Our go forward was poor
Moses was a big loss
Tonight showed the importance of Dylan Edwards that yeo brake in the first half would of seen Edwards eat that up
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Southâs weâre just too good. I thought none tried harder than Crichton but will admit we missed Edwards. I have to agree that while Staines is a speed machine, unless he gets clean ball with a bit of space he has nothing else to offer. He had the opportunity last night and blew it. Perhaps thatâs it for him.
The good news is we get to watch the Boys go around again next weekend most likely against our Arch Rivals. Should be a great game to watch. Canât wait!
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very disappointed. Ivan comes across as a âquietâ achiever who rarely has much to say preferring it would seem, to let his players do the âtalking âon the field. And thatâs the way it should be. Right now we need to button the lips and hit the reset. Some niggling injuries aside with Sorensen, Leotta, Edwards now sidelined and missed. Panthers have provided us during COVID lockdowns with tremendous performances throughout the season, itâs now back to the walls stuff, have we got it in us to fathom a Panthers renaissance ???
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The easy option would be to name and shame those who didnât turn up last night ,i would rather agree with the prevailing view, we were terrible and that is everywhere.
In all the years i have been watching league, there is and has been a constant, win the forward battle for your backs to unleash.
Its remarkable how the great teams (and some not so great) leverage this formula and last night in our game, this simple principle was on show.
We clearly missed Leota and Sorenson and i think IC has a lot of thinking to do this week as we prepare for now sudden death.
The good from last night is all ifs and buts, all the scenarios are goneâŚwe have to beat the winner of todays game, then beat Storm to even make it to the GF
Are we in the form to do that right nowâŚnot on last nights effort but i believe this squad can do it.
But we will need the entire squad to lift and lift by a huge margin.
A lot of the lift will come from who we have available.
is Edwards, Leota and even Sorenson available?
is Naden injured?
A good team does not fold, a great team responds.
This squad has the potential to be a âgreat teamââŚthey now have no other option but to show to themselves and their supporters they are a great team.
This scenario is the perfect scenario for each and everyone of the squad to cement themselves as a part of a great Panthers team.
The way forward is clear, the challenges will be even clearer at 6PM tonight.
The prize awaits a great team, i believe this is a agreat teamâŚdo they!
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Since the NRL invented the âCrusherâ tackle a lot of players come out of tackles rubbing their necks. Last night was no exception. Oh, by the way, how bad were we?
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Wasnât it also funny this morning both âcrusher tacklesâ put on report were not pursued by the MRC today.
Odd isnât it?
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Whilst we are all disappointed not to get the win, I think that there is degree of overreaction to the loss, likely because of the expectations we have come to have of our team over the past 2 years. It really could have gone either way.
The rabbits played strong & proved worthy opponents, but we created enough chances to win and just couldnât convert the opportunities. The rabbits also took full advantage of the ârulesâ to get a breather or a relieving penalty.
We should have scored on the early break down the left and Burto didnât pass to an unmarked Toâo. On the Yeo line break no support - it was almost identical to the final last year when Edwards loomed up & scored under the posts to put us in the GF. Again a bad pass from Kiks cost us 6 and tying the game up.
Their tries came from a miss from Staines on Gaigai & Burto coming in and creating a 2 on 1.
We have not been quite the same team since SOO, but we are still alive & just need to spark to have a chance - Iâm just happy to still be in the running. I see on social media a lot of fair weather âsupportersâ spitting the dummy, but the real supporters are behind the boys for as long as this thing goes.
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Those penalties & âon reportsâ were ridiculous &, as there will only be 2 games for each of the next 2 weeks, Sutton should have reffed his last games for the season, or ever if the league is serious.
What the hell was that âinjuryâ with Cook. He stayed down and looked as if the paramedics, or undertaker, would be needed, giving his team a breather. The replay showed little contact at all to result in such a serious injury & then he just starts playing again?
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I questioned Cook staying on too. Looked like he was gone for a while there.
As for the crusher tackles, I reckon I saw at least 20 that didnât get called for us!!!
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Thatâs because our guys forgot to rub the back of their necks after they were tackled. 
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With the âcrusherâ debacle, league is looking increasingly like soccer. We need to add a âbest actorâ award at the end of each game.
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All good points, Mr W. If we get the ârub of the greenâ for the next games we should go a lot better.
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I think it is a tactic of some teams to feign an injury. They hope that the opposition will play based on that assumed injury. Seeing it today with Ferguson and Gutherson limping around until the opposition runs at them or kicks the ball to them.
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i had one obversation from last night about refs callsâŚis it me over reading it or did anyone else notice when there was a referral to the bunker, if it was likely to go against SouthsâŚthe bunker took forever.
Case in point was with the challenge by us on the Luai knock on (we were going to be on attack if we won the call) and the bunker looked at everything
we got the call but Souths got a breather and time to reset their defence
The feigning of injuries is fast becoming a blight on the game and will need to be fixed
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I am used to some teams staying down for the penalty. We have been know to do it ourselves.
But the times Souths milked the penalty was getting beyond the joke. There were times the ref was calling out âMilking!.. Milking!..â but doing nothing about it. Blow the whistle, penalise them, you are within your rights to ref.
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maybe Cleary should go down holding his shoulder, with his injury history heâs likely to get away with it on occasion.
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Feigning of injuries would be difficult to police. Just not a very sporting tactic. The best thing to do as the opposition is to ignore it and not let it affect your play.
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My biggest drama with the weekends games was the OBVIOUS difference in the ruck, the Storm vs everyone else.
What happened to the flop penalty, that has become a 6 again, so on the 1st tackle, 2nd / 3rd man in just flops on top of the tackle, slows it down and his defensive line is set to gang tackle the next run. The Storm have this down pat.
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Exactly, HP. The awarding of a penalty has all the efficacy of the old-fashioned wet sponge in its magical and instantaneous healing properties.
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