NRL Round 3: Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs. Parramatta Eels, Saturday 27 March 7:35pm @ Bankwest Stadium

[Proud Shark]

Bit worried about Katoa though
Hopefully all three HIAs pass and we might be Tracey at centre and Hiroti or Nene on wing :/

Katoa looked cooked. 3 was just the HIA's. At least that is a team that can beat NQL.

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

No one is saying that mate, he is not the greatest halfback I will grant you that but he doesn’t deserve criticism in this game tonight.

His fascination with kicking early in the count needs to be cut out.

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

Cant really bag the boys for the scoreiime tonight.

To play the second half with no bench was always going to be a hiding. We were always gunna start letting some tries in beyond the 60 minute mark.

I felt like the attack while disrupted due to the injuries was just uninspiring. I feel like our halfback isnt much of a leader out there and rarely takes the bull by the horns.

Had moses not gotted hia’d i reckon they crack 40 easy.

Onto next week but the injuries are gunna keep coming i think

 

[sharkboy18]

Sorry but everyone who is critisising & bagging the boys tonight shouldn't be doing that, that was an heroic effort with our injury toll for over 50 minutes. THat scoreline in the end doesn't reflect on our efforts tonight, they only scored 3 in the last 10 because you could see how down & puffed they were. If we had a full 17 that would have been a different game I feel. Any Parra players or fans laughing at us should be ashamed. I am so proud of their efforts tonight & should hold their heads high.

Scotty Morrison our PM shouldn't be going in Parras dressing room after the game when he is a Cronulla fan, I didn't see pictures of him going in our room but he goes in their room having a laugh with them & congratulating them.

 

[CHOGM]

He’s a populist mate. What do you expect from Scotty from marketing.

 

[CHOGM]

My goodness there are some diabolical comments tonight. We all seem to be fixated on certain players performances rather than give some praise for how great our defensive effort was tonight. If anyone played dumb tonight it was Parra. With only Moses down and no bench for us they should have put 30-40 on us in the second half.

Defending for that amount of time with no rest takes it out of you and it was natural that we were gassed and couldn’t get our attack right.

Despite what some of you idiots are saying EVERY BLOKE IN BLACK WHITE AND BLUE TRIED THEIR GUTS OUT TONIGHT.

If you couldn’t see that you need to go and follow a different sport.

Deadset some of the comments on here belong on Facebook, they are so childish, thoughtless and just plain idiotic.

Like to see some of you guys try and play the game under that much adversity tonight.

Damn straight! And that attitude actually wins a lot of footy games.

 

[sharkboy18]

He’s a populist mate. What do you expect from Scotty from marketing.

Haha makes sense, never thought of it like that. He's a bit stupid sometimes aswell.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Chad tried his guts out sure ..... but he was a huge reason we were constantly under pressures. He is paid paid what 700k per year?

700k?

 

[Deleted member 3365]

People are getting confused between effort and skill here. Effort was there, no reason to doubt, but certain players have shown they aren't up to the responsibility or pressure because of their lack of skill.

We can sing praise of effort but it is useless if we don't win games. This game was extremely tough no doubt, but we lacked the skills in our halves to manage the game, simple.

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

Cant really bag the boys for the scoreiime tonight.

To play the second half with no bench was always going to be a hiding. We were always gunna start letting some tries in beyond the 60 minute mark.

I felt like the attack while disrupted due to the injuries was just uninspiring. I feel like our halfback isnt much of a leader out there and rarely takes the bull by the horns.

Had moses not gotted hia’d i reckon they crack 40 easy.

Onto next week but the injuries are gunna keep coming i think

**** you can tell I’d had a few.

My english is the equivalent of Chads kicking game

 

[Greg86]

**** you can tell I’d had a few.

My english is the equivalent of Chads kicking game

It makes perfect sense to the ones that are on the same level at the time.

 

[egg]

Still make sense to me now BWB .
TRUE all of the below
Can't bag the boys.
No Bench 2nd half should tank after 60 mins.
Attack disjointed with everyone playing out of position due to injuries .
Halfback that wasnt a leader and can't take the Bull by the horns . ( quite measured).
What's wrong with any of that?
Keep drinking and writing , you go good

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

My gripe with that was it was an opportunity to just step up and own a game which he did not come close to doing.

When we were at 16-4 i thought **** if we can get this to 16-10 id consider it a victory amongst the team. We were always gunna let a few late tries in due to fatigue and that was shown by the late line breaks we allowed. But i thought with the ball we were offering absolutely nothing. Fatigued or not

 

[Sparkles]

700k?

It's weird how his value goes up the worse people think he plays

 

[egg]

It's weird how his value goes up the worse people think he plays

Could be on a million before the end of the year
Only got 27 points in Supercoach , surely that can't be right

 

[slide rule]

A lot of delusion here as to how you could actually manage that situation.

Sure, a few kicks could have been better placed. And I would have preferred they didn’t kick on the third.

But, it is what it is. Everyone has to do a bit extra and fatigue sets in. Especially when you’re playing against equal athletes that get to have a rest.

It’s almost just physics that you’ll lose. You can’t match energy. And energy runs into decision making. You win that game maybe once out of 200. And probably by a few flukes.

 

[BlackWhiteBlue]

A lot of delusion here as to how you could actually manage that situation.

Sure, a few kicks could have been better placed. And I would have preferred they didn’t kick on the third.

But, it is what it is. Everyone has to do a bit extra and fatigue sets in. Especially when you’re playing against equal athletes that get to have a rest.

It’s almost just physics that you’ll lose. You can’t match energy. And energy runs into decision making. You win that game maybe once out of 200. And probably by a few flukes.

With no bench. None of us would have expected a win but Why ****in kick it early and put ourselves back in defence, where you use the most energy......

 

[Western Sharkie]

Boys were gallant in defeat but the loss last week hurts even more now.

 

[slide rule]

With no bench. None of us would have expected a win but Why ****in kick it early and put ourselves back in defence, where you use the most energy......

Field position and dropping the opposition wingers back, I’d say. It’s not like it was done every time.

I’m not a huge fan of it either. But there were sets where we were being pinned in our own 20 and getting hammered.

 

[slide rule]

Boys were gallant in defeat but the loss last week hurts even more now.

Two tough games back to back. Character building.

Hopefully we can get enough wins to put us in the eight though.