[2024] R22 Panthers v Knights - Game Day Thread

R22 Panthers v Knights

Game Day Information

:rugby_football: Match Penrith Panthers v Newcastle Knights
:stadium: Venue BlueBet Stadium, Penrith NSW
:clock10: Time Sunday, August 4 2:00pm
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:rugby_football: Other Matches NSWCUP Penrith Panthers v Newcastle Knights 4/8 11:45am
JFLEGG Penrith Panthers v Newcastle Knights 3/8 12:00pm
:sun_behind_rain_cloud: Weather :sun_behind_small_cloud: Partly Cloudy 16°C (:cloud_with_rain: Chance of Rain: 4% / :wind_face: Wind: SE 13km/h)
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:radio: 2GB Sydney 873AM [LIVE]
:radio: MMM Sydney 104.9FM [LIVE]

:rugby_football: Telstra Premiership | Full Time

Penrith Panthers 22 Tries
Goals
Casey McLean, Izack Tago, Nathan Cleary.
Nathan Cleary (5/5)
Newcastle Knights 14 Tries
Goals
Daniel Saifiti, Tyson Frizell.
Kalyn Ponga (3/3)

:rugby_football: Knock On Effect NSW Cup | Full Time

Penrith Panthers 40 Tries

Goals
Luke Sommerton, Asu Kepaoa, Tyrone Peachey, Brad Schneider, Daeon Amituanai, Riley Wake, Nick Murphy.
Jack Cole (6/7)
Newcastle Knights 26 Tries
Goals
Thomas Jenkins, Jaxson Rahme, Thomas Cant, Clay Webb, Will Pryce.
Will Pryce (3/5)

:rugby_football: Jersey Flegg Cup | Full Time

Penrith Panthers 20 Tries

Goals
Angelis Hotere-Papalii, Jaxen Edgar, Francis Manuleleua, Luke Philp.
Zack Lamont (2/4)
Newcastle Knights 26 Tries
Goals
Haami Loza (2), Tea-Rani Woodman Tuhoro (2), Myles Martin.
Haami Loza (3/5)

Postgame Media

MATCH REPORT

PRESS CONFERENCE

HIGHLIGHTS

FULL MATCH REPLAY

PANTHER PRIDE MOTM VOTING

Team

Telstra Premiership Knock on Effect NSW Cup Jersey Flegg Cup
:rugby_football: Panthers v Knights :rugby_football: Panthers v Knights :rugby_football: Panthers v Knights
:clock3: Sunday 4/8 2:00pm :clock3: Sunday 4/8 11:45am :clock3: Saturday 3/8 12:00am
:stadium: Bluebet Stadium :stadium: Bluebet Stadium :stadium: St Marys Leagues Stadium
TEAM
1. Isaiah Iongi 1. John Fonua 1. Jaxen Edgar
2. Sunia Turuva 2. Asu Kepaoa 2. Poutoa Hotere-Papalii
3. Izack Tago 3. Tyrone Peachey © 3. Angelis Hotere-Papalii
4. Casey Mclean 4. David Fale 4. Sam Lane
5. Brian To’o 5. Daeon Amituanai 5. Nick Murphy
6. Jarome Luai 6. Jack Cole 6. Blake Moore
7. Nathan Cleary © 7. Brad Schnieder 7. Zach Lamont
8. Moses Leota 8. Jordan Grant 8. Jakeb Vailalo
9. Mitch Kenny 9. Luke Sommerton 9. Billy Scott
10. Lindsay Smith 10. Austin Dias 10. Judah Galuvao
11. Scott Sorensen 11. Riley Price 11. Francis Manuleleua
12. Liam Martin 12. Zac Lipowicz 12. Riley Wake
13. Isaah Yeo © 13. Luron Patea 13. Aston Warwick
INTERCHANGE
14. Trent Toelau 14.Soni Luke 14. Jett Cleary
15. Matt Eisenhuth 15. Niko Apelu 15. Hokafonu Lemoto
16. Liam Henry 16. Falefa Letoi 16. Ahmani Leilua
17. Mavrik Geyer 17. Harrison Hassett 17. Bayden Moran
RESERVES
18. Luron Patea 18. Nick Murphy 18. Jenson Tuaoi
21. Asu Kepaoa 19. Siotame Hansen
19. Jack Cole :small_red_triangle_down: 20. Luke Philp
20. Brad Schneider :small_red_triangle_down: 21. Tim Carson
23. Luke Sommerton :small_red_triangle_down: 22. Joseph Nohra
23. Josh Ruxton
COACH
HC Ivan Cleary HC Ben Harden HC Jono Rolfe
AC Peter Wallace
AC Ben Garnier

