Opinion Penrith

[soc123_au]

The city of Penrith was always expected to be a big growth area like Campbelltown but neither has ever happened. Penrith is on the edge of the bush. Not a sensible place for an NRL team.

U wot M9?


Have you ever been to Penrith?

 

[roofromoz]

I guess so. That would be why a club was formed. There was a "Penrith United Football Club" (football being RL) in 1912. As far as I can gather, the club that became Panthers didn't start until post WW2. Certainly the game was played in the area pretty much as soon as it started. So in that regard @T-Boon is correct.

Penrith has had it's own competition since that time, and a Penrith team played in the Parramatta A Grade.

The Panthers as they are now were one of 10 inter-district / second division clubs established in 1963, including Cronulla. Both of these teams were 'promoted' to an expanded 12 team competition for 1967. That competition is now more or less the current 3rd tier Ron Massey Cup, AKA the Metropolitan Cup in the 1990s.

 

[MugaB]

Stop lying. I am anti mergers and I certainly dont want Parra and Penrith to merge.

I want Penrith to make sensible grown up decisions

Really ill have visit the expansion forum again to see all the wonderful cull/merger theories put up there by you and grotd, both wonderful specimens missing a few chromosomes.

As for for grown up decisions, they did they rebuilt their stadium/leagues club after winning their first GF, and have built an acedemy for that nursery, so fück off with your saltiness

 

[The_Frog]

The city of Penrith was always expected to be a big growth area like Campbelltown but neither has ever happened.

Both have happened and will continue to happen. You just haven't noticed.

 

[T-Boon]

U wot M9?


Have you ever been to Penrith?

Yes. It is on the edge of the bush.

 

[MugaB]

Both have happened and will continue to happen. You just haven't noticed.

Forget reasoning with him, got rox in his head

 

[The_Frog]

Yes. It is on the edge of the bush.

A fair amount of bush within its boundaries too. That's the best thing about it.

 

[Pete Cash]

They did in parramatta in 2009

Yeah but you have the fanbase vibes wrong

Parra/raiders - neurotic losers

Panthers - smuggos (also losers as they are posting on lu)

So obviously they are all going over 09 because they won't make another GF for 20 years

 

[Fangs]

Parramatta are cleary getting relocated long term. Its not even a discussion. Sharks are next and boot Souths out while we are at it.

The future will be the Western Sydney Panthers. We will build an underground tunnel from the Panthers leagues club to Bankwest. Cleary/Luai statues outside the ground.

 

[Pete Cash]

Parramatta are cleary getting relocated long term. Its not even a discussion. Sharks are next and boot Souths out while we are at it.

The future will be the Western Sydney Panthers. We will build an underground tunnel from the Panthers leagues club to Bankwest. Cleary/Luai statues outside the ground.

You are thinking too small imo

 

[Pete Cash]

Ok here is my idea

Jerome Luai and Nathan Cleary team up with some of your favourite Looney tunes characters to battle aliens in a rugby league game

 

[The_Frog]

You are thinking too small imo

JFH too then.

 

[Pugzley]

13 pages in just a few days. It's reaching Storm or Roosters levels of salt.
Revel in it Panthers fans!

 

[Perth Red]

With all them kids playing RL in the region, why don’t they and their families go to panthers games more often? Genuine question.
Seems it’s a massive RL mad area but panthers crowd avg of 12k over last decade suggests they aren’t following the panthers which seems strange?

 

[MugaB]

With all them kids playing RL in the region, why don’t they and their families go to panthers games more often? Genuine question.
Seems it’s a massive RL mad area but panthers crowd avg of 12k over last decade suggests they aren’t following the panthers which seems strange?

Geez really going for the crowd numbers, you do know no one had a crowd for the bulk of last year, right?
Howabout start winning in SG.ball get your crowd numbers up and maybe Peter V Landys might give a shít about Perth and the wonderful crowd numbers it can produce for visiting sydney teams holding an exhibition matches there

 

[soc123_au]

With all them kids playing RL in the region, why don’t they and their families go to panthers games more often? Genuine question.
Seems it’s a massive RL mad area but panthers crowd avg of 12k over last decade suggests they aren’t following the panthers which seems strange?

There could be lots of reasons. Thurs & Fri games they are at footy training. Sat games they are playing their own games. Sun they are watching their older brothers game. Being such a footy mad area it's actually amazing we get crowds at all.

 

[GongPanther]

Um, you lost the grand final. 6 in a row atm sport.

Um...there is a record for consecutive comp games won in a row, not to mention unbeaten games in a row which includes wins and draws.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Um...there is a record for consecutive comp games won in a row, not to mention unbeaten games in a row which includes wins and draws.

And what do you get for this record? A plaque? A shiny coin minted for the occasion? A certificate to hang on the wall?

Or a thousand tonnes of who gives a f**k?

Win this year's premiership and get back to me then.

FTR, I think the panthers will win this year but until they do it's just puffery

 

[GongPanther]

And what do you get for this record? A plaque? A shiny coin minted for the occasion? A certificate to hang on the wall?

Or a thousand tonnes of who gives a f**k?

Win this year's premiership and get back to me then.

FTR, I think the panthers will win this year but until they do it's just puffery

We have records which won't see another team come close for many a year, perhaps in scores of years. Every game we win from now on, is like riding on a high as that record keeps going further.

People are trying too hard to piss on our parade which is a shame being that they are also part and parcel of this fantastic run we are having.

And any team that climbs that mountain of going undefeated throughout the season, deserves at least to get themselves on a set of postage stamps...and get the Perth mint to stamp a $1,000 gold coin.

 

[Perth Red]

Geez really going for the crowd numbers, you do know no one had a crowd for the bulk of last year, right?
Howabout start winning in SG.ball get your crowd numbers up and maybe Peter V Landys might give a shít about Perth and the wonderful crowd numbers it can produce for visiting sydney teams holding an exhibition matches there

haha, I wasnt talking about last year, I was talking about the previous ten!
What you on about? This is a Penrith thread.