Penrith Panthers V the lot that stole our song, & claimed it as their own (bulldogs)

[mxlegend99]

I hope we see him soon. Lot of talk about how good he is lately.

I think we're in bad position to be taking risks roster wise. If we couldn't make the 8 or had a spot wrapped upi think he gets a run. But right now Ivan won't be keen to tinker with a roster that has saved a disastrous season the past 8 rounds.

 

[martielang]

Even if they don’t debut tomorrow, at least it shows they are next in line to cover any injuries in the backs and forwards.

As they have leap frogged others that are in the top 30, I wonder if the likes of Sele, Liu-Toso, Fuimaono, MWZ etc have started to look elsewhere.

How Sele hasn’t had a decent run in first grade is beyond me.

 

[OldPanther]

I think we're in bad position to be taking risks roster wise. If we couldn't make the 8 or had a spot wrapped upi think he gets a run. But right now Ivan won't be keen to tinker with a roster that has saved a disastrous season the past 8 rounds.

It makes sense

 

[Crashtest]

How Sele hasn’t had a decent run in first grade is beyond me.

I assume it’s attitude or offfield related. He seemed to be in favour in the preseason.

 

[Vicpanther]

So after watching how the raiders tore apart the warriors we must have played reasonably well last week.
Keen for tomorrow night.

 

[Aliceinwonderland]

So after watching how the raiders tore apart the warriors we must have played reasonably well last week.
Keen for tomorrow night.

I was thinking the same.

 

[BuddPanther]

So after watching how the raiders tore apart the warriors we must have played reasonably well last week.
Keen for tomorrow night.

And the funny thing is, we didn’t even play that well, plus the Klein factor to boot

 

[maple_69]

We matched up with Canberra pretty well for the most part. Comfortably matched them up front certainly. They took their chances and we didn’t plus did some dumb stuff. Really just a bit of nerve and polish in it.

Our main attacking weapon was out also and we’re not in a position to pivot our attacking structure from THAT much reliance.

That just puts us outside the top 4 or 5 sides though which isn’t much of a surprise. We’ve gotten pretty good at mopping up the weaker sides the last few years, start of this season aside.

 

[Crashtest]

Is it just me, or does Martin looks like a midget in this photo from yesterday’s captains run?

 

[OldPanther]

All the top 8 teams have won their games by big margins.

 

[PenrithPanther45]

Canterbury can certainly put up a fight up front but if we are serious we win well with the class in our halves pairing in comparison to Cogger/Lewis.

 

[Dave's mate]

Bad bad feeling about this one

 

[PenrithPanther45]

Bad bad feeling about this one

I'm afraid we'll approach this with the goal of racking up a score to help our for-and-against. If we start with that in mind and lose focus of the importance of holding onto the ball it could be a concern. I also hope it doesn't come at the cost of our defence. We have to defend well because the Bulldogs don't have much in attack but if we get complacent there it will cost us. Once we match Canterbury we can run riot in the second half. I would rather play the long game today.

 

[OldPanther]

This started interesting. Penalty and error to keep the dogs down our end.

 

[Dave's mate]

Maloney sucks

 

[PenrithPanther45]

No silly offloads, just get up field, build pressure and points will come.

 

[herbert henry1908]

How often do we concede off of our first defensive effort in the our 20m?! It’s pathetic.

 

[kinghippo]

Terrible read from naden. Easy to score out on that side at the moment

 

[herbert henry1908]

Terrible read from naden. Easy to score out on that side at the moment

We were outnumbered, he made the call to try and shut it down. Watched replay three times in slow mo.

 

[PenrithPanther45]

We got no advantage from that penalty.