Finals Week 3 vs Panthers - 4:00pm Sunday 27th of September - Accor Stadium

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Cleary potentially not kicking is huge. He's leading most of the kicking stats this season. He's got 750 more total metres kicked than second best, 40 more total kicks with a clear lead in attacking kicks. Obviously take it with a grain of salt but you'd imagine a lot of the Panthers' success comes off his excellent kicking game. If Cogger ends up taking most of the kicking duties, the game may well be a little more competitive in our favour than we expect.
 
Les Misérables said:
Penrith are a bad match up for us.

To defend against Penrith you kinda need to be able to control your field position because unlike the Warriors, Penrith will execute on their 5th tackle options inside the 20

The Warriors also demonstrated that we can be kept to 3 tries or less by killing our ruck speed. Something the Panthers will have no trouble doing to us
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That's not bad Les. You give us hope.
Manulaluia and McEwen are going to eat Penrith alive. Penrith do not have the defence that the Knights have. Penrith can't equal us in attack. Penrith have a great kicking game and rely on teams making mistakes in their own quarter. The Knights line of defence has been exceptional this year. The only weakness seems to be the grubber behind the line. Our ruck speed has always been slower than most teams and our kick chase has never been as fast as the best.
So let's just dream here and let's just say the coach, fine tunes the ruck and the kick chase. What doors could that open.
Penrith are not at their best and the Knights nearly are.
We win this.
 
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