Finals Week Three: Broncos v Panthers

[BossleyPanther]

There was far too much spin it out to Nath, he will do something. Broncos just ate it up because it was so predictable. You knew that Kenny was going to pass it to him every time. Nath was on the left edge far too often and because neither Blazie nor Edwards ever positioned themselves opposite on the Right Broncos defended with ease.

Our old weakness of attacking a set line 10-20 metres out reared it's ugly head.

Having a passenger 5/8 and a fullback with limited playmaking ability also hurt.

If there was a silver lining to this loss is that it will force a reassessment of the way we attack and also how we structure the bench. Patea and his offloads would have really helped at times.

It's time to blood a Attard or Edgar on the bench. Sorenson to England, Patea on the Bench and Ale to come in. Moses is aging too

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Well nrl got what they wanted by knocking us out. Some of those ref calls smh, obviously rigged, just like origin is. Makes me want to give the game away with the the way they ref against us. How was McLean offside? How was Mamm not penalised for the Cleary late hit. Different rules against us. Plus all the whinging from every opposition team. Dummy halfs constantly pleading for penalties, players staying down etc pisses me off. Old school players would laugh at these b*tches today. The Panthers don’t do it though, no cap. Anyway always proud. Greatest team ever.

We do all those things. Apart from the offside which was quite convenient, calls are going to be different in the semis, and we got as good as what they got.

 

[mxlegend99]

Losing sucks. But never seeing Schneider in our jersey again just might be better than winning a grand finald.

f**king sick of seeing us wasting bench spots on merkins who are clearly not nrl players. Brad Schneider didn’t deserve to go out a premiership winner. But sadly the only merkin less deserving of a premiership is Ezra Mam. L

 

[unKwn]

Schneider on the bench killed our season. I can forgive Talagi a couple of errors it happens.

At least we won’t have to deal with that next year

 

[BossleyPanther]

Does anyone remember what its like to watch a Grand Final and not have to make every tackle or cheer every line break?
I guess we will fined out next week

How boring is it going to be? Is the stadium going to be half full? I'm over Melbourne.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

It's time to blood a Attard or Edgar on the bench. Sorenson to England, Patea on the Bench and Ale to come in. Moses is aging too

Moses has been unreal this reason since the start of Origin. Might need to find a way to reduce minutes, but a rotation of him, Smith, Henry, Patea and Ice is amazing.

 

[Hamstring awareness]

Wild to think there are kids out there who have never seen Penrith not contend a Grand Final

 

[Chins]

I thought we were the better team, if only by a little bit. Similar to several games this year, we just didnt have the bounce of the ball when it mattered. Their first two tries were very lucky, and Casey's intercept offside call was marginal at best. Then there were several 50/50 calls that could have gone either way. We should have put another try on at some point to seal it, but when you concede a try from a deflected kick and a lucky knock down you just have to accept it wasnt meant to be.

I think our bench really bit us in the end. Theres this idea that having a 14 who only contributes to cover the spine is the safe play, but like everything else its a matter of trade-offs. In this case, we had a back rower go down early and our entire forward rotation was off. In the end, that little bit of extra juice we lost was the difference. People need to remember this moment the next time we hear about needing cover for our spine.

I thought a few of our big players looked gassed, Yeo, Too and Edwards in particular. There was a criminal lack of urgency for the Willison try from both Yeo and Martin. I know Talagi is getting a lot of the blame, but his mistakes were far from the most criminal we saw. We cocked up the final play monumentally too.

Its hard to be too disappointed though. We've had an unbelievable run and made something out of a season that looked like a complete train wreck at one point. In reality, we saw that first two months of the year come back to bite us. We had to play too hard for too long, couldn't refill the tank in the back half of the year and hit our red line just when we needed a bit extra to pull us out of the fire in a game that didnt really go our way. Ivan and the boys deserve huge credit, and 5 premierships in 6 years doesnt ring too badly anyway.

Ive talked about Ivan's nonsensical bench for years now

 

[Chins]

The NRL got the GF they wanted. Will break all sorts of TV records

 

[Thirsty Panther]

Wild to think there are kids out there who have never seen Penrith not contend a Grand Final

Yeah , they will be starting school next year.

 

[Caged Panther]

It's quite strange really.

After winning four premierships not making a grand final is a disappointing year.

But after running dead last after 12 rounds making a prelim is a successful year. Quite bizarre.

 

[Oldpanther86]

The NRL got the GF they wanted. Will break all sorts of TV records

Yeah calling Mclean offside was bullshit.

 

[age.s]

Ive talked about Ivan's nonsensical bench for years now

We all have. We've just had an unbelievable set of forwards who have had enough energy to overcome it.

 

[Goonji]

The last Bronco try was a double movement.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Wild to think there are kids out there who have never seen Penrith not contend a Grand Final

And they shouldn’t have to go through that horror. Hopefully the Panthers spend the offseason reflecting on what they have done to the poor children, and come back next year hungrier and more determined than ever.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

The last Bronco try was a double movement.

No it wasn’t. That is just silly.

 

[Murraymob1]

There will a lot of blaming going on from fans but the reality was Brisbane where always going to be tough.The last few weeks have been above average.I felt at halftime we needed at least another 6
As for the bench is there really a right or wrong pick another forward a half or dummy half gets injured what then
But deadset we have been at the top for 6 years and have a few more left .How many other teams would swap with us.Proud panther and proud supporter .we just fell short tonight

 

[Caged Panther]

Wild to think there are kids out there who have never seen Penrith not contend a Grand Final

What does one actually do on grand final day of your team isn't participating. I've forgotten.

 

[Goonji]

No it wasn’t. That is just silly.

That's how I saw it.

 

[Chins]

No it wasn’t. That is just silly.

Good man let's accept the loss, we'll be hugge favourites next year