Lift your game Idjets - Is this the Game Day Thread or what?

[shadowboxer]

I know the opposition coach from yesterday would be cheering at a 4-3 start, not a great pass mark but enough to fly out of media crap and build on something.
Bradman Best can go suck it as well

 

[Craigshark]

Ponga, Schiller and Sharpe aren’t the ones you want to be defending from a quick 20m restart either

 

[BWNB]

Our start shouldn't be understated.
The amount of travel we have done thus far is the same that the dogs will do all season.

 

[glenmoresharkie]

Take nothing away from our performance yesterday, but Newcastle are absolutely shit. Easily the worst team we’ve played this season so far

 

[jc155776]

The team is wrecked in the last ten minutes every week because we effectively play with a three man bench. It’s insane.

 

[Frenzy.]

The team is wrecked in the last ten minutes every week because we effectively play with a three man bench. It’s insane.

There could be advantage to that during the pointy end of the season.

 

[R-15-3]

As boring as it was at times to watch iv got to give Fitz, Hynes & Tricky credit for sticking to the no risk game plan.
It would have been easy once we got on top to go out and throw the ball around and put 60 on them but us throwing it around was the only way Newcastle had a chance in hell of winning it.

 

[bluefox68]

The other reason for dying with the ball in the opposition's 'red zone' was probably to avoid any chance of Ponga taking advantage of an uneven defensive line.

 

[Since 73]

Pongas on strike and sulking because Dylan browns getting more attention, he refuse to take the line on. Refuses to shimmy and shake. Waiting for uncle Nick to call.

Dane gagai dropped everything that came his way and missed every tackle. A shame for a guy playing his 41st season.

Bradman best is as interested as a lesbian at a Chippendale show.

Fletcher the mad runner reminds me of Forest gump running sideways over the sideline - and if that blokes the future of the knights halves make space on the wall for a spoon.

Halfbacks: Cogger. Hastings. Gambol. The amount of money that lot command on a salary cap should be lucky to keep a constipated vegan in toilet paper for a year.

Jayden Brayley. FMD.

Obviously this mob are off the coach.
So whereas two points is just that - coming away from that game tells us f**k all rather than when a training run is all that's required, we are your guys.
A classic rinse and repeat.

The same guys doing the same things for the same result.

We will look ahead tp the Tigs next week and coach Futz would be thinking, shit I could sit home this week and dial it in.

When the hapless knights were on their knees yesterday and running into each other, a true contender with a taste for blood senses the kill, licks their lips and puts them to the sword. A death befitting any wayward knight.
But not our mob.
No.
We just f-f-f-f- fade away.

The same blokes are weak.
Between the ears and in the contest when the momentum starts to shift and some guy in a different jumper decides, hang on I might begin a bit of a fightback here..
Rather than take that interloper off at the knees we lay out the carpet.

That try yesterday where kazoo beat 13 ....well, the word defender isn't right...imposters is exhibit A of where we are at the moment.

Any mob who turns up and decides to turn up the heat will see us turn up our toes.
The mouthy renaldo shuts up shop. Ramien cant find his invitation. The hooker plays eyes down footy. The 7 pulls up a chair and the rest of the usual suspects follow suit.

That's what I got out of yesterday.
Just a repeat of the past 5 weeks.
We fold and get worse the longer it gets.

The exception to that was the doggies who muscled us into embarrassment.

The lock? No idea what that's all about. Boring and Ineffective.
Atkins. No idea what that's all about.
Stupid.
Trindall doesn't know whether hes Arthur or Martha, he just knows he's the halfback, but he isn't.
Confusing.
Sifa. The one bloke...the ONE BLOKE...the opposition think f**k, this will be hard - is put on the shortest leash we have.

 

[Weaponhead]

Our start shouldn't be understated.
The amount of travel we have done thus far is the same that the dogs will do all season.

The travel is largely self inflicted. The Sharks lobbied to go to Vegas and chose to take a home game to Perth.

4 and 3 after the first quarter of the season is ok. Performance has been just OK overall. Results more important than performance for now. Want to be peaking for the big games at the end of the season.

The Canberra game sucked because they threw away 2 points. The Dogs jumped us. Didn't match their intensity.

 

[DJDL]

Pongas on strike and sulking because Dylan browns getting more attention, he refuse to take the line on. Refuses to shimmy and shake. Waiting for uncle Nick to call.

Dane gagai dropped everything that came his way and missed every tackle. A shame for a guy playing his 41st season.

Bradman best is as interested as a lesbian at a Chippendale show.

Fletcher the mad runner reminds me of Forest gump running sideways over the sideline - and if that blokes the future of the knights halves make space on the wall for a spoon.

Halfbacks: Cogger. Hastings. Gambol. The amount of money that lot command on a start cap be lucky to keep a constipated vegan in toilet for a year.

Obviously this mob are off the coach.
So whereas two is just that - coming away from that game tells f**k all rather than when a training run is all that's required, we are your guys.
A classic rinse and repeat.

The same guys doing the same things for the same result.

We will look ahead at the Tigs next week and coach Futz would be thinking, shit I could sit home this week and dial it in.

When the hapless knights were on their knees yesterday and running into each other, a true contender with a taste for blood senses the kill, licks their lips and puts them to the sword. A death befitting any wayward knight.
But not our mob.
No.
We just f-f-f-f- fade away.

