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enrith face one of the NRL’s toughest tasks this Friday to finish the regular season and while it’s a brilliant test of strength ahead of the Finals, there’s legitimate fear this could be a massacre at AAMI Park.

The Panthers are stumbling towards September, losing their last two matches and struggling to match the intensity of their opponents at the pointy end of the season.

Melbourne meanwhile are looking to confirm the Minor Premiership on Friday night, and will farewell Billy Slater in what will be his last regular season home game at AAMI Park. It is a formidable mountain Penrith must climb.

This match has been made even tougher with the loss of one of the game’s best defensive centres, Dean Whare, to a broken arm. It makes that right hand side vulnerable to Melbourne’s superior attack.

But Penrith have been boosted by the return of James Maloney, who should add some structure to Penrith’s attack.

On paper, Penrith should be a good chance in this game but as we’ve seen too many times this season, it’s just not translating to strong showings on the field. The side is ill-disciplined, lacking cohesion and takes too long to click into gear. The Warriors proved last week you can lock Penrith out of a game in the first 15 to 20 minutes and Melbourne is certainly capable of doing just that, perhaps even quicker.

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tackle rate. It shows a complete disrespect for the game, their opponents and most importantly themselves. It is also reflective of a side playing without confidence and a clear direction.

Melbourne aren’t necessarily playing their best football despite sitting on top of the ladder and in fact don’t really top any of the key statistics heading into the final round. But as always, their game management is superb and it’s what won them last week’s scrappy match against the Titans on the Gold Coast.

There’s no doubt the Storm will make errors in this game (in fact, they’ve made more handling errors this year than any other side in the competition) but it’s all about Penrith capitalising on those mistakes and the side has shown nothing in recent weeks to prove that they will.

But if they are a chance of toppling the competition front-runners, they must

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complete their sets strongly, kick well and show a legitimate intent from the moment the game kicks off.

If you beat Melbourne in Melbourne, you complete at over 85 per cent and you frustrate them out of the game. Penrith has it in them, but for most of the season it has remained bottled up.

I do believe Maloney’s return will make this more of a contest than it originally seemed to be, but you just get the feeling Penrith is waiting for the Finals.

I said last week I had almost reached the point of frustration when it came to the Panthers, but gave them the benefit of the doubt against the Warriors.

There’s no benefit of the doubt this week. I’ll still be flying the Panthers flag proudly and boy do I hope they cause a monumental upset, but I just can’t see the Storm dropping this.

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PANTHER RUMBLINGS

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PEACHEY NOT STAYING » There’s plenty of speculation around at

the moment about Tyrone Peachey wanting to stay at the Panthers next season despite signing a lucrative deal to join the Gold Coast Titans. I’m told by key officials at Panthers that there’s been no formal approach by Peachey or his management to Penrith regarding the possibility of staying at the foot of the Mountains.

Even if that did happen, Penrith would be unlikely to be able to accommodate him due to salary cap constraints. As I understand it, Peachey is still committed to the Titans deal but with a young family, he’s concerned about moving away from the support network he has in Sydney. Watch this space but as it stands Peachey is still heading to the glitter strip in 2019.

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» There’s also been rumours floating

around about James Maloney’s future at Penrith. The 32-year-old, who is set to return from a knee injury tonight against Melbourne, has been linked to the Gold Coast with reports he’s unhappy at Penrith after just one season. However, I’ve been told there’s no truth to the story and Maloney will definitely be at the club next season. The Titans apparently made a casual approach to Maloney’s manager about his availability but were quickly told to look elsewhere.

» Panthers General Manager Phil Gould

certainly raised some eyebrows this week when he suggested injured fullback Dylan Edwards could make a shock return if Penrith reached the Preliminary Final.

I’m told the club’s medical staff were a little bemused by the claim as while Edwards would most likely be physically fit for such a return, all his rehabilitation plans have been focused around a 2019 comeback. Edwards suffered a serious shoulder injury back in April and the Panthers haven’t been able to adequately cover the fullback position since.

» All is quiet on the search for a new

coach at the moment but I can tell you the club remains very confident that Ivan Cleary will switch from the Tigers to the foot of the Mountains in time for the 2019 season. Penrith are treading care-

fully given the Tigers’ initial response to the Cleary rumours but with the Tigers playing their final game of the season this weekend and now out of Finals contention, you can expect the topic to reignite through September and October.

» Horrible news for one of the game’s

best defensive centres with Dean Whare ruled out for the next month of football with a broken arm. Best case scenario for the 28-year-old would be a return for the Grand Final, if the Panthers manage to turn their fortunes around and make it that far. It was better news for hooker Wayde Egan, with his knee injury not as bad as first thought – ensuring he’ll play again this season.

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took the unusual step of travelling with the team to Auckland last week. Gould is offering as much support as he can to caretaker coach Cameron Ciraldo during what is a difficult time for the club. Gus looked somewhat forlorn as the camera panned to him during the second half of last Friday’s game at Mount Smart Stadium.

