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Although they showed plenty of fight and refused to go away, multiple lapses allowed their opponents to build momentum and ultimately punish the Knights on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
\u201c(We) had a player sent off early and made it very hard,\u201d Holbrook said post-match.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe obviously started well, started the game really well and then we didn\u2019t handle that period just before half-time. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I was sort of most disappointed in. We sort of panicked and they had about eight sets in a row against us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we come out hard and competed hard in that second half and last-play tries hurt us. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really proud of what we had to do with a lot of chaos out there, a lot of disruption and we worked hard for the 80 (minutes). We need a week off and we got one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knights score bizarre falcon try! | 00:52<\/p>\n
The defeat means the Knights will now head into their bye with their finals position to be determined by next weekend\u2019s result<\/p>\n
Currently sitting seventh on the ladder, Newcastle had been hoping to secure a home final with victory over the Warriors.<\/p>\n
However, they will now need the Sydney Roosters to defeat the sixth-placed South Sydney Rabbitohs next weekend to boost their chances of securing a home final at McDonald Jones Stadium<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be better for it now. We get the bye and our position may not change whether we\u2019ve won or not tonight,\u201d Holbrook added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to win to secure our home final but now we just have to wait till next week on other results, but we\u2019re in there.<\/p>\n
Warriors outgun Newcastle in Auckland | 03:22<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I\u2019m not fussed if we finish home or away. I\u2019m really confident. We need the week off and our position may not change. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m upbeat with the players about it. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe competed hard in that second half. We made a lot of line-breaks with 12 players which is hard to do. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to like in a weird sort of way. We could be playing at home anyway after next weekend\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that\u2019s the case, then we\u2019ll really see this game as long as we can get those injuries right. It won\u2019t matter and we\u2019ll move on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Knights coach Justin Holbrook has remained upbeat about his side\u2019s finals position despite suffering another disappointing loss.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-584846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}