Veteran sports activities journalist Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield and NRL legend Gorden Tallis had been locked in a debate as as to whether this Penrith Panthers workforce is really the best of all time.
The Panthers gained their third-straight premiership in an exhilarating come-from-behind 26-24 victory over the Brisbane Broncos on Sunday.
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Penrith’s triumph made them the one workforce to win three in a row within the NRL period and the primary because the Parramatta Eels from 1981 to 1983.
Panthers five-eighth Jarome Luai actually believes his workforce deserves to face atop the rostrum.
“Uncharted territory, something that’s never been done before — by those two definitions we are the best team to ever do it,” Luai stated.
“Hate us or love us you can’t ignore the resume. We are the best to ever do it.”
Speaking on NRL 360, Rothfield concurred with Luai’s argument and pointed to the wage cap as a supporting cause
“I don’t want to be disrespectful to other great clubs and teams that have done three-peats,” Rothfield stated.
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“You go back to Parramatta in 81, 82 and 83, I rated Penrith higher than them two weeks ago.
“Only reason is that was basically a Sydney competition back then. I think Penrith have beaten more than what Parramatta did.
“You could even go back to St George, 11 in a row. (Graeme) Langlands, (Johnny) Raper, (Norm) Provan, (Reg) Gasnier, immortals. No salary cap, a team worth three times what a lot of their opponents were worth.
“When Paramatta won, there was no salary cap. The cap didn’t come until 1990.”
Rothfield additionally identified the sheer energy of Penrith’s ahead pack as one more reason why they should be thought of forward of the Eels workforce within the early 90s.
“The Penrith middle forwards I watched last night, (Moses) Leota, (James) Fisher-Harris, Spencer Leniu, I’m sorry to the guys that played in the middle at Parramatta, far superior the Penrith pack,” Rothfield stated.
However, Tallis believed it’s fully unfair to check the groups given Penrith are competing in an period the place know-how in sport has by no means been extra superior.
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“It’s called sports science, you can’t compare,” Tallis stated.
“It’s like saying a bloke that ran in the 1980 Olympics is not going to beat Usain Bolt. It’s a totally different time for sport science.
“Are they a better side? I think Penrith right now are great, what they’ve achieved is fantastic.
“But the Melbourne Storm side with Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk, Cameron Smith and Greg Inglis, I reckon they would chance their arm.”
Rothfield felt “there seems to be a reluctance here to accept” the Panthers had been the best workforce from Tallis.
The Broncos nice reiterated Penrith “are very good”, however doubled down on his stance that it’s unfair to return and evaluate them with the Eels workforce within the 80s and the St George workforce from the mid 50s to the mid 60s.
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
