CrazyMatt
Jaws
Yeah Gold Coast have given us issues over the years, especially at Shark Park for some reason. Just one of those teams that are willing to get into the grind along with us.
NRL Round 7 2017 Cronulla Sutherland Sharks vs Penrith Panthers: Sun 16 Apr 2017, 4:00pm, Pepper Stadium
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vicsharkfan
Jaws
Thought goldy were real good this round, considering their long list of casualties they always offer up nuisance value to us.. I have a feeling our attack and defence will both be on song together this week...
sharks2010
Dribbler
we love to drag a team down and fight over a bone
CrazyMatt
Jaws
Western Sharkie
Jaws
This.
If it hit Peachey, it must of been a feather brush, cos I couldn't see it.
Maybe I need to get my eyes checked or Sutton has Supermans vision to see that (or just guessed).
Probably called it because it didn't look pretty. I've noticed the same thing with play the balls. Players are getting away with running the ball under their foot without making contact whereas if there's an ugly play the ball, even where correct contact has been made with the foot, they're getting pinged.
Sir Chadley
Jaws
You can bet your bottom dollar he guessed. They do it with strips too.
northofthebordershark
Grey Nurse
There was no real objection from Capewell, usually an indication that they probably got the call right.
Tiger Shark
Jaws
Watched the replay yesterday and it hits Peach imo. Right call
Western Sharkie
Jaws
All good when you see a replay over again or at slow motion.
I still think at normal pace it's a guess at best from the ref and it looked OK and play on.
Maybe I have my Sharks goggles on but still looked like he regathers to me.
He got the call right. Saying that he should have just let it go anyway prove its your sharks goggles.
snowman
Total gronk
Whinge when he gets it wrong, whinge when he gets it right. At least you are consistent
Gards
Jaws
We can win 40 blot and apparently it's still a grinding slogfest where we reduced the 'superior' opposition down to mud with niggle and spoiling tactics
Cowboys get same win and it's an endless wankfest about a razzle dazzle spectacle of football
We are better than the other teams, that's why we are beating them. Sunday was one of the few occasions I recall of the commentators actually giving us a wrap as a well trained, clinical, quality football team. Not just some mugs that other teams don't like playing against
No Gus on the mic
Gards
Jaws
nah gus wraps us, even if it's occasionally disingenuous
Andrew Webber is a fwit:
Surely the Sharks have more to prove than Phil Gould is wrong
Half an hour after Cronulla's stirring win over Penrith on Sunday night, the media gathered in an unused dressing room where they hold post-match media conferences at Pepper Stadium.
The room reeked of vomit, although nobody could quite locate the source of the smell.
Maybe it had been the Panthers mascot. It'd been a tough day at the office, especially when your office is inside a furry suit on a hot Easter Sunday and your team is getting hammered by the Sharks.
Across the tunnel, Cronulla's dressing room exploded to life as the team belted out Up! Up! Cronulla!, a victory song that's being sung with greater regularity than many had expected this season.
When the song was over, there was a small addition and a rousing cheer but none of the press standing a few metres away could make out what was said.
They didn't need to hear. After the Sharks media conference, captain Paul Gallen made a point of letting some reporters know it had been a shot at Penrith general manager Phil Gould.
"Three cheers for Gus!" the players had cheered. Cop that, Gus.
Soon after, coach Shane Flanagan got in on the act, telling the two reporters who had ventured into the sheds he was "filthy" about Gould's comments at the start of the year that the Sharks had won a "soft competition" in 2016.
"You could find 100 takes from Gus during the year about how tough this competition is," Flanagan fumed. "When the Panthers were playing the Bulldogs at the SFS he was saying 'what a great competition' and 'it's the hardest competition in the world'. All of a sudden the Panthers get rissoled and it's the weakest comp in the world. I thought it was poor form …"
Then this little body shot when asked if he saw Gould at the match on Sunday, "No, at half-time he would have been at Kogarah".
