Official 2024 Sharks NRL General Discussion
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Blue_Eyes84
Bull Shark
The premiers should be going.
Hopefully that’s us
HaroldBishop
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Hahaha
One of the first things any Sharks player does when they enter their wrestling room is to start counting numbers.
If there’s an even number, a collective sigh of relief can be heard. But when there’s an odd number of players, that’s when the panic sets in, because coach Craig Fitzgibbon will often volunteer to go mano-a-mano with the odd one out.
“One time that was me,” laughs hooker Blayke Brailey. “And I was choked out 10 times in about 30 seconds. I was just laying there and couldn’t do anything. I was thinking, ‘this is pretty rough’.
“So, I just stay away from him now.”
Brailey’s teammate, Toby Rudolf, wasn’t joking when he said Fitzgibbon will put himself through a torturous Brazilian jiu-jitsu session on game day, so his body is entirely spent when he stands in front of his team. His reasoning is that, by the time he arrives at the match, he has the right to ask the same of his players on the field.
On Saturday night, Fitzgibbon will stand in front of his players moments before kick-off and ask them for their ultimate effort against Melbourne in a top-of-the-table clash few saw coming at the start of the season.
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One of the first things any Sharks player does when they enter their wrestling room is to start counting numbers.
If there’s an even number, a collective sigh of relief can be heard. But when there’s an odd number of players, that’s when the panic sets in, because coach Craig Fitzgibbon will often volunteer to go mano-a-mano with the odd one out.
“One time that was me,” laughs hooker Blayke Brailey. “And I was choked out 10 times in about 30 seconds. I was just laying there and couldn’t do anything. I was thinking, ‘this is pretty rough’.
“So, I just stay away from him now.”
Brailey’s teammate, Toby Rudolf, wasn’t joking when he said Fitzgibbon will put himself through a torturous Brazilian jiu-jitsu session on game day, so his body is entirely spent when he stands in front of his team. His reasoning is that, by the time he arrives at the match, he has the right to ask the same of his players on the field.
On Saturday night, Fitzgibbon will stand in front of his players moments before kick-off and ask them for their ultimate effort against Melbourne in a top-of-the-table clash few saw coming at the start of the season.
Contenders or pretenders? We’re about to find out about the Sharks
Craig Fitzgibbon puts his own body through what few NRL coaches would even dream of. But is his famous work ethic, where he manhandles his own players in wrestling sessions, finally turning the Sharks into heavyweights?
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Matt Nable writing for SMH now? They make it sounds like the Sharks are about to hop off a U-boat at Gallipoli ffs!Hahaha
One of the first things any Sharks player does when they enter their wrestling room is to start counting numbers.
If there’s an even number, a collective sigh of relief can be heard. But when there’s an odd number of players, that’s when the panic sets in, because coach Craig Fitzgibbon will often volunteer to go mano-a-mano with the odd one out.
“One time that was me,” laughs hooker Blayke Brailey. “And I was choked out 10 times in about 30 seconds. I was just laying there and couldn’t do anything. I was thinking, ‘this is pretty rough’.
“So, I just stay away from him now.”
Brailey’s teammate, Toby Rudolf, wasn’t joking when he said Fitzgibbon will put himself through a torturous Brazilian jiu-jitsu session on game day, so his body is entirely spent when he stands in front of his team. His reasoning is that, by the time he arrives at the match, he has the right to ask the same of his players on the field.
On Saturday night, Fitzgibbon will stand in front of his players moments before kick-off and ask them for their ultimate effort against Melbourne in a top-of-the-table clash few saw coming at the start of the season.
Contenders or pretenders? We’re about to find out about the Sharks
Craig Fitzgibbon puts his own body through what few NRL coaches would even dream of. But is his famous work ethic, where he manhandles his own players in wrestling sessions, finally turning the Sharks into heavyweights?
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Beat me to it!Hahaha
One of the first things any Sharks player does when they enter their wrestling room is to start counting numbers.
