2023 NRL Round 27 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks vs Canberra Raiders, 4:05PM Sunday 3 September @ PointsBet Stadium

[Sir Chadley]

Just got back from the game. Seems my half time rant worked.

While the score looked good for us, there is still much to do. Defence is better but we still don’t seem to move up quickly. Luckily our goal line defence has improved.

Ramien was the standout for me today, plenty of hard straight running and always dangerous with the ball.

Still seems to be lots of times in attack where it doesn’t look like we know what to do. And still way too much dropped ball.

 

[Pishposh46]

Just got back from the game. Seems my half time rant worked.

While the score looked good for us, there is still much to do. Defence is better but we still don’t seem to move up quickly. Luckily our goal line defence has improved.

Ramien was the standout for me today, plenty of hard straight running and always dangerous with the ball.

Still seems to be lots of times in attack where it doesn’t look like we know what to do. And still way too much dropped ball.

Yep, that's the general consensus around here.
We don't win many games when down at halftime, so maybe your rant must have got through to them.

 

[MMsharks]

Just got back from the game. Seems my half time rant worked.

While the score looked good for us, there is still much to do. Defence is better but we still don’t seem to move up quickly. Luckily our goal line defence has improved.

Ramien was the standout for me today, plenty of hard straight running and always dangerous with the ball.

Still seems to be lots of times in attack where it doesn’t look like we know what to do. And still way too much dropped ball.

it was all you mate!!!

thanks for the win

 

[Shortfin Mako]

watching replay
HOLY SH!T
that rapana try

how the fuk did it get confirmed????
if that was another team surely pulled up

24-0 sharks good win!

How did we get penalised for Ramien’s play the ball when their 6 kicked the ball? I did not understand bunker’s explanation.

 

[MMsharks]

How did we get penalised for Ramien’s play the ball when their 6 kicked the ball? I did not understand bunker’s explanation.

the commentary were confident the officials were right
not sure
I thought Jesse did everything right

got to his feet as per the rules; planted ball properly (frawley kicks it)

not sure why??

NRL chooses what they want these days

 

[djhabib]

Can I just say we absolutely smashed the send off for wade today as a club. It was perfect.

 

[Super Impose]

the commentary were confident the officials were right
not sure
I thought Jesse did everything right

got to his feet as per the rules; planted ball properly (frawley kicks it)

not sure why??

NRL chooses what they want these days

Apparantly he had a hand in the ground as he played the ball - like about 100 other play the balls in the game ..

Oh yeah .. it was Klein

 

[MrDravid]

the commentary were confident the officials were right
not sure
I thought Jesse did everything right

got to his feet as per the rules; planted ball properly (frawley kicks it)

not sure why??

NRL chooses what they want these days

The new rule this year is that you have to be on your feet before you plant the ball, otherwise you're responsible for what happens.

Fox guys seemed to think Sharks were unlucky not to get the penalty.

 

[Addy]

Yeah, he was pretty measured. Just said that a few things happened that were a bit unlucky.
Even cracked a joke and a laugh with the Pommy journo.

Boo, I want unhinged

 

[MrDravid]

Can you post the similar one Luke Covell scored?

Sorry, all I do is steal them off twitter

 

[vicsharkfan]

Really warming to a road trip next week now, metro Miranda has rooms available. All I need is tickets will roll the dice and try for a couple come 1pm tommoz… what are my chances?

 

[BurgoShark]

The new rule this year is that you have to be on your feet before you plant the ball, otherwise you're responsible for what happens.

Fox guys seemed to think Sharks were unlucky not to get the penalty.

Not a new rule. The NRL just decided that this year they would start enforcing the actual rule that has always existed.

Apparently he had a hand in the ground as he played the ball - like about 100 other play the balls in the game ..

Oh yeah .. it was Klein

Having your free hand on the ground is actually perfect play the ball technique. The bunker ****ed up here plain and simple.

You can't plant the ball if your body/legs/knees are still on the ground, but that was not the case. Ramien got to his feet and played the ball in the exact manner players are taught.

 

[Gards]

A mature performance, proud of that. Played fairly conservatively in first half and got into the grind doing the set for set thing. Didn't push the issue or chance our hand too much, just defended and got the ball up the other end.

But in the second half as the Raiders tired and we found some momentum and more time and space we stepped up the attack and reaped the rewards.

Was good to see we have some different gears and went into them at the appropriate times.

I saw the clearest delineation of the Hynes/Tricky pairing yet, with Hynes doing the kicking on right side and Braydon on the left but Hynes still being the main man running the ball into the line and looking for weakspots on the edges while braydon helped straighten our attack and keep their middles honest with insides balls to our props and second row.

Seemed like there was some passion and excitement in the crowd too and amongst the team which was nice. Need that going into the finals.

Outside of Rapana, Wighton and Timoko the Raiders really seemed to lack firepower. Tapine didn't seemed to give us too much trouble.
They overall seemed a bit flat but still didn't make it easy for us as usual.

