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Penrith's 40-Year Team Announced and 2006 Panthers Awards
Thu October 5, 2006
by Matthew O'Neill
Penrith last night named their finest side over the last 40 years with the 1991 Grand Final side dominating the selections whilst only current players Rhys Wesser, Craig Gower and Tony Puletua made the squad.

Brad Fittler, Greg Alexander, Royce Simmons, John Cartwright, Colin Van der Voort, Brad Izzard and Mark Geyer made the all-time Panthers side from the 1991 Premiership-winning squad and Wesser, Gower, Puletua and Ryan Girdler made it from the successful 2003 side. 11 of the 17 players come from Premiership winning sides whilst Alan McIndoe played in the 1990 Grand Final loss.

Wesser's selection at fullback was no surprise with Bob Landers and McIndoe edging out Luke Lewis, Luke Rooney, Paul Smith and Graham Mackay.

Girdler was always going to be one centre and Graheme Moran won the other position ahead of Chris Mortimer and Brad Izzard with the latter named on the bench and Brad Fittler was selected at five-eighth and not centre or lock, which he played all three positions on a regular basis at Penrith. Fittler won the five-eighth position ahead of the long serving Steve Carter and Greg Alexander was always going to be halfback despite the achievements of Craig Gower who has been named on the bench. Gower probably ranks in the top five all-time Penrith footballers but Alexander is clearly No.1 and both have been primarily halfback's.

John Cartwright and Bill Ashurst won the second-row positions ahead of Mark Geyer and Tony Puletua who were both named on the bench. Terry Geary and Tim Sheens were selected at prop with Paul Clarke, Peter Kelly, Matt Goodwin, Geoff Gerard and Darryl Brohman missing out on selection.

Penrith's favourite son Royce Simmons won the hotly contested hooker position ahead of Mike Stephenson and 2003 Clive Churchill Medal winner Luke Priddis. Gower played his early years at hooker with Penrith but Simmons leadership during the 1980's and his performance in the 1991 Grand Final makes him the ideal choice for hooker.

The team is:

1. Rhys Wesser
2. Bob Landers
3. Grahame Moran
4. Ryan Girdler
5. Alan McIndoe
6. Brad Fittler
7. Greg Alexander
8. Terry Geary
9. Royce Simmons
10. Tim Sheens
11. John Cartwright
12. Bill Ashurst
13. Colin Van Der Voort

Subs:
14. Craig Gower
15. Brad Izzard
16. Mark Geyer
17. Tony Puletua

The side was chosen by a panel of experts and announced at the annual Presentation Night function in Panthers Pavilion.

It was a double celebration for Wesser who took out the Panthers First Grade Player of the Year for the 2006 season. Preston Campbell in his final season at Penrith won the Clubman of the Year and Priddis took out the John Farragher award. Interchange hooker Paul Aiton won the Ben Alexander Rookie of the Year award whilst Jaye Marleitner and David McLean won the lower grade honours.

Awards for 2006 were:

First Grade Player of the Year: Rhys Wesser
Clubman of the Year: Preston Campbell
John Farragher Award: Luke Priddis
Ben Alexander Rookie of the Year: Paul Aiton
Premier League Player of the Year: David McLean
Jersey Flegg Player of the Year: Jaye Marleitner


Australian Kangaroos Train-On Squad
Mon September 4, 2006
by Matthew O'Neill
Players from all seven Clubs that missed the NRL Finals Series have had at least one player named in the Train-On Squad today to cover for the 2006 Tri Nations Series and the Prime Ministers XIII against Papua New Guinea.

Penrith dominate the Train-On with five players named including Craig Stapleton, which is the biggest surprise selection of the players announced.

Notable omissions include North Queensland fullback Matt Bowen, Cronulla halfback Brett Kimmorley, Sydney Roosters hooker Craig Wing and Penrith winger Luke Rooney.

Bowen's omission is no great surprise following his disappointing form in the second half of the season with the fullback position in the Australian side to be a shoot out between Karmichael Hunt, Greg Inglis and Brett Stewart. Kimmorley was over looked in the Train-On Squad for Craig Gower and Scott Prince whilst Wing's omission will almost certainly pave the way for Cameron Smith to make his International debut in the Tri-Nations while Robbie Farah and Luke Priddis will be the contenders for the hooker position in the Prime Ministers XIII clash. Rooney has been a regular in representative sides, however his form for Penrith has been disappointing.

South Sydney winger Nathan Merritt's excellent season has been rewarded with selection in the Train-On Squad. Merritt finished the season with 22 tries and scored more than a quater of the Rabbitohs total. It's only the second time in Premiership history that a player has finished leading try-scorer when his team finished in last position with the other player being Nigel Vagana in 2002. Excluding Vagana's efforts in 2002, the last time a player from the last ranked team won a major award such as Merritt being Leading Tryscorer was in 1983 when Western Suburbs five-eighth Terry Lamb won the Gold Dally M for Player of the Year despite the Magpies finishing in last position. Merritt will almost certainly play in the Prime Ministers XIII clash and could push for Tri Nations selection.

