2018 Penrith Panthers season

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2018 Penrith Panthers season
NRL Rank5th
2018 recordWins: 15; losses: 9
Points scoredFor: 410; against: 342
Team information
CEOBrian Fletcher
Coach Anthony Griffin (round 1 to round 21) Cameron Ciraldo (round 22 onwards)
Captains
Stadium Panthers Stadium – 22,500
Carrington Park – 13,000 (round 9 only)
Avg. attendance14,404
High attendance21,565 vs Dragons, round 12
Top scorers
Tries Waqa Blake (13)
Goals James Maloney (53)
PointsJames Maloney (126)
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The 2018 Penrith Panthers season was the 52nd in the club's history. Coached by Anthony Griffin (from round 1 to round 21) and Cameron Ciraldo (from round 22 onwards) on caretaker basis and captained by Peter Wallace and James Maloney, the Panthers competed in the National Rugby League's 2018 Telstra Premiership.

Contents

Squad

Penrith Panthers
2018 NRL SquadExtended squadCoaching staff

Head coach

Assistant coaches

  • Peter Wallace
  • Guy Missio (ISP coach) [2]
  • Ben Harden (JF coach) [3]
  • Tony Guilfoyle (Head of Performance)
Legend:
  • (c) Captain(s)
  • (vc) Vice-captain(s)

Updated: 16 July 2018
Source(s): [4]

Player transfers

A † denotes that the transfer occurred during the 2018 season.

Fixtures

Pre-season

[18]

DateTrialOpponentVenueScoreTriesGoals
Saturday, 17 February1 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters Panthers Stadium 30 – 18 Sivo (2), Eisenhuth, Egan, Leota, Peachey Cleary (2/4), Keighran (1/2)
Saturday, 24 February2 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Belmore Sports Ground 24 – 10 Campbell-Gillard, Crichton Cleary (1/2)
Legend:   Win  Loss  Draw

Regular season

[19]

DateRoundOpponentVenueScoreTriesGoalsAttendance
Sunday, 11 March1 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels Panthers Stadium 24 – 14 Blake (2), Kikau Cleary (6/6)21,506
Saturday, 17 March2 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs Panthers Stadium 18 – 14 Blake, Merrin, Peachey Cleary (3/4)15,995
Friday, 23 March3 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs ANZ Stadium 18 – 20 Edwards, Maloney, Mansour Cleary (2/2), Maloney (1/1)11,247
Thursday, 29 March4 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 1300SMILES Stadium 33 – 14 Blake, Kikau, Leota, Maloney Maloney (8/8, 1 FG)11,907
Sunday, 8 April5 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels ANZ Stadium 6 – 12 Mansour Maloney (4/4)10,061
Sunday, 15 April6 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Panthers Stadium 35 – 12 Harawira-Naera (2), Crichton, Edwards, Peachey, Tamou Maloney (5/7, 1 FG)11,091
Sunday, 22 April7 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Southern Cross Group Stadium 26 – 22 Edwards, Kikau, Watene-Zelezniak, Yeo Maloney (3/4)12,667
Friday, 27 April8 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Panthers Stadium 22 – 14 Harawira-Naera, Leota, Yeo Maloney (5/6)13,760
Friday, 4 May9 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys Carrington Park 20 – 26 Phillips (2), Wallace (2) Maloney (2/4)10,289
Friday, 11 May10 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights McDonald Jones Stadium 18 – 29 Campbell-Gillard, Harawira-Naera, Peachey, Watene-Zelezniak Maloney (6/6, 1 FG)14,801
Thursday, 17 May11 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers Panthers Stadium 16 – 2 Peachey, Phillips Maloney (4/5)15,081
Saturday, 26 May12 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons Panthers Stadium 28 – 2 Campbell-Gillard, Cleary, Crichton, Kikau Maloney (6/6)21,565
13 Bye
Friday, 8 June14 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders GIO Stadium 22 – 23 Peachey (2), Whare Maloney (5/6), Cleary (1 FG)7,662
Friday, 15 June15 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters Allianz Stadium 32 – 6 Whare Maloney (1/1)10,078
Saturday, 30 June16 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah Sea Eagles Panthers Stadium 10 – 18 Watene-Zelezniak Maloney (3/3)12,755
Friday, 6 July17 Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors Panthers Stadium 36 – 4 Luai (2), Blake, Harawira-Naera, Kikau, Phillips Luai (6/8)10,255
Friday, 13 July18 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Panthers Stadium 12 – 24 Blake, Harawira-Naera Luai (2/3)11,742
Friday, 20 July19 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos Suncorp Stadium 50 – 18 Blake, Mansour, Peachey Cleary (3/3)26,357
Saturday, 28 July20 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah Sea Eagles Lottoland 24 – 28 Blake, Cleary, Mansour, Whare, Yeo Cleary (4/5)6,134
Sunday, 5 August21 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders Panthers Stadium 40 – 31 Tamou, Peachey (2), Whare, Watene-Zelezniak, Mansour, Maloney Cleary (6/7)12,195
Saturday, 11 August22 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Cbus Super Stadium 16 – 17 Blake, Cleary, Watene-Zelezniak Cleary (6/7, 1 FG)11,283
Saturday, 18 August23 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights Panthers Stadium 12 – 20 May, Egan Cleary (2/2)14,125
Friday, 24 August24 Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors Mount Smart Stadium 16 – 36 Blake, Mansour, Merrin Cleary (2/3)17,195
Friday, 31 August25 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm AAMI Park 16 – 22 Mansour (2), Blake (2), Crichton Cleary (1/6)20,637
Legend:   Win  Loss  Draw  Bye

