2022 Rd 7 V Panthers: Teams and Previews *Teams p1*

[TongueFTW]

Last year, I very much thought they were arrogant since they hadn’t won anything. Since then, they have won a premiership and been clearly the best team in the competition. They deserve to carry on however they like, now that they have won something. Best way to shut them up is on the field.

[gangrenous]

Not just me then. He's probably my most hated player at the moment or at least near the top. Something about the smug way he often points and laughs at his opponents leaves a bad taste

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The whole sid is arrogant AF. Remember the crap with Tapine when he was off the field last year? I’m hoping Tapine has not forgotten.


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Sid, I think he just called you arrogant AF

Shots fired! You gonna take that Sid?

[bonehead]

Not just me then. He's probably my most hated player at the moment or at least near the top. Something about the smug way he often points and laughs at his opponents leaves a bad taste

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The whole sid is arrogant AF. Remember the crap with Tapine when he was off the field last year? I’m hoping Tapine has not forgotten.


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Sid, I think he just called you arrogant AF

Shots fired! You gonna take that Sid?

glad I'm not the first to notice Sid's behaviour

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[Azza]

Panthers act as if they'll be this good forever.

They won't be.

And their lair #6 with his flared nostrils will be forgotten in 10 years

I don't care about them. I am just sick of the mediocrity this club has dished out for 20 odd years now, with the odd flash in a pan season that gives us hope, before we revert to our usual crap again.

[sprintman]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

[cat]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

I thought there was a football cap....

[greeneyed]

Canberra Raiders half Brad Schneider has eyes on Nathan Cleary but wants to make own mark



Brad Schneider spent high school watching Nathan Cleary and while he's taken elements from the leading halfback's game, the Canberra Raiders No.7 wants to put his own mark on the NRL.

"Obviously Cleary's only young too, but he's been around a bit. The same with Luai," Schneider said. "I do watch him a fair bit and try and do things he does, but I try to do my own thing as well. I'm my own player and I'll try to make my name for myself."

Read more: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/ ... /?cs=14239

VIDEO: Rushton’s surprise jersey presentation: https://www.raiders.com.au/news/2022/04 ... sentation/

[Elcaptcroker]

Thanks to the tigers beating souths after tomorrow we will be second last


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[Finchy]

With the Tigers getting two gutsy wins against good opposition in Parra and Souths (who we won’t beat), we’re looking closer at that spoon. Tigers are on a roll with Hastings back, and with Doueihi to come back as well they’ll go on a run

[Botman]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

I thought there was a football cap....

Im loathe to suggest anyone engage in this click bait, but maybe read the article

1. the football cap is for NRL only
b. the article states clearly the 17m includes everything from Matts to NRL
iii. 12.5m of that is player wages, 10m of which is the NRL salary cap

It's a fluff piece, i'd wager their expenses are not a great deal different to ours. The panthers quite rightly want to toot their own horn but it's the talent that is allowing them to dominate, not drastically out spending other clubs on development.

[Botman]

Panthers act as if they'll be this good forever.

They won't be.

And their lair #6 with his flared nostrils will be forgotten in 10 years

They wont be THIS good forever, this is a special crop of talent
But the harsh reality is they will always have an absurd level of talent available to them, and so long as they are competently coached and run, and the pathways remain as well run as they are now... they should be a top 8 team every year. EVERY year.

But we know sports clubs are special in their way of finding ways to **** it up... at some point the special talent will move on, the coach goes, a key adminsitrator/scout gets poached or retires and it gets away from them. But it'll never be talent that stops them. The only way they'll go back to being trash is self inflicted injuries

[cat]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

I thought there was a football cap....

Im loathe to suggest anyone engage in this click bait, but maybe read the article

1. the football cap is for NRL only
b. the article states clearly the 17m includes everything from Matts to NRL
iii. 12.5m of that is player wages, 10m of which is the NRL salary cap

It's a fluff piece, i'd wager their expenses are not a great deal different to ours. The panthers quite rightly want to toot their own horn but it's the talent that is allowing them to dominate, not drastically out spending other clubs on development.

Thanks for that, didn't want to sign up to read the whole thing

These kind of "own horn tooting " can backfire

If you can spend 18mill a year why do you need the government to pay for your stadium and hq upgrade?

Read an article recently where they were pushing for no professional sport hq and field upgrades but instead improve the local league ones, not a bad idea tbh

[sprintman]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

I thought there was a football cap....

Salary cap but this is all their teams. What are we spending?

[Botman]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

I thought there was a football cap....

Salary cap but this is all their teams. What are we spending?

player wages wont be drastically different, it'll basically be the cost of the WNRL, which we're going to be involved in shortly
Otherwise it's all capped and money everyone spends

Medical costs and health fund stuff is probably largely the same for everyone... sometimes you have good years, others you get banged. It all comes out in the wash

Clothing? I dont see any reason why they'd be spending anymore than we do. And it doesnt strike me as something that is going to impact performance either way.

