this game is a simple game, its when they try to make it more complicated, its becomes complicated and thatâs when errors etc happen.
Tonight will be all about field position and Maloneyâs kicking gameâŚi can assure everyone Hasler will have his mob up for this and the new faces in their team will want to make a name for themselves and impress whoever may be looking at them.
That is the riskâŚthey will know us but we wonât know them.
What we have to be is not predictable and early kicks etc must be the name of the game but we will need to keep it tight as many of suggested.
Maloney and Luai can only unleash if the forwards give them the time to do so.
Will be freezing at the ground and could be very windy but ground surface should be ok.
Will be a tough contest tonight and will say a lot more about us then it does them after 80 minutes.
The good news - I have a feeling we will run up a fair score against them.
The bad - once again I canât attend a stupid Thursday night game. This and the 6pm Friday game are the worst time slots in the draw. Why oh why does the NRL pander to television above the fans ⌠oh I know, money talks, fans walk
Pretty impressed with what Iâve seen so far. Far fewer silly errors than weâve made most games this season. Maloney looks like a completely different player without Cleary. And how good is Liam Martin?!
Played with enthusiasmâŚgreat effort from the younger players Kenny, Luai, Naden, Too and particularly Martin, combine that with the defensive performances of The Fish and Yeo things looking a bit brighter than they were 3 weeks ago. Lets go Panthers.
Manly were poor - we were better but there is no chance of us competing for the 8 based on the last 2 weeks, sad part is, we won the last 2 weeks so it speaks volumes about this comp.
IC in the press conference âboth teams were depleted by originâ ha ha haaaaa we lost an out of form NC but in return got a Maloney having a go. I inclined to say I would rather last nights combo in the halves throughout origin, see how that goes. Bringing NC back in between SOO games will just be a disruption.
That refereeing display was one of the worst Iâve seen, you know itâs bad when the commentators are calling them out for âhowler of the yearâ. That comment was in relation to the no try.
That was a totally crazy decision. Korasai was never on side, and from an off-side position tried to dive forward around the players playing the ball, who never moved, to tackle the dummy half who went to the other side of the ruck, and then somehow âearnsâ a penalty for his team.
If it was no try due to no grounding, it should have been a penalty for Penrith!
I hear that Cummins & Klein are down to ref SOO#1, which just shows how poor the referee ranks are.
i agree some of the calls were pathetic and against us on the night but can i say a certain James Maloney doesnât help our team.
He spends too much time whining and chipping the refsâŚsure we got hard calls against us but gees when are we going to wake up about geeing the refs us at every opportunity.
I also noted Luai seems to have let the âniggleâ get into his game
Iâve been a passionate Penrith supporter since 1967, and Iâm looking forward one day to leaving Penrith Park after a game thinking âgee, we seemed to get the better of the 50:50 calls todayâ. Wait a sec, I think I remember one game â now, let me think; what year was that?
But that shouldnât surprise. Outer west Sydney has been treated like s@%t for a couple of centuries, so why change now? Like, want to dump some toxic material? Just dump it out west somewhere; they probably wonât even notice. Remember the brouhaha about the small amount of radioactive material (thorium) at Hunters Hill, from a war-time factory (1915); there was a plan to dump it at Kemps Creek. Apparently it would transmogrify in the back of a truck into harmless material on the way to the dump, so no problem. That same big-end-of-town arrogance has also driven the long-held perspective of outer west Sydney being treated merely as a source of raw talent for the big city clubs. From memory the temporary formation of the St Marys Cougars was a direct reaction to Eastsâ attempt to steal St Marys as their feeder club, and Manly have now grabbed Blacktown. Out here we need eternal vigilance to halt this type of modern colonialism.
The NRL have now said that the âNo tryâ ruling was correct due to the ball not being grounded, however there should not have been a penalty to Manly, we should have had a play the ball on the 10m line for being held up.
You could have realistically had a penalty the other way for Manly being offside. Itâs baffling how two blokes in a box can come to a decision like that when every other person watching the game can see that its not an obstruction. Itâs the second incorrect ruling on the same patch of grass this year. I feel like itâs convenient that we won the match - would Annesely have come out and admitted it was incorrect if Manly won?
I would love to Ask someone like James Maloney if he thinks different clubs are treated differently by the officials. Heâs played for Melbourne, Roosters, Sharks and Penrith - so he would have a very good idea. Maybe when its your year, you just get the calls. When youâre in great form there is somehow less intrinsic bias?
I donât have the answers, but i would love to see some consistency - if not between rounds - but between the same game with two teams.
telecast clearly shows Ref ask for grounding on the basis he was unsighted.
Var took it further at their own digression WITHOUT refâs request. So who
actually officiates these games refâs or var. the refs are being ursurped by some bozo 50 metres away. I thought these damn idiots were for the refs assistance. Speak when spoken to, otherwise shut the *#^~ up !
i donât think the bozos were 50 m awayâŚthe refs missed much and called much wrong but its a continuing them for us and to be bluntâŚwe shouldnât have to be in this position to even worry about it.
Our bad calls have been there for all to see for some years and Due you touched on itâŚwhen you are winning the rough calls donât seem to go against youâŚalthough we do much to help the calls.
What about Maloneyâs whining and playing the ball incorrectly???
IF Cleary had any leverageâŚhe should have been fined $10k for that piece of stupidity and you cannot blame the refs for Maloney being dumbâŚmaybe a $10k wakeup might get his attention
But my point earlier in this thread is smart mouthing officials sure donât win you any friends in their ranks.
The opinions expressed on Panther Pride are not necessarilly those of the sites owners.
Panther Pirde or Recycled Pixel accept no responsibility for articles presented, their ownership or implications of ownership.
Panther Pride accepts no responsibility for inadvertant copyright breaches. This website does not have any affiliation with the National Rugby League (NRL). or the Penrith Panthers Rugby League Football Club,
nor business connection and has not been endorsed by the National Rugby League or Penrith Panthers.
Man of the Match voting is now open 
Facebook
Twitter
Youtube
Websites