God I love this game. The insecurity. The pettiness. The hate.
Apart from bull-riding and a spirited game of korfball, rugby league is the toughest sport on the planet.
Players relentlessly bash each other, playing on with busted knees and ankles and bones protruding from a finger or two and they never think twice about the consequences.
Then, after the game, they'll pull their phones out of their kit bags, fire up Twitter and get bent out of shape because some anonymous slob in his undies who hasn't got off the lounge since 1986 has posted something disparaging.
This bubbling animosity between Gould and the Sharks goes to the next level.
Gould has essentially written and said a few times over the years that he thinks Gallen is a selfish player.
He doesn't like how he hogs the ball on the field. He also doesn't like how Gallen kept publicly declaring when and where he will end his Origin career with NSW.
That's the thing with Gallen: he's unfiltered.
In the past few weeks, he's said a few times it would be difficult to retire because "Flanno says I've been the best player on the field for us".
Fans roll their eyes at the narcissism. Reporters lap it up because it's better than a "Yeah, nah, I don't know what I'm doing so for now I'll just keep playing and then sit down with my family and manager and then see if I can get a start on The Matty Johns Show".
As a two-time premiership-winning coach, and the most successful NSW coach in Origin history, Gould can say whatever he wants.
Like many people in rugby league, he straddles a tricky divide between media commentator and club boss.
On Sunday, there was a mix-up with the Nine commentary rosters. He turned up wearing his Panthers polo shirt instead of a suit, unaware he was supposed to be covering the match. In the end, he couldn't go on.
But he's paid to have an opinion like so many of us and on that score he's never held back.
Like much of rugby league's messy news cycle, though, his initial comments about Cronulla's so-called "soft" premiership were actually quite calm.
"The 2016 competition ended up being a fairly soft competition," Gould said on his Channel Nine podcast. "There were a lot of teams that have been at the top of your list there for a number of years – the Roosters and Bulldogs, and South Sydney and Manly – these clubs fell by the wayside very early.
"You could even tell from the middle of the season that the two clubs that were so great at the start of the year, Brisbane and the Cowboys, weren't going to be able to keep it going until the end.
"The Sharks to me were the experienced team, the hard-nosed team that were last man standing.
"And we saw the emergence over the back half of the competition of the Raiders, the Panthers, the Titans who early in the year weren't predicted to be finalists."
"I just get the feeling that the 2016 competition was a little bit soft at the back-end, and that's where the Sharks came through to win the premiership. It will be a big test for them to back that up this year."
So, Gould said it was "a little soft" (which is a long way off Flanagan's "weakest comp in the world" claim) at the "back-end" of the season.
Gould hardly sprayed the Sharks. He didn't say they were lucky to win the premiership; that they didn't deserve it and they should hand it back; that they themselves were "soft".
If anything, he was making a very clear point about how tough Cronulla have become and you could see that again on Sunday afternoon against Penrith. It was men up against boys.
Whenever Penrith weren't coughing up the ball, or giving away penalty after penalty on the first tackle of the set, they were getting bent backwards by a Sharks defensive line that doesn't let the attack breathe for a second.
Flanagan has a serious footy side on his hands. They lost fullback Ben Barba and hooker Michael Ennis at the end of last year. They've won four in a row, including Melbourne and Penrith.
Coaches can motivate their sides whichever way they want but surely the Sharks have greater motivation this year than proving Gould wrong.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rug...than-phil-gould-is-wrong-20170417-gvm56n.html
Surely the Sharks have more to prove than Phil Gould is wrong
Half an hour after Cronulla's stirring win over Penrith on Sunday night, the media gathered in an unused dressing room where they hold post-match media conferences at Pepper Stadium.
The room reeked of vomit, although nobody could quite locate the source of the smell.
Maybe it had been the Panthers mascot. It'd been a tough day at the office, especially when your office is inside a furry suit on a hot Easter Sunday and your team is getting hammered by the Sharks.
