PANTHERS: MEN IN BLACK
Standard Edition - $55
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PANTHERS: MEN IN BLACK
Limited Edition - $330
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Recently released, this magnificent book takes you on a journey starting from the very beginnings of the Rugby League in the Penrith District right through to the 2007 Season.
This book is a must read for both Panthers fans
and any keen follower of Rugby League.
Through the pages of the book, you will relive the tumultuous evolving of the Super League, the formation of the NRL, the selection criteria and the near miss of the Panthers being lost to the game, the Board Wars and the Temby inquiry... and of course, that memorable 2003 Premiership.
The Panthers: Men In Black extends and refreshes the history captured by the 1992 publication Bound for Glory.
Available in Standard Edition, you also have the opportunity to own one of only 300 numbered copies of the exclusive “Limited Edition” release of the book.
Package Option 1
PANTHERS: MEN IN BLACK
Limited Edition
+ BOUND FOR GLORY (LTD)
+ PANTHERS, PASSION AND POLITICS
$395
Package Option 2
PANTHERS: MEN IN BLACK Standard Edition
+ PANTHERS, PASSION AND POLITICS
$70
The Panthers: Men In Black - Book Excerpts
THE WINNING OF A PREMIERSHIP – THE FORGOTTEN STORY
Penrith was ‘alive’ with footy-talk; the players and the district had tasted the finals and a grand final and as much as the taste of a grand final defeat was bitter, they had an inkling of what the other side of the fence would feel like. Rugby League manager, Don Feltis, who had become fulltime president of the Penrith junior league in 1986, was appointed CEO of the club, a role handed to him by Roger Cowan once he felt Feltis could take control on his won. Feltis was on of the Panthers’ longest-standing officials, having played A-grade junior league with the club when he was 19...Continue Reading
The Stephenson- Ashurst feud
Jack Clare saw the feud between Mike Stephenson and Bill Ashurst as another headache the Panthers could have done without. “They were always at each other. Stephenson was a real pro. He trained well, was a great player… a leader of the band. But I felt he was a jealous guy –he resented any accolades Ashurst got –it was a bit of the Lancashire verse Yorkshire thing.” Stephenson insists that the jealousy was all one way...Continue Reading
SHEENS ON ASHURST:
“When Billy wanted to do something. He could do it. That’s where there was a bit of angst on the footy field. If Billy was standing on the short side and called for the ball and Mick had run the open, Mick might have used Billy as a bit of a decoy because where Billy went, the defence tended to follow. But Billy never called for it unless he wanted it. Billy would never do anything like a take-up. That was left to me and the Johnny Kings and blokes like that. So if Billy said he wanted the ball, it meant he saw something for Billy…the only angst that was ever on the field between them was because Mick would go the other way, or run over and dummy to him and go himself. Nine times out of 10 it was always something that was going to win us a game...Continue Reading
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