NRL Round 1: Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs St George-Illawarra Dragons Sunday 14 March @ Netstrata Jubilee Stadium
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andrew's_sharks
Great White
Happy for the win. Given we generally lose the first game of the season it's nice to start the season off well given the injuries we have out at the moment.
Sharkmate
Bull Shark
Great 1st Half, mediocre 2nd half, in all an average win
Snaggletooth
Oceanic Whitetip Shark
freak, we got some work to do in the receiving of bombs and kicks. Apart from that was ok
This!
Tiger Shark
Jaws
Need to remember it was wet as **** and we never win Rd 1 so I’m stoked.
Cage
Bull Shark
The first 30 minutes was very pleasing but for the rest of the game we looked like we were working on ways to lose it. We were lucky we were playing the dragqueens.
I will say I think the bit of scuffle fired the dragons up a lot and their forwards played better after that, didn’t do us any favours
fishermanaxe
Grey Nurse
Fifita had to offer more off the Bench than Billy or Jack !
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I noticed the forwards didn't take any hit ups for about a 10min spell early 2nd half...the backs were taking it up from our 20metre line. I'm thinking its planned to keep forwards fresh in last 20 mins. If so - good ploy ! well done.
vicsharkfan
Jaws
We’re inside the 8 after round 1 first time in 7 or 8 years... scrappy win is a lot better than a well executed loss..
Mags offers nothing and his defence is poor. Williams is fine with good players around him and makes great impact when he runs hard. Mags is NSW cup IMO.
Anyway see Cup and how Fifi went?
Damn straight. And he brings big game experience.
Gards
Jaws
Jack Williams went pretty well, brought more punch and speed than Fifita would have
Would put in Andrew over Billy M next week in a heart beat though
our second halves in games are strange, unless we are behind chasing points we seem to come out trying to conserve energy for the 41-60 min period instead of pressing our advantage and sealing the win, dunno what the coach is telling them but we shouldn't stray so far from what works so well in the first 40 and it can't all be down to bench / interchange it's like there is an attitude or intensity adjustment. maybe we don't relise how much energy they actually expelled in that first 40? but they look fitter than usual, especially for an opening round. chad copping a bad knock didn't help us
second half was chaos but was good to get back on top and keep pushing from there eventually. drags prob should have only put 1 or 2 trys on us though really they offered nothing outside of some fortunate kicks
Would put in Andrew over Billy M next week in a heart beat though
our second halves in games are strange, unless we are behind chasing points we seem to come out trying to conserve energy for the 41-60 min period instead of pressing our advantage and sealing the win, dunno what the coach is telling them but we shouldn't stray so far from what works so well in the first 40 and it can't all be down to bench / interchange it's like there is an attitude or intensity adjustment. maybe we don't relise how much energy they actually expelled in that first 40? but they look fitter than usual, especially for an opening round. chad copping a bad knock didn't help us
second half was chaos but was good to get back on top and keep pushing from there eventually. drags prob should have only put 1 or 2 trys on us though really they offered nothing outside of some fortunate kicks
Sir Chadley
Jaws
Great to start off with a win. Not sure what some of you blokes are complaining about, it’s Round 1, we won and we did it without some key personnel. Ok, the Dragons aren’t a great side but I reckon they had a good dig tonight and made us work hard.
Some very pleasing efforts tonight and even though he wasn’t outstanding Moylan ran well and tried hard, always looked to get involved. He can build on that.
Except for the error that led to Clune’s try I thought Kennedy was very good and deserved his two tries. Tolman made a good debut as well.
Chad lost focus a bit early in the second half but apart from that I thought he played well. 6 from 6 is a good start too.
Raiders will be 100 times harder next week but hopefully we have Hunt and Talakai back.
Some very pleasing efforts tonight and even though he wasn’t outstanding Moylan ran well and tried hard, always looked to get involved. He can build on that.
Except for the error that led to Clune’s try I thought Kennedy was very good and deserved his two tries. Tolman made a good debut as well.
Chad lost focus a bit early in the second half but apart from that I thought he played well. 6 from 6 is a good start too.
Raiders will be 100 times harder next week but hopefully we have Hunt and Talakai back.