2009 Penrith Panthers season

2009 Penrith Panthers season
NRL Rank	11th
2009 record	Wins: 11; Draws: 1; Losses: 12
Points scored	For: 515; Against: 589
Team information
Coach	Matthew Elliott
Captains	Petero Civoniceva Trent Waterhouse Nathan Smith Frank Pritchard
Stadium	CUA Stadium
Top scorers
Tries	Michael Jennings (17)
Goals	Michael Gordon (57)
Points	Michael Gordon (126)
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The 2009 Penrith Panthers season was the 43rd in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2009 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 11th (out of 16). The coach of the team was Matthew Elliott while Petero Civoniceva was the club's captain.

Fixtures

The Panthers again use CUA Stadium as their home ground in 2009, their home ground since they entered the competition in 1967.

Regular Season

Date	Round	Opponent	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance
March 14	Round 1	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	Toyota Stadium	Loss	10-18	Jennings	Gordon (3/3)	10,617
March 21	Round 2	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	CUA Stadium	Loss	26-28	Waterhouse (2), Aiton, Tighe	Gordon (5/5)	16,846
March 30	Round 3	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Brookvale Oval	Win	12-10	Coote, Iosefa	Gordon (2/2)	8,667
April 4	Round 4	Wests Tigers	CUA Stadium	Win	42-22	Coote, Graham, Jennings, Lewis, Pritchard, Sammut	Gordon (9/9)	15,813
April 11	Round 5	Melbourne Storm	Olympic Park Stadium	Loss	14-16	Lewis, Tighe	Gordon (3/3)	10,110
April 17	Round 6	Brisbane Broncos	CUA Stadium	Loss	18-38	Elford, Gordon, Jennings	Gordon (3/4)	14,332
April 24	Round 7	Gold Coast Titans	CUA Stadium	Win	34-20	Sammut (2), Coote, Elford, Jennings, Walsh	Gordon (5/6)	9,769
May 2	Round 8	Canberra Raiders	Canberra Stadium	Win	18-10	Daniela (2), Jennings	Sammut (3/3)	8,850
	Round 9	Bye
March 16	Round 10	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	CUA Stadium	Win	26-22	Aiton, Daniela, Lewis, Pritchard	Sammut (5/5)	11,750
May 23	Round 11	Sydney Roosters	CUA Stadium	Win	48-6	Jennings (3), Graham (2), Coote, Elford, Lewis, Pritchard	Sammut (3/4), Walsh (3/5)	8,515
May 29	Round 12	St. George-Illawarra Dragons	WIN Stadium	Loss	10-38	Graham, Pritchard	Sammut (1/1), Cooper (0/1)	10,623
June 5	Round 13	Wests Tigers	Leichhardt Oval	Win	26-10	Walsh (2), Aiton, Daniela, Tighe	Walsh (2/4), Cooper (1/1)	14,100
June 13	Round 14	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	CUA Stadium	Loss	6-20	Smith	Walsh (1/1)	15,806
June 19	Round 15	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	ANZ Stadium	Loss	19-12	Cooper, Pritchard	Walsh (2/3)	13,992
	Round 16	Bye
July 5	Round 17	Parramatta Eels	CUA Stadium	Win	38-34	Jennings (3), Grant, Paulo, Tia-Kilifi	Walsh (5/7)	16,845
July 10	Round 18	South Sydney Rabbitohs	ANZ Stadium	Loss	12-36	Aiton, Daniela	Walsh (2/2)	9,017
July 18	Round 19	Canberra Raiders	CUA Stadium	Win	27-14	Paulo, Puletua, Tia-Kilifi, Tighe	Gordon (5/5) Walsh (FG)	8,074
July 25	Round 20	North Queensland Cowboys	Dairy Farmers Stadium	Win	28-20	Jennings, Gordon, Sammut	Gordon (4/5)	14,274
Aug 1	Round 21	New Zealand	CUA Stadium	Draw	32-32	Jennings (2), Elford, Puletua, Walsh	Gordon (6/6)	12,677
August 7	Round 22	St. George-Illawarra Dragons	CUA Stadium	Loss	6-25	Lewis	Gordon (1/1)	19,987
August 16	Round 23	Brisbane Broncos	Suncorp Stadium	Loss	24-58	Pritchard, Tighe, Walsh, Waterhouse	Gordon (4/4)	25,305
August 22	Round 24	South Sydney Rabbitohs	CUA Stadium, Penrith	Won	40-10	Tia-Kilifi (2), Aiton, Gordon, Graham, Jennings, Tighe	Gordon (6/7)	14,214
August 28	Round 25	Parramatta Eels	Parramatta Stadium	Loss	6-48	Blair	Gordon (1/1)	20,237
September 6	Round 26	Newcastle Knights	EnergyAustralia Stadium	Loss	0-35			22,152

