Round 21 2013: Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks v New Zealand Warriors, Saturday 3 August 3:00pm (AEST) @ Mt. Smart Stadium

[Great White Shark]

Win of the year. Showed a lot of character. Gallen's presence is second only to cam smith.

 

[sharkyman]

good (not great) win, and glad to see the boys stick it out under pressure. for me heigho was MOM for sure, he was unstoppable. Gal had a huge first game back, as youd expect. thought jono and feki were great again and are developing really well together on the left edge, hope it continues.
all the other forwards were solid, stapo did well under pressure, and even pom had a pretty good game until he hit the turf.
carney had a few flashes and robbo was solid, but still needs to create more attacking pressure. flash was....well flash.
thought we won in the forwards and backs today which is really nice to see, and the halves did enough off the forward roll without starring.
happy days, and if we keep it up we should win 4 of our next 5.

 

[Deleted member 3365]

not convinced of this win to be honest.

couldnt put the sword to the warriors, and we clocked off.

 

[goodbyepenrithhellosharks]

not convinced of this win to be honest.

couldnt put the sword to the warriors, and we clocked off.

FFS take the win and be happy and don't forget we also beat the bookies tonight

 

[Deleted member 3365]

I'll take the win easy, congratulations to the boys and the club.

BUT I'm not gonna pull the cover over my eyes where there is ALOT of improvement needed if we truly deserve to be in the semis.

 

[ballmead]

I'll most definitely take the win.

The Warriors were nearly unbeatable at home this year and only us and Souths beat them there.

We really needed this win, it really sets us up well for the coming games and keeps us well and truly in the hunt for a top 4 spot.

 

[Super Impose]

Take the win and move on to the Knights , where we can just about wrap up a finals berth.

And another wrap for Stapo , he did a great job on Manu , who must be a beast to man up on and defused the short drop outs nicely.

 

[DeathMoth]

Stoked with the win. Good to see Gal back. Few areas to address like discipline.

 

[ben]

Another under rater player that cops a bit of flack here. Hes been going pretty good lately,

 

[goodbyepenrithhellosharks]

Stoked with the win. Good to see Gal back. Few areas to address like discipline.

mothy...just rejoice in this beautiful moment and smell the roses my man

 

[sharks2010]

Take the win and move on to the Knights , where we can just about wrap up a finals berth.

And another wrap for Stapo , he did a great job on Manu , who must be a beast to man up on and defused the short drop outs nicely.

he has always been a great leaper, he took it upon himself for those two drop outs to get the ball back for the team and passed with flying colours

 

[Super Impose]

he has always been a great leaper, he took it upon himself for those two drop outs to get the ball back for the team and passed with flying colours

Yep he is playing like a quality first grade winger. A real head ache for Flanno when Beau returns.

 

[SharksMichael]

Very happy and relieved to get the win today. Would have liked to put the Warriors to the sword and not have to worry at the back end of the game but at least we hung on at the end.

Few things. How good was Poms today? Put his body on the line, while he was arm grabbing a little bit, I couldn't get over his set play try. The inseparable couple set that one up. They made the Warriors look silly off the scrum.

I was watching the game at a pub with a mate and didn't have sound for the first 60 minutes or so. Could someone explain to me why Feki's try wasn't a try? It looked like he was miles inside when he kicked the ball.

Really liked our effort in defence today. Seemed like the Warriors were dominating us, in terms of possession in that second half. That was due to poor ball handling, but regardless, with the amount of tackles we made I expected us to let in a try eventually.

 

[Gil]

Hearing Daley say that we have the tuffest run home and to come away with the 2 points puts one big smile on my face and hopefully wipe the smile off many others.

Yes there are a few things we need to work on, if we can keep up with the positive attitude we will be alright.

Great game to watch and a big congrats to the team.

 

[Gil]

Very happy and relieved to get the win today. Would have liked to put the Warriors to the sword and not have to worry at the back end of the game but at least we hung on at the end.

Few things. How good was Poms today? Put his body on the line, while he was arm grabbing a little bit, I couldn't get over his set play try. The inseparable couple set that one up. They made the Warriors look silly off the scrum.

I was watching the game at a pub with a mate and didn't have sound for the first 60 minutes or so. Could someone explain to me why Feki's try wasn't a try? It looked like he was miles inside when he kicked the ball.

Really liked our effort in defence today. Seemed like the Warriors were dominating us, in terms of possession in that second half. That was due to poor ball handling, but regardless, with the amount of tackles we made I expected us to let in a try eventually.

They claimed that he left the field of play and then came back in, apparently it's not allowed, they mention the Barrent did something similar and had a try disallowed.

I'm still convinced it was a try, a funny rule I'm sure we will hear more about.

 

[sharks2010]

They claimed that he left the field of play and then came back in, apparently it's not allowed, they mention the Barrent did something similar and had a try disallowed.

I'm still convinced it was a try, a funny rule I'm sure we will hear more about.

he needed to put a foot inside the field to be deemed to be back in play but since his foot was on the line he is still technically out, if his foot was a couple of inches in it would of been a try, a great try at that

Watching it live i didn't realise he was so close to the sideline

 

[SharksMichael]

Ok. Thanks guys. But what about J Wright a couple weeks back against Brisbane? He didn't score but I'm pretty sure he went outside the field of play. I'm assuming if he scored, the same decision would have been given.

 

[CrazyMatt]

Im chuffed at this win boys. This was a game i had written off, but the boys did great. A few palpitations at the end there, but way to hang on at the end, something we've improved in right there. That puts us only a point outside the four for the moment. Top stuff.

 

[gando2230]

not convinced of this win to be honest.

couldnt put the sword to the warriors, and we clocked off.

give your self a uppercut and take a long holiday.

what else do you want the only 2nd team to win in nz this season??????

 

[MakoMan11]

Last week they were very impressive and today they dominated the third-hottest team in the comp on their home ground and came away with a solid win.

I still think there's plenty of improvement needed before they can seriously mount a challenge for the premiership, but at least they appear to be heading in the right direction at the right time of the season; as opposed to this time last year.

If the Sharks can manage to win four of their last five matches then they should end up making the top-four and avoiding a sudden-death match in the first week of the finals, since the two teams Cronulla are chasing - Manly and Melbourne - play each other in Round 25 and both still have to play Souths as well.

Winning four of the last five is a big 'if' though: Knights (H), Dragons (A), Roosters (H), Cowboys (H), Raiders (A).