Finals

DateRoundOpponentVenueScoreTriesGoalsAttendance
Saturday, 8 SeptemberElimination Final Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors ANZ Stadium 27 – 12 Peachey (2), Maloney, Crichton Cleary (5/6) Maloney (1FG)17,168
Friday, 15 SeptemberSemi Final Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla Sharks Allianz Stadium 21 - 20 Cleary, Yeo, Blake Cleary (4/4)19,211
Legend:   Win  Loss  Draw  Bye

Ladder

2018 NRL season
PosTeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPts
1 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 2416081542361+18134
2 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm 2416081536363+17334
3 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 2416081582437+14534
4 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 2416081519423+9634
5 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers 2415091517461+5632
6 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 2415091556500+5632
7 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 2415091519472+4732
8 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 2415091472447+2532
9 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 24120121377460−8326
10 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 24100141563540+2322
11 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 2490151414607−19320
12 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 2480161428474−4618
13 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 2480161449521−7218
14 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 2480161472582−11018
15 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 2470171500622−12216
16 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 2460181374550−17614

Statistics

NameAgeAppTGFGPts
Caleb Aekins 2110000
Waqa Blake 24980032
Reagan Campbell-Gillard 25142008
Nathan Cleary 2110218/20145
Christian Crichton 22162008
Dylan Edwards 22830012
Wayde Egan 2190000
Kaide Ellis 2250000
James Fisher-Harris 22190000
Corey Harawira-Naera 231860024
Jack Hetherington 22110000
Sione Katoa 23140000
Viliame Kikau 231850020
Moses Leota 23132008
Jarome Luai 21428/11024
Sam McKendry 2920000
James Maloney 3217253/613117
Josh Mansour 28840016
Tyrone May 2230000
Trent Merrin 29181004
Tyrone Peachey 271770028
Tyrone Phillips 24940016
James Tamou 30191004
Peter Wallace 3392008
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak 231330012
Dean Whare 281830012
Isaah Yeo 241930012
27 players25.54196279/924410

Other teams

In addition to competing in the National Rugby League, the Panthers are also fielding semi-professional teams in the 2018 Jersey Flegg Cup (for players aged under 20) and the New South Wales Rugby League's 2018 Intrust Super Premiership (NSW Cup). The JF team is coached by Ben Harden, and the NSW Cup team is coached by Guy Missio.

Representative honours

Domestic

Pos.PlayerTeamCall-upRef.
PR Reagan Campbell-Gillard New South Wales colours.svg New South Wales 2018 State of Origin
HB Nathan Cleary
FE James Maloney
BE Tyrone Peachey

International

Pos.PlayerTeamCall-upRef.
CE Tyrone Phillips Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 2018 Test vs Papua New Guinea
WG Christian Crichton Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 2018 Test vs Tonga
FE Tyrone May
BE Sione Katoa Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 2018 Test vs Samoa
BE James Fisher-Harris Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2018 Test vs England
FB Dallin Watene-Zelezniak

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