2023 NRL General Discussion

[Western Sharkie]

I spewed in my mouth a little the first time I saw Flanno in his Manly shirt.

How do you think he feels
He is in the shower for hours washing off the “Seaeagles” stench every night after work

 

[Sparkles]

I spewed in my mouth a little the first time I saw Flanno in his Manly shirt.

I can only assume he's bringing them down from the inside

 

[Spanner shark]

Didn't the Peptides come from Manly?

 

[Western Sharkie]

Didn't the Peptides come from Manly?

Nothing to see here….
Move along to the Sharks who had a 6 week program compared to Manly’s 12 or so months program of calf blood (or whatever the **** it was)

 

[GF78]

Nothing to see here….
Move along to the Sharks who had a 6 week program compared to Manly’s 12 or so months program of calf blood (or whatever the **** it was)

I thought the same thing at the time - Manly were holding a smoking gun and ”The worst day in sport” was somehow pinned on the hapless Sharks.

Why did the media machine not go after Manly?

 

[Sevshark]

Rooster's apparently have a junior named De La Salle Va'a.

We must sign him immediately.

 

[Western Sharkie]

I thought the same thing at the time - Manly were holding a smoking gun and ”The worst day in sport” was somehow pinned on the hapless Sharks.

Why did the media machine not go after Manly?

100%
but I guess we (ie ME) should now just move on and even sweeter with the 2016 Premiership under our belts

 

[Western Sharkie]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/broncos-hand-coach-kevin-walters-a-bombshell-contract-extension/news-story/239ee912e792cf364f43a39f2bd3af87

Interesting move.
Wouldn’t have thought there were too many other offers out there to have to extend him yet but I guess it gives the players some certainty of the future which is a positive (booooo)

 

[egg]

We all know there are many facets to having a balanced pack .
All that aside .
Who might be our best 4 forwards at bending the line against BIG packs ?

 

[BurgoShark]

We all know there are many facets to having a balanced pack .
All that aside .
Who might be our best 4 forwards at bending the line against BIG packs ?

Who do you consider to be big packs? Melbourne, Parra, Brisbane, Easts?

Sharks forward play is built on width and stringing passes together. When they couldn’t do that they were ineffective against any pack. Best example was complete lack of go-forward against Brisbane. Line benders Rudolf, Hunt and Williams all played that game. Finucane didn’t.

As a middle, statistically in that Broncos game Trindall outperformed Hunt.

 

[Addy]

I thought the same thing at the time - Manly were holding a smoking gun and ”The worst day in sport” was somehow pinned on the hapless Sharks.

Why did the media machine not go after Manly?

Poor Manly were too accident prone and had all their hard drives fall on drill bits

 

[bort]

@BurgoShark and @snowman full healthy squad you have to name our round 1 side right now who you playing

 

[snowman]

kennedy
katoa
talakai
ramien
ronnie
moylan
hynes

tobias
useless
bhu
teig
nikora
finucane

mcinnes
wade
hunt
kaufusi

 

[bort]

kennedy
katoa
talakai
ramien
ronnie
moylan
hynes

tobias
useless
bhu
teig
nikora
finucane

mcinnes
wade
hunt
kaufusi

Is Wade who you’d want or who you think gets picked?

Personally I’d prefer Williams atm and I’d also start Hunt

 

[snowman]

Is Wade who you’d want or who you think gets picked?

Personally I’d prefer Williams atm and I’d also start Hunt

its who i think will get picked, id rather williams in his spot

hunt is only good for one stint, make it off the bench

 

[snowman]

Is Wade who you’d want or who you think gets picked?

Personally I’d prefer Williams atm and I’d also start Hunt

not much changes really from who i want to who fitz will start, just wish we had a different number 9

 

[egg]

Who do you consider to be big packs? Melbourne, Parra, Brisbane, Easts?

Sharks forward play is built on width and stringing passes together. When they couldn’t do that they were ineffective against any pack. Best example was complete lack of go-forward against Brisbane. Line benders Rudolf, Hunt and Williams all played that game. Finucane didn’t.

As a middle, statistically in that Broncos game Trindall outperformed Hunt.

Maybe add Rabbits to that .
Hate seeing players like George Burgess making easy yards up the middle , with our Sharks pack seldom able to do the same .

 

[Western Sharkie]

not much changes really from who i want to who fitz will start, just wish we had a different number 9

His younger brother is next in line

 

[bort]

His younger brother is next in line

I think Heeley has the jump on him

Also Blayke has said that Taj is bigger at same age than him or Jayden were so he could end up a ball playing 13/14 rather than hooker if he kept on that trajectory. The other two have taken a while to fill out though, Blayke maybe still a work in progress.

Currently Jayden listed as 88kg but I think he's built up a bit since last weigh in, I'd have guessed more than that. Blayke down as 86kg.

 

[Sutty]

Ok so here is the plan if West Tigers start **** which they probably will then maybe they ditch a prop mid-season or something and then we swoop in and maybe they throw in Koroisau as well.