Finals Week 1: Panthers vs Warriors

[Matthew Ellis]

I think i'd be going 9. Katoa 14. Egan.

Not sure May offers enough around the ruck given we seem to be using him primarily as a hooker off the bench. I think he's still trying to find the sharpness & confidence from pre ACL.

There was an interview with Cirlado back when he was coaching our NYC team. He was asked if May's confident playing lock forward, Ciraldo replied May's confident playing anywhere. Last year that seemed to be a strength of his but his acl injury will have taken away a lot of that. He shouldn't be playing first grade until he's he's back near 100%.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Gus confirms on his podcast that Ciraldo will be meeting with Bernard Sutton tomorrow.

 

[mxlegend99]

Gus confirms on his podcast that Ciraldo will be meeting with Bernard Sutton tomorrow.

Great. 15 nil penalty count coming up in the first half this week.

Everytime Ciro has escalated his ref involvement to try fixing discipline. Refs have responded by penalising us more harshly.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Great. 15 nil penalty count coming up in the first half this week.

Everytime Ciro has escalated his ref involvement to try fixing discipline. Refs have responded by penalising us more harshly.

This is the first time they are meeting face to face. All previous correspondence was via email.

 

[OldPanther]

This is the first time they are meeting face to face. All previous correspondence was via email.

This makes me respect Ciro a lot.

 

[franklin2323]

Assuming we win this week. Likely to play Sharks than Storm down there..No way the ref doesn't stop both teams laying all over us and slowing down the ruck. I guess it is good to try but I don't see it will change anything

 

[OldPanther]

Assuming we win this week. Likely to play Sharks than Storm down there..No way the ref doesn't stop both teams laying all over us and slowing down the ruck. I guess it is good to try but I don't see it will change anything

Wow tipping Roosters. They're pretty out matched in the forwards.

 

[franklin2323]

Wow tipping Roosters. They're pretty out matched in the forwards.

Sharks are flat track bullies. Roosters will have too much class

 

[OldPanther]

Sharks are flat track bullies. Roosters will have too much class

I have Sharks as favourites for the comp haha.

 

[umina panther]

Sharks are flat track bullies. Roosters will have too much class

They are the exact opposite

 

[Panfa]

Gus confirms on his podcast that Ciraldo will be meeting with Bernard Sutton tomorrow.

Why bother you can obviously see that him and his brother don't like the panthers they must be storm and broncos fans

 

[Panfa]

Lets just hope perenara doesnt help his fellow kiwi bros too much on saturday

 

[umina panther]

Lets just hope perenara doesnt help his fellow kiwi bros too much on saturday

Perenara isn't a cheat, he's just a straight up incompetent fool

 

[billypilgrimnz]

They are the exact opposite

Yeah, they both have exactly the same number of wins and losses against the top 8 sides, so I'm not sure what Franklin is on.

 

[sup42]

Perenara isn't a cheat, he's just a straight up incompetent fool

We cant stand his Reffing over here in Kiwi land either.

I say the same thing, he is no cheat.

 

[TheEroticGamer]

So glad we now have a coach that complains about the refereeing instead of Anthony let's just be quiet and enjoy being arse rammed by referees every week Griffin.

 

[martielang]

So glad we now have a coach that complains about the refereeing instead of Anthony let's just be quiet and enjoy being arse rammed by referees every week Griffin.

Yeh it was a raging success last week...

 

[roofromoz]

I was thinking today that surely Ciraldo will be close (or perhaps the new record holder) for the least number of matches as a coach before their first ever finals match.

 

[martielang]

I give either us or Warriors a decent shot next week given it’s another Sydney game. Could even be Souths in Sydney the week after as well.

 

[franklin2323]

They are the exact opposite

They lost to Dragons x 2. Broncs x 2. Souffs and Roosters. They are the Storms bogey team though. Hardly a good record v good teams hell even we were weakened when we played them...