We love the mighty Canberra Raiders
In the 2017 Super Rugby season, the Brumbies rested 12 players for the final-round game against the Chiefs.
The Brumbies went down to the Chiefs 28-10 before being knocked out in the quarter-final the following weekend by the Hurricanes.
The most infamous case of resting players took place in 2001, when the Waratahs rested a number of key players for the final regular game of the season, having already secured a place in the playoffs.
The biggest smiles of the night for Penrith came in the final minute when Jaemon Salmon put a bookend on last year's "weak-gutted dog" saga with an emphatic message to sledging fans at Canberra Stadium.
"I just said 'weak-gutted dog'. I think it was pretty obvious. Just a bit of fun," Salmon said of his emotional bark after scoring a try to put the Panthers beyond 50 points.
Salmon said Raiders supporters on Friday night had been reminding him of last year's dramatic Ricky Stuart press conference that led to the coach being fined and suspended one match.
Raiders coach Ricky Stuart cut a forlorn figure in the post-match press conference as he apologised to the club’s fans after their heavy 53-12 defeat to the Panthers at GIO Stadium.
Stuart wasn’t in much of a mood to answer questions on what was said to his side in the sheds after the game, preferring to keep that “in-house”.
Instead, he expressed his “disappointment” and forecasted he and the club are in for a “tough week”.