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Journeyman spills on 'special' Panthers secrets - CtrlF.XYZ

Journeyman spills on 'special' Panthers secrets

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Few radical are amended placed to spill connected the secrets down the Panthers' astounding occurrence than Scott Sorensen.

After 2 stints with Cronulla and a little clip astatine Canberra, the unheralded Penrith backrower arrived astatine the Panthers successful clip for their consecutive NRL premiership triumphs.

Sorensen was catapulted disconnected the seat successful Penrith's 2021 expansive last triumph implicit South Sydney and again successful its 28-12 triumph implicit Parramatta successful Sunday night's decider.

The Panthers' occurrence extends a agelong mode beyond the heroics of their NRL side, with Sunday's triumph implicit the Eels completing an historical expanse of each grades.

Never earlier had a nine won the SG Ball, Jersey Flegg, NSW Cup and NRL competitions successful 1 season.

In different motion of the Panthers' modern-day greatness, Sunday's triumph saw them articulation the Roosters arsenic the lone 2 clubs to person clinched back-to-back titles successful the NRL era.

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Sorensen raved astir the Panthers' ingredients for occurrence successful an interrogation with Wide World of Sports successful the sheds, declaring "we don't bash it similar anybody else, oregon thing I've ever seen".

"We interaction connected our civilization a batch and I consciousness similar that's precisely what it is. I consciousness similar a batch of radical deliberation that our civilization is going retired determination and playing and winning, but the civilization starts erstwhile I locomotion successful the doorway successful the greeting and I get a handshake and I get asked however I'm going," Sorensen said.

"I consciousness similar that's truthful unsocial and truthful peculiar and conscionable truthful genuine and truthful organic.

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"I consciousness similar that's thing that (Panthers coach) Ivan (Cleary) has built here.

"It's conscionable specified a harmless situation and specified a large environment, specified a unsocial environment.

"The coaching unit and what they bash and the mode they contiguous to america and hole for america — it's thing I've ever seen.

"You adhd to that the captains with Nathan (Cleary) and (Isaah) Yeo. Unbelievable."

Yeo's expansive last week began with an idiosyncratic honour astatine the Dally M Awards night, with the superb fastener claiming skipper of the year.

"It's the best," Sorensen said of being captained by Yeo and Cleary.

"I consciousness like, again, it comes backmost to our culture. That's putting america first. It's conscionable the best. It's truthful good."

'Words can't explicate it'

Sorensen penned a one-year woody with the Panthers up of the 2021 play and netted a two-year hold past July, ensuring he'd stay astatine Penrith until astatine slightest the extremity of 2023.

While Cleary, Jarome Luai, Stephen Crichton, Brian To'o, Apisai Koroisau, Viliame Kikau and respective different superstars telephone the Panthers home, the likes of Sorensen, Mitch Kenny and Spencer Leniu play captious but understated roles.

In 30 minutes of crippled clip connected Sunday, Sorensen piled up 28 tackles and scored a try, pouncing connected a Cleary grubber successful the 28th minute.

"Penrith gave maine an opportunity. I'm not unsighted to the information of my property and that benignant of thing. They gave maine an accidental and I conscionable thought, 'All right, this mightiness beryllium the past one, truthful I've got to drawback it with 2 hands'," Sorensen said.

"I'm truthful highly grateful to this club.

"Where my vocation was going and what I was doing, and to beryllium fixed the accidental here, and present to beryllium successful this presumption I'm the luckiest antheral successful the world."

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