Round 3 2014: Cronulla Sharks v St George Illawara Dragons Saturday 22 March 7:00pm @ Remondis Stadium

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He's gone ok in defence but like plenty in his team I've been a little under whelmed by Ricky lelutele thus far this year.. Hope he does more ASAP cause he might be the one punted when beau is back...
 

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Wasnt that bad only coz holdsworth would be missing on the 5th tackle...dont suppose youve kicked a ball in ur time??...
Carney is the paid professional not me and suppose to be our best player. His kicking game is usually quality, last night it wasn't. And can't blame holdsworth cause Carney's usually paired with Robbo who has an even worse kicking game. Having said that Holdsworth did go missing and didn't do his job so all the pressure went onto Carney but I am just saying the talent he is he could have done better, he was really off in this regard

He's gone ok in defence but like plenty in his team I've been a little under whelmed by Ricky lelutele thus far this year.. Hope he does more ASAP cause he might be the one punted when beau is back...

Dropping Ricky cause he hasn't fired yet would be a mistake. He was a demon in the trials and still our most talented backline player. He wasn't given much quality ball at all to work with last night. Our flat unstructured attack would make Inglis look ordinary
 

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We were pretty crap. Holdsworthless and Prior need to go for Punani and David Fifita.

Dragqueens tries were all soft. Jonno and Ayshford should of smashed Bmoz over the line before he could ground the ball for both his tries. Feki got walked over by Nightingale because the kid cannot jump.

Carney did look sharp but kept putting up pointless bombs to Quinlan. Should of put some cross field kicks to the wings.

Ricky Leutele needs more ball. The whole first half every attacking rade pretty much went down our right side.

Feki was strong offensively. As were Heighington and Sopoaga.
We should of won this game. Dropped so much ball at crucial times in the last 20 when the Merge were struggling.

Oh well. 0 and 3 it is. Burning.
 

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Leutele wont be punted, Beau may have to come back through reggies...
 
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We were pretty crap. Holdsworthless and Prior need to go for Punani and David Fifita.

Dragqueens tries were all soft. Jonno and Ayshford should of smashed Bmoz over the line before he could ground the ball for both his tries. Feki got walked over by Nightingale because the kid cannot jump.

Carney did look sharp but kept putting up pointless bombs to Quinlan. Should of put some cross field kicks to the wings.

Ricky Leutele needs more ball. The whole first half every attacking rade pretty much went down our right side.

Feki was strong offensively. As were Heighington and Sopoaga.
We should of won this game. Dropped so much ball at crucial times in the last 20 when the Merge were struggling.

Oh well. 0 and 3 it is. Burning.

Holdsworth is rubbish but Penani is not much better unfortunately.
 

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I knew last night wasn't likely to be good when I got to the family hill and it was covered with Merge fans. Lucked out and got a seat with my Dad (who is a Merge fan) which was right next to the away bay.

While the freakish try from Morris' was one of the best finishes I've ever seen, Wright didn't even contest the ball. Just tried to push Morris over the sideline. I would have rather he tried to stop him from getting the ball and missed then try the low percentage play of forcing him out. I was a fan of Wright playing centre but he has been very average this year.

Still a better effort than our first two games but goodness me it is frustrating seeing these losses.
 

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To only lose by 2 made me feel a bit better, before the game the was the only thing I was worried about was buy how many.

I thought we played a lot better than the last couple of weeks, Having Caney out there made a little bit of a difference which was good.

We are still struggling, but we always will when 2/3 of our team is on the bench.

One thing that pisses me right off is every time we put up a bomb we just don't jump for it (except Jono, once).
I see other teams jumping for the high ball, just not us.
Are we scared of heights ?

Still had a great night and caught up with some of the gronks.

Also found the pizza van down the back. (value for money and nice as well)

Other food has gone up again, pies 6.00, s/roll 5.00, one small chicken wrap with 10 chips 12.00, buckets of chips have shrunk..............no thanks.

Things are improving.
 

