2023 R1 Fri - Penrith 12-13 Brisbane @ BlueBet

[League Unlimited News]

NRL 2023 - Round 1
Penrith Panthers v Brisbane Broncos
BlueBet Stadium, Penrith, Penrith (TICKETS)
Friday 3 March 2023

Gates 5:10pm / NSW Cup (PEN v NTHS) 5:25pm / NRL starts 8:05pm, broadcast on Nine Network and Fox League/Kayo

1. Dylan Edwards 2. Sunia Turuva 3. Izack Tago 4. Stephen Crichton 5. Brian To'o 6. Jarome Luai 7. Nathan Cleary 8. Moses Leota 9. Mitch Kenny 10. James Fisher-Harris 11. Luke Garner 12. Liam Martin 13. Isaah Yeo 14. Soni Luke 15. Scott Sorensen 16. Spencer Leniu 17. Jaeman Salmon 18. Zac Hosking 19. Matt Eisenhuth 20. Tyrone Peachey 21. Jack Cogger 22. Lindsay Smith

1. Selwyn Cobbo 2. Corey Oates 3. Kotoni Staggs 4. Herbie Farnworth 5. Jesse Arthars 6. Ezra Mam 7. Adam Reynolds 8. Corey Jensen 9. Billy Walters 10. Payne Haas 11. Kurt Capewell 12. Jordan Riki 13. Patrick Carrigan 14. Cory Paix 15. Keenan Palasia 16. Thomas Flegler 17. Martin Taupau 18. Deine Mariner 19. Brendan Piakura 20. Xavier Willison 21. Jock Madden 22. Delouise Hoeter

Referee: Gerard Sutton
Sideline Officials: Drew Oultram, Darian Furner
Video Referee: Ashley Klein


PENRITH: v Norths at Bluebet, Fri - NSW Cup 5:25pm
v Melbourne at Bluebet, Sat - Flegg 2pm

BRISBANE: Hostplus Cup & HD Colts U21 start next week.​

 

[Valheru]

Penrith, comfortably

Let's just say the WCC wasn't a good result for the Broncos.

 

[This Year?]

The World Club champs by as much as the like.
That's what I would have said if PENRITH won it.
Instead it'll probably be by under 10 points.

 

[hineyrulz]

PENRITH!! By 10.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Bottoming for the eshays. FML

 

[MKCS]

Penrith will win but not as strong as you'd expect. They were pretty woeful in the WCC

 

[Ruby Roundhouse]

Bottoming for the eshays. FML

ingbray ubelay adlay

 

[pantherz9103]

Hopefully we'll improve significantly on our showing v St Helens because we'll have to.
The Broncos usually make it hard for us, even though we've won the last few encounters they always seem to challenge us, so I'm only going Penrith by 1-12.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

The return of the adversity

 

[PANTHERMIKE]

Cobbo to get man handled by Fisher Harris, then Luai to stand over him calling him a little bitch

 

[JamesRustle]

Brisbane's chance of winning the 2023 premiership ends on Friday night.

 

[Someone2]

Panthers by 10

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Brisbane's chance of winning the 2023 premiership ends on Friday night.

Are you warming up the fiddy thread early James?

 

[soc123_au]

Panthers by 10

f**k off merkin.

 

[JamesRustle]

Are you warming up the fiddy thread early James?

I believe it will get an early season prod.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Work hard all week, come home on Friday, grab a cold beer, put your feet up to relax in front of the tv - and then you realise it's the f**king broncos on Friday night f**king football again and you wish you were back at work.

 

[Vic Mackey]

The Panthers team is starting to look not as threatening on paper as previous years. I imagine they'll be smarting from the WCC and cant see another performance that bad. Edwards back will help as will Sorenson on the bench. Hoping Garner can put in a better showing.

If Brisbane had Walsh Id give them an outside shot, Cobbo at fullback will get exposed like Cleary does to Latrell.

Pennies by 12.

 

[Todd Hoffman]

Must be the worst plodder hooker match-up of the season. Kenny vs Billy.

 

[Munky]

The Panthers team is starting to look not as threatening on paper as previous years. I imagine they'll be smarting from the WCC and cant see another performance that bad. Edwards back will help as will Sorenson on the bench. Hoping Garner can put in a better showing.

If Brisbane had Walsh Id give them an outside shot, Cobbo at fullback will get exposed like Cleary does to Latrell.

Pennies by 12.

Agree.

Kiks and Api going isn't the issue.

The sub standard replacements are.

For all the shit Cleary got for the WCC not much be can do with the worst hooker in a trophy game since Russell Aitken.

Aitken's last NRL game was the 2008 GF where IMO he is the main reason a loaded Storm side couldn't score a point.

 

[GongPanther]

Panthers by 16.

Martin and Edwards are no way match fit and a couple of players will not be up to scratch as far as combinations are concerned. So the Broncos will have a handy lead...for a while, until that Panther magic kicks into gear.

Panthers 28-12. Cleary FTS, which will give him 50 tries, and if he converts his try, 500 goals.