Round 25 v Storm @ AAMI Park

[PenrithPanther45]

Would've needed Sharks to lose by 19 on the weekend to finish in fourth so I doubt it'll matter anyway. Bigger risk is Broncos can overtake us if they win by 36 or more over Manly which is a possibility. Dragons need to beat Knights by 20. So we should finish in 5th.

 

[kinghippo]

Well it was good to see some actual football in the second half.
Someone obviously had a word to the ref, the storm look a different team when not constantly backed by the whistle.

 

[unKwn]

the hoodoo is f**king over!

 

[umina panther]

Crichton has to be close to motm. What a game.

Strong returns all game, great under the high ball & spectacular intercept.

Didn't think he had a game like that in him. Was fantastic

 

[mxlegend99]

Oh and very impressed with Crichton. Finally had another good game for us. He was very strong considering we didnt use our right edge much at all. With Kikau and Blake on the left whysoulf we?

 

[franklin2323]

40% possession. Slammed by the refs.. That line speed much better. RCG and JFH were terrible so when they lift wow.

How good was Crichton

 

[unKwn]

hahahah what do you know Christian "dickfingers" Crichton gets the intercept. me and my dad have been absolutely shitting on him since the Brisbane game. but we were like "what if he gets an intercept to win the game" and he f**king did. hahaha what a weird night

 

[Fangs]

Crichton has to be close to motm. What a game.

Strong returns all game, great under the high ball & spectacular intercept.

NAH MATE

Maloney. Unbelievable

 

[umina panther]

Yeo was fantastic too. Nobody tries harder week in week out

 

[OldPanther]

This is the dumbest team I have ever witnessed and I have witnessed some spectacularly dumb Panthers teams. JFH 3 penalties on the 5th. What a braindead merkin.

DWZ drops the ball 2nd tackle after weight of possession against us.

Sauce bad play the ball and gets binned needlessly. Every player seems to have these hopeless errors in them.

How we are not down by 20 is a miracle. Then again we are getting beat by a quasi reserve grade Storm.

The strip against Fish was a dropped ball called wrong.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Highly likely we finish 5th now.

Bronocs would need to win by 33+ to jump over us.

Dragons would need to win by 20+

Who we play in week one is up in the air though.

 

[jane the pain]

For those who thought the Panthers would receive a hiding, raise your hands. My hand is raised. With the benefit of hindsight, those loses were needed. Happy days.

 

[mxlegend99]

For those who thought the Panthers would receive a hiding, raise your hands. My hand is raised. With the benefit of hindsight, those loses were needed. Happy days.

What drugs are you on?

 

[umina panther]

For those who thought the Panthers would receive a hiding, raise your hands. My hand is raised. With the benefit of hindsight, those loses were needed. Happy days.

I thought we would once Melbourne pulled Munster and Billy Just thought the team would think they'd be too good again.

The boys were up for it and yes we all know i don't rate him as some do but Maloney did a fantastic job tonight as captain

 

[OldPanther]

As soon as we got into end to end footy it was all ours. Maloney was fantastic and so was Cleary, that swing down the short side and kick into the corner was sublime(that goal kicking though).

 

[tripster]

Shame to think we could still finish 7th and have to play the Broncos in Brisbane

 

[martielang]

NAH MATE

Maloney. Unbelievable

Joint winners. & I’m giving one to hethero too for only nearly getting sent off once tonight.

 

[Westernised Panther]

A win's a win, but that would have been one heck of a score line in Melbourne if Cleary's conversion attempts were all successful.

 

[age.s]

The Storm were missing some key players and Clearys radar was way off but there were some very good signs tonight.

The defense on the line was a massive improvement. The forwards ground it out where they'd been getting dominated previously. Most importantly Maloney was back at the level that had him in Dally M contention. The halves in general looked way better, with Clearly clearly benefitting from the space that Maloney gave him. The left edge was brutal. It was pleasing the ease with which we got around them out there and again Maloney deserves plenty of credit for that. Crichton playing like that puts the fullback issue to bed. Like others have said that was a stunning performance that I didnt see coming.

Discipline was the problem. The refs in the first half were atrocious, but amongst the bullshit calls there were dumb penalties at the end of the set on their 40. There were dropped balls and poor options. Even reasonable referees would have seen us at a deficit in possession. It's not going to cut it against a full strength team in the finals.

Still not confident against any of the 8 bar the Dragons, but were closer than we were last week. That's as good as can be expected given the circumstances.

 

[tripster]

Highly likely we finish 5th now.

Bronocs would need to win by 33+ to jump over us.

Dragons would need to win by 20+

Who we play in week one is up in the air though.

I think the Dragons will win but I don’t think they will beat the Knights by 20.

I do worry however about the Broncos absolutely flogging Manly. I could see them beating Manly by 33+. Broncos have been in hot form and Manly have given up.