Official Craig Fitzgibbon

Nice to see the club building for the future, definitely heading in the right direction

beaver2233 said:

Fitzgibbon locked into long-term deal

Craig Fitzgibbon will remain at the Sharks until at least the end of the 2027 season after signing long term contract extension.

www.sharks.com.au

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All the good coaches getting extensions... Fitz... Kevvie...

Absolutely stoked with this. A long-term, well respected coach goes a long way to signing players.

Well, there’s not many bigger votes of confidence then a contract extension about, what, 24 months out from the end of your deal? It has its risks sure, but at this point in time, I cannot think of anyone else I’d rather have steering the ship.

CrazyMatt said:

Well, there’s not many bigger votes of confidence then a contract extension about, what, 24 months out from the end of your deal? It has its risks sure, but at this point in time, I cannot think of anyone else I’d rather have steering the ship.

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Yep, contract extension that far out after only 12 months on NRL coaching. We've got a goodun.

I personally would of let his current deal expire and then see what John Morris is up to at the end of next year

Great to have him locked in. But **** that is a lot of faith shown by the club. Hopefully a premiership is a must now for us within 2-3 years.

Mr Ryan said:

I personally would of let his current deal expire and then see what John Morris is up to at the end of next year

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Went 1 further in finals last year than Fitz

Gumby said:

Great to have him locked in. But **** that is a lot of faith shown by the club. Hopefully a premiership is a must now for us within 2-3 years.

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No pressure, but yeah. Or 2-3 premierships in the 5

John Morris’s mum is going to go postal over this news.

Western Sharkie said:

After an unthinkable ending, the Sharks are prepared to enter ‘dark places’ to climb the mountain again

After an unthinkable ending, Cronulla is eyeing ‘dark places’ to climb mountain again

www.foxsports.com.au

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Oh god, not the 'dark place' story... They've done the Nicho 'from rags to riches' and Talakai 'garbo to greatness', now just just **** off and leave us be, Fox media, before we start to buy into this ****!

Edit: not a bad article for once, actually...

“I think he’s got some really great systems in place, he gives the assistants free reign with us in attack.

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So Hannay is basically running our attack then
The likes of Holdsworth (halves coach) would be heavily involved too I'd assume

Is Steve Price still with us?

Blue_Eyes84 said:

Is Steve Price still with us?

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Haven't heard otherwise
RIP if not

Blue_Eyes84 said:

Is Steve Price still with us?

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He was sitting next to Fitz the other day ..

Super Impose said:

He was sitting next to Fitz the other day ..

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yeah
he was in the sheds

Our assistants did a fantastic job with our attack in the opening 1/3 of the season. It was as good as I have seen us with ball in hand, everytime we spread it wide it was exciting like scoring or doing something special was just inevitable.

Not so good at adapting when opposition teams came up with plans to counter our attack which were at times quite successful.

We just never seemed to recover that same time, space, rhythm and glorious natural fluidity we saw at the start of the season even if we still were quite capable of pilling on the points it usually just looked more clunky though some good trick shots did come to the fore and we still won the majority of our games.

Ultimately Fitz is responsible to manage his managers and perhaps he needed to interject more and earlier on the attacking side - maybe he did. Regardless it's a learning process for all of the coaching staff.

We also just started to look kinda tired around mid year (strange considering most players got more rest) which coincided with our defense falling away though injuries did not help and when players like Dale came back they just weren't the same.

Good news is we look very fit this pre-season so I am hopeful of the high standards across attack, defense and discipline carry through a larger portion of the season and especially into the finals

Interesting that Fox article predicts us finishing 6th but making the Prelim - something we didn't do finishing 2nd last season

I still think we can be Top 4 and defs should be pushing for a Prelim or better but coach has alot of time on his side with that huge contract extension so doesn't need to cut corners looking for a quick fix or short term results.

Still I think we are already good enough as it stands to be a genuine challenger and one of the better teams in the comp once again. Just cause your building towards something and looking to improve doesn't mean you arnt actively going for it each and every season and I get the impression from the players that the goal every season even under a new FG coach in Fitz is make GF and win it.

Our attack was already impressing me during our trial over Dogs, if Fitzzy can work hard on our defence & how hard the guys work in general, I'm going to back us to get in the top 4 again. We must have got someone to help Hynesy with his kicking, he got 100% & quite a few were from outwide too. Conversions can help more then people think.

One thing we do have to work on though is our error rate & how often we gave away "6 agains" for our opposition though. Doe anyone know who our assistant coaches are or if we've still got Josh Hannay & Steve Price as our assistants?

sharkboy18 said:

Our attack was already impressing me during our trial over Dogs, if Fitzzy can work hard on our defence & how hard the guys work in general, I'm going to back us to get in the top 4 again. We must have got someone to help Hynesy with his kicking, he got 100% & quite a few were from outwide too. Conversions can help more then people think.

One thing we do have to work on though is our error rate & how often we gave away "6 agains" for our opposition though. Doe anyone know who our assistant coaches are or if we've still got Josh Hannay & Steve Price as our assistants?

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Apparently Daryl Halligan has been doing some work with him
And i also read Dan Carter somewhere as well