2022 NRL Round 18 Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs. North Queensland Cowboys @ Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville, Friday 15th July 6:00pm

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Bit of a shame its going to be Origin affected... would have liked to see both teams full strength
 
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Would of been a good test to actually see where we’re really at.
 
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Exactly. We can measure ourselves against the clear comp favourites. I'll take cheap wins over Melbourne and NQL if we can get them.
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I wouldn't say our win over Melbourne was cheap. We went without Hynes, Talakai and Rudolf.

Yeah Melbourne weren't great, but we did what a top 4 team should be able to do, we put away an under strength team convincingly. Again, without those players mentioned above too.
 
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mr.sharkiee said:
I wouldn't say our win over Melbourne was cheap. We went without Hynes, Talakai and Rudolf.

Yeah Melbourne weren't great, but we did what a top 4 team should be able to do, we put away an under strength team convincingly. Again, without those players mentioned above too.
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Yeah I agree, It didn't really turn out to be, and we were convincing on the day.

Just looking at the draw beforehand, it was definitely a plus to play them during origin.
 
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mr.sharkiee said:
I wouldn't say our win over Melbourne was cheap. We went without Hynes, Talakai and Rudolf.

Yeah Melbourne weren't great, but we did what a top 4 team should be able to do, we put away an under strength team convincingly. Again, without those players mentioned above too.
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They didn't have Munster, Grant, Welch, Kaufusi, Coates, RSmith, GJennings, Moeroa
We didn't have Hynes, Talakai, Rudolf and Williams

So I would say they are worse off, but they are the Melbourne Storm and still had Hughes, Papenhyuzen, Cheese, Broms, NAS which is more than enough to beat a lot of sides.

Cheese was clearly rattled things weren't going the way they were supposed to. Him playing for a penalty and pushing off the mark and expecting the ref to pay it to the point he called him a cheat for not doing so suggests they well and truly thought things would still go their way with the outs they have.
 
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bort said:
They didn't have Munster, Grant, Welch, Kaufusi, Coates, RSmith, GJennings, Moeroa
We didn't have Hynes, Talakai, Rudolf and Williams

So I would say they are worse off, but they are the Melbourne Storm and still had Hughes, Papenhyuzen, Cheese, Broms, NAS which is more than enough to beat a lot of sides.

Cheese was clearly rattled things weren't going the way they were supposed to. Him playing for a penalty and pushing off the mark and expecting the ref to pay it to the point he called him a cheat for not doing so suggests they well and truly thought things would still go their way with the outs they have.
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Whenever we play against them with lots of energy, aggressiveness and "in your face" attitude, we always come on top.
 
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The pack has physically bashed Tits, Dogs and now Storm.

So long as they keep firing we are good.
 
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The pack has physically bashed Tits, Dogs and now Storm.

So long as they keep firing we are good.
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And scored twice while they still had JBrom and NAS still on so it's not like we just overpowered their depth, we got off to a good start against a really good middle. I know they'd like to use NAS off the bench when they can but he's definitely an NRL starting quality prop
 
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Interesting Talakai is outside the 17 but doesn't necessarily say anything
 
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Guess we will wait and see Talakai's minutes.

Cows have rested Val and Nanai. Dearden and Gilbert named to back up at this stage.
 
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I'm guessing McInnes will give Wadeo a rest at some stage.

Although, from his little dig at Fitz during the presser, Wadeo doesn't seem to appreciate his bench time.
 
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Thresher Shark said:
I'm guessing McInnes will give Wadeo a rest at some stage.

Although, from his little dig at Fitz during the presser, Wadeo doesn't seem to appreciate his bench time.
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Don’t give a **** what he appareciates. Bloke shouldn’t even be in the run on side.
 
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