2005 Golden Boot winner Anthony Minichiello wasn't considered due to injury.

The train-on squad is:

Cowboys: Luke O'Donnell, Johnathan Thurston, Carl Webb

Warriors: Steven Price

Wests Tigers: Robbie Farah, Scott Prince

Panthers: Craig Gower, Luke Priddis, Craig Stapleton, Trent Waterhouse, Rhys Wesser

Sharks: Paul Gallen

Roosters: Craig Fitzgibbon, Chris Flannery, Amos Roberts, Anthony Tupou

Rabbitohs: Nathan Merritt

The team for the Prime Minister's XIII, to be coached by Mal Meninga, will be named on Monday 18 September.

The Kangaroos squad for the Tri Nations, coached by Ricky Stuart, will be finalised on Monday 2 October.

Further players will be added as teams drop out of the eight.

Mon May 1, 2006
• Priddis remains with Penrith
  

====================================================================================================== 2008 NRL Telstra Premiership Penrith Panthers 8 games; 1 tries, 4 points. [View] Round 1 [16 Mar 08] L 12-48 v Broncos (A). [DH] [View] Round 2 [22 Mar 08] L 16-20 v Raiders (H). [DH] [View] Round 3 [30 Mar 08] W 26-22 v Rabbitohs (H). [DH] [View] Round 4 [07 Apr 08] W 30-8 v Tigers (A). [DH] 4 Pts; 1t [View] Round 5 [12 Apr 08] L 12-28 v Roosters (H). [DH] [View] Round 6 [19 Apr 08] W 21-20 v Sharks (A). [DH] [View] Round 8 [03 May 08] L 18-26 v Eels (H). [DH] [View] Round 9 [10 May 08] W 30-4 v Bulldogs (A). [DH] ====================================================================================================== 2007 NRL Telstra Premiership Penrith Panthers 18 games; [View] Round 1 [17 Mar 07] L 0-18 v Sharks (A). [DH] [View] Round 2 [23 Mar 07] W 40-10 v Bulldogs (H). [DH] [View] Round 3 [30 Mar 07] W 29-28 v Broncos (A). [DH] [View] Round 4 [08 Apr 07] L 22-24 v Gold Coast (H). [DH] [View] Round 5 [13 Apr 07] L 14-27 v Eels (H). [DH] [View] Round 6 [21 Apr 07] L 20-30 v Storm (A). [DH] [View] Round 7 [28 Apr 07] L 18-34 v Raiders (H). [DH] [View] Round 8 [04 May 07] L 16-28 v Dragons (A). [DH] [View] Round 9 [12 May 07] W 22-12 v Cowboys (A). [DH] [View] Round 11 [27 May 07] L 24-25 v Tigers (H). [DH] [View] Round 12 [01 Jun 07] W 22-16 v Sea Eagles (H). [DH] [View] Round 13 [08 Jun 07] L 4-14 v Rabbitohs (A). [DH] [View] Round 14 [16 Jun 07] L 20-24 v Roosters (H). [DH] [View] Round 21 [04 Aug 07] W 32-16 v Rabbitohs (H). [DH] [View] Round 22 [13 Aug 07] L 26-30 v Cowboys (H). [DH] [View] Round 23 [19 Aug 07] W 46-12 v Knights (A). [DH] [View] Round 24 [25 Aug 07] W 28-22 v Roosters (A). [DH] [View] Round 25 [01 Sep 07] L 20-24 v Warriors (H). [DH] ====================================================================================================== 2006 NRL Telstra Premiership Penrith Panthers 24 games; 6 tries, 24 points. 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[DH] 4 Pts; 1t [View] Round 20 [23 Jul 06] L 30-32 v Sea Eagles (A). [DH] [View] Round 21 [29 Jul 06] W 36-6 v Warriors (H). [DH] [View] Round 22 [06 Aug 06] L 26-32 v Rabbitohs (A). [DH] [View] Round 23 [12 Aug 06] L 20-40 v Roosters (H). [DH] 4 Pts; 1t [View] Round 24 [19 Aug 06] W 32-28 v Sharks (A). [DH] [View] Round 25 [26 Aug 06] L 4-40 v Knights (A). [DH] [View] Round 26 [03 Sep 06] L 22-30 v Bulldogs (H). [DH] ====================================================================================================== 2006 City vs Country Country Origin 1 games; [View] City v Country [12 May 06] W 12-10 v City Origin (H). [DH] ====================================================================================================== 2005 NRL Telstra Premiership Penrith Panthers 23 games; 10 tries, 40 points. [View] Round 1 [12 Mar 05] L 14-20 v Sharks (A). [BE] 4 Pts; 1t (56th) Match Fact: 200th First Grade Game [View] Round 2 [20 Mar 05] L 20-28 v Roosters (H). 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