Gallen is the problem at the Sharks

[--Storm--]

The whole season was a wrote off the minute they decided to stick by there banned coach and hire a 1 year fill in, should have just signed a long term coach and moved on.

Gordon and Carney in your side along with a top forward pack you should be in the 8.

 

[DJShaksta]

The whole season was a wrote off the minute they decided to stick by there banned coach and hire a 1 year fill in, should have just signed a long term coach and moved on.

Gordon and Carney in your side along with a top forward pack you should be in the 8.

This.
Our board are FUGGEN inept.

 

[Spanner in the works]

Well Gallen is in quite the position now isn't he? He's got rid of his excuse for the team playing so poorly and there's nowhere else to go now. Perform or perish.

He'll probably roll out ASADA now as an excuse - is that on an every other fortnight rotation or something?

 

[Mr Angry]

Well Gallen is in quite the position now isn't he? He's got rid of his excuse for the team playing so poorly and there's nowhere else to go now. Perform or perish.

He'll probably roll out ASADA now as an excuse - is that on an every other fortnight rotation or something?

Yes clearly the sharks have the roster to go all the way this year. Make it so Gall.

 

[bartman]

Captain Peptide is probably just biding time until the ASADA suspensions are announced. Then his probable absence will leave the club even further down the gurgler.

Relocate this rabble now!

 

[Mr Angry]

Captain Peptide is probably just biding time until the ASADA suspensions are announced. Then his probable absence will leave the club even further down the gurgler.

Relocate this rabble now!

Location: In a fantasy world...

 

[Matchball]

I've always said the same.
He plays for himself, for origin is his only concern as it was the only glory he will ever taste.

Selfish and shouldn't be considered for captain.

 

[Griffoshark66]

Exactly. Leaders lift players around them. Can't see that with Gallen - despite him being a very good player.

You're an idiot.

 

[Griffoshark66]

The whole season was a wrote off the minute they decided to stick by there banned coach and hire a 1 year fill in, should have just signed a long term coach and moved on.

Gordon and Carney in your side along with a top forward pack you should be in the 8.

Have you watched us this year? Gordon and Piss face have had 3 good games between them. All of the best teams have a great spine. We have scoliosis.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Gallen was known for one thing before being made captain of the Sharks and NSW - being a grub. That's only half the problem with Gallen.

As a player, he always puts himself first - even Phil Gould alluded to this in the last State of Origin, saying that Gallen needed to get out of the play in the Queensland half.

So no, not surprised that the Sharks have been on a general downward trajectory under Gallens' leadership.

This pretty much sums it up...

He thinks he is the most important person on the field and in the team. Thats fine wen he's just using that belief to motivate everyont (think: Ray Lewis), but Gal gets in the way when someone else should be doing the job.

On the field he needs a half to tell him to get out of the way, and off it he needs a coach that tells him to shut his mouth.

(he'll get neither at Cronulla, but he'll never be told to leave. Gal's gonna be largely a burden until he retires and then he'll be inducted into the Sharks HoF....)

 

[eozsmiles]

when in doubt, blame the captain.

Teams usually blame the coach, but............

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Gallen comes across to me as exactly the sort of bighead who would see himself as bigger than the club he plays for.

 

[eozsmiles]

Gallen is a super player but I really don't rate him as a leader. Hasn't got much class tbh.

I think he is a great leader but not as captain necessarily. He is a bloke that would run through a wall and fight a bull and players follow that lead. But he gets too much red mist to be in control when things get dirty, and he wants the ball too much. I have no idea what he says behind closed doors but I doubt it's always measured. Guys like Watmough and JWH are leaders at their clubs because of their style of play, but they're not the captain. I see that type of leadership as being best for Gallen - just run hard and inspire others to follow.

 

[wibble]

whether or not he's a dick - every time he plays he plays huge...

There are other things wrong, obviously

Surely you're not serious?

Can't you see that the entirety of all problems the Sharks have can be blamed on Gallen?

He is so selfish he sticks with the team when clearly he does it for the money and the huge chance of premiership success he gets. No other team would want him anyway.

And he is the captain. Every thing every player or club member, board member, even every fan, does should be under scrutiny by him, and therefore his fault if it is wrong.

He stuffed up our finances by being so selfish he took less money to stay with us than he was offered to leave.

He is a grub too. So that means everything is also his fault.

And people don't like him. I bet Pauline Hanson doesn't like him. Bunnies Man obviously doesn't. Nor Phil Gould. That clinches it. It is his fault. Everything.

Gallen clearly doesn't lift the players around him. Players come to the Sharks for the chance to represent such a glorious club with its rich history of success. They merely "put up" with having Gallen there. The few times he has won the game for us (by being selfish, mind you) in no way inspires anyone else in the team, and his club and representative team mates and coaches all speak very poorly of him (since he is a selfish grub).

