Round 23 Cronulla Sutherland Sharks v Melbourne Storm, Monday 17 August 2015 7:00pm @ Remondis

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I won't be heartbroken if Flanno rests Benny or he is out injured. He needs time away at the moment, he's obviously not 100% fit. Need to have him fresh and free from injury for the finals if that is possible.
We will have Taga back for the Tigers game and I'd just have him on the bench as a straight swap for Benny or put Taga in the starting side with Prior on the bench.

This is what I'd be doing.
 
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I won't be heartbroken if Flanno rests Benny or he is out injured. He needs time away at the moment, he's obviously not 100% fit. Need to have him fresh and free from injury for the finals if that is possible.
We will have Taga back for the Tigers game and I'd just have him on the bench as a straight swap for Benny or put Taga in the starting side with Prior on the bench.

If Barba is out for a few weeks with the ankle it's a good opportunity for Val to get more time at fullback, he's been playing pretty well in attack lately and looking dangerous.

And we can play four forwards on the bench. Tigers might be without Woods so a good opportunity to make big gains up the middle.
 
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I felt like last night was a necessary loss. Kinda bring the boys back to earth.

Hopefully everyone realises their mistakes and moves on
 

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Disappointing loss but I'm not that concerned about it.

Melbourne got away with murder in defence last night, they were constantly offside and were allowed to lay around the ruck forever. Anytime we even looked like slowing down the play the ball, we were penalised.

So whilst we played poorly, to some extent I think we were kept from gaining any momentum by poor refereeing, especially in the first half.

Any way, hopefully we bounce back this week!
 

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Disappointing loss but I'm not that concerned about it.

Melbourne got away with murder in defence last night, they were constantly offside and were allowed to lay around the ruck forever. Anytime we even looked like slowing down the play the ball, we were penalised.

So whilst we played poorly, to some extent I think we were kept from gaining any momentum by poor refereeing, especially in the first half.

Any way, hopefully we bounce back this week!

I found last night very strange. I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but the policing of the ruck last night was weird. Yes, Melbourne was allowed to lie all over us, which would be fine if the same rules applied to us. Everytime we decided to lay a bit longer, we were penalised. I don't think I have seen such one sided refereeing. It was almost as if the ref decided "Gallen, you are complaining to me, so your team is not going to get a penalty from now on". We were actually not too bad in that game, to be only 10 points behind with that kind of refereeing. Melbourne's defence was allowed to reset every time, so line breaks were next to impossible. I wouldn't read too much into this loss. No team would have beat Melbourne last night with that refereeing.
 

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A part of me feels we needed a loss like that to keep us some what humbled.

I anticipated we'd drop one game on the run home, and if that's the one, then so be it. Storm are our bogey team, of we can win the next 3 then it will be forgotten.
 

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I found last night very strange. I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but the policing of the ruck last night was weird. Yes, Melbourne was allowed to lie all over us, which would be fine if the same rules applied to us. Everytime we decided to lay a bit longer, we were penalised. I don't think I have seen such one sided refereeing. It was almost as if the ref decided "Gallen, you are complaining to me, so your team is not going to get a penalty from now on". We were actually not too bad in that game, to be only 10 points behind with that kind of refereeing. Melbourne's defence was allowed to reset every time, so line breaks were next to impossible. I wouldn't read too much into this loss. No team would have beat Melbourne last night with that refereeing.

It's no coincidence the ref's were booed off the field at half time...
 
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I found last night very strange. I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but the policing of the ruck last night was weird. Yes, Melbourne was allowed to lie all over us, which would be fine if the same rules applied to us. Everytime we decided to lay a bit longer, we were penalised. I don't think I have seen such one sided refereeing. It was almost as if the ref decided "Gallen, you are complaining to me, so your team is not going to get a penalty from now on". We were actually not too bad in that game, to be only 10 points behind with that kind of refereeing. Melbourne's defence was allowed to reset every time, so line breaks were next to impossible. I wouldn't read too much into this loss. No team would have beat Melbourne last night with that refereeing.
As well as lying around the ruck longer they seemed to be getting away with managing to get between the bloke playing the ball and ennis so ennis was basically having to wait for them to get out the way. It made every play the ball so much slower as they made no effort to clear the ruck area.
 

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I feel sick in the guts from losing to the Storm last night - brings back all sorts of negative feelings from those cheating scumbags and their history against us
Has me really worried about that possibility of meeting them in the finals at some point, I will require heavy sedation to avoid doing something I regret
 

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I feel sick in the guts from losing to the Storm last night - brings back all sorts of negative stuff from those cheating scumbags and their history against us

The 4L tub of ice cream may have something to do with that mate.
 
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