Team List Warriors vs Panthers - [Round 16, 2025]

[Noitall]

Warriors holding the record for most hyphenated names in one team

 

[The Undertaker]

We shouldn’t underestimate the panthers here. They have prepared for this scenario and will come in hot. Remember a Young Luai tearing us to shreds a few years ago?

Let’s not underestimate them. 5-10% off and we will struggle to beat them as they will lift.

Keep our standards, discipline and intensity and on paper, we should be too strong.

But we thought that about them at Magic Round last year, didn’t we?

Let’s not give them a sniff and knock out any complacency by the team or the fan base. We still have to earn this win.

Bring on Saturday.

 

[Get them onside ref!]

I hope we don't get in any salary cap trouble for playing this other Egan.

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Nice a debut for Wayne Egan. Not to be confused with Wayde Egan.

New signing
His twin brother

 

[sup42]

if a Ponga-less Newcastle could beat them 13+ without their SOO stars, I'd be terribly disappointed if this ended up being another 1-12 affair. Need to take the game seriously, but if we come out with the same intent as the Cronulla game, we should be way too good.

Having said that, Newy have looked a lot better without Ponga in a few games this year.

That is not an indictment on Ponga. We it could be said have looked a lot better without Wade Egan (fortunate then that Wayne is playing this week not Wade), Mitch Barnett, and JFH this season....without that telling the full story.

 

[sup42]

We shouldn’t underestimate the panthers here. They have prepared for this scenario and will come in hot. Remember a Young Luai tearing us to shreds a few years ago?

Let’s not underestimate them. 5-10% off and we will struggle to beat them as they will lift.

Keep our standards, discipline and intensity and on paper, we should be too strong.

But we thought that about them at Magic Round last year, didn’t we?

Let’s not give them a sniff and knock out any complacency by the team or the fan base. We still have to earn this win.

Bring on Saturday.

Well said.

Thing is, it is classic Warriors to have a big win like a smashing of a top four side and come out the following week back in clunky mode.

Consistency is our goal, inconsistency is our Kryptonite.

Which is why Andrew Webster, Stephen Kearney, and Ivan Cleary all coached a safety first defensive based completions frame work as Warriors head coaches.

We also have our share of history of losing momentum when bye rounds happen.

I think it is pretty clear that if we do Webster ball extremely well, that we will see a game where Penrith struggle to score for long periods, and where we grind them down, break their will, and the opportunities come.

I know we need for and against points, but the best scenario from this game is that the B side Riff play an epic last stand and we have a hard tight game.

 

[KO WAI RA]

Webby has picked a inform specialist centre…. Who’s not coming off injury layoff….
Nuff said…
Go HEARTY MGT….

This nursery can’t keep em all

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Having said that, Newy have looked a lot better without Ponga in a few games this year.

That is not an indictment on Ponga. We it could be said have looked a lot better without Wade Egan (fortunate then that Wayne is playing this week not Wade), Mitch Barnett, and JFH this season....without that telling the full story.

I dunno. The Ponga-less Newcastle struggled big time against an origin impacted chooks the other night. In one of the only games where their pack actually won the middle, they could only muster 6 pts. Their attack issues run deeper than Ponga not being in great form.

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Whilst I agree with previous posters that this is a game we should win well, we need to show Penrith the respect they deserve as 4 time reigning champs. Yes, this is not the side that won the last 4 years straight. But there is still enough quality in this side to cause us trouble if we make the mistake that the Sharks made a few weeks back in thinking all we need to do is turn up and we'll win against origin depleted opposition (Roosters in their case).

This game is forever etched into my memory of what can happen if we treat an origin depleted panthers lightly. Back in 2018, when we were 4th and Penrith were 5th, we were coming to Penrith expecting to win this. The result was an absolute spanking given to us by the baby panthers. Many of these penrith cubs are terrorizing the NRL today:

Match Highlights: Panthers v Warriors - Round 17, 2018

A masterclass from rookie halfback Jarome Luai has propelled an undermanned Penrith Panthers outfit to a 36-4 win over the New Zealand Warriors

www.nrl.com

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Uh oh, sounds like there's a few confident fans in here. We never seem to go well when we SHOULD, and after a week off we are historically quite clunky.

