NRL Round 7, 2016: Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs Canberra Raiders, Sunday 17th April 2.00pm @ Gio Stadium
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The Robbo Effect
Yeah he was on for about 15
vicsharkfan
Jaws
Happy to be winning and still not firing on all cylinders yet, winning without your A game in April is a good sign. Interesting selection issues coming up soon with lewy back, can't see dfifs getting a call up yet, the player causing me most stress is wadeo back to basics run straight and hard, hit n stick, his creative juices of his 5/8th days are starting to want to show themselves, surpress theses desires please.
Spanner shark
Bull Shark
All in all a great day for the sharkies, solid win. There performance rubbed of on me, blood pressure didn't rise , beer was enjoyed ( not used as a sedative) and the dragon looked beautiful. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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What a day, even got out of the car park with no delays and no traffic for the drive home.
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Managed to catch the game live on the NRL Pass Telstra are supplying for free with their mobile plans... Way to go Telstra!
The game was a perfect storm. Our forwards rolled on, over and through Canberra. The play the ball speed was phenomenon, metres excellent and enthusiasm abundant.
Off the back of that momentum our backs ran riot. With options absolutely everywhere, Canberra just couldn't shut them all down. Barba, Ennis, Maloney, Townsend, Bird, Fifita... Prior! There was blood in the water with every touch in the Raiders' red zone, and with a few in ours!
Defensively it was the best of yesterdays Sharks. Somehow we've managed to open the backs up while keeping that steel from the 'grind em out' mentality. What a cracker of a combination!
Sitting second on the table you'd have to say it's a pretty fair representation of how the Sharkies compare to the rest of the comp. Perhaps still not up to the dicipline or individual brilliance of the Broncos, but arguably the most complete Sharks side we've seen since the 90's.
If we can stay injury free, forgot the power bill and keep that porch light on people...
The game was a perfect storm. Our forwards rolled on, over and through Canberra. The play the ball speed was phenomenon, metres excellent and enthusiasm abundant.
Off the back of that momentum our backs ran riot. With options absolutely everywhere, Canberra just couldn't shut them all down. Barba, Ennis, Maloney, Townsend, Bird, Fifita... Prior! There was blood in the water with every touch in the Raiders' red zone, and with a few in ours!
Defensively it was the best of yesterdays Sharks. Somehow we've managed to open the backs up while keeping that steel from the 'grind em out' mentality. What a cracker of a combination!
Sitting second on the table you'd have to say it's a pretty fair representation of how the Sharkies compare to the rest of the comp. Perhaps still not up to the dicipline or individual brilliance of the Broncos, but arguably the most complete Sharks side we've seen since the 90's.
If we can stay injury free, forgot the power bill and keep that porch light on people...
HaroldBishop
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Scary thing for me is out attack is still a bit clunky at times yet we're the third best attacking team in the comp! I still think there's plenty room for improvemet. Case in point was Val's try in the corner where we had a huge overlap. We passed it through the hands, flat footed, like you see from an under 12's side. I think we would have stuffed up what should have been an easy try if that was against Brisbane or Parra.
Very encouraging all in all though.
Very encouraging all in all though.
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
Third.
goodbyepenrithhellosharks
Great White
clunky is definitely the in word atm lol but I have to agree with what your saying.....in years gone by we would have butchered that try
deano the p
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Maloney making the most metres of any player yesterday, make him a prop 
I thought he was going to get run down for a second on that last long run.
I thought he was going to get run down for a second on that last long run.
goodbyepenrithhellosharks
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he had nothing left to kick that conversion and it was nice to be able to actually laugh about it being so far ahead in points for a changeMaloney making the most metres of any player yesterday, make him a prop
I thought he was going to get run down for a second on that last long run.
slide rule
Jaws
Not a big deal but I thought they'd give the kick to someone else.
HaroldBishop
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Val should have taken it which was what I thought at the time as well. Maloney was 100/1 to kick it.
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I really cant stand that Jordan Rapana. That head of his just pisses me off
sharks2010
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One thing I liked about yesterday was besides one set, our set after scoring a try was good. We charged up the field and kicked to the corner and made the raiders work it out from deep in their half. It's so important to make sure that the first set after scoring points is a good one and I thought we did it well yesterday
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It looked like Val was going to take the kick for a while there too, I can't believe he didn't.