Poupou Escobar
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Geography is definitely a factor but they have never been this dominant three years in a row. He built something special there and if it’s started to slip it hasn’t yet affected their NRL performances.
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Geography is definitely a factor but they have never been this dominant three years in a row. He built something special there and if it’s started to slip it hasn’t yet affected their NRL performances.
The Guth extension after the way he behaved is dare i say it another rash decision???
We have decided to blow it up and start again. But you can't do that without senior leaders in your squad. Penrith wouldn't have been where they are now without guys like Maloney, Merrin, Tamou, Wallace, Whare and Mansour. Strong teams need a bunch of players with 150+ games under their belt. The exception is where a team has an insane level of talent. You're more likely to be able to fit that much experience under the cap than that much football talent.
Do you think the Dogs, Broncos and Dragons any more likely to beat the Panthers and the Storm in 2022/23 than we were in 2020/21? Especially in the finals?
Maybe we should focus on 2022 and worry about what the 2023 squad will look like and what it will do once we know who is in it. We still have at least 9 spots to fill so the makeup of the squad will definitely be different to what it is today.
All good players and if still at the club all would've been in the premiership side. But signing these players didn't stop Penrith replacing them with merkins almost as good but half the price.
In the mean time they did the right thing and sacked him and some coaches.
Keeping RCG or Junior long term was a good idea, but not both I reckon.... I have a feeling we'll manage to hold on to Moses but I think Drown will be gone after 2023....
Their coach was just fine. They sacked him so they could give a job to the father of the star young halfback they were desperate to re-sign without paying overs. The same dad they decided couldn't get them to the next level a few years earlier. Suddenly he's good enough to bring back? It's about how much talent you can fit under the cap. If you can get a star player cheaper by giving his dad a job or even just one of his mates why not do it?
Yes I know.
Is it any different to losing Origin or international players like Hiku, Mansour, Merrin, Moylan, Soward, Wallace, DWZ, Whare, Tamou, RCG, Maloney, Peachey and Grant? Penrith lost plenty of good players and improved. The same can happen for us if we are spending enough on junior recruitment. If we're not it doesn't really matter what we do at the top.
lol yeah nah, Hook is an absolute potato.
Of course not. Our premiership window was 2020-2022. There's no guarantees you'll win three straight finals matches to win a comp. Penrith won their three last year by less than a converted try. Each game was a coin flip.
You'd hope so because they've all been poor for years. The salary cap means they should eventually get back up. But we are a premiership chance this year (currently $11) and those clubs are not, so we are closer than they are.
Yep. Anything can happen come finals time. What happened to our team in 2020 could happen to any of our opponents. If you can have bad luck you can also have good luck.
