Round 13 2014: Cronulla Sharks v St George Illawara Dragons Saturday 7th June 7:30pm @ WIN Stadium

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The tripe that we have been dishing up in our football games for 2014 would not have been tolerated by virtually all the other clubs in the competition.

In another club somebody, somewhere would have been sacked or demoted. There would have been accountability for poor form/delivery of service

Here we accept mediocrity. In fact as a player you only get promoted to top grade if someone else is injured. Tony Herman should have been made coach at the start of the year and if that had had been the case we would have had a few more wins under our belt.

We have lost those who would bleed for the club...(including Damien Irvine) and recruited washed up has-beens looking for their last ride on the gravy train.

I cannot believe our management pay our players hundreds of thousands of dollars to deliver such poor quality football to the fans.

.....and now I can see the discontent being expressed by even the most die-hard fans - and our fan base is starting to thin out as a result.

Unless something changes we are on a one way track to financial suicide.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result" Albert Einstein
 

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He made some good runs on their line in attack.

Noticed him allowing the ball to roll a bit much before picking it up. Got caught in goal as a result

You might be being a bit harsh on him on that one BWB. Old mate rookie hooker faked to spread the ball right (possibly on the fourth) which led Gards to come up and across which is what he should have done, before kicking back across his body and chasing it hard. Gards got there as quick as he could but IMO the only option he had to get the ball back was to hope it went dead.

All in all Gards was excellent last night. He was sharp when we spread it and he kicked onto the outside of his man a couple of times and opened up space for Gordon...who dropped it when he was about to breath free air. Gards showed more heart than anyone else wearing our colours last night.
 

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Sorry I didn't answer your & 2010's calls last night. I got the ****s with ref calls in the first 20 mins of the game, had a massive tooth ache as well, so I necked a tiny amount of bourbon & went to bed. Didn't even hear the phone ring...
 

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Agree, thought Gards addeda second dimension to our attack last night

Could you imagine how he would go if he had some decent centre's to throw the ball to and maybe, just maybe, a proper ****ing decoy runner or two. He has the same slippery pace as Tomkins (not in his class of course) who has been making some great plays in that Warriors backline. Gards created some chances last night but god it must be depressing when you beat your man and look up and see Ayshford.
 

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Sorry I didn't answer your & 2010's calls last night. I got the ****s with ref calls in the first 20 mins of the game, had a massive tooth ache as well, so I necked a tiny amount of bourbon & went to bed. Didn't even hear the phone ring...
you made the right choice you wouldn't of been able to understand us lol
 
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You might be being a bit harsh on him on that one BWB. Old mate rookie hooker faked to spread the ball right (possibly on the fourth) which led Gards to come up and across which is what he should have done, before kicking back across his body and chasing it hard. Gards got there as quick as he could but IMO the only option he had to get the ball back was to hope it went dead.

All in all Gards was excellent last night. He was sharp when we spread it and he kicked onto the outside of his man a couple of times and opened up space for Gordon...who dropped it when he was about to breath free air. Gards showed more heart than anyone else wearing our colours last night.

He got held in goal 4 times. 2 of which i think he shoulda made a play at the ball earlier than he did. The first one he just got smashed. Maybe shoulda jumped and got the penalty
 

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Could you imagine how he would go if he had some decent centre's to throw the ball to and maybe, just maybe, a proper ****ing decoy runner or two. He has the same slippery pace as Tomkins (not in his class of course) who has been making some great plays in that Warriors backline. Gards created some chances last night but god it must be depressing when you beat your man and look up and see Ayshford.

We run so sideways, no one squares the run up, generally because our decoys are ****

Gards looked confident in attack, which must have frustrated the **** out of him

He/we need that gun centre
 

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Could you imagine how he would go if he had some decent centre's to throw the ball to and maybe, just maybe, a proper ****ing decoy runner or two. He has the same slippery pace as Tomkins (not in his class of course) who has been making some great plays in that Warriors backline. Gards created some chances last night but god it must be depressing when you beat your man and look up and see Ayshford.

Yep - might as well curse & offer it to the nearest opposition player - or better still throw it at the retard's face for that extra special falcon
 
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We run so sideways, no one squares the run up, generally because our decoys are ****

Gards looked confident in attack, which must have frustrated the **** out of him

He/we need that gun centre

Well we exhausted the gordon to centre myth.

Finally
 

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The coaching staff/administration can hardly he placed at fault for the recent results on field.

We haven't been full strength yet this year and it doesn't matter who the coach is, you can't work with something like that.

Look at the Storm for instance, they struggle with their big three out and they have arguably the greatest coach of the past decade.
 

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We run so sideways, no one squares the run up, generally because our decoys are ****

Gards looked confident in attack, which must have frustrated the **** out of him

He/we need that gun centre

That is exactly right mate. My biggest beef with our block plays is we don't run enough decoys and generally Robson only ever acts as a link man. He joins the dots, paints by number, etc etc and never plays what he see's. Mainly because he doesn't actually see it. The good play makers straighten and get the outside defenders to turn their shoulders in before beating them with the pass to the outside. To be honest you don't even have to be a Thurston or a Johns to do this... you just need an ounce of talent.

Can you imagine our team with a 7 who could create on the other side?
 
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