Knights captain laments lack of consistency Downcast: Willie Mason and the Knights lament their loss to the Eels. Knights skipper Kurt Gidley voiced his frustration yesterday over his team's apparent inability to play to their potential on a regular basis. After last week's commanding 44-8 win against the Bulldogs, Newcastle took a step backwards yesterday when they were overwhelmed 28-12 by the struggling Warriors at Mt Smart Stadium. A similar scenario unfolded after Newcastle's previous win, a 30-6 triumph on the Gold Coast, which was followed by 21-20 and 44-14 losses to Cronulla and Canberra respectively. While the Auckland media were focused predominantly on the Warriors rebounding from last week's 62-6 hammering from Penrith, Gidley's only concern was his own team's schizophrenic tendencies. You talk about the bounce-back of the teams that get beat, but what's our bounce-back like after a good win? Gidley asked. That's what we need to get sorted. It's good to win one week but if you want to be a good team, you got to be consistent and put decent back-to-back performances together. That's what we're struggling to do at the moment. I know we can do it, but doing it is another thing. Knights coach Wayne Bennett said the salary cap was responsible for the inconsistency of teams and unpredictable results across the board. "That's what the salary cap's done, it's brought the ability of the players within the teams very close," he said. So it's not as hard as it used to be in the old days to bounce back. Canterbury did it on Friday night. The Warriors did it here today. The Tigers have done it on the weekend. Once you get quality players back -- or in our case have a bad day -- it doesn't take much to turn it around any more. The defeat continued Newcastle's poor form on the road this season. Their win on the Gold Coast was their only success in five away games. Since Bennett took charge at the start of last season, they have won on six of 17 games away from their home turf.