{"id":119639,"date":"2021-08-26T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119639"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:57:19","slug":"knights-star-crunched-by-bone-rattler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119639","title":{"rendered":"Knights star crunched by &#039;bone-rattler&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/newcastle-knights-v-gold-coast-titans-nrl-telstra-premiership-2021\/321241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Gold Coast Titans had plenty to play for against Newcastle\">Gold Coast Titans had plenty to play for against Newcastle<\/a> with a spot in the finals on the line, and a brutal tackle highlighted their sensational effort on Thursday night, despite a narrow 15-14 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Just before half-time Newcastle playmaker Kalyn Ponga was looking dangerous inside Gold Coast&#x27;s territory and he threatened to put Connor Watson through the defensive line to score with a stinging pass.<\/p>\n<p>However Watson couldn&#x27;t quite handle the huge pop of the dual hit from Tino Fa&#x27;asuamaleaui and Moeaki Fotuaika and spilled the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Bang! Mo Fotuaika with a bone-rattler. Road kill!&quot; Nine commentator Peter Psaltis said during the broadcast, impressed by the crunching tackle.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"372f5f66-beb1-43b7-9959-dcbd2e7496d2\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/372f5f66-beb1-43b7-9959-dcbd2e7496d2\" alt=\"Connor Watson gets crunched\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#x27;s players down everywhere!&quot; Queensland legend Paul Vautin added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Like a Watson sandwich &#8211; they just creamed him.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately as a result of the tackle Watson was left a little worse for wear, and needed some medical attention before gingerly walking away.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans took a 12-6 lead into half-time however they were unable to hold off Newcastle in the second half<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Gold Coast Titans had plenty to play for against Newcastle with a spot in the finals on the line, and a brutal tackle highlighted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119639\" title=\"Knights star crunched by &#039;bone-rattler&#039;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119642,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119639\/revisions\/119642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}