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We had an excellent chortle at Panthers boss Brian Fletcher telling the NRL the Brisbane Broncos can’t play a preliminary ultimate at Suncorp Stadium.
Why not? They completed second all through the common season and have earned the appropriate to host it given they beat Melbourne in week one of many finals.
The Storm have performed preliminary finals in Melbourne once they’ve earned the appropriate.
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It’s not just like the Panthers wrestle at Accor Stadium both. They’ve gained two preliminary finals at Sydney Olympic Park beforehand and final 12 months’s grand ultimate on the venue.
Dating again to the start of 2018 the Panthers have gained eight out of 11 video games at Accor.
So let’s name it for what it’s — it’s purely designed to agitate the Brisbane Broncos.
There’s a cause Fletcher has presided over a lot success on the Panthers, as a result of he understands how the sport works on and off the sector.
His carefully-aimed barb on the Broncos is only designed to agitate one of many Panthers’ greatest rivals.
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Week two of the finals produced some cracking rugby league with the big-game nous of Cameron Munster proving an excessive amount of for a particularly courageous Sydney Roosters on Friday night time.
Given the rivalry between these two golf equipment it was solely becoming the sport went proper all the way down to the ultimate couple of minutes.
As good because the Storm have been you get the sensation the Panthers have gotten their measure given how brutal and bodily the Panthers ahead pack is.
Penrith’s pack is nice a pack because the Brisbane Broncos facet of the late Nineties and early 2000s when it was Shane Webcke, Gorden Tallis, Petero Civoniceva, Brad Thorn and Tonie Carroll.
If the Panthers can turn into the primary facet for the reason that Parramatta Eels in 1981, ‘82 and ‘83 to win three straight premierships then they enter the conversation against the best Broncos forward packs.
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The refereeing error was not possible to overlook on Friday night time.
Of course referee Ashely Klein made an absolute howler of a call however the actuality is the Roosters have been nonetheless gritty sufficient to provide themselves each likelihood of profitable the sport.
It will in all probability value Klein the prospect of officiating this weekend’s preliminary finals when the Panthers play the Storm on Friday night time after which the Broncos host the Warriors on Super Saturday.
The Warriors opening quarter-hour towards Newcastle was pretty much as good as we’ve ever seen them play with the ahead pack of Addin Fonua-Blake, Mitch Barnett, Marata Niukore and Tohu Harris merely unrelenting.
They’ll journey to Brisbane stuffed with confidence and it seems to be a real 50/50 contest.
Most of the strain will probably be on the Broncos at house in entrance of a bought out Suncorp Stadium.
Panthers boss Fletcher is aware of this all too nicely and has timed his spray on the NRL to perfection.
What have been your likes of dislikes from week two of the finals?
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