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,
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