Newcastle’s superstar put on a clinic as the Knights won their eighth straight game, but it could come at a cost after he left the game injured following a crunching hit.
Kalyn Ponga left McDonald Jones Stadium with his arm in a sling – and the Knights’ title hopes hinging on the extent of a shoulder injury – which his Newcastle teammates feared would leave them without their inspirational captain in the finals.
He’s almost certain to miss Newcastle’s final regular season match against the Dragons – the Knights can’t finish higher than fifth or lower than sixth – and whether he plays in week one of the finals is still to be determined. Is it safe to start talking about Ponga and the Jarryd Hayne areas of 2009? There’s a long way to go, but it’s hard not to see the similarities, another fanbase being swept up by a magnetic No.1 whose team has come from a seemingly hopeless mid-season position to surge into the finals.“I thought that there was a massive play,” O’Brien said. “Sometimes we look like the Benny Hill show out there, but we’re not seeing that any more. [A home final] is exactly [what we wanted].
Cherry-Evans and his right-edge second-rower Haumole Olakau’atu starred as Manly snapped a three-game losing streak at Accor Stadium.
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