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

[age.s]

I have so much lovehate for this team.

 

[mxlegend99]

Maloney secures the win. But he also is the reason we needed him to.

Makes his game a 5/10

 

[umina panther]

Well done Jimmy

 

[Frankus]

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

 

[billypilgrimnz]

Oh well, it doesn't matter how. As long as we get top 4, anything can happen.

 

[OldPanther]

This team will be the death of me.

For some positivity Cleary has been great.

Katoa needs to go back to reserve grade.

 

[billypilgrimnz]

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.

 

[umina panther]

Storm beat us by 30 at this point

 

[Fangs]

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.

 

[umina panther]

And he can play a good part in attack but Peach is no fullback. DWZ has to play there. They can swap in attack

 

[Exsilium]

Blake missed a fair amount of tackles

 

[age.s]

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]

Canberra on their day would destroy the best of teams.

We had a lot of tough calls, as did Canberra at the end.

 

[herbert henry1908]

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]

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

 

[unKwn]

yea and where the f**k are you now tiger woody? go back into your shell you imbecile

 

[skeepe]

Matt Checcin really played his heart out for you today, congratulations.

 

[jane the pain]

Matt Checcin really played his heart out for you today, congratulations.

No he did for the Raiders. It is beyond belief that one can call a forward pass, when the said pass was thrown behind the said players back.

 

[pantherz9103]

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]

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.