CrankyShark
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Sharks Expectations 2018
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CrazyMatt
Jaws
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
I think we need Pearce in the halves with Chad. Chad needs a bit of class in the halves imo, he's not good enough to be the dominant half imo.
Gards
Jaws
I agree with concerns about who is partnering Chad which looks 99.99% it's gunna be Moylan which could come good in time but I wouldn't be expecting amazing things from them in 2018
Having said that we were pushing for top 4 with Chad partnered with a very poor Maloney this season and we have been making the 8 with Bird, Robbo, ect in the halves in past years
But we wanna challenge for the title, not just make the finals and get bundled out. I think we will need some career best seasons from Chad & Moylan cause not much is doing at fullback currently and our hookers are a work in progress.
Having said that we were pushing for top 4 with Chad partnered with a very poor Maloney this season and we have been making the 8 with Bird, Robbo, ect in the halves in past years
But we wanna challenge for the title, not just make the finals and get bundled out. I think we will need some career best seasons from Chad & Moylan cause not much is doing at fullback currently and our hookers are a work in progress.
Mark^Bastard
Great White
In 2016 we had two genuine halves with good kicking games. We also had Ennis who had a good kicking game and organised the team well. Then we had Barba who had 5/8 skills in the attacking zone.
With Barba and Ennis gone we had already lost some serious halves-style skills and leadership. If you take Maloney out and replace him with someone that has much less halves skill and experience it just means we sink further. If Moylan played fullback and we got Pearce, we'd be getting back to near 2016 levels of halves skills in our spine.
With Barba and Ennis gone we had already lost some serious halves-style skills and leadership. If you take Maloney out and replace him with someone that has much less halves skill and experience it just means we sink further. If Moylan played fullback and we got Pearce, we'd be getting back to near 2016 levels of halves skills in our spine.
andrew's_sharks
Great White
I am thinking if we don't Sign Pearce we will finish between 4th-7th. Brailey will be better having another off season. Holmes will be better at the back. Dugan is an upgrade on bird. If we iron out the missed tackles and giving away so many penalties we will have consistently better field position and a chance for the forwards to dominate games properly again. You also need to consider that Lewis and Graham both ball play and can kick on the last in attacking plays which helps take the load off moylan. If Moylan simply tackles better than Maloney, doesn't give away as many penalties and runs the ball well, we will be fine.
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
Yep hard to disagree with that.
snowman
Total gronk
moylans skills and attacking game is far better than maloneys
but agree about our kicking
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
I think he put one or two in near the try line, but not many. Not sure if he had a kicking game in the U20s.
Agree though, very handy when you have someone like Ennis.
andrew's_sharks
Great White
I have seen Ennis in a bit of the boys training footage. I would imagine he would be working with Brailey very closely and adding this to his skillset.
Gards
Jaws
Dun wurry boyz, seggeEZ'S got us covard
Didn't realise you knew jive talk Gards.
Blair
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I am pretty confident we will have a good year in 2018 for the reasons below.
1. Brailey is a year older
2. Val will get better and will be out to prove he is an elite NRL Fullback. He has already stated he wants Billy's Australian jumper.
3. Seggy should be better with full off-season with the team, and the fact he has recovered from his injuries... he can't be worse than last year.
4. Possibly Gal's last year. He will want to be as good if not better than 2017.
5. Dugan is better than Bird
6. Gray has the ability to be better than Beale. Although he was good at the back end of the year, he rarely bent the line, and that's a big part of how we start our sets.
7. The competitions biggest penalty machine is gone, also second highest in missed tackles. Good riddance.
8. Moylan will offer more creativity than bbq boy, so hopefully more points scored.
9. Chad will have matured even more and will take more ownership. I know this is a 50/50, but he is better than people give him credit for. His attacking kicks are pretty damn good with plenty of bombs landing before the line, and he also forces a few drop outs with short kicks.
10. I think we really missed aggression off the bench last year. Ava should bring that, and hopefully Uele too
11. Jimmy Dymock has a great football brain and will bring a lot to our tactical strategies.
12. 2017 we were premiers missing two of our spine from the grand final, this year we don't have that burden, and I think we will be smarting from underachieving this year.
13. Pressure on Luetele and Feki from Ramien. I think he will be well and truly pushing for a spot in the backline. Those two guys haven't had much competition the past few years.
I know none of this is new news, but I think when its compiled you can see plenty of reasons to be positive.
1. Brailey is a year older
2. Val will get better and will be out to prove he is an elite NRL Fullback. He has already stated he wants Billy's Australian jumper.
3. Seggy should be better with full off-season with the team, and the fact he has recovered from his injuries... he can't be worse than last year.
4. Possibly Gal's last year. He will want to be as good if not better than 2017.
5. Dugan is better than Bird
6. Gray has the ability to be better than Beale. Although he was good at the back end of the year, he rarely bent the line, and that's a big part of how we start our sets.
7. The competitions biggest penalty machine is gone, also second highest in missed tackles. Good riddance.
8. Moylan will offer more creativity than bbq boy, so hopefully more points scored.
9. Chad will have matured even more and will take more ownership. I know this is a 50/50, but he is better than people give him credit for. His attacking kicks are pretty damn good with plenty of bombs landing before the line, and he also forces a few drop outs with short kicks.
10. I think we really missed aggression off the bench last year. Ava should bring that, and hopefully Uele too
11. Jimmy Dymock has a great football brain and will bring a lot to our tactical strategies.
12. 2017 we were premiers missing two of our spine from the grand final, this year we don't have that burden, and I think we will be smarting from underachieving this year.
13. Pressure on Luetele and Feki from Ramien. I think he will be well and truly pushing for a spot in the backline. Those two guys haven't had much competition the past few years.
I know none of this is new news, but I think when its compiled you can see plenty of reasons to be positive.
Sixgill
Moderator
Top four...has to be unless there's injuries.
My major worry is our first 6 fixtures are very deadly even without incorporating new players. 2 of those games may be deemed easy but the local derbies against the dragqueens will be much tougher this time around. I will honestly be over the moon if we win 3/6. Anything less and id definitely be worried that we would be a club scrapping in the 7th-10th zone.
snowman
Total gronk
we started 0/4 in 2015 and finished fine
the opening rounds of the season dont define how it shapes
the opening rounds of the season dont define how it shapes
Capital_Shark
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Unless you're St Merge and vying for that April premiership
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Not-So-Great White
I am looking forward to seeing an older and more experienced Brailey. Besides the Storm game, he was one of our most consistent players. Look out to see his name mentioned during Origin time. Won't get picked but they will deffinitly be talking about him being a suiter down the track.
More of prediction than an expectation...
More of prediction than an expectation...
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Not-So-Great White
they should make a trophy for that premiership. It would give their one bought premiership trophy some company.