broken through the attempted tackles of Kade Reed and Clint Gutherson.<\/p>\n
Ponga runs 30 metres, then passes inside to Dylan Lucas who runs and scores under the posts.<\/p>\n
Dragons 0<\/p>\n
Knights 28<\/p>\n
50m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:35am<\/p>\n
28′ Knock-on denies the Dragons<\/p>\n
The Dragons have a nice set, and got into an attacking position with a set-restart.<\/p>\n
A nice kick is put up, and it was an aerial battle between the fullback,\u00a0Kalyn Ponga (Knights) and Clint Gutherson (Dragons).<\/p>\n
The ball is knocked forward by Gutherson into Ponga.<\/p>\n
The ball lands with the Dragons, who appeal for a try.<\/p>\n
But it is correctly ruled a scrum for Newcastle.<\/p>\n
Dragons 0<\/p>\n
Knights 16<\/p>\n
55m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:30am<\/p>\n
25′ Greg Marzhew has a double for the Knights<\/p>\n
The Newcastle Knights have a third try.<\/p>\n
Greg Marzhew has barged over from dummy-half for his double.<\/p>\n
Newcastle had a penalty just 10 metres out, more on that in a moment, and the Knights went to work.<\/p>\n
Left centre Bradman Best came very close to scoring, brought down just one metre from the line.<\/p>\n
Marzhew then picked up the ball and just ran over the nearby defenders.<\/p>\n
It should have been a play-the-ball for the Knights, after a Knights’ knock-on was overturned by the Bunker and ruled to be a strip from the Dragons.<\/p>\n
But fullback Clint Gutherson was penalised for dissent.<\/p>\n
It didn’t change much, but it is showing the frustration the Dragons are feeling.<\/p>\n
Dragons 0<\/p>\n
Knights 16<\/p>\n
1h agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:19am<\/p>\n
17′ TRY: Dom Young scores for the Knights<\/p>\n
The Knights are attacking the left edge of the Dragons’ defence, without mercy.<\/p>\n
Kalyn Ponga attracts two defenders and is able to get the offload to Dane Gagai.<\/p>\n
The centre, after being hit with a great shot just two minutes earlier, shows no issue as he sprints away.<\/p>\n
Gagai passes winger Dom Young, who is unmarked, and Young streaks away for the try.<\/p>\n
Ponga kicks the goal.<\/p>\n
Dragons 0<\/p>\n
Knights 10<\/p>\n
1h agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:18am<\/p>\n
15′ Dragons winger Mathew Feagai with a bone-rattler<\/p>\n
St George Illawarra winger\u00a0Mathew Feagai is leading from the front.<\/p>\n
The Newcastle Knights are attacking his side of the field \u2014 Dom Young has already made two line breaks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Feagai is clearly sick of this, and the Knights have come back his way.<\/p>\n
The Knights have the overlap, but\u00a0Feagai rushes to centre Dane Gagai and whacks him in the ribs with a beauty.<\/p>\n
It forced a knock-on, and was just the stop the Dragons needed.<\/p>\n
1h agoSat 9 May 2026 at 5:08am<\/p>\n
6′ Knights starting to get on top, but miss a half-chance<\/p>\n
It has been a back-and-forth start to this contest.<\/p>\n
It is a battle in the centre of the field.<\/p>\n
But Newcastle are beginning to establish a territorial advantage.<\/p>\n
Knights right winger Dom Young makes a small line break, but his pass inside hits the deck and is recovered by the Dragons at midfield.<\/p>\n
It feels like a warning shot from the Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7m agoSat 9 May 2026 at 6:18am 53′ Newcastle line break as Dragons winger is down Dragons winger\u00a0Mathew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,160,158,274892,159,85],"class_list":["post-659286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-live-blog","tag-nrl","tag-round-10","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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