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ugby league is so often a game of momentum, and different teams handle it differently. Penrith, for example, rarely give up the momentum once it turns their way. Last Friday night was a great example – it took a little bit of time for the Panthers to wrestle momentum from Brisbane, but once they did there was no turning back. The Broncos were done. Canberra are the opposite – they give up their momentum so easily, whether it’s through lazy defence, errors or simply not having the mental aptitude to go the full 80 minutes. And once they give it up, they struggle to do what’s necessary to get it back. It’s why Ricky Stuart’s side has given up more double digit leads in the last few seasons than any other side in the competition. It’s not just bad luck – there’s clearly a
SUNDAY, APRIL 24 | 4.05PM | BLUEBET STADIUM | REFEREE: GRANT ATKINS pattern in Canberra’s game that Stuart can’t seem to fix. The Raiders return to BlueBet Stadium this Sunday a year on from that infamous encounter last year that resulted in Penrith being labelled arrogant and mug lairs – an accusation that didn’t bother the Panthers in the slightest, as they knew a slice of arrogance was needed in their attitude to go one better than they did in 2020. On that day momentum played a role too. The Raiders scored first and appeared in control, but very quickly things turned Penrith’s way and they scored three tries in 12 minutes to take an 18-6 lead into the break. The game was all but over at that point. It’s hard to know where Stuart goes from here, especially against the defending Premiers. It’s difficult to find too many faults in Penrith’s game at present, so his
game plan most wholly and solely be about his own team. And in many ways it’ll be about getting back to basics – defend well, kick strong and try to frustrate the opposition into rare mistakes. For Penrith, this is another strong test heading into a difficult May where contests against the Eels, Storm and Roosters await. That’s not to suggest this is an easy encounter or Canberra are there to be walked over, but there is no question that Ivan Cleary’s side is swimming along so solidly at present that for the time being, it’s all about improving the little things rather than the bigger picture. Cleary’s challenge now will be keeping a lid on the talk about Penrith going backto-back. The Origin period may indeed help that, though Cleary will be hoping to fare better than he did in 2021 during the representative challenges.
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The Panthers have stuck with the same team that downed the Broncos last Friday night, while after criticising those who demanded his inclusion in the starting side, Stuart has decided Xavier Savage is ready for top grade footy against the Premiers, naming him on the wing. Jordan Rapana shifts to fullback in place of Charnze NicollKlokstad, who has clearly lost his attacking spark this season. Both of these teams have enjoyed long turnarounds, and a late afternoon timeslot should make for some free-flowing, energetic football. I wouldn’t be surprised if this one is quite the high scoring affair. Penrith are simply going too good at the moment to be beaten here, but the Raiders are hurting, and will certainly give this a shake at some stage – if the Panthers allow the momentum to shift, that is. Tip: Panthers by 16.
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NRL BOSSES BACK PANTHERS ! Head honchos love Panthers: Penrith is enjoying unprecedented good relationships with the game’s hierarchy at present. Panthers Group CEO Brian Fletcher has a long-standing friendship with ARLC Chairman Peter V’landys, and Andrew Abdo is also showing his love for the Panthers. Abdo made a strong point of being in Bathurst for Penrith’s recent game against Newcastle, attending a function the night before and spending plenty of time with the club’s Directors, officials and sponsors at the match. Next Friday morning, both V’landys and Abdo will head down the M4 for a corporate breakfast being put on by the club for sponsors. Both V’landys and Abdo recognise the importance of Penrith’s footprint to the NRL. It’s obvious, but something often neglected by head office in the past. The NRL was also planning on having its season launch in Penrith this year for the first time, but the flood emergency saw it called off.
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late 1950s and 1960s, had a strong career at Newtown before transferring to Penrith to play in the NSWRL Second Division competition in 1964. When Penrith entered the first grade competition in 1967, Brown was handed the captaincy and is therefore considered as the “first Panther”. Pictured left is Brown playing for Newtown.
! Spotted: Panthers fullback Dylan Edwards enjoying a game day Good Friday breakfast with his young family at Percy Plunkett ahead of Penrith’s game against the Broncos at BlueBet Stadium. ! Spotted: Stephen Crichton on one of his many visits to JB Hi-Fi, intercepting a good deal. ! Magic Panthers: Penrith may give up a home game in 2023 as part of Magic Round. The club has shown little interest in being the ‘home’ team for Magic Round encounters since the launch of the concept, unwilling to give up a BlueBet Stadium match for the Brisbane extravaganza. But with the Panthers likely to be homeless for the next two seasons while a new stadium is built in Penrith, I’m hearing the club will consider all opportunities before them in relation to games. That includes hosting a game in Magic Round, and potentially a second regional game – either at Bathurst or another location.