» The schedule for week one of the Finals will be released by the NRL on Sunday night with the final game of the season – Brisbane’s clash with Manly at Suncorp

Stadium – likely to have some bearing on the final finishing positions. Tickets to Finals games will go on sale on Monday morning to Members. Meanwhile, club captains of all eight teams participating in the Finals will gather at Allianz Stadium on Monday for the annual media session.

It’ll be the third year in a row the Panthers have attended the media call and incredibly Penrith will send their third captain along in as many years. Matt Moylan did the duties in 2016, Peter Wallace in 2017 and James Maloney will be sent this year.

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anthers Stadium will host a whopping seven games this weekend as the NSWRL Finals Series officially gets underway.

The local venue will be home to all four Intrust Super Premiership (ISP) Finals, while Panthers Stadium will also host three Jersey Flegg Cup Finals this Saturday and Sunday.

Penrith will take part in two Finals games on Saturday afternoon. The minor premiership-winning Panthers will take on the Canterbury Bulldogs in an ISP Qualifying Final at 1.10pm, while immediately after Penrith will take on the Cronulla Sharks in a Jersey Flegg Qualifying Final at 3.15pm.

If both sides manage to win their respective week one Finals games, they will each advance to the Preliminary Final and will be just one win away from a Grand Final appearance.

Speaking with Extra Time, Panthers ISP captain Kaide Ellis is excited to be playing the first week of the Finals at home against the Bulldogs.

“It’ll be good not to travel and stay local.

Having Finals at your home ground is pretty cool,” he said.

“The Bulldogs are a really tough side, every time I’ve played them they’ve always been the hardest games.

“They are just a big side and have a strong power game, we can’t underestimate them. They are always close games, always tough games.”

After a strong regular season where they only dropped four games, Penrith are in a very strong position to become back to back ISP Premiers.

Ellis, who made his NRL debut earlier this year, said it’s still been a tough season for his young side despite their consistency at the top of the ladder.

“That’s always the hard thing after winning the competition last year, every game everyone is coming for you,” he said.

“At the start of the season we knocked that on the head, we said ‘last year is last year and this year is this year’. We can’t expect our success last season to get us over.

“It’s a completely different side and I think everyone’s just bought in, and it seems to be working.”

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anthers superstar Nathan Cleary has admitted he’s not currently playing to his potential, which he says is having a detrimental effect on his side.

With Penrith limping towards the Finals, the 20-year-old has accepted the blame for his side’s poor form in recent weeks.

Cleary said he isn’t happy with how he’s playing at the moment.

“My form is not where I want it to be, it’s been a bit inconsistent and I’m working hard to turn that around,” he said.

“My form’s had an impact on how the team is playing and that’s disappointing for me to know that I’m letting the boys down.

“I’m working hard to turn it around and hopefully I can do it this weekend leading into the Finals.”

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to the pressure heaped on him for being an Origin-winning half, Cleary said that wasn’t the case.

“As a halfback of a team you are always going to get targeted more, it’s just something you’ve got to deal with and move forward,” he said.

“I just have to keep working hard and try and add things to my game to try and counter that.”

Penrith have an almighty road trip to end the regular season, a date with the Melbourne Storm at AAMI Park.

Not only will it be champion Billy Slater’s last official home game at the venue, the Storm will also be playing for the Minor Premiership.

The Panthers haven’t won in the Victorian capital since 2005, but Cleary believes there’s no better time to end that hoodoo than the present.

“I think that’s motivation enough there,” he said of Penrith’s record in Melbourne.

“I think the way we’ve been playing the last six weeks, no one’s happy about it

Star halfback Nathan Cleary chats with the media on Monday. Photo: Melinda Jane but it’s a massive opportunity this Friday night to turn it around and put in a really good performance.”

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Despite their rough record of late, Cleary

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Will Maloney be the difference for Penrith?

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e’s back. And just in the nick of time.

James Maloney, who, to paraphrase John Cleese and his Monty Python friends, can switch very easily from being the messiah to a very naughty boy, is here to save the day for the Panthers.

Not that anybody inside Panthers HQ will be talking in those terms, of course.

Cameron Ciraldo, along with any player who walks anywhere near a microphone before the game against Melbourne, will be making all the right noises about not relying on Maloney’s return to spark the Panthers’ season back to life.

The reality, however, is that the one-time ladder-leaders need something, anything, to remind them of how good they can be after two straight losses have seen them drop outside the top four entering the final round of the minor premiership.

And when it comes to providing that elusive x-factor, there are few players who can bring the swagger back to a team the way Maloney can.

At his best, it looks like he’s cornered the market in confidence. The ball sings from his hands and he puts players into holes

with ridiculous ease.

But having sat out two weeks with a knee injury, will he be able to slide straight back into the combinations that were working so well for the Panthers earlier in the season?

The upside of that oversupply of confidence is a belief that he can throw any pass, at any time, and hit a teammate squarely on the chest. The downside is that the same belief leads him to throwing more intercepts to opposition players than any other five-eighth in recent memory.

