RAW: Ciraldo hits back at Griffin’s claims over junior development
August 10, 2018. Penrith caretaker coach Cameron Ciraldo speaks to reporters in Penrith, addressing sacked coach Anthony Griffin's claims the Panthers had struggled to develop juniors before his arrival in 2016. "I was surprised (by those comments) because we'd won a number of titles in the lower grades up until the point that Hook got here," Ciraldo said. "There were some really good systems in place there, some people doing a lot of hard work before he'd got here and again, the people in these four walls know about that... a lot of the players that are playing first grade now were playing SG Ball in 2013-14, under-20s 2015, so I'm pretty confident we had good systems in place." (AAP Video/Michael Wade)