If there’s an even number, a collective sigh of relief can be heard. But when there’s an odd number of players, that’s when the panic sets in, because coach Craig Fitzgibbon will often volunteer to go mano-a-mano with the odd one out.
“One time that was me,” laughs hooker Blayke Brailey. “And I was choked out 10 times in about 30 seconds. I was just laying there and couldn’t do anything. I was thinking, ‘this is pretty rough’.
“So, I just stay away from him now.”
Brailey’s teammate, Toby Rudolf, wasn’t joking when he said Fitzgibbon will put himself through a torturous Brazilian jiu-jitsu session on game day, so his body is entirely spent when he stands in front of his team. His reasoning is that, by the time he arrives at the match, he has the right to ask the same of his players on the field.
On Saturday night, Fitzgibbon will stand in front of his players moments before kick-off and ask them for their ultimate effort against Melbourne in a top-of-the-table clash few saw coming at the start of the season.
Contenders or pretenders? We’re about to find out about the Sharks
Craig Fitzgibbon puts his own body through what few NRL coaches would even dream of. But is his famous work ethic, where he manhandles his own players in wrestling sessions, finally turning the Sharks into heavyweights?
HaroldBishop
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Any mention of that knob's name should result in a ban!
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Uncle Nick might not find this amusing
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Hahaha
One of the first things any Sharks player does when they enter their wrestling room is to start counting numbers.
If there’s an even number, a collective sigh of relief can be heard. But when there’s an odd number of players, that’s when the panic sets in, because coach Craig Fitzgibbon will often volunteer to go mano-a-mano with the odd one out.
“One time that was me,” laughs hooker Blayke Brailey. “And I was choked out 10 times in about 30 seconds. I was just laying there and couldn’t do anything. I was thinking, ‘this is pretty rough’.
“So, I just stay away from him now.”
Brailey’s teammate, Toby Rudolf, wasn’t joking when he said Fitzgibbon will put himself through a torturous Brazilian jiu-jitsu session on game day, so his body is entirely spent when he stands in front of his team. His reasoning is that, by the time he arrives at the match, he has the right to ask the same of his players on the field.
On Saturday night, Fitzgibbon will stand in front of his players moments before kick-off and ask them for their ultimate effort against Melbourne in a top-of-the-table clash few saw coming at the start of the season.
Contenders or pretenders? We’re about to find out about the Sharks
Craig Fitzgibbon puts his own body through what few NRL coaches would even dream of. But is his famous work ethic, where he manhandles his own players in wrestling sessions, finally turning the Sharks into heavyweights?
Johnny Sins wrestling you to the ground would be pretty terrifying
Western Sharkie
Jaws
The thing is, I don’t for one minute believe that DF will be worse off financially with this new deal.
He will still be getting his $1m (plus plus plus) salary each season but only a smaller portion will be captured within the NRL’s salary cap limits.
Surely Dane knows this!
But I guess his narrative is based more around the inequality of the distribution of elite players amongst the competition rather than the real issue that is the salary cap/ 3rd party deal issues.
Imagine the audio version!
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That's exactly how I read it .
Some TRUTHS amongst it
Tallis' comments are funny. It's well documented that when he was at the Broncos many players took pay cuts to stay together to win premierships.
Now that Fifita has taken a pay cut to try and win a premiership (albeit with another club), Talis has an issue with it?
It wouldn't have something to offer with Talis' affiliation with the Titans would it?
Western Sharkie
Jaws
Tallis is a few cans short of a six pack (like 4 short)
Wouldn’t take much notice of whatever he says
Plus, I’m pretty sure someone came out (ex player, turned administrator and then former employee but can’t remember the name off the top of my head) basically admitted they cooked the books too (hence “former”).
NRL started to investigate and things went all quiet! Never to be raised again
Vichyssoise
Bull Shark
Wasn't it Andrew Gee?
Western Sharkie
Jaws
dylan the villian
Jaws
