General Discussion Thread

[panthersam]

At least Mansour was told. Ivan could have given him the Benji Marshall treatment.

Prime example of how cut throat this business can and will be.

 

[franklin2323]

There was no better way then a couple of days after a GF loss at a cafe... yep that’s textbook man management.

That is on the NRL. If they pushed the contract dates to Dec 1 there is no issue.

He doesn't get his Souths deal if he waited

 

[franklin2323]

It is a cut throat business, no doubt. It still doesn’t mean you can’t deliver the axe without a proper degree of dignity and respect.

Like Benji was told he was going by reading the paper?

 

[franklin2323]

I also see this as falling into the same thinking that at no point could it have been done respectfully or with dignity to anyone looking at it with an emotional attachment to Sauce.

It happens halfway through the year and it can be seen as disrespectful for putting it on Josh’s plate during his most promising season in a long while.

It happens when it did and it’s seen as it has been already.

It happens a month after the grand final and it’s disrespectful to Josh for restricting his chances at finding longer term security for him and his family.

It doesn’t happen until next year and it’s an amplified version of the above.

Yep given the circumstances it was the best time

 

[Kilkenny]

I also see this as falling into the same thinking that at no point could it have been done respectfully or with dignity to anyone looking at it with an emotional attachment to Sauce.

It happens halfway through the year and it can be seen as disrespectful for putting it on Josh’s plate during his most promising season in a long while.

It happens when it did and it’s seen as it has been already.

It happens a month after the grand final and it’s disrespectful to Josh for restricting his chances at finding longer term security for him and his family.

It doesn’t happen until next year and it’s an amplified version of the above.

I will forever remember Josh Mansour as one of my favourite Panthers of all time.

Such a great person, great player, great clubman just a truly special person.

He deserved better, not so much by the club they had to make business decisions, just by the fans on here and sadly as it turns out his loyalty has not been repaid, just discarded as ‘irrelevant’. As Jane said so eloquently, ‘we are better off without him’ and that I suggest says it all really. A club legend no more.

 

[Jane Murray]

I will forever remember Josh Mansour as one of my favourite Panthers of all time.

Such a great person, great player, great clubman just a truly special person.

He deserved better, not so much by the club they had to make business decisions, just by the fans on here and sadly as it turns out his loyalty has not been repaid, just discarded as ‘irrelevant’. As Jane said so eloquently, ‘we are better off without him’ and that I suggest says it all really. A club legend no more.

Mansour is gone, and he was great for a dropsie or two. He is ageing, and he is replaced by a younger player. Get over it.

 

[panthersam]

I will forever remember Josh Mansour as one of my favourite Panthers of all time.

Such a great person, great player, great clubman just a truly special person.

He deserved better, not so much by the club they had to make business decisions, just by the fans on here and sadly as it turns out his loyalty has not been repaid, just discarded as ‘irrelevant’. As Jane said so eloquently, ‘we are better off without him’ and that I suggest says it all really. A club legend no more.

I’m not denying any of the highlighted above, but I’m also more invested in looking to our future. I also probably think that Josh would have more support like yours over the broad Panthers fan base that isn’t just limited to these forums.

 

[panthersam]

I wonder when these forums will be renamed from ‘Penrith Panthers’ to ‘Josh Mansour’ BRING ON ROUND 1 HAHA

 

[Westernised Panther]

Mansour is gone, and he was great for a dropsie or two. He is ageing, and he is replaced by a younger player. Get over it.

Wow. So nothing positive about Mansour’s time whilst he was here? Only great for a “dropsie or two?”

 

[Westernised Panther]

He deserved better, not so much by the club they had to make business decisions, just by the fans on here and sadly as it turns out his loyalty has not been repaid, just discarded as ‘irrelevant’. As Jane said so eloquently, ‘we are better off without him’ and that I suggest says it all really. A club legend no more.

Thankfully, such “eloquent” thoughts aren’t shared by the vast majority of Panthers fans.

 

[panther.mike]

Harden up folks.

 

[GongPanther]

I'm sure we've been through all of this before.

 

[MugaB]

I'm sure we've been through all of this before.

The last few pages should have been all written in the "former panthers" thread, im with jane on this one, if it had been Benji or a key position like whats happened with adam reynolds at the bunnies this past week, I'd agree, but josh felt that if he wasn't going to be 1st choice, then he was better off leaving, i expected him to prove them wrong by starting in reserves and killing it, then coming back in this season via a possible injury to either Staines or To'o.
The team carried him in 2020, he is lacking speed and the finishing touches for an expensive winger, he is a great player, but not worth the money he is on when only being a winger, had he learnt to shift to centre or be more flexible about starting in reserve grade.
Maybe I'd have some sympathy for the situation, he got a great deal to continue as he is at the bunnies, and hope for the best for him, we have a core of young players for the next 3-4 years, we cant be carrying "experienced" wingers.
Now props on the other hand that i can stomach "experience", i would have loved for Tamou to stay his final year, plus as Tetevano ended up taking the contract to the ESL, probably would have Jimmy Extended longer to maybe finish his career here..... ahhhh hindsight would be a wonderful gift for matt cameron

 

[WestyLife]

There was no better way then a couple of days after a GF loss at a cafe... yep that’s textbook man management.

I love the way you can more eloquently say in one sentence than what I try to deliver in a couple of paragraphs.

Yet what I said is objectively true. There was no better time.

 

[WestyLife]

I will forever remember Josh Mansour as one of my favourite Panthers of all time.

Such a great person, great player, great clubman just a truly special person.

He deserved better, not so much by the club they had to make business decisions, just by the fans on here and sadly as it turns out his loyalty has not been repaid, just discarded as ‘irrelevant’. As Jane said so eloquently, ‘we are better off without him’ and that I suggest says it all really. A club legend no more.

I’m not denying any of the highlighted above, but I’m also more invested in looking to our future. I also probably think that Josh would have more support like yours over the broad Panthers fan base that isn’t just limited to these forums.

Yep one fan on LU does not a supporter base make.

My own video on it>

 

[franklin2323]

Yep one fan on LU does not a supporter base make.

My own video on it>

I have not heard one person say bad things about Mansour. Other than the fact his time has come.

Assuming the trial sides are going to be the round 1 sides ( which they usually are at this stage) then as I predicted Mansour doesn't start for Souths.

Exactly where a few of us have been saying he should be at this stage of his career. No disrespect just reality

 

[WestyLife]

I have not heard one person say bad things about Mansour. Other than the fact his time has come.

Assuming the trial sides are going to be the round 1 sides ( which they usually are at this stage) then as I predicted Mansour doesn't start for Souths.

Exactly where a few of us have been saying he should be at this stage of his career. No disrespect just reality

Smart play by Bennett. Got some NRL or near nrl quality depth for reasonable $$$.

 

[Jane Murray]

Wow. So nothing positive about Mansour’s time whilst he was here? Only great for a “dropsie or two?”

Wow, you have read my previous comments then? He is a former panther, who had to make room. Why is that so hard to understand?

 

[betcats]

f**king get over Sauce. He is just a player like anyone else. Oh he got told in a cafe bo f**king hoo seriously cry me a f**king river. He is a grown man making a f**k load of money trust me ha can handle being moved on by us.

 

[franklin2323]

Smart play by Bennett. Got some NRL or near nrl quality depth for reasonable $$$.

It is what he does which hurts once he leaves