NRL Round 2 2017, Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs Canberra Raiders @ GIO Stadium Saturday 11/3 7:30pm

endevour shark

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Wow. Great performance in the end. It is amazing to watch a small team smother a team of forwards that are absolute giants whilst they should be rampaging, and then run over the top of them when they start getting tired. By the second half Canberra had absolutely no idea what to do in attack in the face of our defence, they were clueless. I'm very impressed defensively

Nice second half from Bird, great game from Wade, and a terrific team performance overall. Despite scoring the mountain of points in the second half though, I think it flattered our attack. The defence reduced them to rubble, it wasn't that the attack was that great. Still, you can only play what is in front of you, and the Raiders got smashed.
I thought they really bashed us in the first half , we played smarter in the second half all our subs had great games Latimore did not let us down Hieghno and Baku
went well as did the whole team.

Our little general Jimmy really orchestrated the whole thing very well.

Congrats Sharkies.... a Great win
 

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Wow. Great performance in the end. It is amazing to watch a small team smother a team of forwards that are absolute giants whilst they should be rampaging, and then run over the top of them when they start getting tired. By the second half Canberra had absolutely no idea what to do in attack in the face of our defence, they were clueless. I'm very impressed defensively

Nice second half from Bird, great game from Wade, and a terrific team performance overall. Despite scoring the mountain of points in the second half though, I think it flattered our attack. The defence reduced them to rubble, it wasn't that the attack was that great. Still, you can only play what is in front of you, and the Raiders got smashed.
I thought they really bashed us in the first half , we played smarter in the second half all our subs had great games Latimore did not let us down Hieghno and Baku
went well as did the whole team.

Our little general Jimmy really orchestrated the whole thing very well.

Congrats Sharkies.... a Great win
You reckon. The way I see it is this: if you run out a forward pack the size of Canberra's, then during that first 30 minutes you need to have bashed the opposition into submission and accumulated a big lead. They bashed us, got no lead to show for it, and our blokes were able to go from strength to strength in the second half. It wasn't nearly good enough from Canberra and I reckon the side are actually too big. Frankly, the two tries Canberra did score in the first half were a bit soft, which is unsurprising considering how much work was done holding their monsters up the middle.

It was a forward display that carried over last year. Great game from most of our players for so early in the season though.
 
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