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2023 R18 Fri - Melbourne 16-34 Penrith @ Marvel

Round 18: Melbourne v Penrith

  • Melbourne Storm

    Votes: 6 40.0%
  • Penrith Panthers

    Votes: 9 60.0%
  • Draw after Golden Point

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    15
  • Poll closed .

JokerEel

Coach
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With Cleary back in 2 weeks you will see the Panthers ramp up towards the finals only a monumental game from another team in the finals could stop them getting 3 in a row.
 

Wizardman

First Grade
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9,324
Showed our resilience and belief with a remarkable turnaround at a major hoodoo ground for the club. Our bench with the likes of Smith, Leniu and Hosking really helped to swing the momentum our way.
How good has Lindsay Smith been.......gave them a big boost with some hard running to change the tide. He'll get no big wraps but I thought he was tremendous and crucial towards changing the momentum of the game (which is tremendously hard to do).
 

MrBlack

Juniors
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1,436
IMO, I think they'll really take their time in bringing Cleary back. Cogs is fitting in superbly. And after this season, I reckon the Dragons have their next halfback
More likely Wests Tigers.
His dad played for the Magpies.
 

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mxlegend99

Referee
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With Cleary back in 2 weeks you will see the Panthers ramp up towards the finals only a monumental game from another team in the finals could stop them getting 3 in a row.
Cleary keeps getting midseason rests he wouldn't want that give him time to focus and plan for premierships.

2021. Shoulder f**ked in Origin. Missed 6 weeks and came back heavily focused on his kicking game and changed how he played to suit our busted squad
2022. 5 week suspension. Had 5 weeks to plan for week 1 of finals where he absolutely terrorised Eels.
2023. 6ish weeks with a hamstring injury. Sitting in coaches box with a birds eye view of what he can do to improve the team.

Kinda shocked Panthers are able to do much at all with so many duds in the roster. They also lost attack and defence assistant coaches. Lost their hooker. Lost their strike second rower. Their best player is on the sidelines... And even full strength last year they were carrying some duds. Ivan is probably a bit underrated tbh.
 

JokerEel

Coach
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Cleary keeps getting midseason rests he wouldn't want that give him time to focus and plan for premierships.

2021. Shoulder f**ked in Origin. Missed 6 weeks and came back heavily focused on his kicking game and changed how he played to suit our busted squad
2022. 5 week suspension. Had 5 weeks to plan for week 1 of finals where he absolutely terrorised Eels.
2023. 6ish weeks with a hamstring injury. Sitting in coaches box with a birds eye view of what he can do to improve the team.

Kinda shocked Panthers are able to do much at all with so many duds in the roster. They also lost attack and defence assistant coaches. Lost their hooker. Lost their strike second rower. Their best player is on the sidelines... And even full strength last year they were carrying some duds. Ivan is probably a bit underrated tbh.

If Ivan Wins this year is he equal or even better than Bellamy?
 

Chins get the wins

First Grade
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8,525
How good has Lindsay Smith been.......gave them a big boost with some hard running to change the tide. He'll get no big wraps but I thought he was tremendous and crucial towards changing the momentum of the game (which is tremendously hard to do).
He's Leniu's replacement.VERY different props but he's a gun
 

Apey

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Staff member
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I thought the game would be lower scoring and a closer margin than that but it was silly Panthers weren't favourites. Their defence is the best in the comp and anyone who has watched all of Storm's games this year could tell you they can fade in and out of games very easily.
 

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