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Fitz Family Finals Failures

2012....Sharks Year

First Grade
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I remember 1988 it was going to be same thing minor premiers everyone was pumped.

I was at shark park last round of the season when we were crowned minor premiers.

Next year we struggled to make finals then fell off a cliff.

So I am not going puts us in good stead, when it counted no one stood up
We were busted mate. Our grand final was last week and we couldn't ice it. We win last week and it's a different ball game. I'm surprised that after decades of following the Sharks that everyone still takes it so hard. Rather go out in straight sets than not be playing finals at all. Big learning curve imo.
 

jc155776

Coach
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I figured after 2016 that these wrist slitting depressed shit posting of woe is me would end.

2016 was the ultimate Sharkies depression cure. I still watch, I still get fired up during the game and a little after, but one day later I realise it’s all just a game.

Can’t believe the misery of some here, and the death riding.

Bloke coaches one season and takes team from outside the 8 to 2nd, loses a prelim qualifier by a bees dick after being f**ked by bunker decisions and half his team battling injuries, flunks out because the juice was gone after the week before….. and people basically saying more or less they want him sacked 😂.

f**k me the dumb lonely merkins in here…
 

Quicksilver

Bench
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I figured after 2016 that these wrist slitting depressed shit posting of woe is me would end.

2016 was the ultimate Sharkies depression cure. I still watch, I still get fired up during the game and a little after, but one day later I realise it’s all just a game.

Can’t believe the misery of some here, and the death riding.

Bloke coaches one season and takes team from outside the 8 to 2nd, loses a prelim qualifier by a bees dick after being f**ked by bunker decisions and half his team battling injuries, flunks out because the juice was gone after the week before….. and people basically saying more or less they want him sacked 😂.

f**k me the dumb lonely merkins in here…

The outside the eight was a bit of a false economy.

We were a Top 8 team, then we decided to have a season without a coach.. don't think too many teams that would make good in that scenario.
 

Go Nulla

Bench
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I figured after 2016 that these wrist slitting depressed shit posting of woe is me would end.

2016 was the ultimate Sharkies depression cure. I still watch, I still get fired up during the game and a little after, but one day later I realise it’s all just a game.

Can’t believe the misery of some here, and the death riding.

Bloke coaches one season and takes team from outside the 8 to 2nd, loses a prelim qualifier by a bees dick after being f**ked by bunker decisions and half his team battling injuries, flunks out because the juice was gone after the week before….. and people basically saying more or less they want him sacked 😂.

f**k me the dumb lonely merkins in here…
What he said …. Spot on.
 
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poty? This is got to be dpoty if not decade, Quarter of century maybe ? nah its Dumb Post of CENTURY!!! dpotc. Much as we may want our sons to be like us and take Our success to next level to raise our own names to the gods , they are their own men, their achievements are their own, Their failures are their own. Could go on , but I find the concept of linking family success and failure ,in this manner ,unproductive and disgusting ,
 
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poty? This is got to be dpoty if not decade, Quarter of century maybe ? nah its Dumb Post of CENTURY!!! dpotc. Much as we may want our sons to be like us and take Our success to next level to raise our own names to the gods , they are their own men, their achievements are their own, Their failures are their own. Could go on , but I find the concept of linking family success and failure ,in this manner ,unproductive and disgusting ,
oops. Sorry I meant THREAD not post. DTOTC. Sadly I have family history of using wrong words in sentences ( hence all my edits .:(
 

Inferno

Coach
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Morris was blamed for less in far more trying circumstances.

68 points in two weeks when our improvement was meant to be in the areas of mental fortitude and defensive structure..

Oh my.

Rubbish, what's the highest we finished under Morris?

How many top 8 teams was he able to beat?

We managed to knock off 3 of the 4 teams still in this comp and didn't do too badly against the Panthers.

All this in a year where we've a pretty sizeable and suspension toll. We've lost BHU for an extended period, Katoa and Jack Williams both suffered season ending injuries and we lost our fullback for about 8 weeks this year.

We were busted last night and it showed but anyone who can't see the enormous improvement we've managed this year has rocks in their head.
 

Frenzy.

Post Whore
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Rubbish, what's the highest we finished under Morris?

How many top 8 teams was he able to beat?

We managed to knock off 3 of the 4 teams still in this comp and didn't do too badly against the Panthers.

All this in a year where we've a pretty sizeable and suspension toll. We've lost BHU for an extended period, Katoa and Jack Williams both suffered season ending injuries and we lost our fullback for about 8 weeks this year.

We were busted last night and it showed but anyone who can't see the enormous improvement we've managed this year has rocks in their head.

I happen to know that :)

2019 - 3
2020 -0
2121 - 0

Less than Fitz in 1 year.

Also, although the team made semis twice under Morris both times the side lost more than it won and had soft draws. As soft as this years.
 

Quicksilver

Bench
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Rubbish, what's the highest we finished under Morris?

How many top 8 teams was he able to beat?

We managed to knock off 3 of the 4 teams still in this comp and didn't do too badly against the Panthers.

All this in a year where we've a pretty sizeable and suspension toll. We've lost BHU for an extended period, Katoa and Jack Williams both suffered season ending injuries and we lost our fullback for about 8 weeks this year.

We were busted last night and it showed but anyone who can't see the enormous improvement we've managed this year has rocks in their head.
Injuries?

Please. Have a look back at what Morris had to contend with. Long list of injuries+ salary cap reduction.

Now we are just making up excuses.

Good clubs have a next man up policy. You just get it done
 

coolumsharkie

Referee
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I hope I am totally wrong.

Father and son, once in finals coaching are now 0-4.

1988 0-2 straight out.
1989 0-1 won playoff to get in lost to Raiders who went all the way.
2022 0-1 .

We need to beat South's it's not a stat Fitz would want that the family could be 0-5 in finals
Lets compare 2 incomparable era's of footy and make a stat around it because we happen to have lived long enough that a father and now also a son has coached the Sharks. Grow up mate.
 
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Hey guess what, I just thought of a great father and son stat post to make a thread about!

both Steve and Matt Rogers played for the Sharks and didn’t win a Premiership!!!

oh another one!
Shane Flanagan coached the Sharks and his son Kyle played for the Sharks, Shane won a
premiership and Kyle didn’t!

oh another one!
John, Adam and Kade Dykes have played for the Sharks and not won a Premiership!

oh another one!
Chad Townsend and his brother in law, Scott Sorensen, both played for the Sharks with Chad winning a Premiership and Scott only for Newtown and Penrith, not the Sharks!

oh another one!
Scott Sorensen and his Uncles, Kurt and Dane, all played for the Sharks and didn’t win a Premiership


so this is what it feels like to be post my jumbled thoughts thinking that they are interesting and everyone must see them..
it only took a couple of daze on the piss with bugger all sleep to get my brain in this productive manner…

please carry it on
 
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Oh another one!
John and his son Martin, the Langs, coached and played for the Sharks and didn’t win a Premiership!

my brain is on fire now!
 

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