With a minute remaining in the first half and Canberra barely clinging to survival, Brent Naden charged onto a precision spiral ball from Tyrone May and spectacularly dove through the air grounding the football somewhere between a forlorn Jordan Rapana and the corner post. Nathan Cleary's ensuing sideline conversion gave Penrith a 24-0 lead at the break after the competition's benchmark side had produced a near perfect half of football. As a contest, it looked over. Yet Ricky Stuart's men refused to throw in the towel against a team which can do no wrong at the moment, and they held the Panthers tryless in the second stanza as Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad's bagged a double to reduce the losing margin. But the early scoreboard damage simply proved too significant.
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