2023 R15 Sat - Sydney 6-30 Penrith @ Allianz

[chrisD]

Common theme of 3 and a half seasons, we are better in (dominate) most (all) aspects of the game but don’t have the points to reflect it. Also common theme is we go on to win anyway, often blowing it open in the last 20.

 

[GreenMachine121]

Shit game unless you like inside balls and knock ons

 

[Hutty1986]

Bleed it out is a tuuuune imo

 

[yobbo84]

Penrith are on a different planet to everyone else defensively. They can play clunky AF in attack and not give two hoots because they know they'll concede max 2 tries.

Whoever is in charge of their defensive structures needs a pay rise.

 

[MRN]

Bleed it out is a tuuuune imo

Solid use of Bleed It Out right there.

 

[yobbo84]

Common theme of 3 and a half seasons, we are better in (dominate) most (all) aspects of the game but don’t have the points to reflect it. Also common theme is we go on to win anyway, often blowing it open in the last 20.

This. And it's beyond frustrating being just behind that for 3 years not having the answers to get over the top of you when it matters.

 

[chrisD]

Yeah I can understand neutrals finding us boring to watch. Leota, Brian, Crichton, Edwards and Leota are at least enjoyable with how how hard they run.

 

[Sphagnum]

Yeah I can understand neutrals finding us boring to watch. Leota, Brian, Crichton, Edwards and Leota are at least enjoyable with how how hard they run.

So hard that it’s like watching two Leotas?

 

[skeepe]

I went Skeepe fishing and I gotim!

It's a brilliant achievement and I get that Croker has the one club factor + the sob story (remote shoulder popping incident). Howeeeevvveeer, poor old Benny Hunt is playing infinitely times better (can actually make a tackle) and got like a 2 minute montage on his game day. Fox and Nein went on about it all week for BYC.

I guess they spend too much time reading our game day threads and took the BYC shenanigans as gospel?

In the fair dinkum department, Croker is:

* 3rd-highest point scorer in NRL history
* 28th on the all-time try scorers list (3rd among active players)
* 3 x All Star
* Dally M Captain of the Year
* Provan Summons Medal winner
* 2008 Toyota Cup premiership winner
* Canberra Raiders all-time highest point scorer and try scorer, most games as captain, second player to reach 300 for the club

He may not have the rep jumpers that Hunt has, but he’s had one hell of a career. He’s been in the Australia train-on squad twice, was 18th man for NSW - he’s been a lot better than people give him credit for and he fully deserved the fuss of the last week.

 

[GongPanther]

Penrith are on a different planet to everyone else defensively. They can play clunky AF in attack and not give two hoots because they know they'll concede max 2 tries.

Whoever is in charge of their defensive structures needs a pay rise.

Not to mention that after that Kent tirade on NRL 360, the Panthers have been seeing red ever since. It has been well documented what he said, but he crossed the line to a point where every other club should be pissed off at him when it came to poking the stick at the Bear in the cage, so to speak.

 

[chrisD]

So hard that it’s like watching two Leotas?

Martin sorry. Few or more beers in.

 

[chrisD]

Penrith are on a different planet to everyone else defensively. They can play clunky AF in attack and not give two hoots because they know they'll concede max 2 tries.

Whoever is in charge of their defensive structures needs a pay rise.

It’s all Ivan, can see that in his team selections. Momo being the clearest example.

And Kenny love, and refusal to give Spencer more game time.

 

[Sphagnum]

In the fair dinkum department, Croker is:

* 3rd-highest point scorer in NRL history
* 28th on the all-time try scorers list (3rd among active players)
* 3 x All Star
* Dally M Captain of the Year
* Provan Summons Medal winner
* 2008 Toyota Cup premiership winner
* Canberra Raiders all-time highest point scorer and try scorer, most games as captain, second player to reach 300 for the club

He may not have the rep jumpers that Hunt has, but he’s had one hell of a career. He’s been in the Australia train-on squad twice, was 18th man for NSW - he’s been a lot better than people give him credit for and he fully deserved the fuss of the last week.

All the more bizarre that the club didn’t bother turning up to play for it.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

lodge dropping them like he's in new york

 

[no name]

Haha, you love to see it.

 

[skeepe]

All the more bizarre that the club didn’t bother turning up to play for it.

They absolutely did. They were switched on and fired up in the first half, if anything they went too hard too early. The Warriors came to play, absorbed the pressure that they surely knew was coming, and ran over the top at the end.

But this isn’t the thread for that.

 

[GongPanther]

In the fair dinkum department, Croker is:

* 3rd-highest point scorer in NRL history
* 28th on the all-time try scorers list (3rd among active players)
* 3 x All Star
* Dally M Captain of the Year
* Provan Summons Medal winner
* 2008 Toyota Cup premiership winner
* Canberra Raiders all-time highest point scorer and try scorer, most games as captain, second player to reach 300 for the club

He may not have the rep jumpers that Hunt has, but he’s had one hell of a career. He’s been in the Australia train-on squad twice, was 18th man for NSW - he’s been a lot better than people give him credit for and he fully deserved the fuss of the last week.

Agreed. Most teams wouldn't have knocked back his services.

 

[yobbo84]

Not to mention that after that Kent tirade on NRL 360, the Panthers have been seeing red ever since. It has been well documented what he said, but he crossed the line to a point where every other club should be pissed off at him when it came to poking the stick at the Bear in the cage, so to speak.

Come the end of the season if you played the top 50 tries, you would be lucky to have 2 or 3 Panthers tries in the highlights. It's all boring but highly effective. But none of that matters when you concede 1-2 tries a game, week in week out.

Across the park your blokes run harder, and tackle harder.

I hope Panthers fans appreciate what they've got.

It annoys me more as a Souths fan because weekly we score these ridiculously, beautifully constructed, highly skilled tries that barely anyone else can do... yet without the defensive resolve it matters little

Anyway, rant over.

 

[chrisD]

Rooster knocked that on before Cogger touched it.

 

[Munky]

Mitch Kenny doing Mitch Kenny things