Legend:   Win   Loss   Draw

Ladder

2009 NRL season
	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	St. George Illawarra	24	17	0	7	2	548	329	+219	38
2	Bulldogs	24	18	0	6	2	575	428	+147	38*
3	Gold Coast	24	16	0	8	2	514	467	+47	36
4	Melbourne	24	14	1	9	2	505	348	+157	33
5	Manly-Warringah	24	14	0	10	2	549	439	+90	32
6	Brisbane	24	14	0	10	2	511	566	−55	32
7	Newcastle	24	13	0	11	2	508	491	+17	30
8	Parramatta	24	12	1	11	2	476	473	+3	29
9	Wests Tigers	24	12	0	12	2	558	483	+75	28
10	South Sydney	24	11	1	12	2	566	549	+17	27
11	Penrith	24	11	1	12	2	515	589	−74	27
12	North Queensland	24	11	0	13	2	558	474	+84	26
13	Canberra	24	9	0	15	2	489	510	−31	22
14	New Zealand	24	7	2	15	2	377	545	−188	20
15	Cronulla-Sutherland	24	5	0	19	2	359	568	−209	14
16	Sydney Roosters	24	5	0	19	2	382	681	−299	14

* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2

2009 Statistics

Nat	Name	Pos	App	T	G	FG	Pts
	Aiton, PaulPaul Aiton	HK	24	5	0	0	20
	Bell, MatthewMatthew Bell	SR	23	0	0	0	0
	Blair, MauriceMaurice Blair	FE	15	1	0	0	4
	Civoniceva, PeteroPetero Civoniceva	PR	12	0	0	0	0
	Cooper, GavinGavin Cooper	SR	22	1	1	0	6
	Coote, LachlanLachlan Coote	FB	12	4	0	0	16
	Daniela, GeoffGeoff Daniela	WG	6	5	0	0	20
	Elford, ShaneShane Elford	WG	15	4	0	0	16
	Emelio, AndrewAndrew Emelio	CE	1	0	0	0	0
	Gordon, MichaelMichael Gordon	WG	15	3	57	0	126
	Graham, WadeWade Graham	FE	22	5	0	0	20
	Grant, TimTim Grant	PR	17	1	0	0	4
	Iosefa, MasadaMasada Iosefa	HK	9	1	0	0	4
	Jennings, MichaelMichael Jennings	CE	19	17	0	0	68
	Lewis, LukeLuke Lewis	FE	15	5	0	0	20
	McFadgean, BenBen McFadgean	WG	1	0	0	0	0
	McKendry, SamSam McKendry	PR	1	0	0	0	0
	Paulo, JosephJoseph Paulo	SR	14	2	0	0	8
	Pritchard, FrankFrank Pritchard	SR	20	6	0	0	24
	Puletua, FrankFrank Puletua	PR	23	2	0	0	8
	Romelo, JoelJoel Romelo	HB	4	2	0	0	8
	Sammut, JarrodJarrod Sammut	HB	21	4	12	0	40
	Smith, NathanNathan Smith	LK	23	2	0	0	8
	Tia-Kilifi, JuniorJunior Tia-Kilifi	CE	8	4	0	0	16
	Tighe, BradBrad Tighe	CE	19	6	0	0	24
	Walsh, LukeLuke Walsh	HB	18	5	15	1	51
	Waterhouse, TrentTrent Waterhouse	SR	21	3	0	0	12
	Woolnough, AdamAdam Woolnough	PR	9	0	0	0	0

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Transfers

Gains Player Previous Club Gavin Cooper Gold Coast Titans Luke Walsh Newcastle Knights Shane Elford Huddersfield Giants

Losses Player Club Tony Puletua Saint Helens Luke Rooney (French Rugby Union) Rugby Club Toulonnais Brendan Worth Toulouse Olympique Rhys Wesser South Sydney Rabbitohs Shane Rodney Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles William Isa Melbourne Storm Chris Ward Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Josh McCrone Canberra Raiders Lancen Joudo Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks

References

External links

• Panthers official site