Round 11 Vs Titans @Cbus Super Stadium - Sunday 26th July 4pm

[The_Frog]

Why even pick him then? Use the bench position for someone else who can contribute.

I imagine he'd have got minutes if we were winning comfortably.

 

[betcats]

You pick burton you play him otherwise let him go to the dogs so he can haunt us like all the other ex panthers do agaisnt us.

Luai over Burton is the biggest mistake.

 

[Luke Bowden]

Oh my hat, the sooking over Burton is real..

Burton will get his chance and be with us for a long time. If he decides to leave because of his limited game time, at this stage of his career, he’s a poorly managed idiot. Thankfully, he’s a smart kid and won’t.

I thought Mitch Kenny was really good today, 80mins and played strong. Good Kid.

MWZ deserves a wrap as well. Solid effort.

 

[Luke Bowden]

Luai over Burton is the biggest mistake.

certainly disagree with that.

 

[Exsilium]

Oh my hat, the sooking over Burton is real..

Burton will get his chance and be with us for a long time. If he decides to leave because of his limited game time, at this stage of his career, he’s a poorly managed idiot. Thankfully, he’s a smart kid and won’t.

I thought Mitch Kenny was really good today, 80mins and played strong. Good Kid.

MWZ deserves a wrap as well. Solid effort.

Agreed.

Aekins was solid in the wet. Didn't score five tries, set up three and run for 200m like some expect a fullback should but he did his part.

 

[WestyLife]

Oh my hat, the sooking over Burton is real..

Burton will get his chance and be with us for a long time. If he decides to leave because of his limited game time, at this stage of his career, he’s a poorly managed idiot. Thankfully, he’s a smart kid and won’t.

I thought Mitch Kenny was really good today, 80mins and played strong. Good Kid.

MWZ deserves a wrap as well. Solid effort.

It's the serious lack of imagination from Ivan when we were desperate for something in attack during the second half that only didn't cost us because it was the Titans.

So many options. Put him at fullback like Crichton earlier in the year. Luai has successfully played tests at 9 giving us some spark there so Kenny can get a rest.

 

[Exsilium]

It's the serious lack of imagination from Ivan when we were desperate for something in attack during the second half that only didn't cost us because it was the Titans.

So many options. Put him at fullback like Crichton earlier in the year. Luai has successfully played tests at 9 giving us some spark there so Kenny can get a rest.

Giving Kenny 80 minutes may have been a decision for the long term. Especially if Api is out for any extended period.

If Kenny gets good game time, adds his value and we keep winning, we dont need to rush Api back.

 

[mxlegend99]

Oh my hat, the sooking over Burton is real..

Burton will get his chance and be with us for a long time. If he decides to leave because of his limited game time, at this stage of his career, he’s a poorly managed idiot. Thankfully, he’s a smart kid and won’t.

I thought Mitch Kenny was really good today, 80mins and played strong. Good Kid.

MWZ deserves a wrap as well. Solid effort.

8 guys out and still couldn't get a run even when in our top 17. He would be starting at Multiple clubs.

He has no career path here. Where exactly would he be staying to play? We wont give him a run anywhere and he's clearly no chance at replacing Luai or Cleary.

He would have to be an idiot to stay. Luai and Cleary have a decade or more ahead of them barring a horrific injury and all these injuries have shown he isn't getting a run anywhere else anytime soon. His best career move is the one that let's him become an NRL half. Our only chance at keeping him is if we can make him an NRL centre. Which we arent interested in doing and there's no other position he can crack with us.

 

[betcats]

certainly disagree with that.

Time will tell, Jeromes last two games have been unconvincing.

 

[The_Frog]

Need to bring Staines in next week, just a question of wether he should play FB or wing.

Mansour looked to have hurt his knee, might be ready for a rest. Aekins was good. He deserves his place. Staines was supposed to be out longer than 2 weeks though.

 

[Luke Bowden]

Time will tell, Jeromes last two games have been unconvincing.

we’ve lost 1 game this season. I don’t think the team is going too bad.

 

[betcats]

we’ve lost 1 game this season. I don’t think the team is going too bad.

I never said we are going bad I’m happy with the team overall very happy in fact but we could certainly be doing better though.

 

[forby]

I know, let’s put Burton on for 10 minutes in the wet with nothing to gain, let him cop an injury and there goes our back up half!
Besides, does anybody here know what discussions goes on between the coach and players? Does anybody know what has been said to Burton? I would say not, yet so many claim he will leave because he doesn’t get game time, that he should be put in other positions just to give him game time. Perhaps he doesn’t want to play out of position yet, and is happy to bide his time.

 

[The_Frog]

It's the serious lack of imagination from Ivan when we were desperate for something in attack during the second half that only didn't cost us because it was the Titans.

Ivan would have been thinking how to stop the Titans scoring points in the second half, more than how we could score points. They never looked like scoring in the half even though they were quite competitive.

 

[kinghippo]

It wasn’t a very beautiful performance but I am very glad to get the win.
The Titans really pushed us for a while in the middle of the park, especially while JFH was off.
Some costly mistakes and weird reffing kept the Gold Coast in it but apart from the obvious lapses we defended pretty well.

 

[Aliceinwonderland]

A good tough gritty win. Kenny did OK in api's place. (granted he's no api but he was solid)

Same with MWZ, Sauce was quite good today.

It was always going to be tough. 1st fly in fly out, lots of players, strike weapons out.

I'll take it

Time for next week.

 

[WestyLife]

Ivan would have been thinking how to stop the Titans scoring points in the second half, more than how we could score points. They never looked like scoring in the half even though they were quite competitive.

I expect that's the case. With our starters it'd make more sense to me but with the injuries we were never going to be as good on either side of the ball. It's just my personality to prefer the risk/reward approach. We've seen too many coaches fail being conservative over the years.

 

[Aliceinwonderland]

It's the serious lack of imagination from Ivan when we were desperate for something in attack during the second half that only didn't cost us because it was the Titans.

So many options. Put him at fullback like Crichton earlier in the year. Luai has successfully played tests at 9 giving us some spark there so Kenny can get a rest.

Anyone would think we lost.

Penrith won by doing as much as they needed too. If it ain't broken, don't pull it apart.

 

[WestyLife]

Anyone would think we lost.

Penrith won by doing as much as they needed too. If it ain't broken, don't pull it apart.

A win doesn't mean perfect. Robinson or Bellamy would be furious about that game. Do we not want to be the best?

 

[Aliceinwonderland]

Oh my hat, the sooking over Burton is real..

Burton will get his chance and be with us for a long time. If he decides to leave because of his limited game time, at this stage of his career, he’s a poorly managed idiot. Thankfully, he’s a smart kid and won’t.

I thought Mitch Kenny was really good today, 80mins and played strong. Good Kid.

MWZ deserves a wrap as well. Solid effort.

Me too I am VERY over it.

I totally agree with what you're saying.

By the carry on by some here, anyone would think we were sitting in 15th place.

Not number 1.

Best start to a season EVER by Penrith.