2023 NRL Finals Week 1 - Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks vs Sydney Roosters, 7:50pm Saturday 9th September @ PointsBet Stadium

[Pishposh46]

Climbing into the belongings tray would have been a deadset giveaway

Haha..would have been like Mr Burns doing his physical and getting stuck in the machine.
Those bee sting eyes may still be a sign.

 

[Western Sharkie]

What’s the point in finishing 6th ?

The benefit is we play in front of our own ground

Regardless of commercials / this is the NRL going back to its roots and I love the board for granting us that instead of thinking of the $

As home fans we shouldn’t give a f**k because the team has earned it and it makes it harder for the Roosters and rightly so

NRL gets a lot wrong but they get this right in my opinion and for the very reasons above

Just wish our ground held more capacity (NSW government )

 

[Born&bred]

He'll find a way of being right even if he was wrong.

There are a few posters on here like that...

 

[MrDravid]

I had a chat to Gus yesterday at the airport as he was going through screening. I noticed he had his passport in his tray going through x-ray and asked him where he was going. He said he was off to Brisbane then off to Auckland from there. So I wonder how long he's off for and whether he may be going over to sign someone over there. He'll probably be back for the Bermuda Triangle match, as it's closer to his house.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699445254146195744

 

[Western Sharkie]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1699445254146195744

BRONCOS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
Logan Bayliss-Brow, Brendan Frei, Jordan Pereira, Josh Rogers, Tyson Smoothy

TITANS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
Tony Francis, Joseph Vuna

DOLPHINS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
JJ Collins, Kurt Donoghoe, Poasa Faamausili, Michael Roberts

WARRIORS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
Bayley Sironen

Unless he is trying to steal someone already on contract!

 

[bort]

BRONCOS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
Logan Bayliss-Brow, Brendan Frei, Jordan Pereira, Josh Rogers, Tyson Smoothy

TITANS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
Tony Francis, Joseph Vuna

DOLPHINS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
JJ Collins, Kurt Donoghoe, Poasa Faamausili, Michael Roberts

WARRIORS
OFF CONTRACT 2023
Bayley Sironen

Unless he is trying to steal someone already on contract!

Or a dev player or other non-top 30 player

 

[puma1355]

They signed the dolphins player ex Rooster Poasa F

 

[Western Sharkie]

Or a dev player or other non-top 30 player

Nah, Gus wants quick wins and only chases star players

 

[HaroldBishop]

Nah, Gus wants quick wins and only chases star players

He does?

 

[BurgoShark]

Nah, Gus wants quick wins and only chases star players

Listen to his podcast mate. He goes and talks to lots of fringe guys. He talked a few weeks ago about why he signed Salmon and how he has always rated him. He also talked this week about how he had a long chat with Crossland last year but didn't make an offer because at that point he still wanted to be a full time #7.

I think people see "channel 9 Gus" as the actual guy, but I reckon that is just a hat he wears. In real life I reckon he has his finger on the pulse every bit as much as Uncle Wayne.

 

[Mr Ryan]

Obviously Gus is gonna try and sign players - because their squad stinks atm.

The NRL literally gives clubs millions and tells them to spend it on players.

But ultimately he is there to build their pathways. That’s his job.

If a Kikau or a Addo-Carr can win him some games along the way, great. But long term they need to develop their own.

Look at Penrith. He bought Maloney and Soward - and they even made some finals series’.

But it wasn’t until their got their pathways right that actually started winning comps.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Listen to his podcast mate. He goes and talks to lots of fringe guys. He talked a few weeks ago about why he signed Salmon and how he has always rated him. He also talked this week about how he had a long chat with Crossland last year but didn't make an offer because at that point he still wanted to be a full time #7.

I think people see "channel 9 Gus" as the actual guy, but I reckon that is just a hat he wears. In real life I reckon he has his finger on the pulse every bit as much as Uncle Wayne.

Absolutely he does, like you said what you hear on his podcast is the real Gus. It's a great listen. Not many people have the vast experience in the game, in different areas, that he does.

 

[HaroldBishop]

But ultimately he is there to build their pathways. That’s his job.

Yep he talks about this a lot on his pod. The ultimate goal is to get their pathways in place and produce their own. He's very open with the fact it will take years to get there.

