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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2658893, member: 1899"] Thanks to the delayed coverage, it took me until just before for me to watch the clash. A shame as it was one of the better clashes of the weekend. Penrith really look like they've gone another level this year and while they let themselves down in the final ten minutes and were fortunate to hang on it's really difficult to fault their first 60 or so. Segeyaro was on fire and was as menacing as ever around the ruck, the forwards really did their job and contained the Canterbury forwards in the middle and every once in awhile they'd do something skillful (eg Cartwright and Latimore offloads) that resulted in points. Late in the contest it appeared that the referee was squaring up the penalty count and along the way the Panthers helped them with some dumb infringements and errors. It's good that they learned that lesson with a win quite early because if it happened later I don't know if they'd be so lucky. Dogs were never really in it. I was really interested to see how the new recruits would go and I thought they were clearly a level below their counter-parts at this stage. Lichaa's service was all over the place, it was like Healey's Sunday Footy Show performance while Rona looked a little too self-assured and got his pants pulled down by Watene-ZeleniARK (hate it when commentators adjust pronounciations mid-game, just go with NACK Rabs) in the try that ultimately won them the game. Reynolds was back to his inconsistent best where he had moments of brilliance (a 40/20 and the effort to set up Brett Morris) and then moments of sheer stupidity (another blatant trip, the deliberate forward pass etc.). I think Des has done a fair job of making Reynolds into anything more than just an Anthony Watts type but if I was him, I'd be pushing hard for Foran. Considering Josh is most likely out for three weeks, I'm going to be interested to see how the Dogs go with Mybe in the halves. Unless Des goes back to not playing with halves and puts T-Rex there. Somebody could correct me, but I think T-Rex is actually a premiership winning half in the ISC and guess who his partner was? That's right, Trent Hodkinson. It could be the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles circa 2009 all over again. But yeah, plenty of improvement in the Dogs. I get the feeling they were simply out-enthused by Penrith here and they're content to just go at their own pace till they get a few things right. I have no idea why they played so flat though...were they really that determined to send Browne over for a try? [/QUOTE]

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