R4 Rabbitohs v Panthers - Game Day Thread

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PEN
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South Sydney Rabbitohs
Penrith Panthers
TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP Round 4
Accor Stadium
March 27 8:00pm
South Sydney Rabbitohs
Round 4
Penrith Panthers

Accor Stadium
March 27 8:00pm

Game Day Information
:rugby_football: Match South Sydney Rabbitohs v Penrith Panthers
:stadium: Venue Accor Stadium
:clock10: Time Thursday March 27, 8:00pm
:tickets: Tickets Tickets via Ticketek
:rugby_football: Other Matches NSWCUP South Sydney Rabbitohs v Penrith Panthers 29/03 3:00pm1
JFLEGG South Sydney Rabbitohs v Penrith Panthers 29/03 1:00pm1
SGBALL Illawarra Steelers v Penrith Panthers 29/03 12:00pm2
:sun_behind_rain_cloud: Weather :partly_sunny: Partly Cloudy 23ÂșC (:cloud_with_rain: Chance of Rain: 5% / :wind_face: Wind: SE 3km/h)
:tv: Broadcast :tv: Channel 9 (Channel 90 HD / 91 SD) [LIVE]
:tv: Fox League (Channel 502) [LIVE]
:desktop_computer: NRL Live Pass [LIVE]
:kayo: Kayo Sports [LIVE]
:radio: ABC Sydney 702AM [LIVE]
:radio: 2GB Sydney 873AM [LIVE]
:radio: MMM Sydney 104.9FM [LIVE]

(1) NSW Cup and Jersey Flegg to be played at Redfern Oval, Redfern NSW
(2) SG Ball Cup to be played at Michael Cronin Oval, Gerringong NSW

:rugby_football: Telstra Premiership | Full Time
/50px Penrith Panthers 18 Tries Liam Martin, Brad Schneider, Jack Cole.
Goals Paul Alamoti (3/3)
/50px South Sydney Rabbitohs 28 Tries Keaon Koloamatangi (2), Alex Johnston, Davvy Moale, Jye Gray.
Goals Jamie Humphreys (4/6)

:rugby_football: Knock On Effect NSW Cup| Full Time
/50px Penrith Panthers 26 Tries Blaize Talagi, Harrison Hassett, Asu Kepaoa, David Fale, Matthew Eisenhuth.
Goals Blaize Talagi (3/5)
/50px South Sydney Rabbitohs 22 Tries Fletcher Myers, Carson Kaho, Dane Towns, Ashton Ward.
Goals Ashton Ward (3/4)

:rugby_football: Jersey Flegg Cup | Full Time
/50px Penrith Panthers 30 Tries Nick Murphy (2), Bayden Moran, Harry Armstrong, Poutoa Hotere-Papalii.
Goals Zakauri Clarke (5/5)
/50px South Sydney Rabbitohs 26 Tries Riley Frame (2), Samuel Taylor, Daniel Waqa, Nicholas Quinn.
Goals Nicholas Quinn (3/5)

Postgame Media

MATCH REPORT

PRESS CONFERENCE

HIGHLIGHTS

FULL MATCH REPLAY

PANTHER PRIDE MOTM VOTING

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Team

Telstra Premiership Knock on Effect NSW Cup Jersey Flegg Cup
:rugby_football: Rabbitohs v Panthers :rugby_football: Rabbitohs v Panthers :rugby_football: Rabbitohs v Panthers
:clock3: Thursday 27/3 8:00pm :clock3: Saturday 29/3 3:00pm :clock3: Saturday 29/3 1:00pm
:stadium: Accor Stadium :stadium: Redfern Oval :stadium: Redfern Oval
TEAM
1. Daine Laurie 1. Jaxen Edgar 1. Jack Attard
2. Paul Alamoti 2. Jesse Mclean 2. Nick Murphy
3. Izack Tago 3. David Fale 3. Poutuoa Hotere-Papalii
4. Tom Jenkins 4. Sam Lane 4. Siale Faeamani
5. Brian To’o 5. Asu Kepaoa 5. Jirah Liddiard
6. Jack Cole 6. Zack Lamont 6. Cameron Robertson
7. Trent Toelau 7. Brad Schneider 7. Tylor Bunting
8. Moses Leota 8. Niko Apelu 8. Jakeb Vailalo
9. Mitch Kenny 9. Luke Sommerton 9. Bayden Moran
15. Isaiah Papali’i :small_orange_diamond: 10. Luron Patea 10. Ahmani Leilua
11. Scott Sorensen 11. Mavrik Geyer 11. Zakauri Clarke
12. Liam Martin 12. Harrison Hassett 12. Harry Armstrong
13. Isaah Yeo © 13. Billy Phillips 13. Del Wigmore
RESERVE
22. Brad Schneider :small_red_triangle: 14. Billy Scott 14. Jenson Tuaoi
10. Lindsay Smith :small_orange_diamond: 15. Riley Wake 15. Judah Galuvao
16. Liam Henry 16. Falefa Letoi 16. Isaiah Scanlon
17. Luke Garner 17. Zac Lipowicz 17. Jack Ewer
INTERCHANGE
18. Casey Mclean 18. Mitchell Heather
19. Matt Eisenhuth :small_red_triangle_down:
20. Luron Patea :small_red_triangle_down:
21. Luke Sommerton :small_red_triangle_down:
14. Blaize Talagi :small_red_triangle_down:
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 Ashley Klein Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski Adam Sirianni
Sideline Official Drew Oultram Billy Greatbatch Matthew Gomes
Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski Ben Teague Ben Teague
Video Referee Chris Butler - -

