2023 NRL Round 20 New Zealand Warriors v Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 2:00pm Sunday 16 July @ Go Media Stadium, Auckland NZ

[BurgoShark]

When we say “top teams” who are we talking about?

Sharks lost to Souths and Canberra without Nicho, choked vs the Warriors, and put in a stinker vs the Dolphins. From my point of view when we say top teams we are talking about the Brisbane and Melbourne games.

Brisbane game the Sharks had no problem moving the ball or creating opportunities. Brisbane just had outstanding try line defence and the Sharks fifth tackle options were poor.

Melbourne game the Sharks outside backs struggled to move the ball out of their own end, and the team compounded that with a bunch of errors.

 

[Sharkfox]

All this talk about defence when Our attack against top teams is just as bad

When we don’t score it creates more pressure to turn around and defend - defence hasn’t been our strong since Flanagan left

It looks like it’s always become very easy to shut Hynes down and we’ve never looked like having a plan b when that happens

Looking forward to see what’s changed this next month

Havent got the balance right, too much Hynes, need more involvement for Moylan and Brailey

 

[stormshark]

We go in with one seasoned specialist Front rower, games gonna be real hard to win. Uele or Hunt a chance for this?

 

[Blue_Eyes84]

This will be a tough game. I'm not too sure how this will turn out.

 

[Gards]

So it's months later and time for the rematch and I STILL don't know why Royce Hunt was penalised for a push??? leading to a bs Warriors win.

Hopefully the refs miss their flights and we can get a fax machine to do it instead

 

[Sir Chadley]

There does seem to be a lot of optimism about us winning this game, especially from Terry and Dan's Fins Up Podcast. But I think it is a foregone conclusion that we'll lose. Warriors are in great form and showing much more steel these days. In front of their home fans, they'll want to show their win against us this year was no fluke.

We just don't have it in the forwards and while our backs are very good, I don't think they'll get room to move.

Warriors by 12.

 

[Up-Up Cronulla]

Head Warriors Heart Sharks.

 

[snowman]

Do you think the fact the top teams have better defence than the lower teams might have something to do with it mate?

you may be on to something here

 

[ben]

True - better defence combined with scoring more points than the other teams usually gets the win.

 

[bort]

There does seem to be a lot of optimism about us winning this game, especially from Terry and Dan's Fins Up Podcast. But I think it is a foregone conclusion that we'll lose. Warriors are in great form and showing much more steel these days. In front of their home fans, they'll want to show their win against us this year was no fluke.

We just don't have it in the forwards and while our backs are very good, I don't think they'll get room to move.

Warriors by 12.

Sets up our revenge win in the finals nicely though

 

[Wiz]

When we say “top teams” who are we talking about?

Sharks lost to Souths and Canberra without Nicho, choked vs the Warriors, and put in a stinker vs the Dolphins. From my point of view when we say top teams we are talking about the Brisbane and Melbourne games.

Brisbane game the Sharks had no problem moving the ball or creating opportunities. Brisbane just had outstanding try line defence and the Sharks fifth tackle options were poor.

Melbourne game the Sharks outside backs struggled to move the ball out of their own end, and the team compounded that with a bunch of errors.

Yeah nah, you love to skip context when it doesn’t suit your views.
The only games we were in it were the Rabbitohs and Raiders games
Vs rabbits it was 27- 18
Vs raiders it was 20-24
We scored enough points and played well - these games are different and avoided by you because Trindall the almighty was playing

It’s the games against the dolphins, storm and broncos who had their origin stars back up which were the typical ones we’ve seen from us where we struggled and looked erratic

 

[Sir Chadley]

Yeah nah, you love to skip context when it doesn’t suit your views.
The only games we were in it were the Rabbitohs and Raiders games
Vs rabbits it was 27- 18
Vs raiders it was 20-24
We scored enough points and played well - these games are different and avoided by you because Trindall the almighty was playing

It’s the games against the dolphins, storm and broncos who had their origin stars back up which were the typical ones we’ve seen from us where we struggled and looked erratic

So do you.

 

[Wiz]

There does seem to be a lot of optimism about us winning this game, especially from Terry and Dan's Fins Up Podcast. But I think it is a foregone conclusion that we'll lose. Warriors are in great form and showing much more steel these days. In front of their home fans, they'll want to show their win against us this year was no fluke.

We just don't have it in the forwards and while our backs are very good, I don't think they'll get room to move.

Warriors by 12.

I feel like weve always had the wood over the warriors.. for what that’s worth this week I don’t know, it’s a wobbler

 

[Wiz]

So do you.

Is it time for some schmackos chadley ?

 

[egg]

Team list out
Looks GREAT .

The Sharks v Warriors match is scheduled for a 4.00pm kick off local time (2.00pm Sydney time), with the two 22-man squad listed below.

