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  • Knights to beat Fins

    Many to good for NZ

    Pathers to kick the Rooters

    Dragons to scrape home against the Bunnies

    Sharks too good for NQ

    Raiders wishing it was August temps as they loose to Broncs - Canberra loose their advantage of the cold this time of year

    Eels in a narrow win over Tigers - however need to talk and tackle this week or they are ......

    Dogs to bite Titans

  • Newcastle 10Ā  - 0 DolphinsĀ 

    Fins left side edge defense is terribleĀ 

    Klein is the box, his good for a few clangers

  • We will lose.

    That is all.

  • is it me or do the Knights have 2009 eels feel about it?

    attacking weapons all over the park, knights' defence is fragile

    2009 Eels defence was rock solid and underrated, I was watchingĀ 

    the qualifying final v the dragons the other day, the Dragons 83% field positionĀ 

    63% possession after 26 mins we end up leading 6 - 2, unbelievable goal-line defenceĀ 

    sliding defence executed to perfectionĀ 

  • Kai Pearce Paul on $600K per season 6"6, tall, athletic

    contract ends this season, 600K is oversĀ Ā 

  • Nice Try Fins

    Katoa nice dummy and deceptionĀ 

    fins attack is all over the shop apart from that momentĀ 

    Newc 20 - 6 fins

  • What's happening with the Panthers defense?? Conceding 24 points in 44 minutesĀ 

    • Mick, I do wonder. It'sĀ too early to tell as the Panthers have had the best defence for 5-years straight, but they're never conceded 60 points in two-straight since 2019.

      That said, there's been upward trend since 2020 where teams leak more and more. So far this season, defences are the leakiest since 2020. Probably in part due to the game getting faster and bias towards attack.

      That spells danger signs for us too. We could see heavier losses than we have over the last 5 years especially since Ryles is rebuilding the team, weakened, he isn't happy with the pack, an inexperiencd spine, and cohesion will take time. Could see some turbulence (this site will implode and we'll need some sound-insulated, padded walls). Hopefully, this won't happen, but there's a high likelihood.

      Ā 

      Panthers Defence (rank, pg conceded) & points conceded in a game (worst 5)
      2019 (8th, 19.75pg) - 32L, 30L, 30L, 30L, 30L
      2020 (1st, 11.90pg) - 28W, 24W, 16L, 14W, 14W
      2021 (1st, 11.92pg) - 37L*, 26L, 19L, 16W, 16W
      2022 (1st, 13.75pg) - 38L*, 34L, 22W, 22L, 20W
      2023 (1st, 13.00pg) - 32L, 27L*, 24W, 20L, 18W
      2024 (1st, 16.42pg) - 34W, 32L*, 26W, 24L, 22W
      2025 (TBC, 30.00pg) - 38L, 22W,

      * Weakened, No Cleary

      2019 Panthers: Early Signs of a new era with debutants; Came 10th with 8th best defence overall; R10 they were last with the worst defence; R11-R25 - 4th best defence;Ā 

      Overall Trends 2019-2024 (points conceded per game): 2019 (17.78), 2020 (25.5), 2021 (18.39), 2022 (22.83), 2023 (20.78), 2024 (23.44), 2025 (24.4 so far)
      Highest during Covid 2020, then up and down year-to-year; but overall upward trend defences leaking more.

      • Great work HOE, although early in the season the Panthers were off lastĀ  night especially in defense - to me there are huge danger signs and some cracks appearing early on, we don't know the reason so far, but an interesting observation was made last can't remember the by which commentator - Panthers were attacking mainly through the middle, this suits them because Yeo is major point of the Panthers attack - when the ball was shifted to the edges they did finds gaps in the roosters defensive line - now, this could be a fault in the game plan or poor execution. The main point, ivan clearly surprisingly was outsmarted by Trent Robinson - credit to the roosters with a host of players out, put together a great 80 performance that went down to the wire.The to be asked is, Is 5 titles I'm a row too much of a mountain to climb?

  • Grant Atkins an honouray member of the PanthersĀ 

    In the bunker...this crap only happens in the NRL..

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