It was with doubt a quality game, played between two teams who both put 100% in. It’s a pity that the same can’t be said about the match officials, but nothing is going to change under current management.
We can, and will, get better & competition for spots in out ‘first’ 19 will be intense for the back half of the season, which is a great prospect. I imagine IC has his ‘best lineup’ in his mind, but there will always be times when we won’t have them all at the same time. In the ‘presser’ IC mentioned the next man up mentality, which he said, was great to say, but it has to happen. It happened again in this game.
Augers well for a run at the prize once again.
I thought that Jack Cogger had a super game, until it came to kicking. It was average, at best, and it reinforced just how good Nathan Cleary is. Also, I thought that Dylan would do the goal kicking.
Interesting how the media seemed intent on focussing on the tries that the Warriors nearly scored (with the obvious implication that they should have won), yet ignored how Alamoti’s slip gave them a gift, and we squandered or were robbed (depending on your point of view) a gift of our own due to a rare forward pass ruling. This pretty well matched the FoxSport announcer; it would have been interesting to have a volume meter to measure just how excited he got each time that the Warriors looked good.
This was one of those games that typify Penrith of recent years, when it was hard to pick a bad player. The only negative that I recall was Garner’s attention to detail.
100% Pete, the commentary almost every week is “please beat Penrith”. Re Cogger kicking, I agree in the first half and I think he was taking that for granted, I also though he adjusted to the kick pressure and improved in the 2nd half. Funny you say that about Garner, I was more concerned with Lussick and his dummy half antics, was frustrating me no end and does not improve the ref decision making, probs pisses em off if anything. I think he’s been to the Mitchell Moses school of tactics……
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