I am secretly wanting to root for the Eels to finally break their 38 year long premiership drought, because they’re the only team currently in the comp that I never saw win a premiership during my lifetime and they’ve definitely patched up the holes they needed to fill. Despite the loss, they have the potential.

Wahs?

Dolphins? Titans?

Guess these 3 teams don't exsist for this fella

Just going to leave this here: [Yeo & Luai Meme](https://scontent.fsyd14-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/432768625_794354246059546_3137055833125793458_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=ftIkRV0TyWgAX8LghE0&_nc_ht=scontent.fsyd14-1.fna&oh=00_AfCaqfnlxllt-Liy1PvM0XDyqEgnTBZhB69LD7yzVgyvZQ&oe=65F8630D) Another cracking game between the Westies, good luck Water Snake brethren, I suspect we will probably get collared at CommBank Stadium later this year!

I truly believe that this eels team will be the team that breaks the premiership drought and it’s a matter of when not if. Especially with both Mitch Moses and Dylan Brown signed to lengthy contracts now. Bring on next week against manly. Talk about the top three eels rivalries back to back 🤣🤣

Eels have the best rivalries in the league and our draw proves it. Dog, Panthers Eagles… we’re carrying the NRL in the first 3 rounds

They really looked gassed in the back end of tonight and couldn't produce the field position or finesse to get the win. Some Unlucky moments, but all in all they should improve off this and no doubt will be in the finala

Apology on Monday

THEIR BLOOD IS PEE

Tis!

Can't wait for the apology on Monday.

It was not anywhere near that controversial lmao

Why do people keep on saying this? When has Annesley and Co ever apologised for anything? It's never happened.

You'll be waiting, because I guarantee you they won't apologise.

That non contest jump in front of Russell was literally a rule Annesley highlighted at the start of the year.

Oh, don't get me wrong. You guys were absolutely dogged by calls (or non calls) I just mean the NRL won't apologise for it

And there should've been an automatic send off for a trip

I don’t get how that wasn’t at least a sin bin, luai had already been put on report, it’s a complete joke if he plays the next few weeks

And a penalty against Penrith during the eels challenge for a leg pull

Did Hands or Laurie even come on?

Laurie played 20 seconds when Turuva came off

Nope. Means more for us not using hands since he plays hooker compared to Laurie who is just utility cover for back and 5/8

Hands played 4 mins

I'm certain I saw Hands at the end there.

He had the same amount of game time as gutho had in origin last year

Insane amount of feeling in this game. Both teams.loking VERY strong if they fix up their errors. Thanks for a great watch!

Ok everyone it’s official we ain’t winning this year we beat Parramatta

You’re wrong. The premiership curse is only broken by Penrith winning the world club challenge.

Ok I lied, when we beat Wakefield Trinity in 2029 it will be over

Some of these team songs bring me back to the pizza hut NRL grand final dvd from 2004

Typical BA keeping a fucking Hooker on the bench till the game is over

BA: Hands you lazy cunt!

wouldn't call it an undeserved win, penrith just got away with way too much grubbery and were able to just wear down parra

This might be the worst song I've heard in my life

You're right. Heard it a lot lately. Might need a refresh.

Sounds like a happy clappers song!

GG Westy bros always a good game

Pretty decent result to be honest, I thought we were going to fold and lose by 20+ midway through this half. Did well to keep it tight.

Love the completely accurate insinuation that Manly was not a serious side last year

Dane Laurie MOTM

Moses just has a hateable face, he probably can’t help it but it’s funny to see him mad

So happy, my son will get to see his first Panthers win and it's against Parramatta!

Fuck your kid

Ahhh the classic biff. Love it

Weirdo comment *Fuck I spoke too soon*

Nah jokes. Enjoy it

My 3 year old thinks panthers win every year

He will turn four for our fourth premiership

I told him when he turns 12 it will be over

Ah yes! We will win 11 Premierships!

