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MATCH PREVIEW PANTHERS

1 Matt Moylan

2 George Jennings

3 Waqa Blake

4 Dallin Watene-Zelezniak

5 David Simmons

6 Will Smith

7 Isaac John

8 Nigel Plum

9 Apisai Koroisau

10 Sam McKendry

11 Lewis Brown

12 Issah Yeo

13 Sika Manu

14 Tyrone Peachey

15 Jeremy Latimore

16 Reagan Campbell-Gillard

17 Bryce Cartwright

BRONCOS1 Jordan Kahu

2 Corey Oates

3 Jack Reed

4 Justin Hodges

5 Lachlan Maranta

6 Anthony Milford

7 Ben Hunt

8 Josh McGuire

9 Andrew McCullough

10 Adam Blair

11 Alex Glenn

12 Matt Gillett

13 Corey Parker

14 Jarrod Wallace

15 Francis Molo

16 Jo Ofahengaue

17 Kodi Nikorima

Much mystery surrounds the make-up of the Penrith team that will take the field tonight against the Broncos at Suncorp Stadium.

Ivan Cleary named his side as required on Tues-day but at that stage, not

even he knew who would be right to play against the competition leaders and who wouldn’t be.

There’s every chance that Penrith will welcome back five-eighth and star playmaker Jamie Soward, who reportedly trained at full strength during the week.

Rumours suggested his halves partner Peter Wallace could also make a return but it’s understood he won’t be back until the May 29 clash with Parramatta.

It’s hoped that the experienced Dean Whare is back in the centres, while Elijah Taylor may be right to play tonight.

There’s also some doubt over dynamic fullback Matt Moylan who suffered a hand injury while playing for City last weekend – he has been in doubt all week. James Segeyaro? He’s a chance of playing, too. Then again, maybe he won’t. Confused?

On the flip side, Brisbane have also had a somewhat disrupted preparation with Darius Boyd fighting the clock to be right for this one, while Sam Thaiday will be missing after copping a one week ban following an incident in last weekend’s Test match.

The bottom line? Nobody really knows what’s going on right now.

Meanwhile, the disruption of the representative weekend is quite obvious. It’s hardly a week off – Penrith had some 17 players away from regular duties and there’s no doubt Ivan Cleary would have been keen to get his side back together on Monday or Tuesday of this week.

The Panthers not only had so many play-ers away from camp, but by the time those players got back to Penrith on Monday or Tuesday, Cleary had very little time to prepare his troops ahead of the flight

to Brisbane on Thursday. Penrith are without doubt on the back foot for this one – still injury ravaged, with more players in doubt, and forced into what is essentially the equivalent of a short turnaround. Throw in the travel to Brisbane, and things are without doubt looking a little bit shaky.

But it is Cleary’s job to manage that situ-ation and if he’s proven anything in the last two years, it’s that he can get his side clicking even in the most challenging of circumstances.

No matter who does and doesn’t play tonight, it would seem that the Panthers are through the worst of their injury crisis.

Only Jamal Idris won’t return this year and over the next six weeks or so there will be a procession of returning players – Soward, Wallace, Taylor, Segeyaro, Whare, Brent Kite and Josh Mansour heading the list.

Barring any further serious injuries, Penrith will be fielding a near full-strength side by the time the mid-way point of the season comes around.

With so much mystery surrounding the team line-ups – and your writer forced to pen this preview on Wednesday – the best I can offer is this: If Penrith play with the same attitude they took into the game against Cronulla, they are every chance of pulling off an upset victory.

If they slip, even slightly, the Broncos can rack up points very, very quickly.

Players like Lewis Brown, Tyrone Peachey and Bryce Cartwright really need to shine in this one.

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Will Soward play on Friday?

FACT CHECK Penrith have only won

17 of their 47 matches against the Broncos

This is Penrith’s first Friday night game of the 2015 season

The last time they met, Penrith beat Brisbane by a point in a thrilling Monday night game at Penrith Stadium

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INTERNAL CHANGES AS PANTHERS LOSE MEDIA MANAGER

» The Panthers have lost the very tal-ented media manager Emma Duxbury from their staff. Duxbury was in the role for the last two years and was extremely well-liked among the game’s media. She sent out an email late last week confirm-ing she’d resigned from her role.

» Injured Panthers five-eighth Jamie Soward showed skills of a different kind last week when he took part in a unique video game competition televised on Fox Sports. Soward surprised many by making it through to the semi finals of the FIFA 15 competition. Represent-ing Sydney FC, Julian Mangraviti took out the first inaugural Fox Fans League Grand Final, held at Federation Square. Broadcast live on Fox Sports, Mangraviti beat eight national finalists and a raft of celebrity wildcards, including Soward, playing FIFA 15 on PlayStation 4 to take out the title.

