2017 Rd 24 V Panthers: Game Day

[Hong Kong Raider]

69% completion in such an important game, can't win with that

Too many errors

We were leading by 2, lots of possession on the Penrith line, repeat sets, but couldn't score. Game over. Hodgson tries to overplay every move.

It's a shame Cotric had his worst game today. Wighton his best

[Raiders Lim!]

You really can't and shouldn't be letting the opposition put 20 on in the first half.


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[SeeBee101]

Season over.

Im not sure if we should play Cotric at centre or full back.

Wighton must be moved from fullback, possibly centre or let go for cap reasons.

Fullback. Jack is a god damn liability.

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Really...I'm not the biggest fan of Wighton but he was easily one of our best today.

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[gangrenous]

Season over.

Im not sure if we should play Cotric at centre or full back.

Wighton must be moved from fullback, possibly centre or let go for cap reasons.

You can't let him go for cap reasons unless he has somewhere to go willing to pay him somewhere near what we will.

I think we've screwed the pooch with signing Jack for a while on spine money.

[Botman]

You really can't and shouldn't be letting the opposition put 20 on in the first half.


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Correct
Defence let us down, as it has at key moments all season long

[rusty83]

Not making top 8 is a fair reflection of our season and our talent pool. We have a good forward pack but our lack of cunning and guile in the halves cost us a finals birth. Unless we replace Sezer and find a half who can pull strings, force repeat sets and kick strategically we will continue to struggle.

[Northern Raider]

Season over.

Im not sure if we should play Cotric at centre or full back.

Wighton must be moved from fullback, possibly centre or let go for cap reasons.

Fullback. Jack is a god damn liability.

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Don't think he's a fullback but he was one of our best today.

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[CJR]

Season over.

Im not sure if we should play Cotric at centre or full back.

Wighton must be moved from fullback, possibly centre or let go for cap reasons.

Fullback. Jack is a god damn liability.

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Really...I'm not the biggest fan of Wighton but he was easily one of our best today.

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And the other 23 rounds?

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[Beejay]

Completion rate a telling difference between the teams today.
However I've said it before, our linespeed and Ruck control is putrid. A couple of times in that game, we kicked off and on the 5th tackle Cleary was kicking inside our half at about 38m line... how can we concede so many metres? How can we, and expect to win.
Our kicking game was putrid. Sezer kicks a 40/20, but apart from that, why is he and Austin putting in Pearce like, 'half hearted' mid field bombs? When do they ever work? Why is Austin even kicking at all? Sezer clearly can kick well to corners, so **** do it.

[BrisbaneRaider]

That game was a perfect metaphor for our entire season. Brief periods of hope followed by crushing disappointment.

[Hong Kong Raider]

Now onto supporting whoever play the storm ....

You can't support Penrith, Brisbane, Cronulla, Roosters, Melbourne, Manly

Free September for me!

[DJ89]

Mansour scoring a solo try at the end of the first half was the killing blow

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It really wasn't. We led 22-20 with less than ten to go.

[Johno]

Im putting Justin Hodges in the Wally Lewis, Johns and Fittler category for talent as a commentator

[CJR]

Not making top 8 is a fair reflection of our season and our talent pool. We have a good forward pack but our lack of cunning and guile in the halves cost us a finals birth. Unless we replace Sezer and find a half who can pull strings, force repeat sets and kick strategically we will continue to struggle.

Sezer played like that today and we still lost.

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[The Nickman]

Not making top 8 is a fair reflection of our season and our talent pool. We have a good forward pack but our lack of cunning and guile in the halves cost us a finals birth. Unless we replace Sezer and find a half who can pull strings, force repeat sets and kick strategically we will continue to struggle.

Oh look, you can **** off too

[The Nickman]

What was our completion rate today?? Panthers was 87%

Bet ours isn't close

[CJR]

What was our completion rate today?? Panthers was 87%

Bet ours isn't close

67%

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[Northern Raider]

Not making top 8 is a fair reflection of our season and our talent pool. We have a good forward pack but our lack of cunning and guile in the halves cost us a finals birth. Unless we replace Sezer and find a half who can pull strings, force repeat sets and kick strategically we will continue to struggle.

Sorry troll. You picked the wrong game to single out Sezer. He wasn't even close to the problem today.

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[Johno]

I was so confident we would get that win today, even with 2 minutes to go, I also thought we would beat Knights and Storm and go on a run deep into the finals.

Im gutted guys.

[kiwi raider]

Any repeat sets today? Don't remember any...we suck inside the opposition 10 whether it's going for repeat sets or putting on a set play.

[Raiders Lim!]

