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Round 18 vs Panthers

jeffdragon

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Nicholls is a good lower grader That's it, and what if I back gets injured who's going to replace them .
Nobody on the bench..
Doesn't add up.
You tell Hunt to get himself on the field.
Rest ! Bullshit You put your best 17 on the field unless injured.
I like to hear what is said in the coach's preview.
 
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Slippery Morris

First Grade
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Rests Hunt against a more winnable opponent and a week after the poor bugger has played 2 games in 5 days. Mary is just clueless. 3 season on not resting players after origin and watching the team slide, he has learnt this season to rest 1 player the week after he backs up from Origin.

I personally reckon Benny has been dropped as he took him off early and this is probably his warning. Mary is probably pi$$ed off at him because Ben told him his game plans suck, not on form.
 

hermidale1

Juniors
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Jacob host hasn't been that bad
He's a scapegoat for McIdiot. He panics and drops a player who was only on the field for 20 minutes. The other players who were embarrassing last week survived. Also Hunt being rested is a kind way of saying dropped. The coach has to go. He has no clue.
 

Dragons 09

Juniors
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I personally reckon Benny has been dropped as he took him off early and this is probably his warning.

There is merit to this theory. In the presser last week, the Impostor cited our edge defense as the main contributor to the poor performance. Our edge defenders during that game were Hunt, Norman, Aitken, Lafai, Tariq, Host and Friz. So this week Hunt and Host are not there.....guess we know who he was singling out with that comment!
 

getsmarty

Immortal
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I get the feeling he has been retained because he is the one following the coach’s instructions to shoot out of the line.

Lafai does as well....they are trained to do this....surprised opposition's don't target it more often....
 

getsmarty

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TEAM LISTS


Behind enemy lines: Round 18
Author
Dragons.com.au dragons.com.au
Timestamp
Tue 16 Jul 2019, 04:03 PM

Penrith coach Ivan Cleary has named his mandatory 21-man squad ahead of the Panthers' Round 18 clash against the St George Illawarra Dragons at Panthers Stadium on Friday, July 19.

Nathan Cleary (ankle) returns in the halves for the Panthers in a return which will see Jahrome Luai shift to the bench and last start debutant Jed Cartwright to the reserves, in the only change for a Penrith team shooting for seven-straight wins.

Penrith Panthers NRL squad for Round 18 v St George Illawarra Dragons –

1. Dylan Edwards
2. Josh Mansour
3. Dean Whare
4. Brent Naden
5. Brian To'o
6. James Maloney
7. Nathan Cleary
8. James Tamou (c)
9. Mitch Kenny
10. James Fisher-Harris
11. Viliame Kikau
12. Frank Winterstein
13. Isaah Yeo

Interchange:
14. Wayde Egan
15. Jarome Luai
16. Moses Leota
17. Reagan Campbell-Gillard
18. Hame Sele
19. Jed Cartwright
20. Kaide Ellis
21. Stephen Crichton


https://www.dragons.com.au/news/2019/07/16/behind-enemy-lines-round-18/
 

giboz71

First Grade
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feels like there is more to it than just resting ...

Also dropping Robson means that there is absolutely no utility value on the bench ...

Reaks of when he dropped Benji. Putting the poor performances all on the half?

With all the media scrutiny this week, he's probably using the dropping of his marquis player as the coach doing something.
 
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FlameThrower

Bench
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Not confident last week and now even less so.
Aitken and Lafai constantly rush out of the line. Leaving huge gaps.
Dufty jogs back from kick returns. Makes little impact.Rag dolled by all teams now.
Sims boys either injured or not putting in enough.
Rave error prone.
Nichols will be targeted all night and way too much pressure on him.
Frizell and Vaughn can’t do it by themselves.
Miracle if we can win this...
 
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