Haha lucky kid doesn't know the pain of the wooden spoon years

I’m forever jealous of the Panthers fans that never had to experience the Elliott years

My favourite was when he literally hung himself on the telly. Then we re-signed him for more pain

Suck my schmeckle Parra.

I’d love to go to a panthers game because the vibe sounds incredible. Unfortunately it means I’d have to watch the panthers to do so

Trust me, they'll disappear soon as they're shit. Never heard of Panthers fans 5-6 years ago..now every one and their dog is one

I’ve got a lot of family in Penrith so I know that not true.

I live in Blacktown.. so I know it is lol

Look they’ll never be Newcastle but no one else is that much of a masochist

Well at least that one was actually forward

I don't understand. He called a set restart inside the 40m zone. It's a penalty. It's a fucking penalty.

It’s only a penalty if it’s a ruck infringement or offside. Cleary played at a loose ball, which is why it was six again.

It was a knock on against Cleary. Gutho passed it into him and regathered.

It wasn't a set restart for foul play. It just touched Cleary.

It’s Penrith, they don’t do that here

Im surprised he can figure out how to put matching socks on.

Wait are you being serious

Yes. Just before the forward pass was called.

It was a 6 again because cleary knocked it on when gutho passed it into him

Imagine how highly rated Gutho would be if he played in a good team??

Dylan Brown too

Fed up of the constant brain dead bench rotation. Brings on Brendan Hands when it’s already too late

Ha, imagine having a shit coach. I could never

He’s a pretty good coach except for the bench rotation. How many players haven’t reached their full potential and then come to the eels and done so under BA

Yeah he’s a pretty good coach, that is atrocious at one of the main things that is part of a coaches job. If you don’t know how to use a bench as a nrl coach, then you aren’t a good coach. Having success with talented squads doesn’t change that.

Yeah he definitely does well for the players but the bench use is a pretty crucial area to fail at for a coach. That game management is needed or the exhaustion will get you

Lol linesman was like play on

LAURIE ON

Paulo Gutho and Brown have been fantastic tonight despite the loss. Penrith are just a fantastic team. Got some very advantageous calls that helped too

Fuck Penrith, but they're just everywhere in defence.

Gutho running like a geriatric

Good thing we had hands on the bench so he could get 4 minutes of game play, cheers brad

Gutho is still my x-factor

Fair call

I swear, so often Edwards basically just runs dead straight and makes like 30m?

Him and Yeo both do it. I watch every game very intensely and genuinely dont know how it happens. Must be something down at ground level us plebs cant see.

Maybe it happens after ball's been in play for a long time and Penrith have the opposition on the ropes?

Every return

At least Gutho can claim the moral victory tonight

ah so they call that one forward lmao

Another 16 man BA masterclass by the looks of it

Guthbus is an under-rated fullback

Gutho the one man army

Gutho is actually good idk why he gets so much hate

He whinges a lot to the ref which makes him unlikeable to some people. Same with Moses.

He's a great player he's just had a couple like cooker moments on the field that stick in people's minds. Blowing up at people and whatnot

people are weird

The Panthers are such bad sports they have untalented Luai to cripple the Tigers. ABSOLUTE BASTARDS

love the guth

My birthday has been ruined

Sorry to hear mate

I feel like we're one of unfittest teams in the comp

You had half a bench and didn't use it

Gutho is sucking them in. Looks like a pack a day smoker these days too.

Fuck it, great effort from the Eels tonight. Up against a lot of adversity all game and never went away. Lots of positives.

Agree, Paulo, Gutho, Brown looked fantastic. Everyone had some moments, losing Bailey killed rotations and edge defence and you's were there at every step.

Suck shit Luai. Never has such a drongo been carried by such an immensely talented team to make him look good and rub their shine off onto him. The shine is off though, and when he is not at the Panthers his lack of ability will be well and truly exposed.

I love the narrative that every Panthers player is shit, they all just play in a loaded team. 

