Business End Of The Season

[gregstar]

Souths have hit form.
Roosters have hit form.
Storm is the Storm.

Don't want to sound pessimistic but on our current form I can't see us winning any of those.

Then comes the finals - Ouch.

you'd want to be careful - we've hit form too.
no team would want us to make the 8 now that we've finally shown the potent attacking force that we can be.
we are the smokies for the title now.

 

[gregstar]

we shall see frank

losing to that dragons team....I mean.


geez.

indeed. hang your f*cking heads in shame.

it takes an incredible effort to make a bunch of geniuss look like immortals.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Hey Sharks supporters, you will notice by my name I'm a Dragons supporter.

I believe everyone should have the joy of their team winning a comp before they push up daisies. I live in the shire and not far from me is a little intellectually disadvantaged guy who wears his full Sharkies gear and waves to cars as they drive by. Puts a smile on my face.

My team is gone so I'd really like you guys to knock the comp off this year for that little guy if nothing else and switch off that porch light. You guys have the team to win so best wishes and don't get too down hearted.

See fellas, not all of them are big red V's

 

[carcharias]

indeed. hang your f*cking heads in shame.

it takes an incredible effort to make a bunch of geniuss look like immortals.

It actually looked rigged
Did I see debellend score?
Cmon?

 

[Arnold]

Frank I fear we are highly likely to go into semis on back of 5 Ls

 

[bad boy bubby]

It actually looked rigged
Did I see debellend score?
Cmon?

When Maloney kicked it dead from inside their 40 on the third(or fourth?) tackle i had an eerie feeling

 

[gregstar]

It actually looked rigged
Did I see debellend score?
Cmon?

of course it was rigged.

you foreskin lifters wanted to glue another contract to jowls magregor's sphincter.

cunning f*ckers.

 

[Arnold]

When Maloney kicked it dead from inside their 40 on the third(or fourth?) tackle i had an eerie feeling

I had a bad feeling when they spread it wide from kickoff. We don't deal well with unpredictable play. Which is why Canberra ripped us up.

 

[gregstar]

& peter douche's saliva will be the adhesive.

 

[Feej]

I often think that Gregstar and Quigs are one in the same. Anyone seen them together at the same time??

 

[Card Shark]

Yeh, it possible but Gregstar doesn't go for the Donkeys.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

God I hate Melbourne.

 

[Quigs]

There's gunna be some serious floggings around here, fist beatings frontier style for a few steppin' over the line.

One from the vault for old times sake.

 

[Arnold]

Canberra doing the storm.

We dropped a massive opportunity on Saturday.

 

[gregstar]

There's gunna be some serious floggings around here, fist beatings frontier style for a few steppin' over the line.

One from the vault for old times sake.

jeez you old merkin!
is that your head hanging out of biker's duds?
fair dinkum ya filthy old turd! why biker?

 

[carcharias]

Papalli reminds me of Hopoate
Not the the bible basher
The arsehole fingerer.

 

[gregstar]

i sense poopalli would be a finger-sniffer as well.

 

[roboshark]

I personally think tonight's game is the gf preview

 

[Card Shark]

I personally think tonight's game is the gf preview

Just how we need it to be 3 weeks out from the semis.

 

[shaggs]

Can the Cowboys bounce back?

A month ago most people had conceded that the Cronulla Sharks, Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys pretty much had this 2016 title race between them. They were easily the three most dominant teams in our competition and appeared to be a cut above the rest. All of a sudden, all three teams look to have hit a speed bump along the road towards the finals. For the Sharks and the Storm, this little period of indifferent form could have been predicted given how far ahead of the pack they were in the race towards the minor premiership.

Speed bump: Johnathan Thurston of the Cowboys. Photo: Getty Images

I would say both clubs have taken the opportunity available to them because they are so well placed on the premiership ladder to introduce a heavy phase of training to steal them for the semi-finals in a few weeks. This is normal practice. It can make them seem a little flat in the short term, in exchange for long-term benefits. I would anticipate them tapering their training load before the last premiership game so they are fresh and hard fit for the September play-offs. The Cowboys on the other hand needed to keep winning in order to achieve an all-important top four finish. It is alarming, therefore, just how lethargic they have looked over the past couple of weeks in their losses to the Wests Tigers and the Sydney Roosters. We have marvelled at how this team has remained injury free since almost the middle of last season. Perhaps the downside of this is that the same 17 or 18 players have been playing high-intensity rugby league every week since that time and are now starting to feel the effects. I guess we will know a lot more about their physical and mental state when they play host to the Warriors this weekend. Another mediocre showing will cast real doubts over their ability to defend their title.

Just a snippet from gus mecurio goulds article in the SMH.

Makes a good point about how both us and the storm have dropped off. He says its normal and is what happens to teams so far ahead of the pack.

This week and next we need to start to build back up to where we were