The same blokes are weak.
Between the ears and in the contest when the momentum starts to shift and some guy in a different jumper decides, hang on I might show a start a but of a fightback here..
Rather than take that interloper off at the knees we lay out the carpet.

That try yesterday where kazoo beat 13 ....well, the word defender isn't right...imposters is exhibit A of where we are at the moment.

Any mob who turns up and decides to turn up the heat will see us turn up our toes.
The mouthy renaldo shuts up shop. Ramien cant find his invitation. The hooker plays eyes down footy. The 7 pulls up a chair and the rest of the usual suspects follow suit.

That's what I got out of yesterday.
Just a repeat of the past 5 weeks.
We fold and get worse the longer it gets.

The exception to that was the doggies who muscled us into embarrassment.

The lock? No idea what that's all about. Boring. Ineffective

Atkins. No idea what that's all about.
Stupid.
Trindall doesn't know whether hes Arthur or Martha, he just knows he's the halfback, but he isn't.
Confusing.
Sifa. The one bloke...the ONE BLOKE...the opposition think f**k, this will be hard - is put on the shortest leash we have.

If it looks like a washup and smells like washup...
Pretty spot on.

 

[Feej 2: Electric Boogaloo]

We won, right?

Right?

 

[Since 73]

See that attitude.
That gets you into the 8.
Or...maybe not.

Any team who's won a comp in the last 1 to 100 years absolutely pummel their opposition at every opportunity.
Raiders in the 80s
The broncs of the 90s.
The Storm and Penrith.
They let everyone know their have the biggest dicks. They swing them for everyone to see - and that knights side yesterday...The Storm or Pennies from last few years, they reach 60.
That's the statement they make.

We won that's great.
2 points.
On track for the semi's.
But our mobs mentality in big games....
Or when the dogs played us 3 weeks ago and decided it was a chance to make a statement....
Or when the Raiders are coming to get us in the 79th minute....

That mentality, that fluff in the chest cavity, that isn't playing footy in October.

 

[Get_Sharked]

See that attitude.
That gets you into the 8.
Or...maybe not.

Any team who's won a comp in the last 1 to 100 years absolutely pummel their opposition at every opportunity.
Raiders in the 80s
The broncs of the 90s.
The Storm and Penrith.
They let everyone know their have the biggest dicks. They swing them for everyone to see - and that knights side yesterday...The Storm or Pennies from last few years, they reach 60.
That's the statement they make.

We won that's great.
2 points.
On track for the semi's.
But our mobs mentality in big games....
Or when the dogs played us 3 weeks ago and decided it was a chance to make a statement....
Or when the Raiders are coming to get us in the 79th minute....

That mentality, that fluff in the chest cavity, that isn't playing footy in October.

This is a real nice sentiment — I remember in 2016 when we’d locked up a top 4 spot and we just decided to fall asleep for about five weeks against some of the shittest teams in the comp.

Or, there’s the Storm this year, swinging their big dicks around while they get done by the Dragons and absolutely pummelled by the Dolphins.

I guess the point I’m making is that it’s a lovely fantasy but most premiers or even premiership contenders have flat spots in their season.

 

[Since 73]

Absolutely.
Nobody goes 26 undefeated.
So 7 rounds in.
Whats the opposite of a flat spot?
A high spot?

After 7 rounds. Name which game was our high spot. Can't say half a game. That doesn't count.

In which game have we put a lesser side to the sword and shown we are tough mean biggus dickus's in the mould of the Storm.
Or Penrith.
Or Gal/feefs/wade/Lewie.

I've obviously missed it.

 

[2012....Sharks Year]

Think there’s every chance we’re top 4 bound again. No Rorters or Pennies and a good run home plus 3 byes still to come. Storm are beatable as well. f**k if the goons can beat them….surely we can as well.

 

[Frenzy.]

The team is wrecked in the last ten minutes every week because we effectively play with a three man bench. It’s insane.

There could be advantage to that during the pointy end of the season.

 

[Frenzy.]

We won, right?

Right?

Yeah but there were gaping holes in our game. Particularly these defensive stats. 80.27%. Lucky the Knights attack is about as potent as a missing cock.

 

[roboshark]

46 misses tackles. Shit. Didn tseem to be the many. Although 30 of them were probably for that knights try at the end

 

[DJDL]

After 7 rounds. Name which game was our high spot. Can't say half a game. That doesn't count.

This is the point I can't stop coming back to.
We are 7 rounds in and not once this year have we shown anything to make me think "holy shit, we're the real deal".

Yesterday was an opportunity to show something and we largely fired blanks.

Everything going our way - a depleted Knights pack, heavily lopsided possession, one man advantage for 10 minutes - and we limp to a 20 point win.
Well woopdee f**king doo. 12 of those points were scored when the Knights were down a man (6 of them from an intercept).

I'll concede there were a few glimpses of better play, notably Brails' set up of WK's try, but really nothing to get carried away with.

It may be true that they are being held back for later in the year, but I'm not convinced.

As you said earlier, to have the one player capable of consistently causing headaches for the opposition reduced to 20 minute cameo appearances week after week is bewildering.
And it does nothing to convince me that the coach is not an Absolute Farquing Pillock (AFP©)