Across the tunnel, Cronulla's dressing room exploded to life as the team belted out Up! Up! Cronulla!, a victory song that's being sung with greater regularity than many had expected this season.
When the song was over, there was a small addition and a rousing cheer but none of the press standing a few metres away could make out what was said.
They didn't need to hear. After the Sharks media conference, captain Paul Gallen made a point of letting some reporters know it had been a shot at Penrith general manager Phil Gould.
"Three cheers for Gus!" the players had cheered. Cop that, Gus.
Soon after, coach Shane Flanagan got in on the act, telling the two reporters who had ventured into the sheds he was "filthy" about Gould's comments at the start of the year that the Sharks had won a "soft competition" in 2016.
"You could find 100 takes from Gus during the year about how tough this competition is," Flanagan fumed. "When the Panthers were playing the Bulldogs at the SFS he was saying 'what a great competition' and 'it's the hardest competition in the world'. All of a sudden the Panthers get rissoled and it's the weakest comp in the world. I thought it was poor form …"
Then this little body shot when asked if he saw Gould at the match on Sunday, "No, at half-time he would have been at Kogarah".
God I love this game. The insecurity. The pettiness. The hate.
Apart from bull-riding and a spirited game of korfball, rugby league is the toughest sport on the planet.
Players relentlessly bash each other, playing on with busted knees and ankles and bones protruding from a finger or two and they never think twice about the consequences.
Then, after the game, they'll pull their phones out of their kit bags, fire up Twitter and get bent out of shape because some anonymous slob in his undies who hasn't got off the lounge since 1986 has posted something disparaging.
This bubbling animosity between Gould and the Sharks goes to the next level.
Gould has essentially written and said a few times over the years that he thinks Gallen is a selfish player.
He doesn't like how he hogs the ball on the field. He also doesn't like how Gallen kept publicly declaring when and where he will end his Origin career with NSW.
That's the thing with Gallen: he's unfiltered.
In the past few weeks, he's said a few times it would be difficult to retire because "Flanno says I've been the best player on the field for us".
Fans roll their eyes at the narcissism. Reporters lap it up because it's better than a "Yeah, nah, I don't know what I'm doing so for now I'll just keep playing and then sit down with my family and manager and then see if I can get a start on The Matty Johns Show".
As a two-time premiership-winning coach, and the most successful NSW coach in Origin history, Gould can say whatever he wants.
Like many people in rugby league, he straddles a tricky divide between media commentator and club boss.
On Sunday, there was a mix-up with the Nine commentary rosters. He turned up wearing his Panthers polo shirt instead of a suit, unaware he was supposed to be covering the match. In the end, he couldn't go on.
But he's paid to have an opinion like so many of us and on that score he's never held back.
Like much of rugby league's messy news cycle, though, his initial comments about Cronulla's so-called "soft" premiership were actually quite calm.
"The 2016 competition ended up being a fairly soft competition," Gould said on his Channel Nine podcast. "There were a lot of teams that have been at the top of your list there for a number of years – the Roosters and Bulldogs, and South Sydney and Manly – these clubs fell by the wayside very early.
"You could even tell from the middle of the season that the two clubs that were so great at the start of the year, Brisbane and the Cowboys, weren't going to be able to keep it going until the end.
"The Sharks to me were the experienced team, the hard-nosed team that were last man standing.
"And we saw the emergence over the back half of the competition of the Raiders, the Panthers, the Titans who early in the year weren't predicted to be finalists."
"I just get the feeling that the 2016 competition was a little bit soft at the back-end, and that's where the Sharks came through to win the premiership. It will be a big test for them to back that up this year."
So, Gould said it was "a little soft" (which is a long way off Flanagan's "weakest comp in the world" claim) at the "back-end" of the season.
Gould hardly sprayed the Sharks. He didn't say they were lucky to win the premiership; that they didn't deserve it and they should hand it back; that they themselves were "soft".