» Dallin Watene-Zelezniak is a class act both on and off the field. According to The Daily Telegraph, when a young fan wanted an autograph but didn’t have a pen or paper, Watene-Zelezniak marched straight to the nearest sports store, bought the youngster a New Zealand jersey and signed it for him.

» Talking of Watene-Zelezniak, he’s made his intentions clear that he one day wants to play fullback at Penrith. You would think he’ll get his wish one day – Matt Moylan will eventually move into the halves.

» After his mysterious and sudden disap-pearance from the social media platform last year, Panthers boss Phil Gould is back on Twitter. And he’s back to his best, too – posting photos of an agitated Ray Warren at Brisbane airport, videoing the Austral-ian team getting off the bus at Suncorp and keeping fans up to date with what’s happening behind the scenes. You can follow him at @gus10gould.

» With the June 30 deadline getting closer, you can expect to hear a lot of rumours about the Panthers flying about. The latest surrounds the club’s interest in young Roosters rookie Jackson Hastings. They obviously won’t say it publicly but the Panthers are worried about captain Peter Wallace’s injury woes and Hastings would make an exceptionally good back-up should something happen at the back end of the season. Hastings is just 19 and can play in the halves as well as hooker or fullback, so he makes for a valuable prospect.

» Plenty of people criticise the represent-ative weekend, mainly because it puts a halt to the NRL season just when things are hotting up, but if last weekend’s TV ratings are anything to go by, the situation won’t be changing any time soon. The Test match between Australia and New Zealand on Sunday attracted a whopping 941,000 viewers across Channel 9 and GEM, including an incredible 541,000 in Sydney. Had Channel 9 had the guts to show the game live on the main channel across the nation, it would have easily eclipsed the one million viewer mark. Saturday night’s Pacific Test matches (Fiji v PNG and Samoa v Tonga) also attracted huge numbers for Fox Sports.

» Panthers fans in NSW will be forced to wait until 9.30pm to watch tonight’s game against the Broncos – a ridiculous part of the TV rights deal that the NRL was too weak to address when last at the negotiating table. Finally Channel 9 have realised how stupid and damaging to the game this delayed timeslot is, and they’ve indicated that they may trial showing both Friday night games live simultane-ously in the near future. They’ll do this by utilising their digital channel GEM to show the second match live. It’s expected to come into effect next year.

Panthers five-eighth Jamie Soward proudly represents the Western Sydney Wanderers in the Fox Fans League competition, up against eventual winner Julian Mangraviti. Photo: Fox Sports

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Boom Panthers prop Reagan Campbell-Gillard is hoping to use his recent City Origin experience to Penrith’s advantage when they tackle the in-form Broncos tonight

in Brisbane. Campbell-Gillard was a surprise selec-

tion in Brad Fittler’s City team, having only played eight games of first grade since the start of the year.

Speaking with Extra Time on Tuesday, the 21-year-old said he was lost for words over his City selection.

“I’m still shocked to be honest, it was a great experience to be in the team and I can’t really explain it,” he said.

The likeable young Panther was one of five selected in Fittler’s team along with Matt Moylan, Tyrone Peachey, Waqa Blake and Bryce Cartwright (18th man).

The side also featured a number of ex-Panthers including James Roberts, Wade Graham and Blake Austin.

“I definitely felt comfortable in camp, there was a huge Penrith connection in that team and I felt comfortable around the boys,” he said.

“We were pretty much told to play our own game, run the ball hard and defend well. I think I only got about 20 minutes of game time but it was a good experience for myself and I was pretty stoked.”

Campbell-Gillard now hopes to put his City Origin experience to the test on Friday night when he tackles the top of the table Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium.

“I want to improve my game, I want to improve this week and hopefully I can use

that experience against the Broncos this Friday,” he said.

“I’m certainly getting used to first grade now and feeling a bit more comfortable around the boys.”

The rookie added that he couldn’t wait to play in Brisbane’s famed ‘Cauldron’.

“A Friday night game is always massive up there and I know the boys are refreshed after having the weekend off. It should be a really good game,” he said.

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Dream ride for young RCG

Reagan Campbell-Gillard. Photo: Melinda Jane

He’s essentially a no-name in the NRL, but it won’t be long before rugby league fans know all about the talents of rising star Reagan Campbell-Gillard

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KEV’S KORNER

One of the most important periods of a rugby league season is the middle third of the year.

