Round 17 v Sharks - Game Day Thread

[Joshuatheeel]

Didn't see the game. Who lost it for us, Parra or the refs?

Us and the refs. To much dropped ball in the second half but refs didn't help

 

[yy_cheng]

Didn't see the game. Who lost it for us, Parra or the refs?

Foran

 

[Noise]

So our we edges leaked a few tries, which side was KE on? Was it his side ? Very hard for a forward to defend in the halves

He was on the right. Most of their tries were on the right. He was quite lost out there

 

[Avenger]

You can be as brain dead as you like about finding a scapegoat to assuage your fragile ego and insecurities.

We didn't lose that game because our left winger had a quiet game.

ps I'm not sure why you would accuse me of being diplomatic.

Seriously a fragile ego? get a grip you fat merkin.

 

[Bazal]

at one stage we had

2. French
3. Gutha
6. KE
and

Teps, Peni, Gower and O'Brien

on

And those 7 blokes are incapable of tackling? Barring extraordinary circumstances you shouldn't lose from 18 blot up. Simple. I'm sure BA will agree.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Key moments:

Gutho dropped the certain try off the French pass
Cronulla scoring off 2 forward passes/knock on's in the
Cronulla scoring off Fifita's knock on
Cronulla scoring off a blantant forward pass

So pretty much we should have won by 6-8

Add the scrum feed which went the Sharks in the first half where they scored off the following set. The ball went out off the Sharks but apparently they didn't play at it

 

[Bazal]

He was on the right. Most of their tries were on the right. He was quite lost out there

We were way too far in on the whole right edge tbh. Not sure who dragged them in but the whole right side was shown up

 

[yy_cheng]

And those 7 blokes are incapable of tackling? Barring extraordinary circumstances you shouldn't lose from 18 blot up. Simple. I'm sure BA will agree.

You're kidding mate.

It's not just tackling, its the art of slowing the ruck. We've struggled with that for many years. Scott does a good job but do you expect when he is off that these newbies can.

 

[Bigfella]

We were way too far in on the whole right edge tbh. Not sure who dragged them in but the whole right side was shown up[/QUOTE

They were but the left side was poor too. We were often badly staggered and they frequently went their right first and took advantage then ounces back the other way.

But that is all a symptom of them punching massive holes in the middle first.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

We were way too far in on the whole right edge tbh. Not sure who dragged them in but the whole right side was shown up

If KE was on that side, it would have been his inexperience

 

[Avenger]

Are we missing Peats? Did Nelson even get on?

 

[Mr Pmatta]

Was madness how long Scott was off for.

Agreed, idiotic decision by our coach....

 

[Wally21]

Refs were shocking. No question they got the sharks over the line with hometown calls. Sharks controlled the ruck because they were able to hold us down for an inordinate amount of time.
On another note, Jennings offers absolutely nothing. Semi was crap. Gutho is not a centre, his D was terrible. And geez we need another playmaker out there... Love Kenny, but love him much better as a backrower

 

[Bazal]

You're kidding mate.

It's not just tackling, its the art of slowing the ruck. We've struggled with that for many years. Scott does a good job but do you expect when he is off that these newbies can.

We were 18-0 up. You should never lose a game from that position. The first two Sharks tries were a simple failure of sliding defence and marking up, nothing to do with slowing the ruck or any other nonsense. I'm encouraged by the fight we showed, but we should not be accepting blowing that start.

 

[Bigfella]

Seriously a fragile ego? get a grip you fat merkin.

You are a weak merkin and you know it.

You like to pretend otherwise but all your posturing is because you are a soft weak merkin who needs to blame people to make himself feel better

 

[Avenger]

We were way too far in on the whole right edge tbh. Not sure who dragged them in but the whole right side was shown up

That's Edwards inexperience at 6 and Jennings' fat lateral movement.

 

[Bigfella]

I'm or obably being too diplomatic again.

Maybe you should sell a house and buy a thesaurus.

 

[strider]

We were great. If Foran plays in this game we win.

If jeff robson plays we may well have won that game

We desperately need another half ... kenny can be ok but he's not a half

 

[yy_cheng]

We were way too far in on the whole right edge tbh. Not sure who dragged them in but the whole right side was shown up[/QUOTE

They were but the left side was poor too. We were often badly staggered and they frequently went their right first and took advantage then ounces back the other way.

But that is all a symptom of them punching massive holes in the middle first.

We had an umbrella defense earlier on in the year but that;s gone.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Watch this from Gallen:

https://twitter.com/adammobbs/status/749180875947044864

The ref gave us nothing tonight ?