Referee Success Rate

Referee Active Since 2024 Overall Pen. For Pen. Against Ratio
Ashley Klein 2009 (1/1) 100% (21/48) 43.75% 202.5 204 0.99
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:mega: Team Lists and Match Officials have been updated.

TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP

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KNOCK ON EFFECT NSW CUP

JERSEY FLEGG CUP

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Still a premiership looking side if you ask me. We just need Moses to step up (and the rest of the pack) and lay the early foundation for these young halves. I read the Souths pack think they can dominate. We need to make a statement against these wannabes 1-4 will not be good for anyone.

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Rapt that Toelau has been given a chance to run the side in Cleary’s absence. He impressed me a lot last year & I think he’s by far our best option. If he can reproduce the form he showed against Manly in the trials, we’ll go well. But, as Kevin points out, our forwards will need to step up & give Toelau & Cole the space & time to control the game.

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Laurie appears to have his concrete boots on

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Very ordinary first half. A lot of the same mistakes we made against the Roosters.

I always worry with Laurie at the back. He seems to struggle under the high ball. Maybe swap him with Jenkins?

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Shades of the first few rounds of 2019in that performance.

Thinking we should of picked Huth at half, at least we wouldn’t be leaking so many points

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Another game where the team turned up thinking the game was already won.

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Way too many mistakes tonight, from the get go.

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Better performance in the second half, but by then the damage was done. Really missed Cleary’s level head while we were trying to claw away at the deficit.

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We got back into the game, but the damage was done.

I think this shows once again how much we miss Edwards control of our defence.

Trent was somewhat of a disappointment, especially in defence.

To be honest if fullback is supposedly Laurie’s best position, then I question if he has a role in the 17. Can’t defend, poor handling .

Moses was robbed of that try.

Well we get Cleary back next week, so that’s something. I fear for our defence though untill Edwards return

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

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We had lost that one in the first half
 whatever comeback we were to mount would end like the past two weeks
 getting run out by the clock.

Toleau didn’t have the performance he wished. Really struggled in attack and his defence wasn’t up to the task
 Souths ran a lot of traffic down his side, and we got caught out. Thought with Schnieder’s inclusion in the second half our defence really had some punch.

I was a bit confused by the Leota “No Try”. To me it looked like the ball popped out sideways as a result of he grounding, not a knock on
 it looked like the commentators agreed. It was a real head scratcher
 it would have brought the score to 28-24, but as I said earlier we got beat by the clock in the end.

The positives were that after the onslaught and error laden half, we managed to keep the Bunnies out for the remainder of the game. Cleary will be back next week, heopefully with some much needed direction. Not off to the best of starts this season, thats for sure.

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That was horrific - Other than the fundamental errors, what was more concerning for me was the lack of discipline, we pride ourselves on clean, hard effective defense. What I saw was head pushing, leaning on their heads, laying in the tackles etc etc. Liam Henry needs to watch the replays of himself and the cost of his dumbness.

Don’t get me wrong, this was a team issue, not any individual, but the penalties Henry gave are NOT the Penrith of recent times. Marto also started the grub stuff, Garner had a turn
what was happening?

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Not a good start to the game or to the season but being the eternal optimist one good thing is the TAB have pushed us out to $8 to win a 5th premiership
.not a bad price all things considered :grinning:

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I had Moses anytime try scorer, you reckon I am filthy - only $10 @ $7.50 but it’s not the point
THAT WAS A TRY !!

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Laurie has always been rocks-and-diamonds. There were only rocks on display in this game, probably mudstone. He also needs to grab a dictionary and research the meaning of ‘urgency’.

Henry exemplified how damaging stupidity can be.

Moses’ try had no separation at impact with the ground; that is supposed to be the key criteria these days. But we should have known that with Klein we won’t win the key decisions.

Smith was top knotch; Martin needs to differentiate between intense aggression and losing control. Let the other teams think he is a grub without actually being one.

Toelau was found wanting in the pressure of a first grade game.

I’ve never seen such awful stats as in that first half, even in our bad years. That is a reflection of playing like a rabble.

Alamoti’s goal kicking was top class; pity he didn’t do the same last week.

1 win from 4 games – time to start getting worried. 5 years of having a defensive black wall, now it leaks like a sieve. JFH, Cleary and Edwards are badly missed.

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Was it my imagination, or was Tago a bit quiet in this game? He didn’t seem to make the impact he normally does.

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I don’t think it was your imagination. I think he has been quiet all year, a lot of last year too.

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