{"id":398929,"date":"2024-05-31T23:36:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=398929"},"modified":"2024-06-01T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T13:04:52","slug":"get-off-social-media-knights-coach-rips-distracted-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=398929","title":{"rendered":"'Get off social media': Knights coach rips 'distracted' team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newcastle coach Adam O'Brien ripped his "distracted" team after their hammering to the Bulldogs on Friday night,\ufeff calling for his players to switch off social media.<\/p>\n

The Knights looked a step off the pace coming off the bye, with their four-game win streak came to a crashing end as they did themselves no favours with their error-riddled performance.<\/p>\n

The late sin-binning\ufeff of Jacob Saifiti for a deliberate headbutt on Reed Mahoney also played a role in the margin blowing out to 30 points, but O'Brien refused to look into the particulars of the match, rather sending his team a pointed message about their use of social media use in the lead up.<\/p>\n

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"It's been a long time since we've had a performance like that, that's gonna take some getting over.<\/p>\n

"We probably need to batten the hatches down, get off social media, and don't read too much of what you guys (journalists) are going to write.<\/p>\n

"Maybe we were reading too much of that leading up to this one about how good we were going. Now we'll look inward and try to fix it.<\/p>\n

\"NRL<\/p>\n

"There were some guys there that clearly looked like they were distracted in their performances," he added. "We lacked a bit of creativity on the ball. That looked like a team that had had a week off."<\/p>\n

While O'Brien was stern in his assessment, the coach admitted his players did show effort, but like every NRL game, that alone is not enough.<\/p>\n

"I think there was plenty of effort, no doubt. But effort on its own is not going to win you the game. I do think the first 20 minutes we did a hell of a job defensively keeping them down their own end.<\/p>\n

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"We had a couple of tries disallowed, they got a couple against the run of play. I think that really deflated us, frustrated us, and we never overcame it."<\/p>\n

O'Brien was also asked about rookie fullback David Armstrong's mistake-riddled game, with the No.1 caught out of position more than once, while racking up a couple of handling errors from dropped kicks.<\/p>\n

\"Curran<\/p>\n

Armstrong has had fruitful start to his NRL career in place of the injured Kalyn Ponga during the club's four-game win streak\ufeff, with the Roosters reportedly interested in luring him to Sydney's East.<\/p>\n

Newcastle has already offered Armstrong a contract extension to stave off the Tri-Colours overtures, according to O'Brien, and he told reporters, all the noise surrounding the 23-year-old may have impacted him mentally.<\/p>\n

\ufeff "He's only a young bloke. He's been in four games, he's been getting plenty of pats on the back. It's all new to him.<\/p>\n

"There's all the speculation, contracts and management and all that. He's young, he'll learn from it."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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