Round 15 Vs The Warriors

[TheFrog]

Naden really should’ve run the ball around under the posts on that bomb,

Exactly my thoughts at the time. At least the kick was good but I'd reckon a word will be said around about now.

I just don't get why they have him on the bench so much. It's clear he he skills he'd surely benefit with game time. Do they just want him with the first grade team permanently for reasons I can't imagine?

Injury/Origin cover for the halves, and maybe to prevent him wanting out.

 

[Dave's mate]

I don't see a single thing in Luai that makes me think he can play centre, especially as a full time option

 

[TheFrog]

Side issue - How the fk did we win that game yesterday with those refereeing decisions. Shows how far mentally we have come this season (maybe put that one down to good coaching??).

When the whistles were finally put away, after the Fusitua try, we needed two tries to win. The first came quickly but the Warriors were pretty desperate but gradually ran out of juice, especially when they ran out of interchanges with 15 to go. We were always going the better but it took until very near the end for the breakthrough to come. Even then they got lucky and got it into golden point.

I think the game was won during the 17 minute period when we had one and then two men in the bin. We were only 4 behind when Luai came back on, and the side knew then they had the Warriors measure.

 

[age.s]

Naden really should’ve run the ball around under the posts on that bomb, Sharks have scored more tries and still lost a couple times this year. Anyway just a bit of inexperience.

Ha yeah I thought this at the time too. Fortunately Maloney nailed the conversion.

When you can confidently say the worst thing you did all day was cost the kicker a few meters in one of your brace of solo tries you know you've had some sort of game.

 

[betcats]

Its funny even after that bullshit try was awarded to NZ I was still confident we could win, we just needed to hold the ball and stop the penalties, we wee always punching through the line and getting NZ on the backfoot.

Once we got back to 13 and the warriors started kicking for touch I thought we had them, took longer than I thought it would though.

 

[Fangs]

Luai was okay yesterday. He did get the ball out wide like Maloney did and that ultimately got us the game with the Naden try. His kicking game wasn't that great but then again neither was Maloney's. Bloody Wade Egan had the best kicking game on the field. Probably because the Warriors back three weren't expecting someone to kick and find the grass its almost unheard of these days.

Luai hasn't had much game time and sometimes doesn't play reserves so he misses a whole week of football. So not surprised he looked quite lost at times. I thought Maloney should have taken more responsibility, Luai got a decent share of the ball.

I'll say it! I would have preferred Nathan Cleary in the 7 yesterday. Geez that was hard to do.

 

[Pomoz]

I don't normally disagree with martielang, but I didn't think Luai played well. But, as others have pointed out, he is most certainly ring rusty from sitting on the bench for extended periods and being used as hooker when he does come on. I thought he just looked tentative and scared to run the ball. The Warriors backed off him because he never run and just picked off his runners (usually an inside ball). He has great feet and it was crying out for him to run at the Warriors. Maloney did it a few times and gained lots of metres and put them in two minds.

As for the ball to Naden, the money ball wasn't Luai it was Maloney's massive cutout pass to Luai, but credit for Luai for passing it straight away.

I think I agree with Fangs, that game suited Cleary more. Field goals, torrid backs to the wall defence and lots of kicking. I bet Cleary would get a semi just reading this description of the game.

 

[Kilkenny]

There was an interesting shot of the Penrith bench shortly after Maloney kicked the winning field goal and as you can imagine everyone was ecstatic, well everyone bar RCG it appeared. Maybe I’m reading too much into it but he was just sort to standing there, he was clapping but not the sort of response you would have expected and certainly not the uncontained excitement by all the others in the picture. My wife picked up on it as well at the time. In his defence he was much more animated in the video of the players singing the team song. I just don’t know what to make of RCG at present.

 

[franklin2323]

Luai didn't look great at fullback last year. He played in the halves in the under 20s for 2 years. Maybe in HM he was a fullback, I think by SG ball he was in the halves.

2017 he played fullback was actually on standby for Edwards if he didn't play in the finals that year.

Luai hasn't played enough half lately to say he is better as a half or not. His best game of the year was actually hooker for Samoa

 

[Fangs]

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/07/01/nrl-admits-to-officiating-errors-in-panthers-warriors-clash/

NRL head of football Graham Annesley has conceded match officials made some serious errors in Penrith's extra-time win over the Warriors on Sunday, including Panthers forward Liam Martin being allowed to return early from his stint in the sin bin.

Annesley, in his weekly media briefing on Monday afternoon, said after an investigation into the incident, it was determined Martin had returned to the field around 90-100 seconds early after he had been banished for his team's repeated infringements.

He stressed it was due to human error not due to any technological problems.

Penrith's other sin-binned player, Jarome Luai, should not have been banished for 10 minutes, according to Annesley, because Roger Tuivasa-Sheck knocked the ball on, ending the play, before Luai was deemed to have committed a professional foul on the Warriors captain.

Annesley also conceded the decision by the NRL Bunker to award a try to David Fusitu'a was clearly incorrect as the Warriors winger's hand had hit the ground over the sideline before he touched down.

 

[OldPanther]

2017 he played fullback was actually on standby for Edwards if he didn't play in the finals that year.

Luai hasn't played enough half lately to say he is better as a half or not. His best game of the year was actually hooker for Samoa

You make a good point. Though the issue is he's had no real game time at half to get into a groove.

 

[Fangs]

Human error on Martin...lol.

How about giving us 90 seconds for free after two of the biggest refereeing blunders of 2019 went against us?

 

[OldPanther]

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/07/01/nrl-admits-to-officiating-errors-in-panthers-warriors-clash/

NRL head of football Graham Annesley has conceded match officials made some serious errors in Penrith's extra-time win over the Warriors on Sunday, including Panthers forward Liam Martin being allowed to return early from his stint in the sin bin.

Annesley, in his weekly media briefing on Monday afternoon, said after an investigation into the incident, it was determined Martin had returned to the field around 90-100 seconds early after he had been banished for his team's repeated infringements.

He stressed it was due to human error not due to any technological problems.

Penrith's other sin-binned player, Jarome Luai, should not have been banished for 10 minutes, according to Annesley, because Roger Tuivasa-Sheck knocked the ball on, ending the play, before Luai was deemed to have committed a professional foul on the Warriors captain.

Annesley also conceded the decision by the NRL Bunker to award a try to David Fusitu'a was clearly incorrect as the Warriors winger's hand had hit the ground over the sideline before he touched down.

That entire game should be used as a training aid for refs.

 

[franklin2323]

You make a good point. Though the issue is he's had no real game time at half to get into a groove.

Which is the problem with deciding 2 years out he was the next 5/8th. Want him to play FG but doesn't get practice running a team

 

[franklin2323]

Martin's less time. Is what the video ref spent on the Naden no try. Someone forgot to stop the clock

 

[herbert henry1908]

Luai’s send off shouldn’t have happened for two reasons.

1. The ball was knocked on

2. He didn’t intentionally trip RTS

The NRL should’ve made the second point too.

 

[betcats]

Luai’s send off shouldn’t have happened for two reasons.

1. The ball was knocked on

2. He didn’t intentionally trip RTS

The NRL should’ve made the second point too.

Initially I thought he did it deliberately but tried to hide it, on a second look though it was prettu innocuous.

 

[Westernised Panther]

I find it hilarious that the report decides to name the alleged Liam Martin “90-seconds early” blunder as the first misdemeanor!

Clearly the other two blunders were more blatantly obvious and incorrect, with real potential on the game outcome, than Liam’s 90 seconds bonus!

 

[OldPanther]

 

[forby]

I think this makes four times they have admitted mistakes against Penrith. Makes you wonder.