REIMIS Smith, you little ripper.

The Canterbury winger had the game of his life and was the unlikely hero who led the way as the Bulldogs upset Newcastle at McDonald Jones Stadium on Saturday.

Smith’s game was highlighted by two stunning try assists, the first of which had to be seen to be believed.

In the 17th minute Smith made a break down his right wing, but still had two Newcastle defenders to beat.

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He bamboozled just about everyone in the stadium when he produced an amazing no-look pass over his right shoulder which fell perfectly into the path of his centre Kerrod Holland, who had wrapped around him.

Holland ran away to find the tryline.

Smith’s second assist came in the second half when he again broke away down the sideline, then looked up and kicked infield to find Jeremy Marshall-King to score.

On top of those two moments of brilliance, Smith scored a try himself, had two tackle busts and two linebreaks, and ran for more than 100 metres.

On the flip side, it was a horror night for the Knights.

On top of the loss, the home side copped a huge blow when Kalyn Ponga left the game early with a hamstring injury, and then they lost Slade Griffen to a serious knee injury.

Griffen’s injury was distressing, graphic, and there’s fears he could need a fourth knee reconstruction.

Slade Griffin of the Knights injures his knee. Source: AAP

THE REPORT

Newcastle copped an early blow when Kalyn Ponga left the field after 15 minutes grabbing his right hamstring.

Canterbury pounced immediately as winger Reimis Smith pulled off one of the most ridiculous try assists of the year.

Smith made a break down his right flank and then bamboozled the Newcastle defenders when he threw a no-look flick to his outside shoulder to hit Kerrod Holland flying down the sideline.

Holland raced away to score and it was 6-0.

It didn’t take long for the Knights to hit back through Connor Watson, who finished off some nice ad lib football to beat three defenders and scramble to the line.

Canterbury went in again through Holland in the 28th minute, thanks to a beautiful dummy half pass from Michael Lichaa on the tryline.

The kick was converted and it was 12-6.

But the Knights couldn’t be beaten down, and were next to score through a Slade Griffen short ball to put Herman Ese’ese over under the posts.

In a crushing blow, Griffen injured his knee in the play and was taken from the field on a medicab.

But again, Newcastle pushed through the adversity to score the next four-pointer.

Watson went in for his second when he ran the ball, took the defensive line on and brushed off David Klemmer to find the line.

The kick was missed and it was 16-12 to the home side at the break.

Coming back from half time, it took Canterbury less than four minutes to score through the man of the moment Smith.

Smith was on the end of a nice backline movement.

Rhyse Martin nailed the kick from the sideline and the Bulldogs were back on front.

Then it was time for Smith to produce some more magic.

Not content with one try assist, the wing pulled off another remarkable play when he ran down the sideline and somehow kicked infield to find Jeremy Marshall-King to score.

The Bulldogs put the game to bed with a try to Fa’amanu Brown late in the piece, and then Josh Jackson scored on the stroke of full time for good measure.