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How did the Knights achieve a Grand Final fair‑ytale and what role does Holbrook’s Newcastle connection play?
G'day and welcome to Kenty Blitz, your daily head of NRL News and Kenty, what a weekend of sport. Crazy. Unbelievable. Is rugby league the greatest game of all, Kenty? Well I'm biased, but uh I find it hard. Look, yeah well, like we talk about it it's now an entertainment, right? Mm-hmm. Yesterday was the sporing contest. Entertained us. But it's about the sport and the Yeah, the triumph and the tragedy of sport. Uh it's just about that emotion you feel and what's happened with or what's happening still w up at Newcastle and uh how that team responded yesterday and the courage they showed. That's yeah, that they're they're sporting traits. Uh that's what we're that's what we're here for. And what we saw yesterday was
It was pretty unbelievable to be fair. I i like their ability to just at forty and eight Down to twelve, man. It's all over. Right. They're playing against a team who have been hot favourites all year and it just look okay, it's done now. And you thought, What a pity that their season is going to end like this. And then, you know, like it was like Rocky Bellboa just walked in the building, mate. It just kept getting up and kept defending and Uh Sand and Smith, yeah. I know his dad, Jeff. I actually kne knew him growing up, uh Central Coast. So uh congratulations to not only Sandan, but Jeff as well. Uh and I mate, I just They just k they just kept doing the unbelievable. All four tries they scored. Kind from their own sort of halfway.
Mm-hmm. All four. Like they are a they uh they play an unfashionable game. There's a story on the weekend Bulldog wrote about St uh Stephen Hale, the the attacking coach and how when he first arrived in Newcastle this year with Holbrook, they said that they were Holbrook, and this is what I love about him as a coach. He looked at the squad. Looked at the talents I had. Fast wingers, big strong centers. Just sat there and thought, you know what, this is how we're gonna play the game. This is what we're gonna do. We're not gonna play Penrith football. We're not gonna play Melbourne football. We're gonna play we're gonna attack whenever we see an opportunity. We're not gonna worry about that it's tackle one.
We're not gonna worry about that we're on our own thirty meter line. We are gonna play footy, we're gonna play according to what we receive defensively and and how we're structured in our own attack. Uh and they did that yesterday and they scored four triers, all from their own side of halfway. The Dom Young try They ran the ball on the fifth tackle from inside their own half. It's just teams don't do that. Teams don't have the courage to do that. And these nights yesterday they just said, You know what, we're going after it. And they they went after the game. And it's just a real trait of the of the town. I've got Senator an actually a mm clip last week from a bug called Aiden up there in uh Newcastle and it was the basically whatever pub he was in going off when they won last week.
Uh I can only imagine what it would have looked like yesterday. And uh even I know a around uh Sydney here, people were just just riding them home. So it was just unbelievable. Uh, and I'll tell you what, they've got a big week. I thought what uh Matty John said about about the week and how they handle it. uh was really relevant. Uh after the game, Holbrook spoke on his show and he said, Look, We're gonna enjoy this moment right now. He did he wasn't looking some coaches make the mistake of saying, Hey boys, settle down one week to go and try to try to sort of rein in that emotion and what they're feeling. And a c I can We think it works, but there's a lot of evidence or later late evidence to show that y there's probably a benefit from enjoying it as well and and experiencing that.
And Maddie Maddie told a story just for those who haven't heard it, uh, how when they made the Grand Final ninety seven As a similar similar emotion. It was a town. It was the height of the Super League war. Newcastle were key in the Super League War. They were crucial to the suc success of the NRL. And
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did the Knights achieve a Grand Final fair‑ytale and what role does Holbrook’s Newcastle connection play?
0:01–6:50
2
What happened in Nathan Cleary’s horror injury and why is the hip‑drop tackle crackdown important?
6:50–19:20
3
How did the Panthers become rudderless without Cleary and what does that mean for their finals hopes?
19:20–24:34
4
Can the Knights solve their hooker dilemma and still beat the Roosters in the Grand Final?
24:34–28:40
5
Why will Newcastle dominate Grand Final week and how will the hype affect the team?
28:40–29:39
6
What are the arguments around Grand Final entertainment and its impact on TV ratings?
29:39–37:29
7
Will the Bunker’s controversial calls be re‑examined after the recent blow‑up?
37:29–40:39
8
How are the Roosters peaking at the perfect time and what’s next for the Dolphins?
40:39–43:53
Speakers
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