Rd20: Parra v Penrith GAME DAY THREAD @ Commbank 29/7/22

[Poupou Escobar]

Matterson, Lane and Papalii are all better then Martin. Martin just so happens to be playing in a better coached team.

Martin is faster and more aggressive. He's better suited to Origin.

 

[Jake the snake]

I also noticed something interesting last night our 2 dummy halves who ironically played in the last 2 GFs parramatta has played in 2001 & 2009.

Brad Drew and Kevin Kingston are either both on the Penrith coaching staff or currently working for them in some capacity.

Does anyone know what role those 2 guys have at Penrith.

They teach their hooker to run the ball. Wish our hooker could do the same. So slow.

 

[hineyrulz]

Again.

Good to see you resurface, I thought you’d done yourself a mischief. You disappeared quicker than a pineapple on payday.

 

[hineyrulz]

Player.

He’s no player, I saw his Tik Tok vid the merkin has no game.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Did you see the way he was playing before his latest knee injury? Hardly inspiring stuff or great composure. He was over playing his hand and was actually baulking their fluency in attack. Lets hope I'm wrong and he does bring a positive balance to the team and hopefully relatively free of injury too.

His running game has dropped off but he can still kick, pass and read a game. He can still defend well. Last year was close to career best, at least statistically: https://www.nrl.com/players/nrl-premiership/raiders/josh-hodgson/

And at least while his knee is healing this year he isn't breaking anything else. It's very exciting.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We're just that sort of team.

What it means is we should stay excited right up until full time in our final game. There's no foregone conclusions, especially not for our team.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Mate they put overlaps on us. But ignore that and live in ox dumb bliss.

Why wouldn't they? We use a compressed defence. They were one man down, not four or five. You're talking like it should've been a training run for us. Massive sense of entitlement.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yes we’ve beaten them twice but it’ll mean sweet f all if we lose to them in the semis.

So what was the point of playing them? Enjoy the wins ffs you f**ken whingers.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Nah. Moses sent off when we were 12-4 down. Game was over after that. We were awesome in the second half though. Scored more points than them!

Yep and can you imagine the death riders whinging about winning the second half

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You do realise we played with a an short for 62 mins right?

You conceded two tries in 15 minutes, with 13 on the field. They were clearly rattled.

 

[Smug Panther]

You conceded two tries in 15 minutes, with 13 on the field. They were clearly rattled.

Meh did the same the week before. Congrats on your win but that second 40 was pretty embarrassing

 

[Poupou Escobar]

And our lack thereof.

I thought our performance was professional as well. We didn't let Penrith back in the game.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We'll shit the bed next week.

I've had $100 on Manly.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

there was 7 empty seats around me,

This generally describes my experience as well.

 

[The Predictor]

It’s a term of endearment. He’s my favourite little turd on the forum.

I don’t think I would want to get on your bad side, if this is u being “nice”

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They teach their hooker to run the ball. Wish our hooker could do the same. So slow.

Arthur's should teach him to be fast. Maybe he could get Shane Whereat to come and be our speediness coach?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Meh did the same the week before. Congrats on your win but that second 40 was pretty embarrassing

I thought it was good. We had the game won, stayed professional and didn't give you a sniff.

 

[Black Diamond]

Looks like Panthers are not the only team from last night's game that will be without their half-back for the next few weeks.....oh the irony

 

[JokerEel]

Looks like Panthers are not the only team from last night's game that will be without their half-back for the next few weeks.....oh the irony

We are already a shit team apparently..
what's the Panfers excuse going to be when they drop the next few games

 

[TheRam]

No it wasn't. They are Penrith ffs. The only reason we got to 30 was because they panicked ("The harder they tried the worse they got"). Halftime reset them. We would only have belted them if they gave up.

Mate you think they are the Raiders or Bronco of the 90's or the Storm of the Salary cap rorting era. They are just a well drilled and fit team with an couple of excellent players that can ball play and one of them was missing for most of the game.

We had close to 70% of the ball in the first half and they were knacked. All we needed to do was come out with a similar approach to the first half and they would have cracked right open by the 60-65 min. Instead we started ok for the first couple of minutes then dropped right off in intensity and they eventually started to grow in confidence and even found ways to create overlaps on us ffs and eventually out scored us.

Now if you don't see that as a complete capitulation then sorry we see the game in a totally different way.