Panthers out to buck World Club Challenge 傾向
Isaah Yeo 主張するs Penrith won't 落ちる 犠牲者 to a second World Club Challenge "hangover'', but history is stacked against the Panthers as they look for a strong start to another 首相の職 defence.
With last month's 16-12 loss to Wigan, the Panthers became the seventh Australian club in the past 20 years to travel to England for the World Club Challenge and 苦しむ 敗北・負かす.
非，不，無 of those six previous travelling teams 地位，任命するd a winning 記録，記録的な／記録する in the first month of the NRL season after losing to their English hosts.
Four of the six started the season 2-2, with the other two sputtering to only one 勝利，勝つ from four games.
に引き続いて their slow starts, 統治するing 首相s Canterbury and Wests Tigers 行方不明になるd 決勝戦 altogether in the 2005 and 2006 seasons, それぞれ.
By contrast, of the seven NRL teams that won the World Club Challenge in England in the same time-でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる, four began their 首相の職 defence with winning 記録，記録的な／記録するs. All seven went on to play 決勝戦.
After losing to St Helens in last year's World Club Challenge, Penrith won only one of three games across the first month of the 2023 season.
Nathan Cleary told AAP last month that the loss left the Panthers with a "hangover" to begin 2023, though they 最終的に cleaned up their 行為／法令／行動する to hoist the トロフィー aloft for a third 連続した season.
Yeo, Penrith's other co-captain, said the 味方する was 井戸／弁護士席-placed to 避ける a repeat of last year's slow start.
"I feel like we've got a better 計器 of how we want to play," he told AAP.
"明白に there's been 進化 on both 味方するs of the ball, not just attack but defence 同様に. I think we're 焦点（を合わせる）d on that.
"We're not 推定する／予想するing to play our best football, you never do, at the start of the season.
"But we just want to 始める，決める ourselves up with a really good 創立／基礎. I feel like we showed that in the game (against Wigan)."
A 堅い draw will work against the Panthers - they 直面する Melbourne, Parramatta, Brisbane and the Sydney Roosters in the first month.
Three of those 味方するs played 決勝戦 in 2023 and the other, the Eels, held a winning 記録，記録的な／記録する over the Panthers last season.
"When you've got a draw like that at the start of the year, it's going to help you 始める，決める up for the 支援する end. That's how we're looking at it," Yeo said.
"You've got to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 everyone and you've got to 詩（を作る） (sic) everyone at some point, don't you?"
Yeo said にもかかわらず the result, the trip to England was a success for the Panthers, who had not 以前 travelled outside of Oceania as a squad.
"I reckon there are a bucket-負担 of 肯定的なs," he said.
"Clubs are spending a fortune to go on （軍の）野営地，陣営s for three or four days.
"We were lucky enough to go and get a 10-day one over the other 味方する of the world and experience things that we'll probably never experience again.
"ーに関して／ーの点でs of that, I think that'll do us really good. The result, too, that probably helps 刺激（する） us on."
REIGNING PREMIERS' FIRST FOUR GAMES ON RETURN FROM LOSING THE WORLD CLUB CHALLENGE IN ENGLAND
Cronulla (2017): 2-2
Manly (2012): 2-2
Melbourne (2008): 2-2
Brisbane (2007): 1-3
Wests Tigers (2006): 2-2
Bul ldogs (2005): 1-3
