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[Freakzilla]

So let me get this straight, Montgomery walks, Pangai walked out confused before being spotted at Broncos training, Topine hasn't been seen in close to 6 months, Sutton only gets surgery this week, the club tried to offload or at least sideline Mariner and no information regarding Patolo. This with KO also probably out of action for at least half the seaon.
This leaves King and Curran as the only two bonafide NRL middle forwards, Knight has spent most his career in NSW Cup as has Salmon who is an edge back rower any way. Hughes is a rookie, and Faamusili is an established QLD Cup player at best so far.
Hope Morrin and/or Edwards have developed significantly during the off season.

So we haven't lost anyone that would've helped us in the middle anyway...

 

[04 Dreaming]

So let me get this straight, Montgomery walks, Pangai walked out confused before being spotted at Broncos training, Topine hasn't been seen in close to 6 months, Sutton only gets surgery this week, the club tried to offload or at least sideline Mariner and no information regarding Patolo. This with KO also probably out of action for at least half the seaon.

Some of this we can put down to a bit of bad luck but questions need to be asked around the treatment of our players and workload/injury prevention practices. There is a smell about the place when u add everything up

 

[Menteek]

Some of this we can put down to a bit of bad luck but questions need to be asked around the treatment of our players and workload/injury prevention practices. There is a smell about the place when u add everything up

smell of the Penrith systems hitting belmore meaning you either swim or drown. Club First Team Second Individual Third. Thought you knew that already

 

[steeliz]

Some of this we can put down to a bit of bad luck but questions need to be asked around the treatment of our players and workload/injury prevention practices. There is a smell about the place when u add everything up

Yep. Completely agree.

Seeing as how we are the only NRL team that has players that get injured.

There needs to be an inquiry.

 

[liljohny]

Some of this we can put down to a bit of bad luck but questions need to be asked around the treatment of our players and workload/injury prevention practices. There is a smell about the place when u add everything up

Go play on the M1

 

[04 Dreaming]

smell of the Penrith systems hitting belmore meaning you either swim or drown. Club First Team Second Individual Third. Thought you knew that already

Attempting to intagrate penrith systems without a halfback (letalone Cleary), without a fullback (letalone edwards), and without any quality mids (letalone jfh, yeo leoata etc) or even depth of mids and a rookie coach tryna make this happen. Come on

 

[Tassie Devil]

Attempting to intagrate penrith systems without a halfback (letalone Cleary), without a fullback (letalone edwards), and without any quality mids (letalone jfh, yeo leoata etc) or even depth of mids and a rookie coach tryna make this happen. Come on

You do understand that you need to put a structure and system into place first?

 

[04 Dreaming]

You do understand that you need to put a structure and system into place first?

U do understand weve been rolling with penrith structure and systems since barrett arrived in 2021 and our record is 17 wins from 72 games

 

[04 Dreaming]

You do understand that you need to put a structure and system into place first?

We need to rethink the pantherisation of the club

 

[DinkumDog]

We need to rethink the pantherisation of the club

We did. We have recruits from Wabbit, Chook, Knight, Warrior, Shark and your personal favourite: Dolphin .

 

[bowleggedwog]

Go play on the M1

Please be the same M1i drive lol

 

[bowleggedwog]

We did. We have recruits from Wabbit, Chook, Knight, Warrior, Shark and your personal favourite: Dolphin .

Please don’t kill the narrative and make sense. Plus we are copying the team that won the last 3 grand finals and the clown crew aren’t happy . We should sign the dragons n tigers players with Dessie running the cap again that would keep them happy .

 

[D- voice]

We did. We have recruits from Wabbit, Chook, Knight, Warrior, Shark and your personal favourite: Dolphin .

Didn't you know ?
Gus Is building a Noah's Ark mark II at Belmore and all the animals are invited...Sorry no Clowns allowed

 

[DinkumDog]

Didn't you know ?
Gus Is building a Noah's Ark mark II at Belmore and all the animals are invited...Sorry no Clowns allowed

That’s ’Colourful Circus Identities’.
The C word is offensive .

 

[D- voice]

That’s ’Colourful Circus Identities’.
The C word is offensive .

I refrain from saying anything that would get me banned

 

[Micko]

The argument I keep hearing from some is that the club is recruiting poorly. It’s a fair argument if we did recruit poorly. But have we?

Crichton is clearly a great recruit. Tracey, Curran and Mann would also be considered three of the best recruits of any team.

Taafe and Hutch are clearly better than many others that were available.

Add in Xeri who could be one of the games best centres.

Who else could or should we have bought. No middles were a realistic chance. AFB could be considered a miss but he clearly wants a title and we are very little chance compared to the Sharks. Any player that signed on with their own club clearly wasn’t a good chance either.

The negatives towards our recruitment is somewhat unfair when you look at the talent we have signed. Especially when you consider we lacked experience and we now have that.

 

[2ndphase]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1750842468554399797

 

[B-Train]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1750842468554399797

Hopefully we have as many retro jerseys and merch as possible next year and can go back to the 80's/90's logo, or even the Berries logo if we wear a Berries jersey..

 

[diddly]

We need to rethink the pantherisation of the club

Hopefully we have as many retro jerseys and merch as possible next year and can go back to the 80's/90's logo, or even the Berries logo if we wear a Berries jersey..

Whilst the Bulldog is a stronger more appropriate and marketable emblem/logo - it would be "nice" to have some sort of "Berries" logo somewhere on the kit - acknowledges the history.

 

[EXPLORER]

smell of the Penrith systems hitting belmore meaning you either swim or drown. Club First Team Second Individual Third. Thought you knew that already

And let's be honest
Those Penrith systems we talk about are actually old school bulldog systems that Gould learn during his time at the bulldogs and implemented at Penrith.
Gould has mentioned this from time to time during commentary over the last 25 years.
I have heard him credit a lot of the storm success abd foundations of that clubs sustained success by the standards Chris Anderson implemented at the very beginning.
The standards he learnt at the bulldogs was implemented at the storm and they have stuck to those fundamental ideas since,
The same at the panthers..
Gould implemented standards and expectations and systems he knew would bring success to the panthers.
A lot of talk is about pathways, that is only one part, the other is implementing high standards and expectations at the highest level that filters down through the grades.
And that's hard work, pushing players to breaking point is what hardens players into winners.
Our 98 team would never have been able to get those come from behind wins without that hard training and weeding out the weak.
That's what we mean when we say bulldog DNA.
Club first, team second, individual 3rd.
Back to the old ways, to be a bulldog, you have to be tough.
I'm all for this hard nose approach,