The Finals thread:

[bob dylan]

Cleary is at his best here today.

 

[Under the Sticks]

Blaize Talagi has just slipped into this team with ease and without all the luai rubbish.

Impressive young player. Not sure why Galvin gets wraps over this kid.

 

[Buddy Love]

Cleary is at his best here today.

He's the best player

 

[TJ55]

Fair enough. I find it repetitive and boring. Same shapes for 5 years. Much rather watch a team like the Broncos play. Or Manly 2021.

I agree

 

[Under the Sticks]

We have won more finals matches than the dogs in the past 2 years.

 

[danny-boy]

this is some entertaining footy from the panthers.

 

[AndWeDon'tCare]

I agree

And yet, with all the video, information, staff and resources, 16 clubs over the last 5 years still can't match them.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and the rest of the competition can't even manage to do that well enough.

 

[HK_Eagle]

The dogs are in trouble of conceding 50 here. If they do, do we assume they cannot win the premiership this year? 🤔

 

[mave]

You think they will beat panthers without carrigan?

And Walters

 

[Under the Sticks]

And Walters

And a lame Reynolds no Ezra or Cobbo.

 

[AndWeDon'tCare]

May I ask, how do you "negate a knock on" - those words were used by the bunker.

 

[Under the Sticks]

How many runs has Preston made? He’s there ONLY option in attack

 

[danny-boy]

Penrith have clocked off.

 

[Brookie1973]

And yet, with all the video, information, staff and resources, 16 clubs over the last 5 years still can't match them.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and the rest of the competition can't even manage to do that well enough.

No one is saying they aren’t extremely successful. That doesn’t mean you have to enjoy watching it.

I prefer my league as it was played by mercurial, eyes up players like cliffy lyons, adventurous attacking players like Turbo 2021, Walsh, etc, bone crunching forwards who could change a match like Spud Carroll, Ron Gibbs etc.

I think the panthers have taken the game to its perfect state under the current rules of the game, that reward holding rather than tackling, cynically peeling off tackled players timed to the millisecond, methodically working shapes to create an eventual overlap for a try to To’o in the corner, sticking to a preplanned system of what to do on each tackle at each point on the field, etc etc.

I realise the game has changed, and to be quite frank, I find the game in general much less entertaining than it used to be. Penrith are like watching a team of robots going through their program. Sure it’s effective, but for me, it falls a long way short of entertaining.

 

[Wombat64]

We aren't even in the same Galaxy as them.

We'd struggle to beat their Women's team (no offence to ladies RL).

 

[Brookie1973]

We'd struggle to beat their Women's team (no offence to ladies RL).

Nah, we’d beat them I reckon.

 

[Wombat64]

Nah, we’d beat them I reckon.

It would be close .....

 

[Brookie1973]

It would be close .....

only if we had a short turnaround.

 

[bob dylan]

Dogs have won 1 of their last 6 matches in 2025.

 

[The '47ers]

And a lame Reynolds no Ezra or Cobbo.

Cobbo played in the centres today for Wynnum-Manly, but haven't heard much about the other pair.