Of the teams in the competition who I thought would have been in

a better position as we enter Round 9 of the season the Sea Eagles and the Roosters spring to mind.

Manly are struggling at the bottom of the ladder, a place they are not familiar with. They are confronted with winning 10 of 14 games with two byes to make the eight.

The Roosters, with three wins from eight are coming to a period in the season where they potentially will lose their top line players to State of Origin duties.

Trent Robinson will be seething at the poor start to the season; as a result they probably won’t be able to lose a game in rounds 18-26 to be assured a top eight spot.

On the other side you have Brisbane and Melbourne who find themselves at the top of the table and have some breathing space coming into the toughest six weeks of the season.

Clubs lose their best players throughout the State of Origin series.

The players involved return to clubs following the hardest games of their lives.

To mentally get back up for another brutal game on the weekend is hard and takes its toll on the individual and the team.

If I had a crystal ball I would say that the Gold Coast Titans and Wests Tigers will struggle to maintain their position in the eight with the Roosters and Bulldogs to have strong finishes to the year.

My roughies would be Newcastle or Canberra, you just don’t know what they are capable of, good or bad.

A little closer to home the Panthers are

four from eight. With a number of stars returning in the coming weeks we will be looking to cement our spot in the top eight come the end of the year.

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As 18th man, Bryce Cartwright may not have taken the field in the City vs Country match in Wagga Wagga last week but he’s praised the concept despite constant criticism

from league fans and commentators.Since its inception in 1987, many league

experts and fans have called the annual City vs Country fixture a waste of time despite it always being billed as a genuine Origin trial for the NSW Blues.

But 20-year-old Cartwright disagrees with the critics and believes City vs Coun-try should remain a permanent fixture on the NRL calendar.

“I think the game is a great stepping stone for Origin and it’s great for fans to see quality young players coming through,” Cartwright told Extra Time.

“Both the Country and City teams get a lot out of it and everyone loves it. I think it should definitely stay because everyone really enjoys it.

“Training with those quality blokes and having Freddy Fittler coaching, I learnt a lot. It was a great experience to be around those types of people.”

It’s been an interesting season for Cart-wright thus far, who’s had a roller coaster start to the year since coming back from ankle surgery.

Before Penrith’s game against the Sea Eagles in mid-April, Cartwright was surprisingly dropped from Ivan Cleary’s 17-man squad following several disap-pointing performances. For the first time, the 2014 Panthers Rookie of the Year has revealed what that moment was like.

“It was pretty tough getting dropped but Ivan wanted me to go back and work on a few things and I got another chance last week and the week before,” he said.

“It hurt getting dropped back [to NSW Cup] but I learnt what I needed to do and I think I did it. Hopefully I can play some consistent footy and stay in the team.”

Cartwright has been named in the side to play Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium this evening.

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Learning curve for Bryce

Bryce Cartwright in action against Cronulla last month

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HART TO HART

Two weeks ago in this column I wrote that Tim Sheens was facing a huge dilemma over the next 12 months that could force him to give the dreaded tap on the shoulder to a

few ageing Kangaroos. Well, since then, look what has

happened! Yes the Kiwis completely ambushed the

once unbeatable Aussies with enthusi-asm and passion to comfortably win the ANZAC Test last Sunday in Brisbane.

Who saw that coming? After all Origin is just around the corner

and we are almost nine rounds into the NRL competition so surely the Aussies would be ready to fire right?

Apparently not. But why not? Has the age factor already bitten? Now there are plenty of critics calling for

coach Tim Sheens to be shown the door. But, hang on a minute, wasn’t it Sheens

himself who warned us about this ageing roster?

The Aussie coach it would seem feared this might happen and no doubt would have loved to introduce some enthusiastic new talent to develop into the green and gold for a Four Nations next year and a World Cup the year after.

But sadly Sheens’ contract is year to year and so he is somewhat hamstrung in forward planning, he can really only concentrate on one Test at a time and must also show a degree of loyalty to the players who have performed so well in the past.

The real trouble is he was badly let down

by those senior players this time who were, by their own admission, out enthused by the younger Kiwis.

The great Andrew Johns has said he fears this Kiwi team may be hard to beat for the next six or seven years at least.

So Craig Bellamy and Laurie Daley are two names that have been tossed up to

replace Sheens next year but surely both will face exactly the same dilemma as Sheens of having to freshen up a tired old squad.

Seems to me it’s not Sheens that is the problem but if given a chance he might just have the solution.

