2022 NRL Round 20 Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs. South Sydney Rabbitohs @ Pointsbet Stadium, Saturday 30 July @ 5:30pm

[MrDravid]

Cleary - sent off, referred straight to MRC
Carrigan - on report only, referred straight to MRC
Burgess - sent off, grade 2

Cleary copped a grade 3, but you're right most send off charges do cop at least a grade 3... of course that would mean the MRC thought Dale should have been sent.

 

[Western Sharkie]

What are the conditions that require a send off and a sin bin?

Flip of a coin

 

[stormshark]

With all our injuries, tipping The Nut and Colqohoun get a run next week. Danger game .

 

[bort]

Interesting to hear some of you say Burgess shouldn’t have been sent.

That happened right in front of me and whether it was 5 min in, 15 mins, 35 mins or at any stage, he deserved to go. Ronnie did not lower himself, Burgess’ main aim was to take him out. There was no accident in it, it was deliberate.

Not that it should influence a referee but Burgess was attacking the head of our players all night so I have no sympathy for him being sent and I was glad he was, that was a simply horrible tackle.

We’ll see what the MRC do but if he doesn’t get charged, I will be very surprised.

Watching live it lacked the force for a send off for me - Ronnie was sweet

But I guess Kennedy's send off was all spectacle and very little force too so you're probably right... it had more force than Kennedy's did.

 

[Milkshark]

It’s only not a send off if Ronaldo falls into it or ducks into it, which he did not.

 

[CrazyMatt]

Nope, not happening. After the month we have I have more faith in our boys (unless they want to take a week easy after theybguarantee the spot they want to be in).

I think your looking at this with blue, black and white goggles and its clouding your view a bit. We are making a mountain of errors weekly. We are far from clinical. We threw the Penrith game away and we rode our luck against Souths. We need to improve. A LOT. There is absolutely no guarantee that we dont drop a game going into the finals.

 

[Sir Chadley]

Watching live it lacked the force for a send off for me - Ronnie was sweet

But I guess Kennedy's send off was all spectacle and very little force too so you're probably right... it had more force than Kennedy's did.

Way more force mate. As I said I was there and it was sickening. How Ronnie wasn’t hurt more I’ll never know. It was careless, reckless and dangerous and deserved way more than 1-2 weeks.

 

[Milkshark]

Just shows his character, many other players lay down for the penalty.

 

[Wiz]

I think your looking at this with blue, black and white goggles and its clouding your view a bit. We are making a mountain of errors weekly. We are far from clinical. We threw the Penrith game away and we rode our luck against Souths. We need to improve. A LOT. There is absolutely no guarantee that we dont drop a game going into the finals.

I must be having a bad day if I’m agreeing with you

 

[Sir Chadley]

I must be having a bad day if I’m agreeing with you

Not at all mate. I think we’ve all come a long way from those first dark days when you joined this forum.

 

[Wiz]

Not at all mate. I think we’ve all come a long way from those first dark days when you joined this forum.

It was very dark indeed / had to shed the light

A lot of you have come a long way.. very proud

 

[apezza]

I haven't rewatched the game but I swear the only times I saw Latrell was when he scored the try, a couple of catches and the missed field goals at the end.

I was dirty that he scored as I thought at the time how quiet he had been and that it may fire him up.

We are lucky to escape with that one, especially with all the field goal attempts he had. The NRL / media would have liked nothing better than a hero Latrell ending.

 

[Sevshark]

Watching live it lacked the force for a send off for me - Ronnie was sweet

But I guess Kennedy's send off was all spectacle and very little force too so you're probably right... it had more force than Kennedy's did.

It was also Burgess' second careless swinging arm of the night which would of counted against him.

 

[Patrick]

We'll drop Manly at Brookie because it's Manly at Brookie. Should win the rest though. I want top 2 so can avoid Penrith or a trip to QLD.

 

[Proud Shark]

Burgess was a clear send off for mine. It was a forceful swinging arm, and worse yet it was his second for the game. Easy decision for the red as a bin or send off was the same result anyway.

 

[ben]

It's impressive that we won.

More missed tackles and ineffective tackles
Less posession
More mistakes
Worse completion rate
Less line breaks
Less tackle breaks

Amazing with all these negative stats, a lot to work on

 

[MMsharks]

It's impressive that we won.

More missed tackles and ineffective tackles
Less posession
More mistakes
Worse completion rate
Less line breaks
Less tackle breaks

Amazing with all these negative stats, a lot to work on

got that message from the presser

 

[Thresher]

It was also Burgess' second careless swinging arm of the night which would of counted against him.

Yep, I think it was a bit culminative. He was on the careless warpath.

 

[Shortfin Mako]

I think your looking at this with blue, black and white goggles and its clouding your view a bit. We are making a mountain of errors weekly. We are far from clinical. We threw the Penrith game away and we rode our luck against Souths. We need to improve. A LOT. There is absolutely no guarantee that we dont drop a game going into the finals.

Of course I do I do not have any other goggles

Joking aside, for the last one month before every game I kept saying we may lose this one and my wife kept saying "we're gonna win". We know what has happened. I do not know what it is but may be there is something special brewing or may be our team just got on the good sides of the footy gods. Who would have thought Latrell would miss 3 field goals last night? I do not know his stats but it would not surprise me if those were the only 3 golden point kicks he missed this year.

We do have lots of errors and we do make dumb mistakes. No one is denying that or saying everything is perfect. On top of all that, the refs are so inconsistent, it is hard to predict anything. However, we keep going on, we keep winning and we are becoming a pretty exciting footy team that just does not go away. May be it is as Fitzy said, we are finding out who we are and I like who we are becoming.

I agree with you that there is no guarantee that we do not drop any games. Yet, there is no guarantee that we will either.

The other teams know that it does not matter if they are dominant during the game because our defense is also getting better. We are much more desperate this year. On top of that, if we make it to the other end, there is a good chance we score. It does not matter if you are Titans or Panthers we score, and we score easily. Especially when we are switched on, we are a nightmare for any defense.

I do not know; there is just something about this year and what this team is becoming that makes me positive and excited.

 

[Shortfin Mako]

Flip of a coin

Seems like it.