If anything, he was making a very clear point about how tough Cronulla have become and you could see that again on Sunday afternoon against Penrith. It was men up against boys.
Whenever Penrith weren't coughing up the ball, or giving away penalty after penalty on the first tackle of the set, they were getting bent backwards by a Sharks defensive line that doesn't let the attack breathe for a second.
Flanagan has a serious footy side on his hands. They lost fullback Ben Barba and hooker Michael Ennis at the end of last year. They've won four in a row, including Melbourne and Penrith.
Coaches can motivate their sides whichever way they want but surely the Sharks have greater motivation this year than proving Gould wrong.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rug...than-phil-gould-is-wrong-20170417-gvm56n.html
Here's their answer to the players' wives seating issue:
Penrith Panthers apologise to Cronulla Sharks for ticketing mistake
The Penrith Panthers insist they didn't mean any disrespect to Cronulla after sending the club the wrong allocation of tickets for the Easter Sunday clash at Pepper Stadium.
Sharks captain Paul Gallen took aim at the Panthers following his side's 28-2 win on Sunday, criticising Penrith for providing the families of the players with general admission tickets on the hill rather than the usual grandstand allocation.
t came after Sharks coach Shane Flanagan fired a shot at Panthers general manager Phil Gould for comments he made earlier in the year suggesting Cronulla had won a "soft premiership".
However, Panthers chief executive Brian Fletcher insists the tension between the two clubs had nothing to do with the ticket allocation, apologising to the Sharks for what has been deemed a clerical error.
"This had nothing to do with that," Fletcher said of the tension between the two clubs.
"We're not into that. You'd be drawing long straws considering those things. That won't happen here while I'm running the show. We're here to do the right thing. That was just a mishap that happened. I'll just touch base with Lyall [Sharks boss Lyall Gorman] and apologise."
The Panthers sent the tickets to Cronulla a month ago, allocating almost double the usual number of tickets provided to opposition teams.
However, the club sent the wrong bunch of tickets to the club, unaware they had provided the Sharks with general admission tickets instead of grandstand seating.
The Sharks only opened the envelope a few days out from the Easter Sunday match and when they raised their concerns with the Panthers, the club had exhausted its grandstand allocation.
"We sent the wrong envelope out and they didn't open it until three days prior to the game to give to their wives and family," Fletcher said.
"When they did open them they realised they are just general admission tickets. When they rang up we had sold all our grandstand tickets. Nobody does this stuff on purpose. We respect them. I'll ring up on Tuesday and apologise.
"We didn't set out to do this intentionally. It's just a pity – there aren't many games you have all the seats sold under the grandstand. It's a good thing to happen as a club, but obviously we apologise for our mistake. It was nothing sinister. We wouldn't do that. We look after other clubs better than anybody."
It was an Easter Sunday to forget for the Panthers, ambushed both on the field during the match and off the field after it.
Skipper Matt Moylan, who returned from a club-imposed one-game suspension for breaking the team protocols, has maintained he still wants the captaincy despite strong suggestions he wanted to rid himself of the burden.
"Nothing's changed. It's a role that is new to me and growing into and learning on the run," Moylan said.
"It's something I'll have to keep learning and growing as a leader. We've got guys like [Peter] Wallace, [Trent] Merrin and Jimmy Tamou that are out there leading. Even Nathan [Cleary] leading the side around at such a young age.We have plenty of players that show leadership, but we just haven't been getting the results so all that stuff starts to get asked.
"You'll find Wall says a bit, Mez says a bit and I'll say a bit. It's not just one of us out there leading, there are a few of us. I don't think I've ever been the biggest talker. Then you have guys with Wall and Mez's experience, it's only going to benefit the side with them throwing their advice as well with me throwing a bit in as well."
Moylan said he addressed the playing group last week an apologised for letting them down after leaving the team hotel despite instructions from coach Anthony Griffin to stay in.