While I still don't think we are quite at the stage to challenge the Top 3 teams and I doubt we will this year (especially if out of Sydney) it's good to see some learnings start to be put in place (because we have had many lessons over the last 12months+) and that Fitz is showing some sort of adaptability and leanings away from being outright stubborn with how he deploys his troops.

Also thought the ref was spot on with nearly everything, let the game flow but called out the obvious infringements and got some tough calls correct. Ricky shouldn't have too much to complain about in that regard but I reckon he will still find some things. Haven't watched the pressers yet.

Was just nice to watch a game of set for set footy without soft penalties breaking it up and giving the other team an undeserved easy out and to focus on the game and not the drama and controversy. It was enjoyable to see the 2 teams gameplans come up against each other in that first half and then for things to really change up in that second half.

The Raiders focus on going up our middle on yardage sets and then trying to exploit our far edges on attacking sets probably would have got the Raiders alot more joy earlier in the season against us when our defense was far less settled and not working as well or as hard to turn back and/or keep out the ball carriers.

Happy for Wade too, he deserved that but now gets another home game at Shark Park to hopefully rack up another win for us down in the Shire.

 

[Western Sharkie]

the commentary were confident the officials were right
not sure
I thought Jesse did everything right

got to his feet as per the rules; planted ball properly (frawley kicks it)

not sure why??

NRL chooses what they want these days

Not all
Flanno was confused on Fox

 

[Western Sharkie]

Not a new rule. The NRL just decided that this year they would start enforcing the actual rule that has always existed.


Having your free hand on the ground is actually perfect play the ball technique. The bunker ****ed up here plain and simple.

You can't plant the ball if your body/legs/knees are still on the ground, but that was not the case. Ramien got to his feet and played the ball in the exact manner players are taught.

Surprise!

 

[Pishposh46]

A mature performance, proud of that. Played fairly conservatively in first half and got into the grind doing the set for set thing. Didn't push the issue or chance our hand too much, just defended and got the ball up the other end.

But in the second half as the Raiders tired and we found some momentum and more time and space we stepped up the attack and reaped the rewards.

Was good to see we have some different gears and went into them at the appropriate times.

I saw the clearest delineation of the Hynes/Tricky pairing yet, with Hynes doing the kicking on right side and Braydon on the left but Hynes still being the main man running the ball into the line and looking for weakspots on the edges while braydon helped straighten our attack and keep their middles honest with insides balls to our props and second row.

Seemed like there was some passion and excitement in the crowd too and amongst the team which was nice. Need that going into the finals.

Outside of Rapana, Wighton and Timoko the Raiders really seemed to lack firepower. Tapine didn't seemed to give us too much trouble.
They overall seemed a bit flat but still didn't make it easy for us as usual.

While I still don't think we are quite at the stage to challenge the Top 3 teams and I doubt we will this year (especially if out of Sydney) it's good to see some learnings start to be put in place (because we have had many lessons over the last 12months+) and that Fitz is showing some sort of adaptability and leanings away from being outright stubborn with how he deploys his troops.

Also thought the ref was spot on with nearly everything, let the game flow but called out the obvious infringements and got some tough calls correct. Ricky shouldn't have too much to complain about in that regard but I reckon he will still find some things. Haven't watched the pressers yet.

Was just nice to watch a game of set for set footy without soft penalties breaking it up and giving the other team an undeserved easy out and to focus on the game and not the drama and controversy. It was enjoyable to see the 2 teams gameplans come up against each other in that first half and then for things to really change up in that second half.

The Raiders focus on going up our middle on yardage sets and then trying to exploit our far edges on attacking sets probably would have got the Raiders alot more joy earlier in the season against us when our defense was far less settled and not working as well or as hard to turn back and/or keep out the ball carriers.

Happy for Wade too, he deserved that but now gets another home game at Shark Park to hopefully rack up another win for us down in the Shire.

Hope it ends better for Wado this time, than last time he played against the Roosters in a finals game, when he did his knee.

 

[Sharkfox]

You’ve basically just written ‘change most of our structure’

Lets just hope Connor is ok, dont want kennedy back in after being out for over a month with a serious hamstring injury. He wont be ready for a finals game especailly against a fired up Roosters team

 

[GF78]

roosters are a dark horse of the finals
they will bring everything

Not everything, no JWH thank christ-losing the alpha male of your pack is a big loss for Easts.

 

[GF78]

Lets just hope Connor is ok, dont want kennedy back in after being out for over a month with a serious hamstring injury. He wont be ready for a finals game especailly against a fired up Roosters team

Agree. Dajavu fron 2022..

 

[HaroldBishop]

The new rule this year is that you have to be on your feet before you plant the ball, otherwise you're responsible for what happens.

Fox guys seemed to think Sharks were unlucky not to get the penalty.

Strange one. I guess if you're the defender and the tackled player plants it before getting to his feet you can deliberately kick the ball away?