We probably have higher travel expenses. The panthers play a ton of away games within an hour of their front door, we have to travel to every away game

Housing allowances i believe is governed by the cap, id imagine all clubs are maxing that out. Same with meals + entertainment and educational allowances.

[greeneyed]

The NRL pays travel expenses. Base level anyway. Teams that spend more on their travel have to charge those expenses to the football cap.

Does this story have a list of what every team spends? I can’t imagine the Raiders, now they have a full complement of grades (apart from NRLW) is going to spend much different to the Panthers. Clubs that don’t run all the grades are going to spend less…

This explains what expenses are outside the salary cap: https://www.nrl.com/operations/integrity/salary-cap/

[Sid]

Not just me then. He's probably my most hated player at the moment or at least near the top. Something about the smug way he often points and laughs at his opponents leaves a bad taste

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The whole sid is arrogant AF. Remember the crap with Tapine when he was off the field last year? I’m hoping Tapine has not forgotten.


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Sid, I think he just called you arrogant AF

Shots fired! You gonna take that Sid?

glad I'm not the first to notice Sid's behaviour

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Can’t believe Rick called me out for being arrogant when clearly I’m the best poster going around!

[FuiFui BradBrad]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

I thought there was a football cap....

Im loathe to suggest anyone engage in this click bait, but maybe read the article

1. the football cap is for NRL only
b. the article states clearly the 17m includes everything from Matts to NRL
iii. 12.5m of that is player wages, 10m of which is the NRL salary cap

It's a fluff piece, i'd wager their expenses are not a great deal different to ours. The panthers quite rightly want to toot their own horn but it's the talent that is allowing them to dominate, not drastically out spending other clubs on development.

Thanks for that, didn't want to sign up to read the whole thing

These kind of "own horn tooting " can backfire

If you can spend 18mill a year why do you need the government to pay for your stadium and hq upgrade?

Read an article recently where they were pushing for no professional sport hq and field upgrades but instead improve the local league ones, not a bad idea tbh

Yeah Peter Fitzsimmons has been pushing this since the SFS / Homebush redevelopments. As much as it hurts me to say, he swung me over.

His view was instead of spending $2b on two stadiums that didn’t really need upgrading, you could spread it over 100 x $10m community projects across the state

[President Clinton]

Panthers act as if they'll be this good forever.

They won't be.

And their lair #6 with his flared nostrils will be forgotten in 10 years

They wont be THIS good forever, this is a special crop of talent
But the harsh reality is they will always have an absurd level of talent available to them, and so long as they are competently coached and run, and the pathways remain as well run as they are now... they should be a top 8 team every year. EVERY year.

But we know sports clubs are special in their way of finding ways to **** it up... at some point the special talent will move on, the coach goes, a key adminsitrator/scout gets poached or retires and it gets away from them. But it'll never be talent that stops them. The only way they'll go back to being trash is self inflicted injuries

But they’ve always had a good catchment area at their disposal. Ivan isn’t Bellamy either and we’ll see their current team get picked apart.

I agree they’ll be strong (or at least should be), but we’ve seen how hard it is to go back to back when you have a target on your head.

[greeneyed]

Panthers are spending $17m per year to dominate the NRL. Not sure we can compete with that…

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/price- ... 5afi1.html

I thought there was a football cap....

Im loathe to suggest anyone engage in this click bait, but maybe read the article

1. the football cap is for NRL only
b. the article states clearly the 17m includes everything from Matts to NRL
iii. 12.5m of that is player wages, 10m of which is the NRL salary cap

It's a fluff piece, i'd wager their expenses are not a great deal different to ours. The panthers quite rightly want to toot their own horn but it's the talent that is allowing them to dominate, not drastically out spending other clubs on development.

Thanks for that, didn't want to sign up to read the whole thing

These kind of "own horn tooting " can backfire

If you can spend 18mill a year why do you need the government to pay for your stadium and hq upgrade?

Read an article recently where they were pushing for no professional sport hq and field upgrades but instead improve the local league ones, not a bad idea tbh

Yeah Peter Fitzsimmons has been pushing this since the SFS / Homebush redevelopments. As much as it hurts me to say, he swung me over.

His view was instead of spending $2b on two stadiums that didn’t really need upgrading, you could spread it over 100 x $10m community projects across the state

We need decent stadiums for big events too. Stadium Australia is already tired and it desperately needs to become a proper rectangular stadium. It’s a great shame we’ve lost the development in my view.

[Off]

Oh how sad, I can imagine the old man turning to his wife after fulltime and saying what the **** was that ****.

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[Dimes]

Oh how sad, I can imagine the old man turning to his wife after fulltime and saying what the **** was that ****.

[Finchy]

Yeah I was thinking about the poor parents. Travel around the world to watch their son play his first game, watch him play the last few minutes on the end of a 60-0 thrashing. Good times.

[RedRaider]

I am hoping to see Rushton on in the first half. We have 2 middles on the bench and I reckon both should be on in the opening 40.