Preliminary Final vs Panthers @ Accor Stadium

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Panthers were good.
But Storm's stupid mistakes stopped it being a contest.

Pretty damn disappointing from our guys.
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Pretty much sums up our season, fitting ending if we are being honest.
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Just wish the game had been refereed fairly.

We were never going to win, not with all those mistakes. But seriously, some of the things that we've been penalised for and the panthers have got away with are just bulls*it.
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TC wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:39 pm Just wish the game had been refereed fairly.

We were never going to win, not with all those mistakes. But seriously, some of the things that we've been penalised for and the panthers have got away with are just bulls*it.
Yeah, we've been pretty crap but the officiating has been pretty bloody ordinary too
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Phil gould said Penrith 40 storm 10, gave us too much credit, we won’t score 10 😂
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blazza18 wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:31 pm They aren’t without fault but can’t believe a team with three elite spine players has looked this hopeless with the ball. I don’t know what changes in the off-season but something has to.
Being on the same page as each other would be a good start
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The officiating is poor and Penrith get away with a ton but we also do this to ourselves. Just can’t help ourselves. We used to be able to make up for it with hard work defensively and talent with the ball.
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Katoa and King the only 2 that deserve to be paid tonight. The rest laid down.
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Hahaha, we shift left and people trip over, run in front of each other, stop… it’s like a 3 Stooges skit.
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Don't have a crack at the refs. Please. Stay classy.
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What a way to go out. A 38 - 4 humping.

Deserved in every way.
- Team selection
- Tactics
- Discipline
- Skill

You could pick 4 players out of random Q Cup teams, throw them together at kick-off, and they would likely be more in sync than our left edge were tonight.
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Jesus.

Season really ended the way it deserved.

If we are the fourth best side, what the hell does that say about the rest
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Not a single forward over 100m ..

Our forwards numbers are a joke.

Every starting forward for Penrith over 100m.

It’s not hard to simply look at Penrith and broncos and see why they are so dominate, they have the best forward packs in the comp which dominate and allow their spine to shine.

If Bellamy sticks with this pack next year he needs to go to.

We ain’t winning a comp anytime soon with this current forward pack.
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If Penrith were held to the same account as Storm by the refs it would have been a lot closer. Wouldn't have won, but maybe not embarrassed.

NAS threatened with a sin bin for a late push on clearly just showed the attitude that Gee carried into the game.
And while Sydney fans call NAS a grub, all of Fisher-Harris' cocked elbows and facials just slide by.
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The ref is the very least of our worries
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