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Steve Turner

Dave Q

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Ever? :lol:

In my own experience and knowledge, yes.

People who dont follow the Panthers have no idea as to how good he really is and i get the feeling weve only seen less than 50% of what he is capable of.

He is explosive off the mark, elusive, throws a nice pass, has a nice step ( and doesnt lose much speed in so doing) is intelligent and lightning fast.

Each season he gets bigger, stronger and faster.

Turner v Jennings, Jennings....no contest.

IMO he will be an international within 3 years.
 
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choc_soldier

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Jennings is the one we needed to lock up, and management did that.

Hopefully he ends up being a one club man.
 

Dave Q

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His profile is a little lower than those of similar or even lessor ability only because the Panthers have been sitting on the verges and not quite in the mix of the top teams atm.

The fowards have struggled a bit, a makeshift halfage effort and Tighe isnt quite in the same class.

But hey, its some distance forwards from standard backs of recent years such as Franze and my old on-line mate Lee Hookey.

Cootes been pretty impressive too.

But Jennings is electricity personified.

I wish he was a rabbitoh. Life is cruel.
 

mxlegend99

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If Michael Jennings was playing for the Storm he would have played State of Origin and also represented Australia by now. He hasn't come close to reaching his potential at the Panthers.

IMO Michael Gordon would also be looking at playing State of Origin if he was at the Storm. He is easily one of the most underrated players in the NRL. Anyone who has seen him play a few games would pick him ahead of Steve Turner without doubt.

Hopefully our team fires up next season and stops holding them back. I think both players need a proper halves pairing for them to reach their potential.
 

Dave Q

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Yes mx.

Forwards create the platform as well, lots of game plans these days aimed fairly and squarely at tiring out the other side until the gaps appear.

Thats probably one of the reasons why todays players are so fit and have to contend with especially gruelling training work.

Most of the season, the Panther forwards except for Petro ( the best player in the comp) and an illustrious few ( whoose identities kept changing), werent able to tire out their opponents, meaning less gaps and therefore less opportunities for the backs to hit the line in space.

Thus it could be argued quite forcefully that Jennings had more to contend with than the average back, yet he still managed to play some excellent footy.

I cant imagine how well he would have gone astride of big dominant pushy and busy forwards.

We can only hope that high up on the Panthers shopping list is top-line forwards.

And it would be nice to have a marquee half to allow Lewis to play at his utility role.

Afterall, he is one of only a few of the genuine specialist utilities out there. That sounds strange, but its true.

He can play to high standard anywhere although sometimes he has a bit of a shocker.
 
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mxlegend99

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Well Jennings definitely was at his best when Frank Pritchard was shredding the opposition and giving him the ball with room to work. If Pritchard could play some consistant football, he and Michael Jennings would easily get us into the top 8 on their combination alone.

Unfortunately we only see about 4 or 5 games, and about 5 or 10 minutes in the other games where he actually plays to his potential.
 

Dave Q

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Well Jennings definitely was at his best when Frank Pritchard was shredding the opposition and giving him the ball with room to work. If Pritchard could play some consistant football, he and Michael Jennings would easily get us into the top 8 on their combination alone.

Unfortunately we only see about 4 or 5 games, and about 5 or 10 minutes in the other games where he actually plays to his potential.

Spot on again mx.

Ive given up on Pritchard, the latest "Pathers owe me a living" thing was too much even for me.

Weve heard it all before.

A lot of players get offers all the time and they dont go to the media or whatever and sing like canaries.

Peanuts is inconsistant, you never know when he is "on" and he's overpaid for what he does and the club wants to boost his salary when ther is no evidence that he is capable of having a good attitude and trying his heart out every match.

Hes having a complete lend of the club and all the honest fans who pay good money every week.

One Petro is worth about 5 to 6 Peanuts.

He should do us all a favour and STFU, train hard and play footy.

Until he does that, he's a frigging human circus.

Its a pity Gowie wasnt ten years younger and hated the grog. If he wasnt one of the top 100 playes, I'll eat the suburb of Minchinbury. Jipped.
 
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Fibroman

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Jennings is really something special. He still seems to shine outside ordinary ball players week in, week out. He is all class and is as good as Fittler in attack and defence. Just needs to work on his ball skills and positional play a bit.

He will play origin this year. Gordon will also play origina barring injury.

I think Coote and Masada are both 2 years off rep footy. Penese might be a bolter, and I still have raps on Shane Blackett for his workrate. He could fill Petero'shoes easily with some quality coaching and development.
 

t1tan

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If Michael Jennings was playing for the Storm he would have played State of Origin and also represented Australia by now. He hasn't come close to reaching his potential at the Panthers.

IMO Michael Gordon would also be looking at playing State of Origin if he was at the Storm. He is easily one of the most underrated players in the NRL. Anyone who has seen him play a few games would pick him ahead of Steve Turner without doubt.

Hopefully our team fires up next season and stops holding them back. I think both players need a proper halves pairing for them to reach their potential.
True,look at how Wallace has played rep games since moving north.
 

Fibroman

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True,look at how Wallace has played rep games since moving north.

Agree. We seem to have a major problem at Penrith with retaining and getting the best out of our talented young players, Which is a concern.
 

maple_69

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I think this one mentioned earlier in the season but I've noticed, Elliott has an uncanny knack of turning crap players into fairly good players (Smith, Tighe, Bell, a bunch at Canberra), turning crap teams into average teams, but he just doesn't click with the good players. Jennings, Priddis, Wallace never performed under him (to their potential).
 

Dave Q

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The idea is to lift all of the players at the same time.

A tough assignment.

I'd sign the worst Storm player just to get the inside goss on Bellamy.

Bellamy makes good players perform and turns the clapped out ones into internationals.

he makes Elliot and Jason Taylor look like NYC gear stewards.
 

murraymob

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If you like or dislike Turner it does not matter.Turner would have made our side this year on the wing Rooney spent a long time out injured and he would have easily takin and held that spot
 

Dave Q

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If you like or dislike Turner it does not matter.Turner would have made our side this year on the wing Rooney spent a long time out injured and he would have easily takin and held that spot

What on earth are you talking about!?
 

murraymob

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the reason he would have made wing was because wesser has the fullback spot and rooney was injured leaving the wing spot vacant
 

Fibroman

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tURNER IS BLESSED PLAYING OUTSIDE iNGLIS ADB fALOA ABD iNSIDE SLATER. Lucky boy.. Good luck Stevey weavey.
 

Big Mick

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Maple...I agree and have said this about Elliot since his tenure began.

He has a knack of turning crap players into average players, but cannot turn a good player with potential into a great player.

The reason?...its easier to make a crap player into a mobile robot...than make a player with flair and ability into that...therein is the problem.

Penrith is traditionally a flambouyant team who loves throwing the ball around and now we are being restricted.

Its hard to take that when we actually do we look fantastic...but that is actually...not in our gameplan!
 

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