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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3182686, member: 1899"] Sydney certainly gave it their best shot. They started fast, found success down both sides of the field but once Mansour scored in the corner it just seemed like a repeat of last week. There was some opportunism about Penrith's tries, Cleary's first in particular is one of those ugly tries you can live with because more often than not it's a knock on but just the way Penrith put themselves in those positions were impressive. They just ran over the top of Sydney and it could have really got ugly before the referee started to find his whistle. Even so, Sydney didn't look like scoring one more try until they got lucky on a captain's challenge (I thought there was enough proof there to support the call, Cleary did get tripped up by Cordner, if he had have milked it, it would have been a penalty every day) and scored an arsey try of their own. Even then, once it went 29-22, it was basically game. Yes, Naden gave away one of the most unforgivable penalties in the game to give Sydney one last crack, but they were always going to struggle to get the biccies. Sydney are certainly up against it. They SHOULD face the Raiders next week, since Canberra have a Cronulla outfit who are just happy to be there. The Raiders have the running going into that game, Sydney may outclass them but even so if they do manage to topple the Raiders how much left do they have in the tank? Particularly at dummy half, they're really getting exposed their at the wrong end of the season. Penrith look inevitable. They were fantastic tonight and despite being on the rough end and finding themselves in tight spots they managed to find gears the defending premiers didn't have. If they can replicate tonight's performance two more times, it's their premiership. [/QUOTE]

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