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(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
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Penrith Panthers
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Tries Liam Martin, Brad Schneider, Jack Cole. Goals Paul Alamoti (3/3)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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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