R20 Panthers v Broncos - Game Day Thread

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The whole game was poorly adjudicated.

A has that feeling, rain usually is the great equaliser, when I noticed that Todd Smith was the referee I was concerned. He has a bad track record and many of the games where he has had the whistle there have been some howlers.

That being said we didn’t do ourselves any favours either, turning the ball over and plenty of missed tackles.

Just need to put this all behind us. We have a 2 point buffer, origin is done and dusted, we will have Kenny back fresh next week… 7 games to go. We can see the finish line for the regular season. Let’s do it.

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Also, why wasn’t this a bin? I don’t see much difference between Walsh’s lash out and the one in Tigers v Dogs that resulted in a bin.

You’re right though Steve, we didn’t play well for a chunk in the second half in particular. Hopefully it’s a wakeup call and a trend that corrects itself in the lead up to the finals otherwise we won’t be hold the trophy at the end.

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I have taken a few days to calm down after that disgraceful game.

An open letter to the NRL, as fans we don’t give a (insert expletive) about Brisbane tv ratings, if you can’t referee the games fairly kick the broncos out of the NRL for the sake of the games integrity.

On a side note about our team, Dylan was a star yet again, Blaze was a passenger at best. He is going backwards at a fast rate. This was his final Chance in my book, if we are to go all the way this year we need to action plan B sooner rather than later, be it Cole or Cogger or someone else.

Yes if this is me calmed down after 4 days, you wouldn’t want of seen me post earlier lol.

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After the game i was really frustrated about Papalii giving that penalty away for not handing the ball over. However after now watching the clip, i’m perplexed as to how he was actually penalised there. Ice, if you somehow heard or saw my comments, i’m sorry and it seems you were unfairly penalised haha.

We just couldn’t turn momentum the entire second half. Blaize has been a bit down, i’m hoping thats just because of the disruption to the left edge due to injury/origin. I feel like Blaize and McLean might need a good confidence building game against weaker opposition - cue parramatta.

I’m really hoping this is a 'play them into form’type game where we just blitz parra from minute 1 to 80.

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