2021 NRL Round 22: Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs Newcastle Knights. Sunday 15 August 2021. Moreton Daily Stadium, Redcliffe

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Ripped off.

I don't care what the ref lovers have to say, we deserved to win that game.
 

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They needed to set up something for Metcalf, poor to resort to a kick and hope.

If some calls went the other way we win that. Pretty happy with the turnaround from our middles.
 

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Lacking a game manager 100%. Hynes will be burned next year without a proper one

We had one 3 months ago and everyone said he was our major reason for not winning games...
 

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At least the effort was there this week. Defence was better. Just dumb errors and some bad luck killed us.

Was it Magoulis who gave up that penalty that beat us? That’s why you don’t play first grade you lazy heap.

Lacking a game manager 100%. Hynes will be burned next year without a proper one

My biggest fear about next season. We really need to have the right guy next to him.
 

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What tf happens at half time ?
Twice we have led and lost and haven’t scored a 2nd half try
 
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If this club is serious they look to upgrade their wing stocks. Why is katoa just handed a spot? What does he do other than acrobatic finishes? Terrible in defence, clearly isnt as fast as he seemed in 20s. **** him off
 
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Much better defensive effort today but to be honest they didn’t really throw a lot at us. Ponga was kept pretty quiet by his standards.

Just didn’t get the rub of the green today.

Officiating was not great. Don’t remember any restarts for us in the last third of the game and thought we deserved a couple.

Couple of bull**** penalties didn’t help.

On to next week against the Tigers.
 
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Stupid penalty

We had some terrible calls against us today. But we are our own worst enemy. Fundamental errors that first grade footballers should not make.
We look worse than the bulldogs most games.

Some real dumb decisions from this team. They move the ball too much. For how long were cronulla successful for using their forwards well. Now we just run side to side and run out of room and plays break down.
 

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Our line speed just feels so much slower than every team in the comp
We defended a hell of a lot better though but on the backfoot
 
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Some real dumb decisions from this team. They move the ball too much. For how long were cronulla successful for using their forwards well. Now we just run side to side and run out of room and plays break down.

Yep.

You have to win the forwards battle to earn the right to throw it wide.

We don’t bend the line enough coming out of our end. We’re lucky to make 30 metres a set.

You can’t go wide after that.
 

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Best we've played for a while. Good effort n sting in defence n just got no love on 50/50 calls today. Metcalf to 6 nxt wk, showed speed n a good boot to give us a 2nd kicking option
 

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Twice those assholes beaten us by 2 points...Not happy we lost but impressed by effort
 

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Thats it for me, whilst we didn't play the smartest footy at times & did a few dumb errors ourselves, I don't think I'll bother watching more games if this standard of refereeing & bunker is kept up.

The NRL also have to realise that this is a contact sport, these accidental late shots are going to happen but every single one is blown a penalty. Ridiculous rule changes are made all the time too.
 
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