Although he has some cool powers, being Captain Peptide and all. Not only is it all his fault that the Sharks have any troubles at all, but his absence will send the Sharks further down the gurgler. He is special, he will make us worse by being at the Sharks AND by not being at the Sharks.

The main problem is he has no class. All the good props and back rowers in history, not to mention captains, were known for their class, but under Gallen's leadership the club has followed a general downward trajectory.

Before Gallen, the Sharks were a resounding success, off the field, financially, and of course results wise. But since he has joined the club, and particularly since he captained, we have just been getting worse and worse (though we did finish equal first one of those years and made the finals some of those years, and we have secured a development that is the most promising financial news in our history, those things were not due to Gallen), and obviously a good captain would make up for coaching, financial, senior player behaviour, backline talent, and injury deficiencies.

Since Melbourne finished last after a big scandal with Smith as Captain, I'd also like to nominate him as a useless captain.

Gallen and Smith, what have they ever done? What nuffie teams have they ever captained?

 

[Jaegerex]

Exactly. Leaders lift players around them. Can't see that with Gallen - despite him being a very good player.

You obviously haven't watched us much this year, not that I can blame you. Every game Gallen has played the team has played outstandingly better than it did without him, nearly everyone lifts, digs in, puts in a little bit of extra effort. Hell he pretty much ran training the past week which saw Cronulla claim their greatest come back in history.

I agree with Ezeosmiles summary fairly well, as a player leader he does an amazing job inspiring the players around him. I will admit he can get over involved and try to do too much when nothing else is happening around him, when others are hesitant, or exhausted he just knuckles down and says time for me again. In teams like Cronulla and some down in the trenches origin games it becomes very noticeable, but when he plays for Australia and the halves have that confidence he doesn't over play himself.

Without a doubt he isn't the best choice for someone to talk to the ref, as he just speaks his mind, consequences be damned and generally doesn't bother with the full sirs act some do. Unfortunately for Cronulla we don't field another true inspiring player, Graham can have his days but he doesn't lift the others like Gall does. He has the support and respect of the players and for that he wears our (C).

He is no angel, but he is one hell of a player and leader.

 

[Green River Eel]

Idiotic blog, yes Gallens the root of all the sharks dramas, beyond ridiculous.

 

[Miller was a legend]

End thread and end The OP while your at it. He is another example for Mascord to model the average league fan on

 

[bottle]

Everyone putting shit on him would give their left nut to have him at their club.
Easy to hate him, I know I do.
However I have enough of an appreciation of the game, and what constitutes a good player, to see past that and recognise that he is a once in a generation type of player.

He is one of the few at the moment who doesn't read from the script. He calls a spade an implement for digging holes, and he means it when he says it.

Get over the butthurt. The Sharks have been in shite of one sort or another since 1967. It was there before Gal, and it will be there after Gal.

 

[wibble]

Everyone putting shit on him would give their left nut to have him at their club.
Easy to hate him, I know I do.
However I have enough of an appreciation of the game, and what constitutes a good player, to see past that and recognise that he is a once in a generation type of player.

He is one of the few at the moment who doesn't read from the script. He calls a spade an implement for digging holes, and he means it when he says it.

Get over the butthurt. The Sharks have been in shite of one sort or another since 1967. It was there before Gal, and it will be there after Gal.

Stop talking sense bottle, that's not what this thread is all about.

 

[Hutty1986]

You obviously haven't watched us much this year, not that I can blame you. Every game Gallen has played the team has played outstandingly better than it did without him, nearly everyone lifts, digs in, puts in a little bit of extra effort. Hell he pretty much ran training the past week which saw Cronulla claim their greatest come back in history.

I agree with Ezeosmiles summary fairly well, as a player leader he does an amazing job inspiring the players around him. I will admit he can get over involved and try to do too much when nothing else is happening around him, when others are hesitant, or exhausted he just knuckles down and says time for me again. In teams like Cronulla and some down in the trenches origin games it becomes very noticeable, but when he plays for Australia and the halves have that confidence he doesn't over play himself.

Without a doubt he isn't the best choice for someone to talk to the ref, as he just speaks his mind, consequences be damned and generally doesn't bother with the full sirs act some do. Unfortunately for Cronulla we don't field another true inspiring player, Graham can have his days but he doesn't lift the others like Gall does. He has the support and respect of the players and for that he wears our (C).

He is no angel, but he is one hell of a player and leader.

Don't take too much notice of f*ckwit Daz, he has a lot of trouble giving credit to anything NSW-related. His meltdown since the Blues clinched the series has been absolutely outstanding. Gal is a fantastic leader and seeing him lift that SOO trophy next week will be one of the great moments.