I’m done pretending this is just a bad game. This is who we truly are — and it’s been the same story for years.
Every season repeats the same cycle. We beat average teams, everyone says “we’re so close,” and then when it counts, we get exposed by the top sides. Nothing changes. Absolutely nothing.
This isn’t about Penrith — they’re doing what elite teams do. It’s about Parramatta being stuck in mediocrity and calling it progress.
How much longer are we going to accept this?
We’ve had the same management, the same approach, the same excuses for over a decade. “We’re building,” “we’re improving,” “we’re close” — we’ve heard it all before. At some point, it just rings hollow.
Where is the accountability?
From the outside, it looks like there isn’t any. No urgency. No real pressure. Just the same people making the same decisions and expecting different results.
Let’s be honest — we’re not a serious premiership threat. We’re a team that needs everything to go perfectly just to compete. The moment momentum shifts, we crumble. That’s not bad luck — that’s poor structure.
Good teams don’t rely on emotion. Great teams operate with systems. We lack both when it matters most.
Fans keep turning up, keep believing, keep waiting — but for what? More of the same?
I’ll always support the club. But I won’t keep buying into the myth that we’re “almost there.”
We’re not.
And until real, fundamental change happens — not just small tweaks — we’ll keep witnessing the same story year after year.
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You need luck in this game with calls & injuries, we've had none. Watching that game again, it's beyond words what the refs miss. Yes it happens to both teams but the Panthers are doing things on purpose let me explain. When we are trying to run out of our own 20m line they somehow seem to get tangled up, accidentally find themselves over the player & start to get out of the way, slowing the ruck, giving the defence time to reset. We trapped them in their 20m line & if it's the right tackle to slowly get up while a Parra plastering trying to get up it makes it look life we are slowing down the game, penalty or 6 again. They do it perfectly & not all the time, they make it work. But these refs should know these tactics, they do not need any help.
Exactly and the why the ball bounces for them. They make a bad kick or pass and always finds a Penrith player. Panthers scored 8 converted tries. We scored 4 and had 2 disallowed. Nothing went right in that first 30 minutes. Everything went the Panthers. We need to find middles. I like the idea of junior going to lock. In a few hours we will know.
Still feel the same after storm got pumped by Penrith too .. we atleast scored more
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