Stuart upbeat despite heart-breaking loss

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Sharks coach Ricky Stuart was surprisingly upbeat after watching his side surrender a 10 point lead in the final 19 minutes, before going down to Penrith in a golden point thriller at Toyota Stadium.

Stuart bristled at a line of questioning in the post-match media conference suggesting his side's form had tapered off after a strong start to the year.

"How do you say that? We got beaten in one game of football," countered Stuart.

"I'm not too disappointed with that. I saw some good football played out there tonight, we just didn't score points in important parts of the game," said the current Kangaroos mentor.

Stuart was adamant his side’s attack had shown vast improvement from early in the season, despite coming out on the wrong end of the score-line.

"Some of the ball movement we had tonight was very good, some of the stuff we've been practicing and working hard at has been getting onto the field."

The Sharks coach also paid tribute to the quality of the opposition, indicating he was sure the Panthers wouldn't be among this season's also-rans.

"I don't think Penrith will be around the bottom of the table, I think they're an outstanding football team."

I'm not too disappointed with that...
Sharks coach Ricky Stuart

http://rugbyleaguelive.com.au/Articles/883/2008/04/19/Stuart_upbeat_despite_heartbreaking_loss.aspx

 

[peachey]

vast improvement..20 points and still lost..when other teams can score 20 plus regulary..20 points should have been more..

kidding himself if he believes that..

oh im tired and sad..bed time!

 

[maco_magic]

ohh wells i guess theres no point dwelling on the loss anymore... hope its a wake up call... a few of the boys might have thought they were invincible after beating storm and manly and going 4 and 1 on the rd... so hopefully this will give them the kick up the ass they needed

 

[jedman1]

Im sorry but that sounds like crap, would he have said that last week if the rabbits had won? We have a tight game game against everyone!!!! It seems like we could play the local u14s side and just win in a golden point thriller, OR, just lose in a golden point thriller. FFS!!!!!!
Why is it always the same????
So if every team that JUST beats us ISNT going to be at the bottom of the table, Who is, the sides that beat us by 20 pts?????

 

[sos]

peachey you go onlike we lost in a semi its on egame get over it so are you gunan be there next week to bagg us out the whole game or r you gunan watch and support and try and get the boys home i wanna praise a guy in the peter burns stand who walked down the front and got the peter burns stand fired up... it was amazing to see that by one guy 1 guy could make a difference

 

[sharks195]

i take full responsibility for the loss. i have avoided the footy show this year, in every week except this one and against the titans. the only reason why i watched it was because i wanted to see lance thompson's tribute. as i have said on another thread, every time i see the footy show the sharks lose in that week. so i'm sorry i won't watch it next week and we should beat the tigers.

 

[gavin07]

it doesnt matter if penrith are going to be wooden spooners or minor premiers, the point is we were winning and probably should have won this game. i realise there is no point beating yourself up after a loss but i think stuart could've admitted where we lost the game instead of saying all is sweet. probably didnt want the headlines from last year coming back re the losses in close games. and 195 i think your television should go out the window!

 

[kJm]

we played so good yet we lost

i was in disbelief, just couldnt believed we blown it

for once this season it was our defence not our attack that let us down

 

[Sir Chadley]

I have just realised that in all of the games this year, except for the Titans game, the opposition have scored the same amount of tries that we have. Would love just once this year to have scored more tries than the other team. This tells me that there are still problems with our defence.

 

[brad]

id say last night it was mostly down to fatigue. penrith looked much more sharp in the 2nd 1/2. we ere on the back foot for most of it. 8 days till the next game from last night so hopefully ricky gives them a bit of a rest

 

[peachey]

peachey you go onlike we lost in a semi its on egame get over it so are you gunan be there next week to bagg us out the whole game or r you gunan watch and support and try and get the boys home i wanna praise a guy in the peter burns stand who walked down the front and got the peter burns stand fired up... it was amazing to see that by one guy 1 guy could make a difference

some of us dont like putting up with the same crap each and every week..when i look at teams like the titans and cowboys who can rack up big scores week in week out..and we struggle to get 20 points

 

[ParanoidAndroid??]

there were still a few positives from the game, i agree with stuart- its not like we had an absolute shocker. bird is on fire. i read that inglis says bird should be the 5/8 in the australian team, and i hope if he doesn't play there he definitely has to be somewhere in the team.

 

[Great White]

I suppose he has to stay positive considering, I mean it is only one game, and we are still well in the comp, if he was in Souths position and they lost like that, then I doubt he would be so calm about it.

 

[chunk67]

some of us dont like putting up with the same crap each and every week..when i look at teams like the titans and cowboys who can rack up big scores week in week out..and we struggle to get 20 points

just have a cry and it will all be better..........or maybe try bein a bit more positive n not so negative.........we are 4 from 6 for christs sakes........eat a dick!!!

 

[peachey]

you and eating d!cks...

we blew a 10 point lead against a team who are rabble...and lost..any other club wouldnt accept that ordinary stuff we dished up..

 

[Capital_Shark]

some of us dont like putting up with the same crap each and every week..when i look at teams like the titans and cowboys who can rack up big scores week in week out..and we struggle to get 20 points

I dunno about that mate. Week-in, week-out? 2 out of 6 we've dropped. And the Cowboys were busted arses, bottom of the ladder with nearly 100 against 'em until a week or 2 ago. Titans are just class so far and putting egg all over my face as far as my predictions for the went.

Some of Ricky's comments there seem a bit lax, but what he conveys to the media and what he does between now and the Tigers game will be quiet different I think.

Sure it'd be great if we could lay on 30 points every outing, but at the moment we can't. A 2 point win or a 20 point win, I'm not fussed, still equals the same competition points at the end of the round. I'm more worried about the soft tries we've let in the last 2 weeks. Our whole game is built around our defense, and if that fails we're f-cked from all angles. It seems to be failing; we had to bust our arse to hold out Souths last week, and its fair to say our defense won us the game. This week we put ourselves in the position yet again and quiet obviously it was asking too much.

 

[Great White]

I agree, what you see in the media and what they cop at traiing will be 2 different things.