Enjoy the footy this weekend.

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The Panthers having had the week off due to the representative round, are set to resume their defence of the NSW Cup when they travel down the M4 this Sun-day to take on nearest rivals, Wentworth-ville Magpies, at Ringrose Park.

For the majority of the squad the week-end is a chance to recharge the batteries after what has been a frantic start to the season with the Panthers currently in 2nd position having won six, lost two includ-ing winning their last four games on the trot, to trail league leaders Mounties by just two competition points.

There were some players / staff from the NSW Cup team who were rewarded for their efforts thus far in 2015, with all but one player, getting through their repre-sentative commitments without incident. Ben Murdoch-Masila, having not long returned from a knee injury, will now be sidelined with a high ankle strain for four to five weeks but was cleared of any lower leg fractures after Tonga’s narrow 18-16 loss to Samoa.

In other highlights, a first half Robert Jennings try, helped the Junior Kangaroos prevail over the Junior Kiwis, 22-20, that featured hooker Sione Katoa, while Wel-lington Albert impressed PNG coach, Mal Meninga despite the Kumuls losing 22-10

to Fiji. Finally a late rally from the Garth Brennan-coached NSW Cup Representa-tive side that featured Sam Anderson and Leilani Latu, was not enough to stop the Queensland Residents from claiming a 36-32 win despite both sides scoring six tries apiece.

The Panthers now turn their attention to this Sunday’s clash with the eleventh-placed Wentworthville Magpies, who after their top four finish in 2014, have struggled so far in season 2015. This nonetheless represents a danger game for Penrith given the strength of their side particularly in the backs with the likes of Adam Quinlan, Val Toutai, John Folau, Bureta Faraimo, Beau Henry and Luke Kelly all named to play.

In team news, Penrith have allowed Robert Jennings and Sione Katoa to bol-ster the Holden Cup squad ahead of a 1v2 clash with the Brisbane Broncos which sees Paul Simona promoted to the centres with Nu’u Akeripa shifting to the wing while Tom Eisenhuth moves to fullback to replace Jennings.

Tupou Sopoaga will move to five-eighth, while Ben Murdoch-Masila’s injury will see Brendan Attwood and Pat Hollis starting in the back row. Sam Hollis will start from a five-man bench.

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BATTLE OF THE WEST LOOMS FOR WELL RESTED PANTHERS FOLLOWING REP WEEKEND

The biggest Holden Cup match up of the year will take place tonight when the first placed Brisbane Broncos take on the second placed Penrith Panthers at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.

The Panthers sit just two points behind the Broncos on the Holden Cup premier-ship ladder with two losses to their name as opposed to Brisbane’s one.

If Penrith do manage to knock off the Broncos they’ll share the Holden Cup lead, with the Queenslanders just ahead due to a better for and against.

Under the guidance of coaches Cameron Ciraldo and Kevin Kingston, the Panthers are enjoying their best season since winning the premiership back in 2013, and are currently on a four game winning streak.

Brisbane are also on a four game winning streak with their lone loss of the season coming against the New Zealand Warriors back in Round 4.

After missing the finals by the skin of their teeth last year, the Panthers began 2015 with a huge 30-12 win over the Canterbury Bulldogs.

In Round 2, Penrith weren’t good enough to overcome the Gold Coast Titans in Bathurst, losing 36-26.

In Round 3, during Monday night foot-

ball against the Sydney Roosters, Penrith managed to bounce back into form with 28-18 victory.

Penrith continued their rollercoaster start to the year in Round 4 when they were walloped by Newcastle 34-8. However, they managed to bounce back against the highly fancied North Queensland Cowboys a week later 32-22.

Penrith came up against another strong side in Manly in Round 6, smashing them 36-16 before a rematch against the Titans saw the Panthers run out 36-24 winners.

Before the NRL’s Representative Round last weekend, the Panthers defeated the bottom-placed Cronulla Sharks in Round 8 34-4.

Despite the competition only being two months old, Penrith have already unearthed some exciting new talent including wingers Manu Enise and Maliko Filino, halfback Soni Luke and hooker Tyrone May.

Last weekend backrower James Fisher-Harris represented the Junior Kiwis and prop Stanton Albert represented the PNG Kumuls.

The Panthers take on the Broncos at Suncorp Stadium this afternoon at 5.15pm. Updates will be available via the Weekender Facebook page.

TOP OF THE TABLE BATTLE AS PANTHERS LOOK TO TAKE A SHARE OF THE COMPETITION LEAD

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