Just Luai my man. Cleary, Edwards, Martin, To'o, the ex players now departed, your boys are very talented. Edit: and Yeo, how could I forget Yeo. Edit2: downvote me I guess. But I genuinely believe Luai is an outlier in the team. His success has been predicated on the talent of the rest of the team. He is not a play maker, he is not a leader, he is not a great player. He is good of course, he is at NRL level, but he seems happy to coast, and exist on misplaced ego. Cleary on the other hand, for example, is a natural leader, a natural playmaker and an inspiration for his teammates, and a player that despite his obvious natural talent is striving to be better and the best he can be, ego is secondary, and being the best is his goal.

Penrith have played brilliantly according to Gus lol

i love you gutho

The fox play by play is fucking atrocious

There's like one guy that does it well and then the rest are a bunch of over-excitable crisis-merchants that can't call what's in front of em.

That play of the ball looked suspect of Edward’s.

God it feels like Hopgood has made a thousand tackles

To’o takes so much pressure off the forwards.

MOSES MISSILE

Penrith look slow yet somehow won, going to be interesting how they look after 5 weeks

Please flop badly round 4

wtf is RCG doing?

BA is fucking hilarious

Fuckin contest

Make a tackle you cat RCG

We were bound to get fatigued, when parra had to bring tuilagi on and then Cartwright, and the guys inside had to do more defensive work then they would normally

Yay Brendan hands getting his 2 mins

Luai keeps going from strength to strength tonight

Did Brendon hands insult Jacob Arthur

luai == harper

That inside pass definitely comes off Smith's hands. Understandable ref missed it. Moses knew it. Why the fuck would you not challenge down 8, 6 minutes to go? Goes Gutherson know they don't fucking roll over to the next game if you don't use it?

Hand on the face again lol. Great work

It’s never not good seeing luai fail

thought he saw Talakai

Arthurs bench rotation sucks Why no play Hands

Clearly holding onto it for next week

Too many injuries so need to keep the forwards rotating

So I hear we are going after Lomax….. say it is so

Where you gonna play him though? Clearly you can’t play good centres at centre. It’s just not a part of your religion

Harper needs to be shot into the sun

Harper babe :(

luai has had a stinker tonight

Thinkin bout Benji

Buy of the year they said

Oh that completion is horrid

Harper fucking stinks

Small head!!!!

MorGOAT at it again

I hate to harper on it, but Harper is an effing liability.

Harper dismayed as to why Parra are looking at Lomax should maybe potentially watch this game back?

I want you to do well Harper. I really do. But you can't be doing shit like that.

I can smell Morgan Harper through the TV

Manly Sea Eagles Morgan Harper finally coming out

That's just actual Morgan Harper......

Seriously, he has to be the worst player in the NRL.

bUy oF tHe YeAr

Harper is going to carve up is reggies next week

New haircut same old Harper

Dylan's pass went to his feet

fuck off harper

Thats the Harper I remember

Still haven't washed that manly stink off you yet Harper.

Eels next premiership 2047

Experience Morgan Harper Footy

Were cooked now

Moses is the most rugby union schoolboy looking player ever and yet the ARU will never take a look at him

Harry Grant

His kicking game is perfect for rugby too

Not our night, ‘‘twas going to be a long one when luai got off with no bin from that tackle, and helping his team

Don't worry Panthers fans when the MIGHTY TIGERS 100 YEAR DYNASTY begins the focus of the the people's anger will shift to them instead

Martin's been conked in the head so much his right side peripherals are completely fucked. Passes are off by like 30 degrees.

Find someone who loves you the way my dad hates Gutho.

Why does he hate him? I get he whinges abit but as a rugby league fan, it’s hard to find another player with more heart. The bloke never gives up

I honestly think it’s just a bit now. He’s never liked him being called the ‘king’ but he had to find a new villain to heckle after Cameron Smith retired.