"I apologised to them the first session back we were in," Moylan said.
"We had a good chat about it then. They would have been disappointed that I went out. I have to repay them now."
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rug...ks-for-ticketing-mistake-20170417-gvm51y.html
Penrith Panthers apologise to Cronulla Sharks for ticketing mistake
The Penrith Panthers insist they didn't mean any disrespect to Cronulla after sending the club the wrong allocation of tickets for the Easter Sunday clash at Pepper Stadium.
Sharks captain Paul Gallen took aim at the Panthers following his side's 28-2 win on Sunday, criticising Penrith for providing the families of the players with general admission tickets on the hill rather than the usual grandstand allocation.
t came after Sharks coach Shane Flanagan fired a shot at Panthers general manager Phil Gould for comments he made earlier in the year suggesting Cronulla had won a "soft premiership".
However, Panthers chief executive Brian Fletcher insists the tension between the two clubs had nothing to do with the ticket allocation, apologising to the Sharks for what has been deemed a clerical error.
"This had nothing to do with that," Fletcher said of the tension between the two clubs.
"We're not into that. You'd be drawing long straws considering those things. That won't happen here while I'm running the show. We're here to do the right thing. That was just a mishap that happened. I'll just touch base with Lyall [Sharks boss Lyall Gorman] and apologise."
The Panthers sent the tickets to Cronulla a month ago, allocating almost double the usual number of tickets provided to opposition teams.
However, the club sent the wrong bunch of tickets to the club, unaware they had provided the Sharks with general admission tickets instead of grandstand seating.
The Sharks only opened the envelope a few days out from the Easter Sunday match and when they raised their concerns with the Panthers, the club had exhausted its grandstand allocation.
"We sent the wrong envelope out and they didn't open it until three days prior to the game to give to their wives and family," Fletcher said.
"When they did open them they realised they are just general admission tickets. When they rang up we had sold all our grandstand tickets. Nobody does this stuff on purpose. We respect them. I'll ring up on Tuesday and apologise.
"We didn't set out to do this intentionally. It's just a pity – there aren't many games you have all the seats sold under the grandstand. It's a good thing to happen as a club, but obviously we apologise for our mistake. It was nothing sinister. We wouldn't do that. We look after other clubs better than anybody."
It was an Easter Sunday to forget for the Panthers, ambushed both on the field during the match and off the field after it.
Skipper Matt Moylan, who returned from a club-imposed one-game suspension for breaking the team protocols, has maintained he still wants the captaincy despite strong suggestions he wanted to rid himself of the burden.
"Nothing's changed. It's a role that is new to me and growing into and learning on the run," Moylan said.
"It's something I'll have to keep learning and growing as a leader. We've got guys like [Peter] Wallace, [Trent] Merrin and Jimmy Tamou that are out there leading. Even Nathan [Cleary] leading the side around at such a young age.We have plenty of players that show leadership, but we just haven't been getting the results so all that stuff starts to get asked.
"You'll find Wall says a bit, Mez says a bit and I'll say a bit. It's not just one of us out there leading, there are a few of us. I don't think I've ever been the biggest talker. Then you have guys with Wall and Mez's experience, it's only going to benefit the side with them throwing their advice as well with me throwing a bit in as well."
Moylan said he addressed the playing group last week an apologised for letting them down after leaving the team hotel despite instructions from coach Anthony Griffin to stay in.
"I apologised to them the first session back we were in," Moylan said.
"We had a good chat about it then. They would have been disappointed that I went out. I have to repay them now."
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rug...ks-for-ticketing-mistake-20170417-gvm51y.html
evertonshark
Jaws
Gould can say whatever he wants. Flanno can also say whatever he wants. Webster whinges about a cliche so surely should find it refreshing to get something other than that for once.
slide rule
Jaws
So this week they can use Andrew Webster as motivation.