The Penrith Panthers have an accumulative score-line of 80-18 in their favour to start the Intrust Super Premiership NSW season, largely thanks to their new-look five eighth, Tyrone May. He’s only 20 years of age, and has spent the last few seasons in a successful Panthers under-20s outfit, steering his side to the 2015 premiership, and making the Holden Cup team of the year last season. Now, he’s stepped it up and is playing against men in the team that he loves, which hasn’t been at the detriment of May, who has scored a try in both games, and had a hand in a few more to start the season. “I’ve been training in the full-time squad, and it’s been a good experience,” May says to NSWRL.com.au. “It’s my first full-time pre season, and it’s the …show more content…
“Yeah Dessy [Nicholls] is a bit of an older head, I didn’t realise his age until mid-way through the pre season,” May says. “He’s been around the block a few times and he knows how to control the team. “I just work off him, and with the forwards going forward it makes our jobs easier as halves to direct the boys around.” The Panthers demolished the Wests Tigers 52-12 earlier today, in a performance where it would be unfair to single out a player. May is adamant the game was tougher than the scoreboard suggests, and despite the 40-point victory, was not satisfied with all aspects of the game. “Tigers came out with a strong team, it was tough the whole way through, and we scored three quick tries at the end and blew the score out,” May says. “We’re not too worried about the result, we’re focused on how we can perform better week in week out.” “We’re just trying to focus on our defence more than anything; we let in two soft tries at the start there and I don’t think the coach was too happy with
but play to win," they said. They worked us harder and harder until we thought
The first day we got there we had started off so wrong by arguing. We weren’t doing well and we argued most of the time. Us as a team, we honestly made ourselves look bad in front of the coordinators and other teams that were watching us. The coaches had given us a real big pep talking about sticking together as a team to make us better. Although we didn’t think we needed it, it actually
“New system. New coach. I tell Derrick don’t get frustrated, stick with the system and players and keep encouraging guys and try to find a way to win games. That’s what being a good teammate is all about.’’
The following series, 49ers defensive back, Rex Berry, picked-off a Lions’ Harry Gilmer pass, returning the errant throw 44 yards. Following the conversion, the 49ers were down by four, 24-20. The winning drive...behind the weatherproof arm of Tittle, the 49ers drove 57-yards behind the clutching hands of halfback, Hugh McElhenny and end, Billy Wilson, and the churning legs of Perry and Moegle, put the team in position to win the game with 1:50 left on the scoreboard
Richardson said there are seven new freshmen on the team this fall and they and a “really nice mix to the team.”
“Last week we had two new combinations in the halves and we managed to come away with a win,” said Mataka. “We’ve had a few players in and out, especially in the halves, but I think it comes down to the boys stepping up to the plate when they’re asked to. “I guess it all depends on what Canberra’s doing, cause they’re obviously having a strong finish to the season, so whatever players they send back, same thing goes as usual, we’ll just shuffle players where they need to be put in. “It’s not normally until Thursday when we find out what’s going on, but I think we’ve shuffled well this year putting players in different competitions.”
Cody Walker was at his electrifying best against a depleted Penrith Panthers outfit on Friday night. Whenever this man has the ball in his hand, he is an immediate threat to the defence, and his ability to break through tackles is amazing. Walker scored an early try before setting up his halves partner in the second half, but his best play came in the final minute, when he made a fantastic run and got a quick play the ball to allow Adam Reynolds to slot the match-winning field goal.
I write to offer my unconditional endorsement of Blakely Byrd as a Triple-Impact Competitor. I have known Blakely for 13 years and have served as her classmate, friend, and teammate on both our club and high school teams. If there is one thing I can say about Blakely, it is that she always embraces challenges. Whether it is being the first to accept the invitation to take a penalty kick or the last person to leave the field after practice, she never stops working and always does it with joy. My father nicknamed Blakely "Flash" because of her lightning speed and her self-confidence and determination to uplift and inspire everyone else around her. To me, Blakely epitomizes the concept of leading by example. No matter how tough our opponent is,
The coaches were feeling creative that day because they made us try all of these drills that the team has never done before. They were the kind of drills that did nothing to improve you at all, but the coaches thought differently. “This one will help you with your awareness of
The facts that Andre and Jake were saying had a successful year was that, we won are games, the players we had on the teams, the workout we did, and the opponents we played. But I think we did better this year than we did last year. Because of the players we had on our team and because of how young they were and what they were capable of doing.
“What do ya mean I on the practice squad I’m better than all of these other fools trying to replace me?”
We didn 't play the way we wanted. Even though we struggled, we still did some things right. If we just focus on the things we did well like; boxing out, playing tough defense, and rebounding, we can work around those things and build up the things that needed to be worked on. I know that we can step up and play at a higher level. We just have to make some fundamental changes and work on some things in practice and I think that it will help in our next game. We can hold on to this loss for the night but when you come to practice tomorrow we aren 't going to hang on to this feeling we need to shake it off and start to prepare for our next game. We just need to use this game as an opportunity to see what we need to work on and build off of that. Once we improve what we need to, I think we can get to the level of success we want.”
The team was ready, we had been working extremely hard for the past seven months for this. We were all in great shape and very rested. A few of the returning players were meeting me at my house to carpool to the final game of the state championship tournament. Everyone knew that the hard work had paid off when we won the semi-final game the preceding day.
Game Time: we walked onto the field with our heads high and our pride shining. The strut in our walk should that we would not back down to anyone, or anything, there would be no opponent to large or any weather to ferocious to cause us to lose this game.
“My loyalty was to those people on that interview committee who hired me. But, being part-time is trying to take scraps into meals. You are trying to make things work, but it is more difficult to spend the time you need to be more successful. It was just a wonderful feeling when they rewarded me with a full-time position. There is so much that is positive about being here. There isn 't a better spot for me. I 'm planning on getting 279 wins, which would be the all-time wins record at Columbia. Right now, I 'm at 28. So I’m still a ways away, but that 's the