! Cleary charged: Nathan Cleary is free to play against Canberra this weekend after a nervous 24 hours following Penrith’s win over Brisbane last Friday night. There was always an expectation Cleary would be charged over the tackle on Billy Walters late in the game but the club was always confident it’d be a light hit. In the end Cleary got charged with a Grade One Dangerous Contact offence, resulting in a fine only. !
! Death of foundation Panther: Very sad news last weekend with the passing of the man credited as Panther #1 (not #2, as was originally reported) in Tony Brown. Brown, who represented Australia in the
Paying respect: The Panthers will hold a pre-game ANZAC Day ceremony prior to Sunday’s game against Canberra. The Panthers are also wearing a special commemorative jersey. Key elements of the jersey include a traditional poppy and sprig of rosemary above the Panthers club
logo, a subtle camouflage design on the black base, and the Australian and New Zealand flags positioned on the left and right sleeves.
! Winning ways: The Panthers will be looking for a record 21st consecutive win at BlueBet Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Not since the Manly side of 1970 has a side won 20 games in a row at the one venue, but the Panthers clocked that up last weekend. The Panthers haven’t lost in Penrith since Round 19, 2019 – an incredible run.
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iam Martin never met his grandfather, but he’ll be thinking about him on Sunday afternoon when he runs out onto the BlueBet Stadium pitch. The NRL’s annual ANZAC Round, which kicked off last night, is an important time for reflection and paying tribute to those that have put themselves in harm’s way to protect our way of life. It’s hard to comprehend but men – many the age or even younger than our current NRL stars – would leave their families for war, with some never to return home again. For players like tough Penrith backrower Liam Martin, ANZAC Round will always mean something special to him as it’s a time he can honour his late grandfather who served in the Australian Air Force. “He was up in Darwin for a bit there, but I never got to know him,” Martin told Extra Time on Wednesday. “He passed away before I was born, but we’re all proud of him. “I’ve marched and worn his medals before, so ANZAC Round is pretty special to me.” Like the Panthers do most years, the players will once again wear a commemorative jersey for their ANZAC Round clash against the Canberra Raiders on Sunday. Key elements of this year’s ANZAC jersey include a traditional poppy and sprig of rosemary above the Panthers club logo, a subtle camouflage design on the black base,
and the Australian and New Zealand flags positioned on the left and right sleeves. The front of the jersey also features a strip of red poppies in place of the usual red stripe across the chest, and the back of the jersey is emblazoned with the eternal phrase – ‘Lest We Forget’. Martin said he’s looking forward to donning this year’s design. “This year’s jersey is nice and subtle… I think they’ve done an outstanding job,” he admitted. “It’s incredible what they do, with all the jerseys every year. They just keep getting better and better.” A huge crowd is expected for Sunday afternoon’s ANZAC Round blockbuster against the Green Machine. Interestingly, it’ll be the first time the two sides have met since last year’s fiery encounter at BlueBet that saw some sections of the media carry on for weeks about Penrith’s supposed arrogant and “mug lair” behaviour. Martin, who was in the middle of one of the many scuffles last season, said games involving the 1990 and 1991 Grand Finalists are always intense. “I do remember last year’s game, it got a bit fiery,” the 25-year-old said. “Since I’ve been in first grade there’s always somewhat of a clash between us and them, every time we play them. “I remember playing them out in Wagga one year and it got a bit fiery and then the same thing happened
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Liam Martin has been strong for Penrith this season. Photo: NRL Images.
Liam Martin is having a strong season for Penrith. Photo: NRL Images.
last year… it’s been pretty intense.” With Canberra currently going through a rough patch to start the year, the Panthers are expecting their opposition to be even more fired up than usual come Sunday. For the competition leaders, they’ll be chasing their 21st consecutive victory at home. In-fact, the last team to beat the defending Premiers on home soil was Ricky Stuart’s men way back on July 28, 2019. “Canberra are a quality opposition, I think they were the last team to beat us at home,” Martin said. “We’re looking forward to this clash. We know that they are a strong side and, if they can string 80 minutes together, they will be dangerous. “Ricky gave them a rocket after the game last week, we know he’ll have them up and ready to go. It’ll be intense.”
