Tonight we had our first look in a while at a full-strength Panthers without Isaah Yeo in the side. <\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t convincing at all.<\/p>\n
And Andrew Johns had a big call in the aftermath. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t see them winning it, it\u2019s just too hard, unless Isaah Yeo comes back 100 per cent (fit),\u201d he said on Nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to go to Melbourne next week … that\u2019s going to be a bash up and then they have to come back and play the Bulldogs which will be physical. They finish with the Wests Tigers, and all due respect they should win that one. But if they come third and Warriors come second, they have to go to Auckland for a big bash up. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just too hard … they\u2019ve played in this system with Yeo for years, to change your habits, it is so hard. They have to pretty much change the way they attack without that Isaah Yeo link man in the middle. Late in the match Lindsay Smith started to get in there and look dangerous but Lindsay isn\u2019t Isaah Yeo, he\u2019s not quick across the ground and with his hands. If they get to the grand final it\u2019ll be their greatest achievement but I just can\u2019t see it happening unless Isaah Yeo comes back fully fit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight we had our first look in a while at a full-strength Panthers without Isaah Yeo in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-853886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}