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Snubbed Eels superstar Jarryd Hayne will get no sympathy from fired-up Sharks
Dose of the Blues: Jarryd Hayne was overlooked for an Origin spot despite impressive stats. Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: The Daily Telegraph
CRONULLA coach Shane Flanagan is one of thousands of passionate NSW rugby league fans who believe superstar fullback Jarryd Hayne should have been selected for the Blues.
But don't expect Flanagan to feel any sympathy for the snubbed Eels No. 1 when his Sharks go head-to-head with the Hayne Train at Parramatta Stadium tonight. In fact, Flanagan hopes he has come up with a few game plans to silence Hayne and rob him of any chance to send a two-fingered salute to NSW coach Ricky Stuart and his selectors for favouring Josh Dugan.
"Hopefully his game doesn't come tomorrow night," Flanagan said. "I don't think he's got too much to prove and thought he was hard done by," Flanagan said.
"From my point of view, Jarryd is an Origin player, he's got the points in him and worries the opposition. I respect Ricky's decision because he wanted a different style of fullback [in Dugan]. But Jarryd Hayne is still a good player.
"We've got a huge amount of respect for Jarryd, but we also can't just sit back and and let him do what he wants to do. We need to treat him like we would treat any other fullback with his class and take the game to him.
"He will be hard to handle and he'll come with his game, but we'll be coming with our own plan.
"You can try and kick away from him, but then you start messing up your kicking game.
"He'll get the ball at some stage, it's just how and where we give it to him."
Cronulla produced a brilliant defensive effort to beat the Roosters last weekend, and Flanagan said it was important to try and string back-to-back victories.
The Sharks have a brilliant record against the Eels in recent years, but will front up tonight without inspirational leader Paul Gallen and prop Kade Snowden, who are both in the NSW side.
One-time NRL whipping boys and a club which has for a long time been forced to pay overs to lure decent players, the Sharks leave the Shire tonight with a real belief they can continue their march up the ladder.
Flanagan showed that new belief when he said: "Tomorrow night is crucially important to us in relation to the season, not just the one game.
"If we win tomorrow night we're back in hunt [for the eight] and we can then look week-to-week rather than trying to get one win and keep away from the bottom of the table.
"We're not looking backwards. We want to see what we need to do to get into that eight."
Cronulla will be as per program, with former schoolboy rugby star Tyson Frizell to be dropped back to the Toyota Cup.
Flanagan said he wanted to give Frizell his NRL debut when more experienced players were on deck, including Gallen and injured forward Jeremy Smith.
Eels skipper Nathan Hindmarsh said there was no way his side would take Cronulla lightly.
He also said there was one area that Parramatta needed to address before they could commence their own march towards September.
"I'd love to see us push out an 80-minute effort," Hindmarsh said. "We played well against the Warriors [in round one], but the last 10 or 15 minutes they scored a couple of tries."
The Eels led against North Queensland last weekend before being beaten convincingly.
Ok so why the fu** name him when clearly those two players were not going to play?:crazy:
- <LI class="byline first ">Christian Nicolussi <LI class="source " sizcache="40" sizset="198">From: The Daily Telegraph
- May 23, 2011 12:00AM
Dose of the Blues: Jarryd Hayne was overlooked for an Origin spot despite impressive stats. Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: The Daily Telegraph
CRONULLA coach Shane Flanagan is one of thousands of passionate NSW rugby league fans who believe superstar fullback Jarryd Hayne should have been selected for the Blues.
But don't expect Flanagan to feel any sympathy for the snubbed Eels No. 1 when his Sharks go head-to-head with the Hayne Train at Parramatta Stadium tonight. In fact, Flanagan hopes he has come up with a few game plans to silence Hayne and rob him of any chance to send a two-fingered salute to NSW coach Ricky Stuart and his selectors for favouring Josh Dugan.
"Hopefully his game doesn't come tomorrow night," Flanagan said. "I don't think he's got too much to prove and thought he was hard done by," Flanagan said.
"From my point of view, Jarryd is an Origin player, he's got the points in him and worries the opposition. I respect Ricky's decision because he wanted a different style of fullback [in Dugan]. But Jarryd Hayne is still a good player.
"We've got a huge amount of respect for Jarryd, but we also can't just sit back and and let him do what he wants to do. We need to treat him like we would treat any other fullback with his class and take the game to him.
"He will be hard to handle and he'll come with his game, but we'll be coming with our own plan.
"You can try and kick away from him, but then you start messing up your kicking game.
"He'll get the ball at some stage, it's just how and where we give it to him."
Cronulla produced a brilliant defensive effort to beat the Roosters last weekend, and Flanagan said it was important to try and string back-to-back victories.
The Sharks have a brilliant record against the Eels in recent years, but will front up tonight without inspirational leader Paul Gallen and prop Kade Snowden, who are both in the NSW side.
One-time NRL whipping boys and a club which has for a long time been forced to pay overs to lure decent players, the Sharks leave the Shire tonight with a real belief they can continue their march up the ladder.
Flanagan showed that new belief when he said: "Tomorrow night is crucially important to us in relation to the season, not just the one game.
"If we win tomorrow night we're back in hunt [for the eight] and we can then look week-to-week rather than trying to get one win and keep away from the bottom of the table.
"We're not looking backwards. We want to see what we need to do to get into that eight."
Cronulla will be as per program, with former schoolboy rugby star Tyson Frizell to be dropped back to the Toyota Cup.
Flanagan said he wanted to give Frizell his NRL debut when more experienced players were on deck, including Gallen and injured forward Jeremy Smith.
Eels skipper Nathan Hindmarsh said there was no way his side would take Cronulla lightly.
He also said there was one area that Parramatta needed to address before they could commence their own march towards September.
"I'd love to see us push out an 80-minute effort," Hindmarsh said. "We played well against the Warriors [in round one], but the last 10 or 15 minutes they scored a couple of tries."
The Eels led against North Queensland last weekend before being beaten convincingly.
Ok so why the fu** name him when clearly those two players were not going to play?:crazy:
