2023 NRL Round 1 Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs. South Sydney Rabbitohs @ Points Bet Stadium Saturday 4 March @ 7:35pm

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Just got back from the game.

No need for me to put my five cents worth in, most on here agree that while the refereeing was questionable many times, our defence and handling were utter ****.

Cook and Murray ran that game, they destroyed us.

Thankfully it’s Round 1 not Round 21.

Also, agree with @CrazyMatt that not having Nicho made no difference. He would have struggled too with a pack that was being monstered.

Onto next week!
 

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Yeah 55 missed tackles ain't it chief. That's John Morris like. A little concerning.
 
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Eh I'm not overly worried by that. Round 1, few cobwebs and a mistakes off the back of that.

I don't think many of our forwards were bad. I thought Toby, Uele, Mcinnes and Nikora were all really strong at times. I think their forwards won it, more than ours lost it, if that makes sense. Murray and Koala were fantastic and Cook was able to shine off the back of that. Shaq Mitchell ****ing announced himself too.

Main concern was that left edge D. Moylan didn't know if he was Arthur or Martha at times there. I think those soft tries were where we really lost it.

If either of the Ronnie or Katoa tries go our way that game could have been very different. We were right in it the whole time, it was just screaming out for someone to win it. That's where Nicho is our difference maker, a little magic could have got us over the line. Take nothing from Trindall though as he was fantastic.

The stats read poorly, but it wasn't an atrocious performance. On to next week.
 

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I think you guys are over reacting a little bit, sure we weren't great but don't forget we had two tries denied, the Ronaldo one and the katoa one, if we scored them (which we should have) the game would of been completely different, i still think lachlan illias stopping that Ronaldo try ruined our momentum

Also we had a **** ton of bad calls against us because the ref was an idiot, and it's only round 1 so i'm not too worried, bring on next week
 

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Just like the Bulldogs game where Tom Turbo milked a yellow card after he overrun the ball when the game was anyones game
Yellow card and it stuffed the battle and the game

Newcastle are clawing back the warriors, the independent takes Ponga off for the last 15mins just when they need him

Sticky blew up as well for some crap calls

Its round one but you can see how this is going, and they wonder why people aren't watching anymore

Rant over
Yep. I don't bet footy anymore because of this ****.

I don't think that ginger fat head tiny faced ******* ref is on the take but he was shithouse.
 

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Substance? You miss that you fkn pedant Karen.
Its 12mths since last (footy) year began. How the **** could someone live off something for 24mths that only occurred in the last 12mths?
 

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Still not sure why Ronnie and Katoa have switched sides
 

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Got to sort out the ruck , and line speed on defense , Cook ruined us thru the middle and along with Murray played with us in behind the ruck .
Also lacked real leadership that last 20mins , someone just taking control of the situation , it was just too disjointed .
Hopefully this will be a wake up call for some of the players , can't be missing that many tackles .
 

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Got to sort out the ruck , and line speed on defense , Cook ruined us thru the middle and along with Murray played with us in behind the ruck .
Also lacked real leadership that last 20mins , someone just taking control of the situation , it was just too disjointed .
Hopefully this will be a wake up call for some of the players , can't be missing that many tackles .
I thought we had a wake up call in the final last year.
 

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If anyone has the players' numbers we could all start calling them in the middle of the night
 

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They havent lad. Katoa is always with Jesse
Whoops
For some reason I thought they had that’s why Ronaldo dived with the ball in his right not his left

Lot easier to get whacked out when it’s on the inside
 

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They havent lad. Katoa is always with Jesse
Not sure why this has become a thing
Katoa and Ramien played together since u20s.
I think we may have swapped them for a little bit two seasons ago…
May have swapped at times when one is injured also. But for the most part Ronnie is left Katoa is right.

Whoops
For some reason I thought they had that’s why Ronaldo dived with the ball in his right not his left

Lot easier to get whacked out when it’s on the inside
He just thought he was in, I guess to be fair so did I.

Commentators said they swapped, so have some content creators. Not sure why.
 
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Not sure why this has become a thing
Katoa and Ramien played together since u20s.
I think we may have swapped them for a little bit two seasons ago…
May have swapped at times when one is injured also. But for the most part Ronnie is left Katoa is right.


He just thought he was in, I guess to be fair so did I.

Commentators said they swapped, so have some content creators. Not sure why.
Ronnie always left, Sione right. Thats where they played all night
 
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