Nice post kal83. There is one factor that stops the Sharks every year - they have no passion or hunger to win the title that alll other teams before them have had. It's not just the playing roster. Penrith 03, Knights 97 & 01 are recent examples of not having all the guns, just a belief in each other. They all wanted the title bad.
The culture of "near enough is good enough" is well & truly alive and runs through the veins of the club. I'm yet to believe, even with all of the changes that have been made recently, that this elephant has left the room. If you piled up all of the jibes, ridicule, hurt & shaming that has been heaped on the club, that shiit would motivate the crap out of me, to prove a massive point & give them all the finger.
Time has gone on far too long, without this major ingredient being addressed. It's a massive hole that sucks up whatever gets thrown out onto the paddock every year. I hope, beyond hope, that someone is going to change this weak, inept attitude at the Sharks. It's all too easy to accept the failure of years of existance in the comp.
When nobody is there backing up a break, nobody following through for an offload, letting Gallen do nearly all the work & just watching, missing tackles & not being absolutely gutted & filthy on themselves, running four into a tackle & still allowing an offload, one out play & kicking straight to opposition on the full consistantly and generally not smarting enough off a loss are all reasons in recent years, that the Sharks continue to fail.
