Penrith v Bondi Battlers (Finals Week One)

[Panther Mike]

Great win against our bunnies, the chooks!
That first half, especially the first 20 was clearly our best footy of the season, with only the clinic at Cronulla coming close.

Nathan certainly provided direction and touches of class but it was most pleasing to see a number of the guys who have been down on form lift noticeably for finals.
The forwards and centres fired up considerably and Dyl finally looked a lot more like himself with 270 running metres too.

 

[Hamstring awareness]

Fellas I’m starting to think this Nathan Cleary bloke might be a pretty decent player.

 

[PennyPanthers81]

Only thing better than dominating like that is Roosters fans having a sook. I LOVE TEARS

 

[PennyPanthers81]

Keary is busted and Sandon Smith is arse- they are out in straight sets AND I LOVE IT

 

[martielang]

That first half was first half GF 2022esque. Unbelievable half of football.

Tago and Alamoti were superb tonight with ball and really stood in D.

Crichton could not have been shut down any better.

Garner could be one of the better back rowers in the comp. What a performance.

 

[Hamstring awareness]

 

[Girds89]

Best thing other than the win was no injuries.

Nathan
Edwards

On ice for 2 weeks.

A rest for the rest after a big year.

I thought the two tries we let in were a bit disappointing. Especially the alamonti one but we were stretched for numbers a bit on both so i guess they are excusable.

Alot of the players that have been down on form had their best games of the year... tago, marto and leota!

Very happy to get the win and no injuries.

What a way to finish up at Penrith park!

 

[Munky]

The 'switch' being real and not just copium was the best takeaway from the match.

I'm hoping we've gone to AMG for a state of the art gear box for the prelim.

 

[TheEroticGamer]

These cheeky motherf***ers. They’ve bamboozled and deceived everyone. Twiddling their thumbs waiting for finals so they can finally start giving a shit. Hilarious.

 

[age.s]

A part of me really wanted to see us put the foot down in the second half, but that's never really been our style. We were always in control and we expended exactly enough energy in order to ensure it stayed that way. You get nothing more for putting a match like that to the sword than you do grinding the opponent down for a victory and as much as this was an important game, there are bigger still to come.

Very impressive performance. Faith fully back online.

 

[Iamback]

A part of me really wanted to see us put the foot down in the second half, but that's never really been our style. We were always in control and we expended exactly enough energy in order to ensure it stayed that way. You get nothing more for putting a match like that to the sword than you do grinding the opponent down for a victory and as much as this was an important game, there are bigger still to come.

Very impressive performance. Faith fully back online.

We couldn't Ash wouldn't allow it to be a bigger margin

 

[Michael Matral]

They've absolutely been playing rope a dope for weeks now and turned up primed and ready today but for me..the charge down then Cleary tackle followed up by a complete defensive line within seconds was my moment of the match..stirring stuff..

 

[ColdWetPanther]

Fellas I’m starting to think this Nathan Cleary bloke might be a pretty decent player.

Imagine how well he would go at hooker…

 

[Munky]

Imagine how well he would go at hooker…

I'm sure he's earned enough in his career not to change professions.

 

[MugaB]

I'm sure he's earned enough in his career not to change professions.

Maybe after a few twighlight years

 

[blue bags]

Roosters V's the winner of
Eagles v Bulldogs next week

 

[Kilkenny]

Fitting that in our last game at our current stadium we deliver a performance to remember. It was an incredible performance everything that we have been about on this journey over this past five years we just nailed it.

 

[blue bags]

That's 21 games roosters vs
Panthers and Storm
And only 1 win vs Storm

Roosters are dreaming

 

[blue bags]

Teddy Tesco has never won at Penrith Stadium
7 games. 7 losses

 

[Murraymob1]

Apart from the result Cleary coach out coached Robinson
Robinson putting butcher to front row major mistakes then leaving leniu on the bench till 10 minutes till half time gave our forwards a huge advantage