 

[BurgoShark]

Obviously Gus is gonna try and sign players - because their squad stinks atm.

The NRL literally gives clubs millions and tells them to spend it on players.

But ultimately he is there to build their pathways. That’s his job.

If a Kikau or a Addo-Carr can win him some games along the way, great. But long term they need to develop their own.

Look at Penrith. He bought Maloney and Soward - and they even made some finals series’.

But it wasn’t until their got their pathways right that actually started winning comps.

Yeah - 100%.

Some absolute guns in their Flegg team atm.

 

[apezza]

Listen to his podcast mate. He goes and talks to lots of fringe guys. He talked a few weeks ago about why he signed Salmon and how he has always rated him. He also talked this week about how he had a long chat with Crossland last year but didn't make an offer because at that point he still wanted to be a full time #7.

I think people see "channel 9 Gus" as the actual guy, but I reckon that is just a hat he wears. In real life I reckon he has his finger on the pulse every bit as much as Uncle Wayne.

Agree. I really enjoy listening to podcast Gus. Not so much the channel 9 TV version.

 

[Proud Shark]

Late Mail: The Sharks are “sitting on the fence” over the fitness of Connor Tracey with The Daily Telegraph’s David Riccio revealing Will Kennedy could be parachuted into the team at fullback. Tracey has been named to start against the Roosters but is battling a knee injury sustained in Round 27. Should Tracey be ruled out, it could mean a shock early return for Kennedy who was slated to make his comeback from a hamstring injury in the second week of finals, should the Sharks progress. Fellow Daily Telegraph journalist Michael Carayannis told NRL 360 who will play fullback is “still a bit up in the air,” but revealed there’s “slight confidence” Tracey may be cleared to play. “Connor Tracey completed some of the session today, Will Kennedy completed about half the session so they’re going to give Tracey up to captain’s run,” he said. “They’ve got the day off tomorrow so there is a slight confidence Connor Tracey will play and Will Kennedy is progressing nicely as well.”


Late Mail: Star centre Joey Manu is tracking well to return from a hamstring injury, but still needs to get through Friday’s training session, according to Roosters coach Trent Robinson. “Well he couldn’t play last week so he is better than last week,” Robinson said. “He tried to train last week, but he couldn’t get there. This week he has had one good session already and he needs to nail the final session today and move a bit faster and test that today and then get ready for tomorrow.”

 

[BurgoShark]

The late mail went off early.

'Good to go': Tracey, Manu on track ahead of elimination final

Craig Fitzgibbon has confirmed fill-in fullback Connor Tracey ‘is good to’ face the Roosters on Saturday despite leaving the field early on Sunday after jarring his knee.

www.nrl.com

Craig Fitzgibbon has confirmed fill-in fullback Connor Tracey is locked in to face the Roosters on Saturday despite leaving the field early last week after jarring his knee.

“Connor is looking like he’s good to go. The benefit of having a 22-man squad is, if in the event if Connor wasn’t going to be right, we would put Will in there,” Fitzgibbon told the media on Friday.

“Will hasn’t trained much at all in six weeks. If something was to happen to Connor there and we couldn’t get him up then we might’ve had to roll the dice and take a risk on Will.

“To say that his preparation was ready for that was going to take a huge effort from Will and a big risk but we thought we’d offer that in the case that Connor couldn’t get up but he’s looking good.”

 

[egg]

Listen to his podcast mate. He goes and talks to lots of fringe guys. He talked a few weeks ago about why he signed Salmon and how he has always rated him. He also talked this week about how he had a long chat with Crossland last year but didn't make an offer because at that point he still wanted to be a full time #7.

I think people see "channel 9 Gus" as the actual guy, but I reckon that is just a hat he wears. In real life I reckon he has his finger on the pulse every bit as much as Uncle Wayne.

Then is there any chance of NOT having to listen to the Channel 9 coverage Gus
PLEASE

 

[HaroldBishop]

Then is there any chance of NOT having to listen to the Channel 9 coverage Gus
PLEASE

Kayo

 

[egg]

Kayo

Normally do but Not quite HD when watch it on Kayo
Hate Gus on the mike , all about HIS opinion AND Repeats that over and over .
Actually enjoyed Ch9 a LOT last week with Fatty commentating on Bronc Storm game ( No Gus )