NRL Round 13, 2016: Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs. Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs, Monday 6 June 7:00pm @ ANZ Stadium

[Long Suffering Sharkie]

They shut down our backline plays pretty well by rushing in. We needed to mix it up a bit by kicking in behind or something to make them second guess it.

Actually I was watching the combination of Townsend and Maloney and was quite pleased by how it seemed to feed the backline early...with Benny chiming in and throwing cutout passes to his winger on the left.

Thought the right side wasn't as fluent - but Bird set up Holmes for that first half try and they nearly pulled off another when Holmes grubber kicked ahead in the second half.

It's so nice this year to finally see the Sharks play attacking football with their backline - instead of that predictable grind of one-up forward attack of recent years...

 

[Proud Shark]

Actually I was watching the combination of Townsend and Maloney and was quite pleased by how it seemed to feed the backline early...with Benny chiming in and throwing cutout passes to his winger on the left.

Thought the right side wasn't as fluent - but Bird set up Holmes for that first half try and they nearly pulled off another when Holmes grubber kicked ahead in the second half.

It's so nice this year to finally see the Sharks play attacking football with their backline - instead of that predictable grind of one-up forward attack of recent years...

We definitely got it over them at the end with that last try. Holland was up in beales face all night though and caused him to throw a few average passes. I just think that once you trickle a kick or two in behind with players flying through it puts the defence in two minds as what they need to do, which in turn creates more space in our sweep plays.

 

[fishermanaxe]

Actually I was watching the combination of Townsend and Maloney and was quite pleased by how it seemed to feed the backline early...with Benny chiming in and throwing cutout passes to his winger on the left.

Thought the right side wasn't as fluent - but Bird set up Holmes for that first half try and they nearly pulled off another when Holmes grubber kicked ahead in the second half.

It's so nice this year to finally see the Sharks play attacking football with their backline - instead of that predictable grind of one-up forward attack of recent years...

I watched the press conference and was a bit concerned when I heard Gal say he thought they lost direction in the last 9 minutes and went out the back line too early when they should have just hit it up then centre.

We were getting smashed trying to return the ball up the guts from deep in our own territory ( with Fifita shagged and the others providing little go forward) so I reckon we had little choice but to go wide early to try and spread their defence.

Damn glad we've got Maloney in there overriding Gal and taking charge and Barba screaming for the ball. Especially when the game is on the line and you have to take a few chances.

 

[Milkshark]

The 2 majors problems we had in last nights game:

1. No line speed. We hung back all night and gifted them easy metres
2. We used our forwards too much. The few times we used our backline we scored.

 

[Greg86]

Any body watch the Bulldogs presser, sounds like Hasler breaths through a snorkel.

 

[Milkshark]

Any body watch the Bulldogs presser, sounds like Hasler breaths through a snorkel.

Haha yeah.

I also found his comment about the lob sided penalties in the 2nd half laughable.

 

[Proud Shark]

Any body watch the Bulldogs presser, sounds like Hasler breaths through a snorkel.

He's painful to listen to. Every second word was um or ahh

 

[D.D]

Like it or not, this was a perfect game scenario for our boys.
COme the biggest of the big games when your down by a try with a big tiring defense in your way, you need to find it within yourself to keep finding that way through. This will be a great game for players to learn from.

 

[Bundy Shark]

He's painful to listen to. Every second word was um or ahh

& he is a former school teacher, wonder if it was in grammar.....................

 

[Napolean]

I was feeling pretty miserable when Wade dropped that ball about 40 out from our line with 5 to go. But their was a strange feeling I had that we'd snatch it-goes with the confidence of winning so many close ones I guess!

Bulldogs played extremely well. Credit to them, they absolutely dominated us in the forwards.

Bird was excellent, so was Barba in the second half-he was obviously dirty at his own first half performance.

Great win-UP UP

 

[Bundy Shark]

The 2 majors problems we had in last nights game:

1. No line speed. We hung back all night and gifted them easy metres
2. We used our forwards too much. The few times we used our backline we scored.

I also think energy/motivation, especially in the first half, look no further than the Josh Reynolds try, firstly our kick chase, secondly, look how we reacted or how quick most of the team got back once Barba ran down Hoppa.

 

[Born&bred]

I also think energy/motivation, especially in the first half, look no further than the Josh Reynolds try, firstly our kick chase, secondly, look how we reacted or how quick most of the team got back once Barba ran down Hoppa.

It was a dumb kick choice by Townsend also

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

It was a dumb kick choice by Townsend also

Fifita was holding the door open for Hoppa though. ran straight by him

 

[Proud Shark]

Fifita was holding the door open for Hoppa though. ran straight by him

Yeah through fifita and boogs wasnt it? Everything about that section of play was woeful.

 

[vicsharkfan]

The kicking early in the game was so siiht it became some what humerus. Towsend waving his hands in the air trying to get a penalty for obstruction or a push off the ball was plain embarrassing.

 

[Proud Shark]

The kicking early in the game was so siiht it became some what humerus. Towsend waving his hands in the air trying to get a penalty for obstruction or a push off the ball was plain embarrassing.

To me it looked like he was complaining that no one else was chasing the kick. Which allowed the gap that hoppa ran through.

 

[Born&bred]

The point is those early bombs were clearly not the right choice - kick for touch, kick it to the ****ing moon or whatever, but they were ****house choices

 

[CrazyMatt]

Any body watch the Bulldogs presser, sounds like Hasler breaths through a snorkel.

And Graham looking like the worlds unhappiest man sitting next to him. Looked like he was about to drop Des.

 

[Long Suffering Sharkie]

I don't think Chad could be blamed for that moment - he put the kick up, he did the chase, and he sprinted all the way back to our 10 metre mark to get back into the defence line after Benny ran down Hoppa.

He put in the hard yards - Everyone else bar Benny was missing in action.

Very poor chase of the initial kick - and the rest of the team should hang their heads in shame.

Hopefully they all learn from that howler....

 

[evertonshark]

Was smart to run that play for barbas try, klemmer was clearly gassed and left that massive gap for benny to run through. No idea why des played him for 65 minutes straight and after an origin game as well.