There are two photos that mean a lot at Penrith, not of past premiership glories but of schoolchildren they didn't even know | app85 SMHsport NRL
On the bottom right corner of Matt Cameron's whiteboard is a magnet that serves as the club's motto: 200 games, not 20. It's repeated to every parent who lets their son travel from the bush to join the Panthers in Sydney.
When conversation turns to Dubbo's Isaah Yeo, one of the original bush success stories for the Panthers in recent times, Jones has a glint in his eye. Pound for pound, he reckons, there's almost no one better. Yeo could even notch 150 NRL games in the grand final, if the Panthers are beaten by the Roosters in Friday night's finals blockbuster but recover to make the decider.
The club deliberately plants its best coaches with its youngest players, and the youngsters from the bush are given a general rule: finish your schooling out west and spend as much time at home before coming to Penrith permanently, when you and the club are ready. "Our ultimate goal is, if you’ve got a kid who plays junior league for the Panthers or for Cowra, comes here and is good enough to play first grade, then in 15 years' time ends up cooking a barbie for his son, that’s the perfect model for us."And there's no way I am going to stand up there and say we’re better than anyone else, but we feel like what we’re doing is working for us. The return on investment works for us.
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