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Round 21 Vs Raiders Sunday 5th August 4:10pm Panthers Stadium

OldPanther

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This team will be the death of me.

For some positivity Cleary has been great.

Katoa needs to go back to reserve grade.
 

billypilgrimnz

First Grade
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Wow. I don’t see us coming back like this against any of the good sides.

I think we struggle in defense against sides who don't give a f**k and just throw the ball around. Luckily, those types of side often struggle in defense themselves. I think the likes of the Storm and Roosters playing it safe may actually suit us somewhat defensively wise. Whether we can break them is the important question.
 

Fangs

Coach
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A Jarrod Sammut like performance from James Maloney.

Only difference is he won't get dropped next week.

We are a long way off the pace. Problems all over the field.
 

age.s

First Grade
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I think there are some positives to take out of this one. I don't like conceding so many points but Canberra are not a terrible team, they're a good team that knows how to lose. That's what they did today. Cleary looked very good which suggests Origin was the factor that was hindering him. Looked extremely dangerous with the ball and RCG gave the forwards a lot more mongrel, particularly in the last third of the game.

I don't know what to make of Maloney. It's hard to be critical of a guy who iced the game when it was on the line but seriously a defensive effort like that should have seen him hooked off the park long before that. I don't mind Tapine as a player but Jimmy made him look like an immortal. With Kikau having an hit or miss defensive game there's not a coach in the game that won't be licking their lips at the prospect of attacking our left side.

I don't think we get Melbourne like this, but we have a few more weeks to get it right. I don't think we're that far off.
 

Exsilium

Coach
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Canberra on their day would destroy the best of teams.

We had a lot of tough calls, as did Canberra at the end.
 
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The whole idea that anything can happen going into the finals isn’t really backed up by history. Good defensive teams typically win in the finals.

The only exception I can remember was the cowboys in 2015.
 

unKwn

Juniors
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so it's clear we can score points and our attack has gotten better. but our defense, f**k me. that needs to be improved asap
 

pantherz9103

First Grade
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Well it looks like a 3rd straight finals series at least. Griffin is actually in our top 3 most successful coaches win % wise, but I very much doubt we can win the comp coming from behind and leaking so many points... I know that the 2003 team had similar characteristics but still..
 

Black Magik

Juniors
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Raiders getting away with play the ball slow down tactics. Not hands on the ball but pushing the tackled player off balance...fmd!

We, again, made them look good. They have nothing. Couldn’t beat us with 3 intercepts and 7000 missed tackles.
 

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