:small_red_triangle::small_red_triangle_down: Promoted/Relegated | :small_orange_diamond: Positional Change

Match Officials

Telstra Premiership K.O.E NSW Cup Jersey Flegg Cup
Referee Adam Gee TBA TBA
Sideline Official Matt Noyen TBA TBA
Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski TBA TBA
Video Referee Chris Butler - -

Referee Success Rate

Referee Active Since 2024 Overall Pen. For Pen. Against Ratio
Adam Gee 2011 (3/3) 100% (26/37) 70.27% 187.5 174.5 1.07

:mega: Team Lists and Match Officials have been updated.

TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP

KNOCK ON EFFECT NSW CUP

JERSEY FLEGG CUP

Isaiah Iongi will debut for Penrith this Sunday becoming Panther #626 replacing the injured Dane Laurie in the clash with the Knights at Bluebet Stadium.

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:mega: Panther Pride Man of the Match voting is now open here.

Frustrating game to watch, but I always thought we had them. I thought Tago had his best game of the year, and Iongi was solid on debut. Will rewatch the game when I get home

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Come the hour, come the man - the ice man commeth!

Iiongi had a great debut, Tago back to form, To’o outstanding, Moses, Huth and Smith made of for lack of Fish.

Nath and Yeo stood tall when things mattered most.

While no one had a bad game, it was frustrating at times, and I won’t bother starting on the referee and bunker.

We will face more challenges like this is the final rounds - Cowboys and Titans like the knights will be fighting for a finals berth

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I can’t remember ever seeing the Penrith crowd so angry as occurred today. The second Newcastle try (Frizell) was from a blatant forward pass. Then Tango is cited for his tackle on Ponga, killing To’o’s try, yet a worse incident last week put Laurie out for a couple of games with not a whisper of a penalty or citing. Earlier you’d need the eye of an eagle to see the separation that was arbitrarily applied to disallow Tango’s try. The penalty to Newcastle in front, towards the end, was nitpicking, plain and simple; Crossland’s successful milking suggests that he comes from a dairy farming background. And wasn’t Cleary tripped at some stage? The award for effort has to go to the cabal of officials who tied themselves in knots in a very nearly successful attempt to find ways to disenfranchise (aka ‘rob) Penrith of a rightful victory. We’ll probably see a similar performance when the NRL try to explain how it was all OK (‘nothing to see here; just lie back and think of England’). I call ‘bullshit’, as was the incensed cry from today’s crowd. IC remains passive (publicly); can you imagine how certain other coaches would vent.

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Once again our opponents came to hunt the hunted, and played pretty well in fact, making for a close game. Completion rates were very good, with the knights going for long periods completing their sets and kicking deep.
A couple of disallowed tries for us, and a try for the knights from a clear forward pass made the scores close, but again the boys got the job done, which at this point is all that matters.
Iongi on debut was very good and so deserves a mention, but we were pretty good across the park.
And now this week a similar scenario, with hopefully another win.

The dream is still alive :slight_smile:

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I 100% agree Pete, but IMO this further enhances the Penrith cause. We ARE going to face the impact of poor judgement calls, it’s akin to the tall poppy syndrome this country has. Why we need to bash our superstars until they fall is beyond me. These recent weeks need serious review from the officials, you cannot continually target the better team for your 50/50’s.

From our standpoint though, this builds on our game plan resolve, don’t panic, don’t whinge, just get on with playing footy, if it takes us to the last 5 minutes, that is where we will go.

Like i said previously, still PLENTY to work on, although our attack was better, still massive improvement. We will also have a few video sessions where certain people are running out of the defensive line…not good, we are great when we have the Panther wall but every brick in that wall needs to be aligned !!

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If a team goes into a game relying on favourable officiating to win, they will lose more often than not. I thought Ponga’s ‘High Shot’ on Tago after his break was a regulation tackle. We got the penalty for that one, but it did stop our momentum on a potential scoring play. So even when we got a favourable decision it still sucked.

It’s important the boys keep banking these wins. We’re currently only one win ahead of the roosters who have a far superior differential - So it’s important we stay ahead of them if we want to have that home final in Week 1.

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Not to mention that the Roosters have a much easier run into the finals.

Good news - it’s two wins :slight_smile: although they do have the bye.

Both Roosters and Panthers have the same draw in terms of teams: Rabbits, Raiders, Titans, Eels, the only difference being Roosters have a bye and we have Storm.

Sharks are also 2 wins behind.