Before Sunday’s defeat, their third straight, they had scored one try in their previous two games – a 26-6 loss to Gold Coast followed by a 20-0 shut-out against Canterbury. It took them until the last minute on Sunday to put points on the board, when five-eighth Fletcher Sharpe scored a scrappy try after the Tigers failed to clean up a grubber kick. It was Newcastle’s first try in 166 minutes of game time. In five games this season, the Knights – depleted on Sunday by injuries to regulars Jacob Saifiti, Dylan Lucas, Tyson Gamble, Jack Cogger and James Schiller – have scored only 46 points, at 9.2 per game.