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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3247661, member: 1899"] There's no other team in the competition that can compete with Penrith in the arm wrestle. In Edwards and To'o they have two of the best players to work it out of trouble and 'win' the set. The forwards then play off the back of it and position it easily for Cleary who kicks it into corners and they just strangle the life out of their opposition. Eventually their left hand side gets that many opportunities that they cross over but there's time where they seem well short on ideas. If that left hand side isn't humming and Cleary's kicking game isn't getting results they seem a little clueless. The big issue is that it's a long season and there's so much footy to be played until the finals. I don't think anyone has figured them out yet but when a coach does I'll be curious to see if they have a response. However they were far too good for a Knights team that tried all night. I just thought while they tried hard they had little to no creativity in attack and did very little to challenge the Panthers defence. It was either give the ball to Frizel or have Ponga take it to the line and throw a cut-out to Best. There was just little variation and they didn't challenge Penrith hard enough through the middle of the ruck. I would have thought this is the type of game where Connor Watson would be having a field day and really challenging the bigger men around the middle. I'm not sure what to make of the Knights. I thought O'Brien had them on the right track but they just appear to be short 3 or 4 quality players to really cement themselves as a top team. It just seems like they've gone back to the glory days of 2009-2011 where they had their Kurt Gidleys, Akuila Uates, Junior Saus who played beyond themselves but always seemed to be in that 8th-12th range without any sign of growth. [/QUOTE]

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