09 :: R13 Fri :: Tigers 10 Panthers 26 @ Leichhardt

[Timmah]

WESTS TIGERS
1. Tim Moltzen
2. Taniela Tuiaki 3. Blake Ayshford 4. Dene Halatau 5. Beau Ryan
6. John Morris 7. Benji Marshall (c)
8. Todd Payten 9. Robbie Farah 10. Bryce Gibbs
11. Gareth Ellis 12. Chris Heighington
13. Corey Payne

Interchange: 14. Daine Laurie 15. Danny Galea 16. Rhys Hanbury 17. John Skandalis

PENRITH PANTHERS
1. Jarrod Sammut
2. Geoff Daniela 3. Brad Tighe 4. Michael Jennings 5. Shane Elford
6. Wade Graham 7. Luke Walsh
8. Petero Civoniceva (c) 9. Paul Aiton 10. Frank Puletua
11. Trent Waterhouse 12. Frank Pritchard
13. Luke Lewis

Interchange: 14. Lachlan Coote 15. Nathan Smith 16. Gavin Cooper 17. Matthew Bell
Reserves: 18. Tim Grant 19. Masada Iosefa 20. Joseph Paulo 21. Maurice Blair

Referees
Jason Robinson & Bernard Sutton
Sideline Officials: Steve Carrall & Chris James
Video Referee: Chris Ward

Toyota Cup Round 13
Wests v Penrith
Leichhardt Oval, Friday 5:15pm

NSW Cup Round 11
Balmain Ryde-Eastwood (WST) v Shellharbour (STG)
Leichhardt Oval Saturday 2:30pm

Western Suburbs (WST) v Bankstown City (BUL)
Campbelltown, Saturday 2:00pm

Windsor (PEN) BYE

[mxlegend99]

Assuming that our Origin players get through without picking up an injuries, i think we can grab a decent win here.

Although if they aren't able to backup, and Sammut is out injured along with Waterhoues and Gordon.... it could be a very painful game to watch.

[TV Ted Ellery]

Originally Posted by mxlegend99

Assuming that our Origin players get through without picking up an injuries, i think we can grab a decent win here.

Although if they aren't able to backup, and Sammut is out injured along with Waterhoues and Gordon.... it could be a very painful game to watch.

Painful is watching an injury depleted Tigers.

Why is it that the crap players never get injured yet the good players are so vulnerable?

Penrith by 13++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

What's the Tigers' record against Penrith over the years, 4-15?

[Timmah]

Love Leichhardt, attending my first game there on Friday, can't wait

[pantherz9103]

We'll need to win this. We could be out of the 8 after tonight, all for just 1 bad loss with a depleted team. Hope we can recapture our form of pre-origin

[Tigers_are_Pro]

Congrats Panthers, nice win.

[mxlegend99]

Well our team this week could be extremely interesting.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Injuries from the Dragons game:
Jarrod Sammut - torn rectus femoris - Doctor will assess on Monday, no time frame give, might be right to play against Tigers, but might not too
Frank Puletua - left elbow - Doctor will assess on Monday
Nathan Smith - corked left leg - will need to check for compartment syndrome
Paul Aiton - left shoulder - will assess on Monday

Outstanding injuries:
Adam Woolnough - left shoulder - possibly 4 weeks
Michael Gordon - ankle - 9 weeks
Trent Waterhouse - eye (hyphema) - return for Tigers game
Brad Tighe - pectoral muscle tear - return for Tigers game


Nathan Smith is the only bloke injured from the Dragons game that we could afford to replace IMO. Aiton and Sammut have been brilliant for us this season, and Frank Puletua is probably our third best front rower at the moment. Petero being the best obviously, and Matt Bell being second best IMO.

[MacDougall]

Galloway
Lawrence
Galea
Collis
Tagive

Farah backing up.

We aren't exactly at full strength. Our backline is shot to pieces and Galloway is our best forward.

I expect the Panthers to win unfortunately. I also think that would effectively kill our season.

[mxlegend99]

We will hopefully have Luke Lewis, Petero Civoniceva and Michael Jennings backing up. They're very important players to our side.

With the blokes under injury clouds, and our Origin players having the potential to be injured. We could be down anywhere from 2 to 10 players.

[Rovelli]

If Penrith get their Origin guys back, they definitely look the superior team. They also trounced the Tigers by 20 earlier in the season.

[StinkyPete]

robbie farah to run rampant and beat the panthers by 8

[mxlegend99]

Well after seeing the team video announcement, i'm feeling a little more confident. Sammut is 50/50 to play, and Waterhouse is waiting for an ok from the drs to play. Everyone else is pretty much certain to play.

If we get through Origin without injuries, we should be pretty close to full strength.

[Timmah]

Correction: Robbie Farah to run rampant - NSW by 8.

[Timmah]

Teams & refs in

[thommo4pm]

Originally Posted by MacDougall

Galloway
Lawrence
Galea
Collis
Tagive

Farah backing up.

We aren't exactly at full strength. Our backline is shot to pieces and Galloway is our best forward.

I expect the Panthers to win unfortunately. I also think that would effectively kill our season.

You could be right, a loss here will make it extremely difficult to get into the 8....even though we are only at the halfway point of the comp.

Losing on Friday night would see the Tigers at lest 6 points out of the 8.

I just can't pick the Tigers form of recent times though.
I'm going to say Penrith, purely because they have the extra few days recovery and no travel involved from last weekend....the Tigers obviously had to travel to / from NZ and would have got back to Sydney yesterday....short preparation for them this week.