It gave Brad Fittler heartburn in the State of Origin series. It probably caused Anthony Griffin to deal with an extra ulcer or two before his tenure came to an end, and Cameron Ciraldo was given an immediate introduction to the double-edged sword that is the Maloney passing game when the veteran playmaker threw yet another pass for an intercept try against the Titans in the new coach’s debut in Round 22.

Throw in the defensive misses that were coming at an alarming rate while Maloney played with injury before being forced onto the sideline, and there’ll be some

nervous men in the coach’s box come kickoff time at AAMI Park.

It might turn out that playing against one of his old clubs is precisely what Maloney needs to help re-ignite their season.

Playing against Melbourne as a Shark in

2017, the two-time premiership winner kicked a decisive field goal in a Cronulla victory at AAMI Park, and if the scores are close on Friday night, you know he’ll have no hesitation in stepping up and saying to his teammates, “Boys, I’ve got this”.

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A few surprises in my team of the year

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nother NRL season is almost over and it’s time to select my Team of the Year for 2018. The players I’ve selected have enjoyed outstanding seasons for their respective clubs and deserve the recognition. My Team of the Year is…

1. Kalyn Ponga (Knights) What an outstanding true rookie season!

Kalyn had all the pressure on him and lived up to the hype.

2. David Fusitu’a (Warriors) David’s not only an incredible finisher but his starts to sets have helped the Warriors gain plenty of success this season.

3. Latrell Mitchell (Roosters) Latrell was in devastating form leading into Origin and became an even bigger threat after it. For a 20-year-old, he’s the elite centre in the world right now.

4. Esan Marsters (Tigers) I like the way he’s trending. Esan is a great goalkicker, he made his Test debut for the Kiwis, and had a very good season for a Tigers team that missed the top eight.

5. Blake Ferguson (Roosters) You need wingers to get your sets started

these days and there wasn’t many better than Blake this season.

6. Cameron Munster (Storm) Cam is probably the form player of the competition at the moment. He competes on every single play and I love watching him do his thing.

7. Luke Brooks (Tigers) Luke had a very good start to the year for the Tigers and I think relished having the leadership of an older guy around him in Benji Marshall.

8. Andrew Fifita (Sharks) Andrew is probably the premier front rower in the NRL. He gets his metres up, is hard to tackle and has played more minutes per game this year than he has his whole career.

9. Cameron Smith (Storm) I could have picked Damien Cook but reputation and how he manages games gives Cam Smith the slight edge for me.

10. David Klemmer (Bulldogs) For a side that was struggling all year, David’s constant metres, effort and leading from the front has been inspirational for the Bulldogs this season.

11. Tyson Frizell (Dragons)

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12. Boyd Cordner (Roosters) Boyd captained NSW to an Origin series win. He plays 80 minutes each week and is tough, hard-nosed and uncompromising.

13. Sam Burgess (Rabbitohs)

Sam’s led from the front all year and is always involved in the game. He’s probably the best Englishman rugby league’s ever seen.

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Remember when... the Panthers won the 1991 Grand Final?

It was a spectacular time for the city of Penrith, and celebrated far and wide.

Pictured is two men celebrating the 1991 win over Canberra after the game –

Barry Walsh and Don Feltis. Both would go on to take the role of Chairman at the club in later years.

Penrith will win many more Grand Finals in the years and decades to come, but nothing will ever be like the first.

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EXCITEMENT BUILDS AHEAD OF WOMEN’S COMPETITION » The countdown is on to the inaugural NRL Holden Women’s Premiership, with matches to run alongside the NRL Finals, which begin next week. The trophy has now been revealed, with players from all four teams competing in the competition gathering in Sydney to check it out last weekend. NRL Senior Manager of the women’s elite competition, Tiffany Slater, said the excitement and anticipation amongst fans and players alike was growing by the day. “Some of the best female athletes across Australia and New Zealand will be on show as part of our first ever Premiership,” she said.

» In a landmark decision, the New

South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and Country Rugby League (CRL) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which will involve formal discussions in relation to a possible merger that would see rugby league in NSW governed by one body for the first time in more than 80 years. The merger would allow for significantly more com-

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JERSEY FLEGG Simaima Taufa, Hilda Mariu, Jayme Fressard and Talesha Quinn. Photo: NRL Photos bined resources to deliver rugby league programs and competitions across the whole state.

tional entertainment acts right here in Parramatta,” said NSW Sports Minister, Stuart Ayres.

» Scoreboards and seats will be

» Sydney Roosters enforcer Dylan Napa

installed soon at the new Western Sydney Stadium in Parramatta, with the facility now 70 per cent complete.

“Western Sydney Stadium is on track to open within months – a new home to showcase our finest home grown and international sporting and interna-

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has been suspended for three games for his controversial tackle on Broncos hooker Andrew McCullough.

» Graham Annesley is re-joining the

NRL as its Head of Football, quitting the Gold Coast Titans.

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