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We have the worst outside backs in the competition by a long, long way.
 

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Holdsworth is rubbish but Penani is not much better unfortunately.
Based on what, a single FG game? Penani has loads more talent and is young, he's raw. Give him the experience in top grade and he will begin to prosper. He already offers more than that hack Holdsworth who's only ability is passing the ball left or right within a set play

I knew last night wasn't likely to be good when I got to the family hill and it was covered with Merge fans. Lucked out and got a seat with my Dad (who is a Merge fan) which was right next to the away bay.

Tell me about it. The ratio of Dragons to Sharks fans there last night was disgusting. They were ****ing everywhere, infecting the landscape with their Merge cooties.
Smug pricks walking around like they own the place, touching everything as if it will Merge with them because they are not use to actually owning their own things.

The Northern Hill looked like one big red menstruation cycle and then the walk out of the ground after they won with those pricks FMD

We have the worst outside backs in the competition by a long, long way.
We do but they are made to look look alot worse than they are thanks to terrible coaching, no structure and being flat as a tak
 

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Tell me about it. The ratio of Dragons to Sharks fans there last night was disgusting. They were ****ing everywhere, infecting the landscape with their Merge cooties.
Smug pricks walking around like they own the place, touching everything as if it will Merge with them because they are not use to actually owning their own things.

The Northern Hill looked like one big red menstruation cycle and then the walk out of the ground after they won with those pricks FMD

Haha, especially the Merging part. I felt like someone had come to my house and I had to abide by their rules. If I wanted to be surrounded by Dragons fans, I would have gone to Kogarah or ANZ, whatever their "home" ground is these days. All their songs and chants were quiet when we were winning 6-4. They somehow started again when St George got the lead.
 
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Based on what, a single FG game? Penani has loads more talent and is young, he's raw. Give him the experience in top grade and he will begin to prosper. He already offers more than that hack Holdsworth who's only ability is passing the ball left or right within a set play



Tell me about it. The ratio of Dragons to Sharks fans there last night was disgusting. They were ****ing everywhere, infecting the landscape with their Merge cooties.
Smug pricks walking around like they own the place, touching everything as if it will Merge with them because they are not use to actually owning their own things.

The Northern Hill looked like one big red menstruation cycle and then the walk out of the ground after they won with those pricks FMD


We do but they are made to look look alot worse than they are thanks to terrible coaching, no structure and being flat as a tak

Based on every game I've seen him play while at the Sharks. He lacks spark, confidence, creativity and just doesn't strike me as a first grader.
 

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Leutele wont be punted, Beau may have to come back through reggies...

Ayshford should be punted, Tigers were right to move him on and now we are stuck with him.

In the absence of any quality backs, they may have to try:
2. Feki
3. Wright
4. Leutele
5. Ryan
 
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Ayshford should be punted, Tigers were right to move him on and now we are stuck with him.

In the absence of any quality backs, they may have to try:
2. Feki
3. Wright
4. Leutele
5. Ryan
Feki hurt his knee, out for 4-6 weeks
 

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Ayshford should be punted, Tigers were right to move him on and now we are stuck with him.

In the absence of any quality backs, they may have to try:
2. Feki
3. Wright
4. Leutele
5. Ryan

Feki is out for 5 weeks.
 

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Based on every game I've seen him play while at the Sharks. He lacks spark, confidence, creativity and just doesn't strike me as a first grader.
Fair enough Chadley. I hold a different view of the young lad though. Are you sure you are not referring to Holdsworth though with your above description. That hack has actually had time in FG to proove his worthlessness...

Snow must be happy with jmo. Two tries and poked ayshford in the eye!
Deano, did you not see the Snowman pour his remaining beer dregs upon his head in sheer Morris elation and disbelief? He wasn't even wearing his JMO badge, would have got a hatrick for sure then requiring new underwear all round for Gronk hill

Feki hurt his knee, out for 4-6 weeks
FFS that's ****house news, has been one of our best :(:(
 
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