I hope anyone eating a banana this week is double bagging the peel and throwing it to the bottom of the rubbish bin, we don't need any hanging around come Saturday evening

 

[3rdstriker]

The Sharks away win was the real test, in theory we should steamroll Penrith coming off a bye all prepped up what could go wrong?

 

[sydneywarrior92]

Uh oh, sounds like there's a few confident fans in here. We never seem to go well when we SHOULD, and after a week off we are historically quite clunky.

I hope anyone eating a banana this week is double bagging the peel and throwing it to the bottom of the rubbish bin, we don't need any hanging around come Saturday evening

to play devils advocate, I'd say we've done well winning games we "should" win this year. This banana skin stuff is really losing its appeal.

Our last 5 wins have been in Australia. With the exception of the sharks game, I think the betting odds had us favorites for all of them (Cows, Dragons, Dolphins, Bunnies). For each of those games, teamlist/gameday threads were littered with posts about it being another "banana skin" game. Yet we won every single one of those games.

We've done very well under expectations this year. I expect this Saturday to be no different. We are a different animal this year.

 

[Kav1]

I think indeed the Panthers pack is NRL standard. The back line though is full of first and second year players plus Daine Laurie. We should win 13 plus.

I think our bench is far superior

 

[watcher]

The game starts nil-all. Every win has to be earnt. No one is going to surrender.

 

[Canonball]

I dunno. The Ponga-less Newcastle struggled big time against an origin impacted chooks the other night. In one of the only games where their pack actually won the middle, they could only muster 6 pts. Their attack issues run deeper than Ponga not being in great form.

No sharpe was their big problem for that game - previous time without ponga they were actually good

 

[Canonball]

Whilst I agree with previous posters that this is a game we should win well, we need to show Penrith the respect they deserve as 4 time reigning champs. Yes, this is not the side that won the last 4 years straight. But there is still enough quality in this side to cause us trouble if we make the mistake that the Sharks made a few weeks back in thinking all we need to do is turn up and we'll win against origin depleted opposition (Roosters in their case).

This game is forever etched into my memory of what can happen if we treat an origin depleted panthers lightly. Back in 2018, when we were 4th and Penrith were 5th, we were coming to Penrith expecting to win this. The result was an absolute spanking given to us by the baby panthers. Many of these penrith cubs are terrorizing the NRL today:

Match Highlights: Panthers v Warriors - Round 17, 2018

A masterclass from rookie halfback Jarome Luai has propelled an undermanned Penrith Panthers outfit to a 36-4 win over the New Zealand Warriors

www.nrl.com

Yuck, some of teh defence in those highlights was putrid

 

[sydneywarrior92]

No sharpe was their big problem for that game - previous time without ponga they were actually good

maybe but that was only one game where you had Sharpe but no Ponga. It's only a sample size of one game and it was against an origin depleted penrith that was even weaker than the one that will play us on Saturday. Hard to make inference based on that. But I digress because this thread is not about Newcastle haha.

 

[CWC]

The way our PTSD is progressing in this forum tomorrow we'll think we're underdogs, Friday we'll think we'll get thrashed and be depressed until kick off on Saturday

 

[Noitall]

View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK_sUfYxi6o/

TMM celebrating his 100th nrl game

 

[WahsaurusRex]

Will get lost in the mix with Origin this week, but hope he can get some love from outside NZ this week- To have been medically retired at 24, to now notching up 100 games is cracking stuff

Doing it against his first club is pretty cool too.

 

[FormerlyJamesW]

If we are a proper top 4 side (which we are) then Penrith have no business getting anywhere near us.

I agree.

But if magic round last year taught me anything - I hope they take this team seriously and pound them into the mud.