We have the team

It’s easy to overreact when we lose and get dominated for 50 minutes by a big pack of forwards. Before yesterday most of us believed Mataga was a good player and deserved his spot on the bench. One bad game and that’s changed. As for Evans I believe it’s to early to say he is too big and gangly and uncoordinated as he has been labelled.I can remember last year when we got owned by the Rooaters pack there being backlash about our pack from us the fans. Most said that we couldn’t even mKe the 8 after that game. We did and made the top 4.We have the right coach and the right squad. Kenny Edwards will add spark but I believe the whole forward pack will rise up. They have been dominated but many teams will be against the Panthers.You can write us off and drop half the side but we have the squad.

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  • I agree we have the team but its a question of whether BA is truly maximising his resources

    One debutant since 2016 says alot about BAs ambition to try new things...

    Mahoney and niukore can freshen up things in the team, providing an unpredictable dimension to the side.... something our team is lacking considering we have the same team as last year minus semi, plus evans and hayne

    Time for a change imo ... scott , manu and matagi arent up to it anymore
    • I don't know if there was anybody breaking down the door from the lower grades in the past few years, The guys you mention are only just getting there, and it seems that BA will try them during the year at some stage. They have some work still to do in the lower grades first though.

    • Yeah i agree Mahoney needs some more time... there are a few people ahead of him ... will smith especially who should be in the first seventeen without question. None the less mahoney was extremely good in his wenty debut on the weekend

      Niukore can come in straight away imo... sharkies are circling on him and they view him as the successor of luke lewis... he couldnt do a worse job than manu mau on the weekend who has been in poor form since about round 20 last season
  • Mate of mine calls them the 'marshmallow Eels' he reckons every team knows that if you put the eels under fire they whilt away. Been like that ever since the Canterbury side denied us a GF 20 odd years ago.
    Maybe it's on our DNA I don't know but we are absolutely renowned for it.
  • Tad it's not that we lost. We all can accept the fact that we lost. Happened before and will happen again. ITS THE WAY WE CAPITULATED WHEN UNDER PRESSURE that worries the hell out of us. Again despite all the rhetoric from BA and the players - it's the same old broken record. We are a fragile team. It's the same thing I heard 4 years ago from BA.
    • And you’ll continue to hear it for another 4 years if BA remains the coach.

      Not asking for his head it’s just that BA seems limited when it comes to addressing many of the current squads issues - 2nd half fades being only one of the problems.

  • I'm not calling for sackings in the backline. We need to leave the backline alone.  We have a group of forwards and the coach needs to say to them... I need some blokes who will do the dirty work and not fold like a pack of cards, then rotate them until you have a dedicated pack that are hungry to stay there and this includes young Ray Stone and Maranta.  The panthers have nothing - they are a club in crisis.  The Cowboys would have killed us. 

    Forwards win matches.  Always have - always will.  

    • The Panthers have SOO halves and a massive pack of rep forwards. Don’t be fooled by media talk. They are a very good side and will be in the 8

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      • The panthers handled the heat pretty well.  

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