Gus reveals hidden impact of Panthers success

Why Panthers won’t write off 2025

No team has ever started a season 1-5 and gone on to win the premiership, but Ivan Cleary isn’t ready to give up on making history.

Gus reveals hidden impact of Panthers success

Phil Gould analyses the impact Penrith's success has had on their retention amid an early season slump.

The Panthers have delivered us four straight Premierships. Now isn't the time to give up on them. • The Western Weekender

It was August 28, 2009. Penrith just needed to beat arch rivals Parramatta to qualify for the Finals. Penrith hadn’t reached the post-season since 2004, the year after they won the Grand Final over the Sydney Roosters. In the years that followed those two outstanding seasons in 2003 and 2004, the Penrith fan base started to wane. Success quickly forgotten. But here we were, on the verge of the play-offs and in with a real shot of restoring some …

‘Ridiculously good times’ were always temporary: Cleary

After half a decade of times so “ridiculously good” it was unfair on everyone else, Ivan Cleary always knew the lights would one day come on at the Penrith party. He didn’t imagine it would be like this, though. Cleary “absolutely” believes the Panthers’ season is alive, despite a five-game losing streak that has pushed the four-time reigning premiers to second-last on the NRL ladder after six rounds. But the coach admits last week’s loss to the…

The Bennett-Bellamy masterstroke ‘too tense’ Panthers can copy to stop shocking early plummet

The Bennett-Bellamy masterstroke ‘too tense’ Panthers can copy to stop shocking early plummet