Round 23 Cronulla Sutherland Sharks v Melbourne Storm, Monday 17 August 2015 7:00pm @ Remondis

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Never in my living days did I ever think I would see us start as favourites against the storm.........unbelievable ....still don't know if its a good thing or bad thing though lol
 

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For whatever reason I had more confidence about last week than I do about this game. Still believe we can win but always feel uneasy about playing these maggots.
 
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So how do we beat the Storm? Are they less potent without Slater? For mine the new kid Munster is very good. With Cronk and Smith still running the show they will be dangerous and they'll play for the whole 80 mins.

I love the fact our forward pack is quite mobile but we lack size and they will have more grunt up front. For me, Gal has to play all his minutes at prop for this game. No getting involved in the plays - we really need him to muscle up and get stuck in to these guys. If he plays a solid 60 mins I don't care if he takes more than one hit up per set. But if he plays 80 he has to conserve his energy. The Storm will exploit the periods when he is fatigued.

I think we can win this one but don't expect any 14-0 or 18-0 leads. We do need to get off to a good start but usually Bellamy teams are coached well in defence and it will be hard to break their line.
At home I think we have a good chance. To be honest I'm more worried about our next two games against the Tigers and the Eels. If you could give me wins against those two teams in exchange for a loss against the Storm I'd almost take it. I just have this feeling that if we beat the Storm after five weeks of tough games we'll let our guard down against lesser opposition.

I'm darling to dream we could win all of our last four games and firmly entrench ourselves in the top 4.
 
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Gallen playing 80 is going to cost us through a bad missed tackle that leads to a try soon. Watching at the ground you can really see off the ball just how stuffed he is and he and the rest of the team would benefit from him having a spell for 15 minutes.

There was a really poor missed tackle against the warriors we were lucky their was cover to hold the warriors player up over the line.
 

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Gallen playing 80 is going to cost us through a bad missed tackle that leads to a try soon. Watching at the ground you can really see off the ball just how stuffed he is and he and the rest of the team would benefit from him having a spell for 15 minutes.

There was a really poor missed tackle against the warriors we were lucky their was cover to hold the warriors player up over the line.

Yeah you have to blame the coach for this. There is no reason not to give him a breather.
 
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