Panthers $1 million war chest

[S.S.T.I.D]

I don't think Penny are a team that can afford to do that. It will inevitably result in them having to lose juniors, simply because they produce so many quality ones.

 

[Stranger]

Mullo is a mummas boy and always will be..he will stay at Knights

Funnily enough you are exactly correct. He is a massive mummies boy. Just wait for JD to see this.

 

[choc_soldier]

Apparently we were going to go nuts last year in the market too, and nothing happened. A few of those players would be very welcome at Penrith though.

 

[Matt23]

you can Have George Carmont & Reagan Tanner

 

[mxlegend99]

Apparently we were going to go nuts last year in the market too, and nothing happened. A few of those players would be very welcome at Penrith though.

Yeah, but Elliott has been far more productive in his time at Panthers already. He will sign the best players he can.

He has sh*tloads of money, great juniors and a solid current team to work with. How he spends that money will be interesting. I'd say he will target a prop first.

 

[Pantherjim.]

I just hope that whoever we sign doesn't come at the expense of Joel Clinton and Luke Rooney.

 

[Azkatro]

Priddis wasn't setting the world on fire in 2001, and lang never set the world on fire.

Hardly a spending spree signing those 4 including roarty and howland. Wouldn't have been too expensive.

Are you crazy? Priddis won a premiership with Brisbane in 2000, and Bennett has said a big reason why they went so poorly (by comparison) in years to follow was because they let Priddis go and couldn't replace him. Clive Churchill medal winner in the grand final, no less ... set two tries up and scored himself!

And anyone who thinks Martin Lang wasn't a cornerstone in their forward pack all year in 2003 is barking mad.

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

u mean other teams actually rate Bronson damn and i thought it was just us tigers fans

oh well i doubt penrith will ever get him since hes a tiger through and through

 

[kooriguy]

would love to see us aquire o'meley, o'donnel for the most formidable pack in the league but also keep clinton and if rooney leaves, tame tupou?

 

[C.P]

I think O'Meley or O'Donnell would be the most likely acquisitions. Cant see any of the Broncos crowd moving to Penrith.

On another note where has Penrith found all this money???? In 2005 they got rid of Ben Ross because of salary cap restrictions, they couldnt afford to go into the market and get a top line player last year, they had to pay a more money to re-sign and hang on to Frank Pritchard last year. So where does the money now come from to buy a number of a big money players?

 

[melon....]

I dont get it. They have the biggest junior ranks in the world and want to buy a Premiership...thats my team's job!.

 

[Caged Panther]

I think O'Meley or O'Donnell would be the most likely acquisitions. Cant see any of the Broncos crowd moving to Penrith.

On another note where has Penrith found all this money???? In 2005 they got rid of Ben Ross because of salary cap restrictions, they couldnt afford to go into the market and get a top line player last year, they had to pay a more money to re-sign and hang on to Frank Pritchard last year. So where does the money now come from to buy a number of a big money players?

The simple answer to your question is that after we won the premiership in 2003 alot of juniors that were on very small contracts got upgrades, some of which included massive bonuses for players making representative sides.

This put us in the serious do do that saw us release players like Ross and Gualavo, in addition to releasing them we've lost Sattler, Preston Campbell, Whatuira, Swain, Lang and Girdler while had various other players pass through our ranks on various short term contracts (Franze, Hookey, Stapelton etc etc). Add to that the fact that most of the aforementioned big fact contract upgrades with big fat rep bonuses have expired and that's were the $1million is coming from.

 

[C.P]

Forgot completely about Swain, Lang and Preston #-o I knew there had to be some savings somehwere. Thats $450K between those 3 right there. More than enough to spend up.

 

[mxlegend99]

I dont get it. They have the biggest junior ranks in the world and want to buy a Premiership...thats my team's job!.

Buying 2 or 3 players is now buying a premiership? The majority of our team will remain Panthers juniors.

We aren't going to be replacing our team. We're adding to it.

 

[Balmain_Boy]

What terms did Whatuira leave the club on? Panthers could do a lot worse in the centre stakes. Hopefully we keep him though and this will be moot.

 

[The Mighty Panther]

What terms did Whatuira leave the club on? Panthers could do a lot worse in the centre stakes. Hopefully we keep him though and this will be moot.

Amicable I'm sure. Penrith couldn't afford to keep him and Wests offer was a good one.

Unfortunately he was replaced by Franze #-o

 

[Phillips]

Where would we put him?

5/8 - Wallace/Firman
HB - Gower/Trindall
Hooker - Priddis/Aiton

We don't have room for him. He would have been ok for 5/8 this year, but Wallace and Firman have it covered now.

whats doing with trindall? isnt he serving a suspension or something..

 

[herbert henry1908]

whats doing with trindall? isnt he serving a suspension or something..

his suspension was a suspended sentence.

 

[LeagueNut]

You can have Nathan Fien as well.

 

[fobsta]

Potential Panthers 2008 lineup

1. Rhys Wesser
2. Michael Jennings
3. Luke Lewis
4. Brent Tate
5. Luke Rooney
6. Brett Firman
7. Craig Gower
8. Mark O'Meley
9. Luke Priddis
10. Joel Clinton
11. Tony Puletua
12. Luke O'Donnell
13. Trent Waterhouse

14. Frank Puletua
15. Frank Pritchard
16. Matthew Cross
17. Paul Aiton