Mr Ryan
Bull Shark
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Talk about viewing the past through rose coloured goggles.I have been consoling myself today while working from home in watching countless videos of Sharks highlights over the years. I am hoping that by doing this, I'll have some sort of positiveness return to me in time for Sunday's game.
I have had fun though watching the likes of ET, Gal, Gavin Miller, Sparkles McGaw, and the Peach show off their talents. I also watched a Steve Rogers highlights reel, what a player that man was! There were also players that you sometimes have forgotten they played for the Sharks, players such as Phil Hurst, Gary Cameron, Dean Carney (still don't know how that man kicked goals with his physique), Paul Merlo and Eion Crosson.
So now, I just might be able to get down to Shark Park on Sunday with that horrible memory erased and some thought that we could possibly win this game.
Most of the hysteria in this place lately has centred around the fact we can beat the **** teams - even beat the odd good team during the year - but when it comes to crunch, we are making up the numbers.
88-89 are remembered fondly by fans (that’s when I became a Sharks fan) but the cold hard facts are pretty brutal.
For the younger fans in 88 we were minor premiers and went out in straight sets. In fact we barely scored a try in both games. At least in the Cowboys final last year I thought we were gonna win at times. We weren’t even close in 88.
89 we should of made the top 3. But on the way we lost to Gold Coast Giants (who?) and Eastern Suburbs. Both were a joke that year. So we finished 5. How did we go against Canberra in the final? 1 try when the game was over I think.
Then we had to wait 6 years between finals (imagine this place if that happened now).
95 top 4 finish and guess what happened next?
I love my Ets and Peacheys and Rogers and Gavin Millers as much as the next man, but if we’re honest, they have achieved about as much as the current mob in a Sharks jumper.