Panthers all time Halves (read 1st post before voting)

[Pomoz]

Matt Rodwell and Brad Drew IMO.

Fangs you should lay off the drugs, I think you could be losing your mind......

 

[soc123_au]

Matt Rodwell and Brad Drew IMO.

@martielang would stiffen up with this starchy duo.

 

[mxlegend99]

Went Luai and Cleary. That combination has played 5 grand finals, won 4 premierships and had an incredible amount of success at all levels. Both players have also been successful without the other.

I feel like every player who was in all 4 grand final wins deserves to be an automatic selection in any all time side.

 

[Pomoz]

Went Luai and Cleary. That combination has played 5 grand finals, won 4 premierships and had an incredible amount of success at all levels. Both players have also been successful without the other.

I feel like every player who was in all 4 grand final wins deserves to be an automatic selection in any all time side.

I understand why you did it, but then it means we don't pick the best players to ever play for Penrith, just the most successful.

A great example of this is Stephen Crichton vs Brad Fittler. Fittler played for Penrith aged 17. Played in a losing GF aged 18. Played for NSW aged 18, won a GF aged 19. Played for Australia, captained Australia.

Crichton is a great player but has yet to prove he is better than Brad Fittler in spite of scoring in three grand finals. At aged 19 Brad Fittler was marking man mountain Mal Meninga, QLD and Australian superstar, in a grand final. He has played, lock, centre and five eighth with great success and won premierships in two different clubs.

Crichton may surpass him, but I have yet to see the ball playing skills that will allow him to play in halves and he would need to do that to match Fittler.

Is Crichton a better centre than Girdler? I have seen both play and Crichton is a better defender but in attack, Girdler was a much better player. Girdler had great awareness and ball skills and could have played five eighth. He has broken SOO point scoring records and scored a 101 tries for the club.

Both Fittler and Girdler played in some godawful Panther teams and in spite of our mediocrity still managed to shine. Critta was part of a team that is in the conversation for GOAT status. At the Dogs his stats suddenly look a lot more average.

All things considered, I couldn't in good conscience pick Critta over either of these two, they were simply better players and that's saying something, because Critta is an excellent player.

 

[Fangs]

Fangs you should lay off the drugs, I think you could be losing your mind......

But I'm still assembling my final team. Backline is sorted.

1. Jarrod Sammut
2. Matt Rieck
3. David Woods
4. Danny Galea
5. Trent Clayton
6. Brad Drew
7. Matt Rodwell

 

[Pomoz]

But I'm still assembling my final team. Backline is sorted.

1. Jarrod Sammut
2. Matt Rieck
3. David Woods
4. Danny Galea
5. Trent Clayton
6. Brad Drew
7. Matt Rodwell

They would probably be good enough to beat the Tigers!

 

[ACTPanthers]

Whoever the other gem of a human who picked the God among men (Preston), I salute you.

 

[JJ]

Izzard an option at 6 more so than Mortimer who was more a 13 at Penrith imo
Can’t go past Cleary and Luai, much as I loved Brandy and Carter

 

[Murraymob1]

No Craig Trindall surprised silverdale would throw a vote there

 

[MrBlack]

Wheres Freddy?

Cleary with Fittler would have been unbeatable.

 

[ACTPanthers]

Wheres Freddy?

Cleary with Fittler would have been unbeatable.

**Freddy is already in the side as a centre, so has been excluded.

 

[Luke Bowden]

Wheres Freddy?

Cleary with Fittler would have been unbeatable.

More unbeatable than Luai and Nath?? They never failed to make a GF and won 4/5… that’s a pretty imposing record

 

[Munky]

Freddy was pretty ordinary in three of his four GFs playing six.

He only turned it on in the 02 GF when Villasanti sped up his CTE development.

 

[soc123_au]

More unbeatable than Luai and Nath?? They never failed to make a GF and won 4/5… that’s a pretty imposing record

Pretty much, cant see that record being beaten any time ever.