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t’s a popular sporting phrase, one which I’m sure every league supporter has heard at least once. It’s a phrase every club aspires to but not every club succeeds in implementing. ‘Next man up’ basically means; “A team mentality in which any player can be seamlessly replaced by a backup. Teams with a next man up mentality play as if any player on the roster will be starting the next week.” Every player is important in the team, from the starting halfback to player number 30 in the fulll-time squad. It’s a phrase made popular by the New England Patriots NFL team, yet it is now used in rugby league. There’s no doubt the Melbourne Storm embrace and applied this philosophy first, now so do several other NRL teams including the Penrith Panthers. Here in Australia, the coaches also like to refer to it as ‘club culture’. “We have a strong culture,” they’ll say. At Penrith, there’s no doubt some players in the team are looked up to and are leaders. In a true team mentality however, everyone has a voice. From Jarome Luai and Brian To’o, who have no problem talking the legs off an iron pot, to Moses Leota and James Fisher-Harris who let their actions do the talking. It’s easy to see that the Panthers all get along. More than that they embrace the ‘next man up’ culture and treat each
A strong culture is helping maintain Penrith’s winning ways. Photo: NRL Images.
other as family. I mean you might not make that extra effort for your team mate if you’re gassed and can barely move your legs, but you will if you see them as family. At Penrith, the indoctrination of the ‘next man up’ philosophy begins as soon as a youngster pulls on a Panthers jumper. It starts in the representative junior Harold Matthews (Under 16) competition. If not sooner. Over the last couple of weeks Panthers coach Ivan Cleary has been asked many times what he’ll do when Origin winger
Brian To’o is fit to come back in round nine of the competition. With Taylan May going so well, Ivan will actually have a tough decision to make shortly. Does he drop a player who has successfully demonstrated the ‘next man up’ culture or does he make room for To’o by dropping Charlie Staines, a player who has improved out-of-sight and doesn’t deserve to be out of the team either. It’s an embarrassment of riches and a good headache to have, as Ivan has already admitted.
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hen a shy James Fisher-Harris first arrived in Penrith nearly a decade ago as a young teen, he never would’ve imagined he’d still be here with the club’s mascot tattooed on his chest. But after winning the NRL Grand Final with his ‘brothers’ last October, getting a giant panther inked on his upper torso was one of the first things he did to commemorate the momentous occasion. “I got it after the Grand Final… it just felt like the right time,” the New Zealander told Extra Time recently. “Whatever happens [in the future], happens. But [winning the Premiership] is sort of like a dream come true, so I’m pretty proud to have it on me, to represent.” Playing in five of Penrith’s first six games this season, the 26-year-old prop has been in scintillating form once again, enjoying his best game of the year last Friday night against the new-look Brisbane Broncos. In the big 40-12 victory at BlueBet Stadium, Fisher-Harris ran for a whopping 200m, with 85 of those metres post-contact. He also notched up 30 tackles along with two tackle breaks.
Family man James Fisher-Harris is enjoying his footy at Penrith. Photo: NRL Images.
With the top-of-the-table Panthers currently owning the best defence and attack in the league, the Whangarei Marist Brothers junior credited both his backs and forwards for stepping up in the absence of big-time players Moses Leota and Brian To’o. “The boys are doing good, all the forwards have stepped up – Eiso, Kenny, Spenny, Sorro, Yeo’s playing 80 minutes,” FisherHarris said. “Our backs as well, they just get us on the front foot. Our back five have been killing it and it makes our jobs, as forwards, way easier so we can just focus on defence and try pay them back with our D.” With Leota and To’o due back from their respective injuries in the coming weeks, Penrith again look like the team to beat this year – that’s if anyone can. “Big Mos will be back soon, I can’t wait – that’s my boy,” Fisher-Harris declared. “He’s trying to be patient and wait his time but I know he’s itching to get back out there with the boys and just be around the boys again.” Penrith will aim for seven wins in a row this Sunday afternoon when they face old foes Canberra in ANZAC Round. With three near sell-out crowds at home already this season, Sunday’s game against the Raiders is expected to be no different.
