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Preparing for the future, the Penrith Panthers<\/a> have continued to add to their outside backs stock by poaching another talented youngster from the Wests Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n A member of this year’s Western Suburbs Magpies side Under-17s Harold Matthews Cup<\/a> competition,\u00a0Zero Tackle\u00a0can reveal that Tyler Peken has decided to make the switch from the Tigers’ pathways system to sign with the Penrith Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n A member of the Patrician Brothers’ Blacktown squad that won this year’s 2025 Peter Mulholland Cup, Peken will spend next year playing in the Under-19s SG Ball Cup<\/a> as he continues to grow as a player.<\/p>\n Primarily used in the centres, the youngster has also been used on the wing and in the halves over the past 12 months at the club and school level.<\/p>\n The signing of Peken comes after Camden Rams junior and St Gregory’s College product Thomas Goodfield agreed to join the Panthers earlier in the season.<\/a><\/p>\n A member of the Magpies side in the Under-17s Harold Matthews Cup<\/a> for the past two seasons, Goodfield made an immediate impact at the club and the 2024 Under-16s NSW City representative will be looking to do the same at the Panthers.<\/p>\n “My dad, who was a die-hard Parra fan, got me into playing footy, and it’d be mad and good for my family (to one day play in the\u00a0NRL<\/a>),”\u00a0Goodfield told\u00a0Zero Tackle\u00a0earlier in the year.<\/a><\/p>\n