Mansour scoring a solo try at the end of the first half was the killing blow

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It really wasn't. We led 22-20 with less than ten to go.

Most of the time when you score 22 points, that gives you breathing space and a win.

When you let the opposition put on 20 in the first half it just means you have to work so much harder just to catch up.


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[The Nickman]

What was our completion rate today?? Panthers was 87%

Bet ours isn't close

67%

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And there it is.

That there is the reason we lost today, no other reason.

If we'd just finished our sets once we got up 22-20 we would've cruised to an easy victory. Instead we ducked around like clowns and handed the game back to Penrith.

[Hong Kong Raider]

It wasn't Sezer's fault today. Seriously, how can we blame him for missing one on one tackles (resulting in 18 points) and dropped balls by Cotric, Boyd, Tapine, Papa etc.

It was a stupid tackle by Rapana on Mansour to give the penalty away that allowed Penrith up our end

In summary, we played stupid and we beat ourselves

[DJ89]

Mansour you greasy ****

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Well, at least we get some vintage dubby to put the icing on the cake

Hahah a little desert to go with our **** sandwich

How did I spend 2 years out, yet this is admin material?

Jesus **** christ.

[DJ89]

Mansour scoring a solo try at the end of the first half was the killing blow

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It really wasn't. We led 22-20 with less than ten to go.

Most of the time when you score 22 points, that gives you breathing space and a win.

When you let the opposition put on 20 in the first half it just means you have to work so much harder just to catch up.


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And we did catch up and take the lead. They didn't re-score Mansour's points.

We dropped the ball numerous times in our own half and couldn't defend it.

[Pete Cash]

The simple fact of the matter is that we suck. We were actually half decent if we are fair against Penrith. A few errors here and there cost us but it was the terrible stuff earlier in the season that has us here. We should never be in a position where a loss here cost us our season. Dare I say it if we had played better over the season we might not have been trying to force the issue so much today and would have played better. Despite the Dragons collapse early points are really important.

Stuart has no excuses for this year. We barely had an injury. We came in underdone for god knows what reason. The warning signs were there against the knights. Our players were pudgy and barely looked like they had an off season.

It just sucks that its another lost season. I don't really think we will win another premiership again lol

[Lucky]

I knew we were in trouble when Gasnier had us winning by 20....

[Grün Maschine]

Any repeat sets today? Don't remember any...we suck inside the opposition 10 whether it's going for repeat sets or putting on a set play.

How do we rank for repeat sets this year?

It must be less than 1 per game

[Hong Kong Raider]

Unfortunately I don't have faith in Ricky and our squad to turn it around in 2018
Our problem all year has been completions, defence, line speed, and figuring what to do in the opposition's 20 metres. Stuart hasn't resolved this in 24 rounds

[Ilanraiders]

Talk again next year everyone. Enjoy the off season and reading about how tough it was. Please may the Good Lord find us another halfback!!!!!

[Beejay]

The simple fact of the matter is that we suck. We were actually half decent if we are fair against Penrith. A few errors here and there cost us but it was the terrible stuff earlier in the season that has us here. We should never be in a position where a loss here cost us our season. Dare I say it if we had played better over the season we might not have been trying to force the issue so much today and would have played better. Despite the Dragons collapse early points are really important.

Stuart has no excuses for this year. We barely had an injury. We came in underdone for god knows what reason. The warning signs were there against the knights. Our players were pudgy and barely looked like they had an off season.

It just sucks that its another lost season. I don't really think we will win another premiership again lol

That might just be the saddest 'lol' in history.

[Northern Raider]

Any repeat sets today? Don't remember any...we suck inside the opposition 10 whether it's going for repeat sets or putting on a set play.

How do we rank for repeat sets this year?

It must be less than 1 per game

We rarely even attempt to get them these days.

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[fulivai]

Completion rate a telling difference between the teams today.
However I've said it before, our linespeed and Ruck control is putrid. A couple of times in that game, we kicked off and on the 5th tackle Cleary was kicking inside our half at about 38m line... how can we concede so many metres? How can we, and expect to win.
Our kicking game was putrid. Sezer kicks a 40/20, but apart from that, why is he and Austin putting in Pearce like, 'half hearted' mid field bombs? When do they ever work? Why is Austin even kicking at all? Sezer clearly can kick well to corners, so **** do it.

Yep it has happened all year. I watched that home game v melbourne from last year and defensively its a completely different team

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[Johno]

Wheres this dogs v Manly game played, looks like theres under 500 people there, looks embarrasing

[Canberra Milk]

Just really surprised if not shocked. Really thought we'd win today, easily even