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

mxlegend99

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Our older players are currently our worst performers. Our side is also stacked with Internationals and Origin players. The need for old heads is being extremely overstated
Its sad.

The likes of JFH, Hetherington and Kikau put the likes of Tamou and Merrin to shame with the intent they put in to everything they do.

Every run and tackle looks like they're trying to hurt people. Which is something I believe RCG has inspired. The young guys seem more easily inspired by things like that. Then you have Yeo who is just about our best and most reliable player. You could never question his effort.

Yeo and RCG are terrific forward leaders for our young guys to be inspired by. I wish our older guys would put that sort of passion into their efforts aswell.
 

betcats

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^exactly. Yeo and RCG are the experienced forwards we need now, for the money they are on Tamou and Merrin just aren’t good value at all. When RCG and Yeo were young it was worth it, now it’s not. Time to move on.
 

martielang

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Our forward pack is a unit who has won 80% of the battles this year. They work together well. Merrin & Tamou are part of that unit & do their job admirably without being spectacular. If they weren’t playing the others wouldn’t be as effective, especially someone like JFH & RCG.

I think Tamou especially has been really good over the last couple of months. It’s just unfortunate he seems to have an error a game in him which most of his detractors can harp on about for the next week.
 

GongPanther

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I think the problem here is we are using different definitions for the word "bagging". You seem to be talking about abuse and personal attacks which I agree with you about.
Most ppl in this entire site are most of the time merely taking the pi$$. It a matter of giving and taking in equal parts as long as it remains friendly banter. And most ppl here I'm sure are not in here to personally vilify anyone and actually mean it.,but when you get two (or more) headstrong individuals who won't take a step back,then it tends to get a bit overboard which in fact makes this place a bit uneasy.

Main thing is never take anything that anyone says personally.
 
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betcats

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Our forward pack is a unit who has won 80% of the battles this year. They work together well. Merrin & Tamou are part of that unit & do their job admirably without being spectacular. If they weren’t playing the others wouldn’t be as effective, especially someone like JFH & RCG.

I think Tamou especially has been really good over the last couple of months. It’s just unfortunate he seems to have an error a game in him which most of his detractors can harp on about for the next week.

Merrin has bed been bog average for most of the year.
 

franklin2323

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Most ppl in this entire site are most of the time merely taking the pi$$. It a matter of giving and taking in equal parts as long as it remains friendly banter. And most ppl here I'm sure are not in here to personally vilify anyone and actually mean it.,but when you get two (or more) headstrong individuals who won't take a step back,then it tends to get a bit overboard which in fact makes this place a bit uneasy.

Main thing is never take anything that anyone says personally.

Exactly this. Ignore button is there too for such people
 

betcats

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I thought his second stint last week was really good

He offloaded to no one in the second half and turned it over but tbh I didn't really notice him after that, I wasn't impressed with much that happened last week so I could be judging him harshly.
 

OldPanther

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He offloaded to no one in the second half and turned it over but tbh I didn't really notice him after that, I wasn't impressed with much that happened last week so I could be judging him harshly.

Yeah it was such a bad game we might as well just forget it and see how this week goes.
 

mxlegend99

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Yet we say this and cop shit for it.

Gus and Maloney have both admitted he shouldn't have played. But he wanted to play and Hook doesnt care if his guys are busted or not.

A fit Maloney is an asset to any team. But an injured one is not. He claims he is nearly fully fit. Let's hope so because the Raiders pack love working over halves. Probably the only thing they're good at.
 

TheFrog

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Yet we say this and cop shit for it.

Gus and Maloney have both admitted he shouldn't have played. But he wanted to play and Hook doesnt care if his guys are busted or not.

A fit Maloney is an asset to any team. But an injured one is not. He claims he is nearly fully fit. Let's hope so because the Raiders pack love working over halves. Probably the only thing they're good at.
Interesting how they're coming clean about it now. Makes me think he's OK. Otherwise it wouldn't be talked about. Releasing pics of him in a medi-vest too. The Raiders will have a go at him, hopefully he's up to it.
 

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