Smart man.
Frustrating too. CT so close, Tu so close, standard Penrith scramble stopping both of those plays. Cook, FMD the bunker, absolute wankers yet Robert Toia “scores” a fair try in Gosford last week
Lack class and speed in the backs. Again I say, Tu is hopeless. The worst winger I have seen. Egan is a terrier and will be one of the best for us in the years ahead. Gutho and Holmes not worth the money they are getting paid.
It was embarrassing Morgs watching Penrith having a training run, you could just see they were just playing park footy. When they needed to they stepped it up apart from that they were just trying to avoid injury.
That's not true. There was a real arm wrestle. It was a tough game for Panthers.
Yes never raised a sweat. Players who are in the frame to play SOO were not risking injuries. Our attack has been woeful, absolutely bad.
Really, what pressure did we put them under ? how intense was it for Cleary ? You can look at it any way you want and you are entitled to it, but in my humble opinion it was nothing more than lets just get this game out of the way and go home for the Panthers.
They hardly got over halfway in the first half. They would have liked to, but we defended very well.
You know I feel sorry for the young fella, he's had a hard time, but if you look at last weeks game and today's it's understandable why he should be in ressies and not the NRL, some of those efforts in defense were horrible. And the unfortunate part last week was Reed was on his inside and 5 try's got scored down that side, and it wasn't all Reed's fault. He's not good enough and that is where we should draw the line.
Agreed, we did tackle well, but my question was , what pressure did we put them under ? What attacking structures did we throw at them ? When did we put Cleary under pressure ? Instead they really didn't have to do much did they, just go down Tu's wing and it's a virtual try. Look they played ok for what they are, they are a non creative boring side, simply because of the halves we have. Did you see Atkinson or KF do anything ? A simple grubber, a kick across field some nice cut out passes, anything !!! If you want to pick a good tackling side just so we can limit the amount of points scored against us, well thats exactly what we got tonight. As for anything else , well thats exactly what we got as well.
Yeah they are good, we might not see Toby next week, he copped a pretty brutal shot to the ribs.
He's not young. Not by pro RL standards anyway.
The attack is not great, but was better tonight. The problem for us is we were playing against a very good defensive side. Panthers played well tonight.
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