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f the Panthers are to win back-to-back premierships there’s an obvious and very familiar foe they’ll need to go through. The standout game by some distance at the upcoming Magic Round in Brisbane will be the Saturday night showdown between the Panthers and Storm. There’s a chance that on current form the 2020 Grand Finalists could arrive at Suncorp Stadium with just one loss between them from the first nine rounds this season. To call it a blockbuster would be the understatement of the 21st century. The one thing it most definitely will be billed as will be a potential Grand Final preview. There’s three games to go before then, and while ‘taking it one game a time’ is the original and still undefeated heavyweight champion of any coach’s post-game clichés, Ivan Cleary wouldn’t be the coach he is if he wasn’t already formulating a few ideas on what the Panthers will need to do to beat Melbourne in Round 10. For almost 20 seasons, the floors of losing coach’s boxes have been strewn with game plans that didn’t work against the Storm, and in recent times many of the those same plans would have had ‘Stop Harry Grant and Brandon Smith’ written in big, red letters at the top of the page. The threats are many when you play Melbourne – you may have heard of
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Cameron Munster, Ryan Papenhuyzen and Jahrome Hughes, among others – but any plan that is a chance of leading to victory has to begin where the Storm’s attack begins, and that’s at dummy half. Grant and Smith are the great 1-2 punch in the NRL out of dummy half. There’s no combination that comes close to matching the platform they give Munster
and Hughes, and the numbers for dummy half runs through the first six rounds of the current season are eye-opening in the extreme. The Storm have averaged more dummy half runs than any other team, which is no surprise after also leading that category in 2021, but they’ve taken it to a whole new level so far this season. 89 times in just six games they’ve run the ball from that position, which is more than a third higher than the second rated team. And why wouldn’t they? Brandon Smith is the king of the fast play the ball, and when he and Harry Grant are on the field at the same time, you can be sure that one quick scamper from dummy half will be followed by another one, which must have Munster and Co licking their lips at the prospect of taking on a retreating defensive line. How do you stop them? You win collisions, control the ruck and do a tremendous job with your marker defence. Easily written, not so easy to do against the calibre of team that Craig Bellamy has assembled. Penrith do it as well if not better than any team in the competition, but as the build-up to the Magic Round Monster Clash begins in earnest, look for the Panthers to snuff the life out of their next three opponents where the danger begins, with the first man to touch the ball.
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he Penrith Panthers have moved back into second on the Knock-On Effect NSW Cup table with a strong 42-16 victory over Mounties. Despite the start to the season, there is still plenty of room for improvement, according to coach Peter Wallace. “We haven’t put in a complete performance yet,” Wallace said before the game. “It’s just been some little lapses in our games, whether it be a soft try or back-toback errors for a period. “I’m just looking for consistent performance week to week, but also throughout the 80 minutes each week.” Early on, it looked like the Panthers were going to put in the performance that Wallace was looking for as their forwards dominated to take an 18-0 lead, but errors and defensive lapses saw the margin reduced to eight. Another burst in the middle of the second half saw the lead extend to 42-10 with 20 minutes remaining, before a simple Mounties try late brought the score to 42-16. Wallace was happy with the growing combination between halves Sean O’Sullivan and Kurt Falls, which he felt was coming along well despite O’Sullivan barely training with the squad during the preseason, due to Nathan Cleary’s shoulder injury. He was also pleased with the form showed by the rest of the spine so far this year.
Sean O’Sullivan has been impressive for Penrith. Photo: Jake Hunter
“Sunia Turuva’s been going really well at fullback. He’s been one of our most consistent,” Wallace said. “[Hooker] Soni Luke’s been going really well too. He’s had a really good start to the year.” Wallace also made mention of the ability to bring players up from Jersey Flegg and have them easily gel with the side as part of their good early season form. The Panthers’ Jersey Flegg side managed
to snap a three-game losing run over the weekend, beating the Victoria Thunderbolts 46-20 in Melbourne. It was a good day out for the Panthers, scoring eight tries to four in the victory, with three of them coming from lock HannaJonathan El-Nchar and two from William Fakatoumafi. The result puts the Panthers back up to 5th on the table. Both teams play Canberra this week.
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$790.0 $790.00 790.0 Gifts G Gif Gift iffftts ts NAME: DEBBIE SMITH | SUBURB: URUNGA What is your greatest Penrith Panthers memory? Taking my Panther fan mother to her very first Panthers game at Penrith Stadium for her 75th birthday with five of her kids, six grandchildren and a great grandchild. I also got to meet my favourite player Dylan Edwards. Why was this memory so important to you?
It was in 2019. We had a big gathering with all of her nine children, 20 odd grandkids and a couple of great grandchildren at Panthers Leagues Club just beforehand. Six of her children are Panthers supporters (the other three don’t matter!). How long have you been supporting the Panthers? 35 years.
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