2023 NRL Round 5 Cronulla Sutherland Sharks v New Zealand Warriors @ Pointsbet Stadium Sunday 2nd April @ 4:05pm

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That sucked we were always going to let the warrior score at least 30…
Bloody turds
Typical Harlem globetrotters
Rocks n diamonds is crap hate it hate it to the core, goes against the tenacious scrap and brawl style I grew up loving.
 

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During that 2016 season, I remember flano saying the team had to work to deserve to play the way they do.

This season and last, the team loves putting on points and watching the highlight reel. They don’t work in defence.

Flano would tear absolute shreds off them after today’s performance
 
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Fitzgibbon was very mildly upset with our errors in the press conference. No discussion on the defence. Does he have a nasty side to fire a rocket up people???
 

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He wasn’t wrong in 3 errors cost points directly. He would know we need to be more resilient.
Surely defending errors is one of the most important things in the game.Why is it a surprise
 

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Pretty disappointing for the fans who braved the weather.

Unfortunately us capitulating like that is no longer a surprise. We play like the tigers of yesteryear - just hoping to score so many points that any ill discipline or bad defence is outweighed.

Nowhere near good enough.
 
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Can't coach against errors such as drop balls.

Sure you can teach technique on holding the ball or catching it in air but, the ball is in the players hand not the coach.

Needs to teach that left edge how to defend.
 

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Surely defending errors is one of the most important things in the game.Why is it a surprise
Definitely defending errors is important and we have been hopeless at that for a while. No surprise that we should all be pissed at those efforts
 
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Geez I’ve found McInnes uninspiring thus far this season. Tries to be a bettering ram and on the off chance there is a possible qik play the ball can often balls that up too.
 

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Geez I’ve found McInnes uninspiring thus far this season. Tries to be a bettering ram and on the off chance there is a possible qik play the ball can often balls that up too.
Yeah he’s been a disappointment
Even without his error a game I’m not sure I’d say he has added much

I think the bloke is a piece of **** but Walker was twice the player McInnes was today
 

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Pretty disappointing for the fans who braved the weather.

Unfortunately us capitulating like that is no longer a surprise. We play like the tigers of yesteryear - just hoping to score so many points that any ill discipline or bad defence is outweighed.

Nowhere near good enough.
We got bashed up mainly in the forwards once Again As usual
 

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3 mistakes in our own 20 by Mulitalo, Katoa, and Talakai within the space of a few minutes early in the 2nd half.
To lose 20-4 in the 2nd half after the game against St George where the 2nd half was excellent was just woeful.
Ronaldo is too interested in playing the sledging game and loses concentration, Fitz should be right up him for that.
Katoa is always up for an error nearly every game so far, it's not good enough, and a few decisions were very debatable, especially the Hunt 'push in the back' and the Hamlin-Uele 'knock-on'.
They should've taken the 2 points before half-time, instead into the 3rd consecutive set they lost the ball on the 2nd tackle which is not good enough.
It was just poor in the 2nd half, the errors(10) are horrendous. The completion rate has to be higher than 80%, it wasn't - 34/43. Cronulla will struggle to make the 8 with repeat performances like this. The error count is too high for 1st grade. Talk about handing the other side a win, well that's what happened here, Cronulla invited NZ to win, and Mulitalo's talking certainly gave NZ that extra bit of inspiration or energy to come out victors.
 

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In Ronaldo’s defence
(And I’ve been pretty critical of him)

Him **** talking in this one started because he got slapped across the back of the head.
I think he tried to even laugh that off before he reacted so maybe baited in my something said too.

But the slap to the back of his head was more of a strike than Royce got 10 for.

Yeah Ronnie got baited and bad errors but why is some bloke allowed to slap him across the back of the head?

He should have just kept laughing it off though and let his footy do the talking.
 

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Warriors played almost perfect footy in the second half, we made too many mistakes, but understandable in the rain. Don’t think we can take too much more from it.
 

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Warriors played almost perfect footy in the second half, we made too many mistakes, but understandable in the rain. Don’t think we can take too much more from it.
They did play pretty well.
We win if we halve those mistakes though. It was too many and we did it to ourselves.
 
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