Round 3 2013 NRL: Cronulla Sutherland Sharks v New Zealand Warriors @ Shark Stadium 24th march 2pm

[Born&bred]

This Saturday
And I will be still giving live updates of the game from gronk hill because as you know I'm the king of live updates with my indepth analyses and all

good. you got first round.

Like **** I do
The muppet brigade are all buying me a beer first round

I think its only fair that you buy first round 2010

I'm too old to walk to the bar...

 

[sharks2010]

You will be one thirsty old man then won't you

 

[A.Snowden]

Does anyone know when the game is replayed i forgot to IQ it?

they replay all games on a monday...Just incase ya ever forget again

 

[goodbyepenrithhellosharks]

I did not get to see the game live and came on here and read what everyone had to say before watching the replay late last night.
I must say I was pleasantly surprised with our team and thought our stucture was very good and we moved the ball well.Our defence was solid and a few of our ...lets say lesser appreciated players nutted up well.
Overall a heap more positives than negatives imo....so did I watch a replay of a different game or what ? lol

 

[A.Snowden]

I did not get to see the game live and came on here and read what everyone had to say before watching the replay late last night.
I must say I was pleasantly surprised with our team and thought our stucture was very good and we moved the ball well.Our defence was solid and a few of our ...lets say lesser appreciated players nutted up well.
Overall a heap more positives than negatives imo....so did I watch a replay of a different game or what ? lol

No you just watched the game after already knowing we won. Makes things a lot easier ha

 

[goodbyepenrithhellosharks]

No you just watched the game after already knowing we won. Makes things a lot easier ha

true, but we did score more than 2 tries and if you can beleive the stats, we missed bugger all tackles and made a lot less mistakes than against souths.Add in the stinking heat and I am more than satis fied

 

[A.Snowden]

me too mate me too.

 

[Born&bred]

I can draw positives out of all 3 games. Remember we have a new playing group and some combos & set plays will gel in time.

We have heaps of improvement in us yet.

 

[Gards]

I still haven't watched this game yet via TV but after watching the game yesterday from the Southern Grandstand the Sharks could have scored a tonne of tries if we threw early ball to the centres yesterday (2nd half atleast).

The Warriors were really playing a compressed style of defence yesterday but by the time the ball reached out centres they had already numbered up, I go back to the week before v Rabbitohs, I know our completions were terrible but we made a point of shifting early ball especially after a Rabbitohs mistake.

It makes me wonder a few different things

1) Did Flanno want us to have a better completion rate, play a more conervative style?
2) Was it a ploy that we percieved to be a weakness in the Rabbitohs?
3) Was it part of Peter Sharpes style where he wants more ball movement than our typical gritty/arm wrestle style we normally play under Flanno.

1) He wanted us to shift the ball around to tire out the big NZ forwards. Obviously he would have desired a better completion rate than last week and making errors wouldn't have helped our game plan. He let the Warriors destroy themselves. We were not that conservative.
2) Possibly but our execution was horrible in the Rabbits game.
3) Sharp was taking instructions from Flanno when he was sidelined. I doubt Sharp would have tried to change too much in the style or structure in just a few games.

wasnt it wendell that said that?

Yes it was Wendell. Honestly can this guy not say a good thing about the Sharks - he has no problems complimenting individual players but on our overall team or club he struggles to give wraps. He completely avoided the question about our strengths in the pre game commentary and just said the Warriors might struggle. Maybe he's still hurting from all the "Wendell's a wanker" chants we used to shout at him from the stands.

I can draw positives out of all 3 games. Remember we have a new playing group and some combos & set plays will gel in time.

We have heaps of improvement in us yet.

I know the Warriors were terrible and this was one of our "easy games" but we still had to execute well to get those tries. Last season we probably would have bombed half those tries. We do have a long way to go but to be winning games while improvement is still in us is not such a bad thing. For once it looks like we are evolving and our attack might actually be heading somewhere even if it is not yet there.

 

[Wilson]

I can't believe Fox gave Wendell his job back.

 

[Gards]

I can't believe Fox gave Wendell his job back.

He lost it?

I'm finding ex league players to not be the most endearing commentators. Wendell, Fitler, Noddy, Tallis - they are all cringe worthy and biased to boot

 

[hamsy44]

He lost it?

I'm finding ex league players to not be the most endearing commentators. Wendell, Fitler, Noddy, Tallis - they are all cringe worthy and biased to boot

They took him off air for a bit, I'm hoping they return him.(edit - to the off air paddock) That call about boogs playing in the halves wtf did he get that from.

The only ex players I like listening too are the Johns boys. Matty is funny and Andrew knows the game.

 

[JimBob]

He lost it?

I'm finding ex league players to not be the most endearing commentators. Wendell, Fitler, Noddy, Tallis - they are all cringe worthy and biased to boot

I don't mind Kimmorly (as long as it isn't a Raiders game) or Gasnier.

The rest can fugg off though.

 

[sharkyboy]

Yeah the Johns boys are good.

Andrew in particular is great value. Its clear why he was so ****ing good.

 

[snowman]

Yeah the Johns boys are good.

Andrew in particular is great value. Its clear why he was so ****ing good.

eccy's?

 

[sharkyboy]

was waiting for someone to rip this one out