{"id":58372,"date":"2021-04-15T04:31:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=58372"},"modified":"2021-04-15T04:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:57:50","slug":"tips-heat-on-knights-as-big-month-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=58372","title":{"rendered":"Tips: Heat on Knights as &#039;big month&#039; looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Fittler sees <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/knights-v-sharks-nrl-2021\/321062\" title=\"Newcastle&#x27;s clash with the Sharks\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle&#x27;s clash with the Sharks<\/a> tomorrow night as a &#x27;must win&#x27; if they&#x27;re to get back in the mix for the finals after three losses on the trot have dumped them to <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/ladder\" title=\"11th with a 2-3 record\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11th with a 2-3 record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights have had a horror run with injuries but are starting to get back some key artillery, with Bradman Best and Jacob Saifiti among the players named to return.<\/p>\n<p>As he read through Newcastle&#x27;s draw, with the Panthers, Roosters and Raiders their next three opponents, Fittler put the heat on Adam O&#x27;Brien&#x27;s side to put an undermanned Sharks side &#8211; still reeling from <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/craig-fitzgibbon-agrees-3-year-deal-to-coach-cronulla-sharks\/c490b045-8136-4212-ba5f-72fe62769441\" title=\"John Morris&#x27; sacking\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Morris&#x27; sacking<\/a> &#8211; to the sword in front of their home fans.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ec3fe867-f918-40fc-bfe6-1527b66684e6\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ec3fe867-f918-40fc-bfe6-1527b66684e6\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;They&#x27;ve got a big month coming up, they need to win,&quot; Fittler told Andrew Johns on Wide World of Sports&#x27; <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/videos\/nrl\/freddy-joeys-tips-round-6\/cknfvidsn00520hple0qvc6q5\" title=\"Freddy &amp; Joey&#x27;s Tips\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Freddy &amp; Joey&#x27;s Tips<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Knights need to win this week to give themselves some confidence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Johns, meanwhile, expressed surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/cronulla-sharks\" title=\"the Sharks\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Sharks<\/a> were the bookmakers&#x27; favourites despite a tough week in the headlines and the absence of senior stars Wade Graham and Josh Dugan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Bradman Best back, Jacobn Saifiti back, Kurt Mann to five-eighth,&quot; Johns said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They look a stronger team, stronger bench, Sharks no Wade Graham, no Dugan, so I think the Knights (will win) at home.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Scroll below for the current leaderboard and Round 6 tips by Johns, Fittler and all Nine&#x27;s expert tipsters!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"dbaedba7-d3c3-4aa8-8441-e5204fed66cc\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dbaedba7-d3c3-4aa8-8441-e5204fed66cc\" alt=\"Nine&#x27;s NRL tipping leaderboard\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Johns: <\/strong>Panthers, Knights, Storm, Sea Eagles, Rabbitohs, Eels, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad Fittler:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Sterling:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruan Sims:<\/strong> Panthers, Sharks, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Eels, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Billy Slater:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Eels, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Gallen:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wally Lewis:<\/strong> Panthers, Sharks, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Eels, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darren Lockyer:<\/strong> Broncos, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Psaltis:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Bracey:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs,\u00a0Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mat Thompson:<\/strong> Panthers, Sharks, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mole: <\/strong>Panthers, Sharks, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Elbra:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Titans, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Glover:<\/strong> Panthers, Knights, Storm, Sea Eagles, Rabbitohs, Raiders, Dragons, Cowboys<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6248953525001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/353372\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Imagine being a coach: Freddy &amp; The Eighth - Round 6\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cknh50i1900680irpzrrvhfsj\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brad Fittler sees Newcastle&#x27;s clash with the Sharks tomorrow night as a &#x27;must win&#x27; if they&#x27;re to get back in the mix for the finals <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=58372\" title=\"Tips: Heat on Knights as &#039;big month&#039; looms\">[&#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\/58372"}],"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=58372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58374,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58372\/revisions\/58374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}