OT: Your most heartbreaking sharkie moment??

[30 Year Sharkie]

Preliminary final 1988 vs Balmain. We had players out, and they had Ellery Hanley who won it more or less single-handed. After winning the minor premiership with a string of awesome wins we really thought that this was the year. It was a long long trip home from the SFS that day....

 

[wittyfan]

1999 Semi-Final against the Dragons....

 

[Jimbo]

2001 Semi-Final v Newcastle. A bee's dick in it, and made worse by the ease with which they disposed of Parramatta in the big one...

 

[Nuffs]

99 semi vs dragons for sure

i found a new hate for that team

and made worse when Melbourne beat them proving that we should have won

 

[andrew flap]

I'm with Sullyfan - 1999 semi loss to Saints.

Mundine had the best game I ever saw him play. Watching The Storm beat them next week was heart breaking.

Close second was the 1978 GF. I was sure Rogers went to ground with Steve Edmonds unmarked outside when the scores were tied.

 

[30 Year Sharkie]

Yeah, perhaps the topic should have added (excluding any loss to the stains)

 

[30 Year Sharkie]

Good call AF - but wasnt 1978 GF won by Greg Hartley if I recall correctly :evil:

 

[Shark]

As hard as the 2001 loss to Newcastle was, and as bad as the 1999 fiasco was, I'd have to say the loss to the Warriors in 2002.

While we would have then come up against a red-hot Rorters team, with guys like Triester, McKenna and co in the side, they would have gotten us home on pride alone.

I think the reason this one stands out for me is that it was the last genuine chance we had with some 'heart and soul' blokes in the side. Now, to see a side that has grown up together and formed a real bonded team, we'll need to wait a few years.

Sure, we'll be competitive over the next couple of years, but until the likes of Hilder, Sully, Aitken, Simmons, Galloway etc are household names, we won't have a 'home grown' side to be proud of.

 

[carcharias]

Watching The Storm beat them next week was heart breaking

HUH?

 

[andrew flap]

3O year sharkie, I stand corrected

 

[Shark]

Well, it WAS hearbreaking!

The Storm were not that good, imagine what our boys would have done to them!

 

[bazza]

Nigel Vagana's try in golden point extra time

Closely followed by Adam Dykes leaving at the end of 2001

 

[carcharias]

Well, it WAS hearbreaking!

If your a stain maybe , personally I really enjoyed the outcome.

 

[Jimbo]

I thought it was hysterical actually...

 

[In-a-rage]

1999 Semi-Final against the Dragons....

Ditto

 

[imasharkie]

Always has been the 1978 Greg Hartley inspired manly getting over us in the replay of the grand final....I still haven't forgiven Bob Fulten or Graham Eadie and I'm pretty damn sure I'll catch up with Greg Hartley in heaven where he'll have to pay his dues.

 

[Mr Angry]

Ou treatment of Peachey 2004.

 

[King of the Hill]

I've never been so gutted and felt as physically ill after a game as I was when we lost in 2002 to NZ

I'd been drinking since 11...drinking at the game...didnt finish til after midnight, had more than 30 beers and still didnt feel drunk in the slightest

I'm told that people who drink after a close relative have died experience a similar phenomenon

 

[tUp]

99. that was our year.

dunno why but 01 and 02 arnt quites as heartbreaking for me.

 

[chili pepper]

Hard to choose between the losses in 2001 and 2002.

Probably go with 2001 because the rain beat us as much as anything that night. Fine weather - we win and then go on to beat the eels. Not so sure we could have beaten the Roosters in 2002.