BurgoShark
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One positive thg many are missing: Josh Dugan played an unbroken 80 minutes of Rugby League!!!!!
NRL Round 1, 2018 - Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks vs. Nth QLD Cowboys. Friday 9th March, 8.05PM @ 1300Smiles Stadium
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Western Sharkie
Jaws
We've Already started the Lamington drive to get the coin for his transfer fee.
With Katoa possibly out for an extended period its an absolute no-brainer to move val back to the wing
Id like to see this run out next week
1. Dugan
2. Feki
3. Gray
4. Lutes
5. Holmes
Anything else will be second best imo.
Id like to see this run out next week
1. Dugan
2. Feki
3. Gray
4. Lutes
5. Holmes
Anything else will be second best imo.
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How many boxes did Jack Bird buy?
Western Sharkie
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With a new 5/8th at the club........
Sir Chadley
Jaws
I’m not overly concerned about tonight’s result.
What I am concerned about is the return of last year’s problems.
We are still not controlling the ball.
We are still giving away stupid penalties.
Our kicking game is still ****.
We don’t show patience at critical times.
Our defence when under pressure is still pretty good.
They really should have won that game by 20.
Not much else to get enthused about but like most have said it’s Round 1 so a long way to go.
What I am concerned about is the return of last year’s problems.
We are still not controlling the ball.
We are still giving away stupid penalties.
Our kicking game is still ****.
We don’t show patience at critical times.
Our defence when under pressure is still pretty good.
They really should have won that game by 20.
Not much else to get enthused about but like most have said it’s Round 1 so a long way to go.
Of course. Simply stating we are far from the dire situation many of those on this forum are pegging is in.
We just need to show some patience this spine is new and we have a new play style to work out with Moylan.
Western Sharkie
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12 dozen boxes.......and he paid for express postage!
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Uncle Wayne probably gave him the money for them. After all, he paid for Barba the first time around
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Where is the presser up ?
I saw it on Channel 9 after the game
49erShark
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Ironically it was the exact reverse of the dodgy penalty blown against Prior in the last game we played against them in the semi and allowed them to level the scores for extra time, except that Thurston had his hands all over the ball and Prior somehow stripped it with his shoulder. Flanno obviously couldn't spare another 10k over it though.
BlackWhiteBlue
Jaws
A lot of familiar ****. Poor discipline and some school boy errors. Which was where we came undone last year. Id love to know whats been done to address it.
Our defence was still strongish. They did go over the line a fair few times. We were lucky to have been able to hold them up or force an error a few times.
On the val situation....i havent given up on him. Yet. But he’d wanna improve. We cant sit here and say hes a better winger so put him there. He shone at wing with good backlines. Barba, bird, etc. or in origin/tests with a world class side. Gotta give him a few games to prove his case. No improvement, back to the wing
Our defence was still strongish. They did go over the line a fair few times. We were lucky to have been able to hold them up or force an error a few times.
On the val situation....i havent given up on him. Yet. But he’d wanna improve. We cant sit here and say hes a better winger so put him there. He shone at wing with good backlines. Barba, bird, etc. or in origin/tests with a world class side. Gotta give him a few games to prove his case. No improvement, back to the wing
BlackWhiteBlue
Jaws
I think he felt underdone or something.
HaroldBishop
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Settle down, everyone. We'll flick the switch when we need to.
vicsharkfan
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Worked once in 51 years...
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After the fact I'm not so worried.
Val had his worst game since that time at home he bombed 4 tries. He wasn't anywhere near as shaky under the high ball last year so I don't think we see a display like that again. The kickoff error was ridiculous.
He had next to no chance to inject himself in attack but showed promise with that little break to put brailey through to almost score. I'd like to see him with more oppportunities with the ball in hand before ending the experiment. Biggest concern was the effort in defence, he really needs to put his all into every tackle if he's going to be the last line.
Chad also put in a shocker, but his kicking game was far better last year esspecially on the goal line. Just needs to get the organisation down so we are making good choices to end the set. If nothings on atleast put up a chip we can contest. Fantastic goal kicking though.
Moyza put his body on the line in both attack and defence and was a damn near chance of icing that game for us. We need to also remember that Maloney barely kicked the ball last year. Hopefully he gets around it a bit more though as he seems to have a decent boot.
Fifitas first stint was incredible. Looked energised and ready to tear teams to shred, second hit was quality too. Bukuya was unreal all around the park. Wade started well but overplayed his hand far to much at the end in trying to force something to happen on that left edge.
Round 1, cowboys who are favourites only looked marginally better than us. I'd say pressure is on flanno more than anyone else to sort out last years discipline so we can actually play a bit of football.
Val had his worst game since that time at home he bombed 4 tries. He wasn't anywhere near as shaky under the high ball last year so I don't think we see a display like that again. The kickoff error was ridiculous.
He had next to no chance to inject himself in attack but showed promise with that little break to put brailey through to almost score. I'd like to see him with more oppportunities with the ball in hand before ending the experiment. Biggest concern was the effort in defence, he really needs to put his all into every tackle if he's going to be the last line.
Chad also put in a shocker, but his kicking game was far better last year esspecially on the goal line. Just needs to get the organisation down so we are making good choices to end the set. If nothings on atleast put up a chip we can contest. Fantastic goal kicking though.
Moyza put his body on the line in both attack and defence and was a damn near chance of icing that game for us. We need to also remember that Maloney barely kicked the ball last year. Hopefully he gets around it a bit more though as he seems to have a decent boot.
Fifitas first stint was incredible. Looked energised and ready to tear teams to shred, second hit was quality too. Bukuya was unreal all around the park. Wade started well but overplayed his hand far to much at the end in trying to force something to happen on that left edge.
Round 1, cowboys who are favourites only looked marginally better than us. I'd say pressure is on flanno more than anyone else to sort out last years discipline so we can actually play a bit of football.
Western Sharkie
Jaws
The thing about the "we will flick the switch" line, is that we said that throughout the whole of the 2017 season.
Granted it is round 1 against a motivated and emotional Cowboys side playing for JT in the 300th. It was always going to be an uphill to win this one but let's hope we aren't still saying "it's ok, we will flick the switch" in another 5 to 10 or so rounds, cos by then we start thinking about 2019.
Hoping that Flanno rips them a new one and that the switch is flicked from round 2 (cos I'm an impatient bastard and want to see us winning games).