1. WILL KENNEDY - proudly sponsored by Pilot
2. SIONE KATOA - proudly sponsored by Ressler Property
3. JESSE RAMIEN - proudly sponsored by The Vinyl Room
4. SIFA TALAKAI - proudly sponsored by O'Brien Palmer
5. RONALDO MULITALO - proudly sponsored by A Corp. Computers
6. MATT MOYLAN - proudly sponsored by Executive Demolition
7. NICHO HYNES - proudly sponsored by John Ryan Freight Management
8. OREGON KAUFUSI - proudly sponsored by ModularWalls
9. BLAYKE BRAILEY - proudly sponsored by Elite Legal
10. TOBY RUDOLF - proudly sponsored by Sharp Extensive IT
11. BRITON NIKORA - proudly sponsored by Guardian Venue Management
12. TEIG WILTON - proudly sponsored by MainFix
13. CAM MCINNES - proudly sponsored by Lloyds Building & Development

Interchange

14. WADE GRAHAM - proudly sponsored by White Wolf Constructions
15. TOM HAZELTON - proudly sponsored by Madimack
16. JACK WILLIAMS - proudly sponsored by Shire Steel & Fabrication
17. JESSE COLQUHOUN - proudly sponsored by Ace Gutters

 

[SF]

Uele in the extended squad:

Taco Team List Tuesday - Sharks v Warriors

On the back of three consecutive wins the Sharks travel to New Zealand for the first time since 2019 to take on the Warriors on Sunday. On Taco Team list Tuesday, courtesy of Zambrero, see the two 22-man squad lists

www.sharks.com.au

Extended Bench

18. CONNOR TRACEY
19. KAYAL IRO
20. BRADEN HAMLIN-UELE
21. BRAYDON TRINDALL
22. TUKU HAU TAPUHA

 

[ben]

Team

Yeah nah, you love to skip context when it doesn’t suit your views.
The only games we were in it were the Rabbitohs and Raiders games
Vs rabbits it was 27- 18
Vs raiders it was 20-24
We scored enough points and played well - these games are different and avoided by you because Trindall the almighty was playing

It’s the games against the dolphins, storm and broncos who had their origin stars back up which were the typical ones we’ve seen from us where we struggled and looked erratic

DIdnt we just lose to the Warriors?

26 - 12 sharks at half time.
30 - 24 sharks with 13 left on the clock
30 - 30 with 90 secs left on clock.
32 - 30 with 30 secs left.

Nicho had a chance to tie the game after the siren with a sideline kick but missed it.

 

[SF]

Sounds like a big day for the Warriors -

• Indigenous jersey
• Crowd of at least 22,000, possibly up to 31,000: https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2023/07/11/jump-on-48-hour-ticket-offer/
• All Blacks on Saturday night
• Celebrating milestones (Shaun Johnson, Dylan Walker, Addin Fonua-Blake and Wayde Egan)

Hopefully they react the way we normally do!

 

[Wiz]

Team

DIdnt we just lose to the Warriors?

26 - 12 sharks at half time.
30 - 24 sharks with 13 left on the clock
30 - 30 with 90 secs left on clock.
32 - 30 with 30 secs left.

Nicho had a chance to tie the game after the siren with a sideline kick but missed it.

I don’t really rate Warriors as a top team tbh (yet)

We should’ve won that game ; I think our winning ways against them will continue this week but if it doesn’t then that’ll mean they’ve really changed their ways and we are still the same

 

[Sharkfox]

Team list out
Looks GREAT .

The Sharks v Warriors match is scheduled for a 4.00pm kick off local time (2.00pm Sydney time), with the two 22-man squad listed below.

1. WILL KENNEDY - proudly sponsored by Pilot
2. SIONE KATOA - proudly sponsored by Ressler Property
3. JESSE RAMIEN - proudly sponsored by The Vinyl Room
4. SIFA TALAKAI - proudly sponsored by O'Brien Palmer
5. RONALDO MULITALO - proudly sponsored by A Corp. Computers
6. MATT MOYLAN - proudly sponsored by Executive Demolition
7. NICHO HYNES - proudly sponsored by John Ryan Freight Management
8. OREGON KAUFUSI - proudly sponsored by ModularWalls
9. BLAYKE BRAILEY - proudly sponsored by Elite Legal
10. TOBY RUDOLF - proudly sponsored by Sharp Extensive IT
11. BRITON NIKORA - proudly sponsored by Guardian Venue Management
12. TEIG WILTON - proudly sponsored by MainFix
13. CAM MCINNES - proudly sponsored by Lloyds Building & Development

Interchange

14. WADE GRAHAM - proudly sponsored by White Wolf Constructions
15. TOM HAZELTON - proudly sponsored by Madimack
16. JACK WILLIAMS - proudly sponsored by Shire Steel & Fabrication
17. JESSE COLQUHOUN - proudly sponsored by Ace Gutters

Hope JC and Tommy have strong performances. They'll most likely be dropped for Dale and BHU, with Wade keeping his spot