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I stopped reading when they called him a rising star

I dont think it does if he is medically retired though ? That's the rort. If you sign a bloke over 30 to a multi year deal you should get penalised

No shock at all to see Finucane get medically retired today. We must be the only club not to rort this rule. He was no chance to last 4 years and has barely made it through 2. The sharks should be made to include some of the payout under the cap for the next 2 years. They offered him the 4...

He still bagged us in his column over the weekend. Something about us ending our association with Toowoomba

Honestly the dumbest fine ever. Surely he will fight it (no pun intended)

Lol at Hetherington. Jumped out of the way Cat

Lol. Said he was hoping to make it to half time and then get another needle. They told the coach what he said and his eyes nearly popped out of his head

You misspelled gold. Its spelt s, h, i, t

He can now if he wants mate . On market since November last year. Surprised he hasn’t been picked up

They were trying to get Sanders from Parra before Fogarty got injured. Zero for us to gain by releasing Sexton. He is off contract at the end of the year and isn’t on big money. Provides depth in the halves. Unless it’s a player swap for a middle

Yep he is ordinary under the high ball. Has been playing right wing but I think they will move him to the other side to avoid the fox

Geez you are a hard task master. Those other 2 games have nothing to do with our game bro. Eels and warriors were shit. If knights play shit then we should dust them up. But they are still a decent team with an absolute gun at fullback so I wouldn’t be expecting a 20 point drubbing. Hopefully...

I get what you are saying mate but the storm were easily the better team. 6 line breaks to 1. The score flattered the rorters. Teddy is up there these days with Gutho as the biggest whinger in the comp. You can see the refs have had enough by the way they talk to him. Gus nailed it last year...

There was an article online that said they have made changes to combat our left edge. Not sure what though. Maybe they will move Hastings to that side. If they leave Gagai and Marzhew on the right we should exploit that. Fox another 3

I agree it’s time for Sexton at half. But not Taafe

Yep nothing wrong with Sexton. Deserves a go

Pure kennel gold suggesting Taafe at halfback. Never played an NRL game there (or very few). Can he even defend in the front line ?? Does he have a kicking game apart from one off the shin on Good Friday ? Go back and watch the highlights from last year when Rajab got his ass handed to him as...

We finished above them in 2019

Hynes on 14. Wow Biggest myth in the NRL. Sympathy votes because of his mum

Just checked the ladder. Can’t believe we are 15th (again). That ain’t fair. Last year when we played the knights at home they were 14th and we were 15th. Same as this year. I think that was also a 2pm Sunday game. Hoping that’s where the similarities stop ….

Should have beat the third best team in the comp away from home with heaps of injuries. Not sure we need too many changes. On a side note, we would flog both of these sides playing now

I can live with the first miss but good goal kickers don’t miss 2 in a row from the same spot

Yep I would like to see him in the side but Ciro is a defensive coach and Skelton does let a few tries in. I just thought that with our light forward pack it would help them to have a beast like that getting your sets off to a good start. I think he ran for over 300 metres last week in NSW Cup...

Wouldn’t sign him for free mate because he would still take up a roster spot. Either goes to storm, panthers or ESL. Seen too many blokes like him who get paid on talent and not results

Geez mate big ask for Xerri give how long he has been out. Hughes also has a great kicking game. Kiraz played the world cup there and went ok. Need someone good under the high ball

No exemption I don’t think mate. Roosters got one for Walker the other week but he passed his HIA despite the doctor deeming it a category 1. Pretty sure Taafe didn’t pass his

Cooper Cronk smashed him on the coverage. Said it was the only tackle he made all night

What , make himself look like a goose ? It was a ridiculous statement from Robinson. Absolute tool

Atkins played his part well …

Worst win since OJ Simpson. But beggars can’t be choosers. So if the glove don’t fit you must acquit !!!

My man Isaac. One from a million is better than none from a million

Ciraldo is a lot tougher than Baz and I don’t reckon he would cop Gus’s shit. He said today in that presser that they agree on stuff and disagree on stuff. There was a game last year against Cronulla when we were getting steamrolled through the middle and the Channel 9 cameras panned to our...

You have every right to be nervous mate. 1. They have a superior roster 2. They have won 2 comps since the last time we made the finals 3. They have made the finals every year since 2017. We haven’t made them since 2016

Yep agree 100% bro. It’s virtually impossible to sign a high class halve these days without breaking the bank. Gotta develop one

You are no chance to get a job as a league journo mate. Making too much sense. They all want Gus to sign marquee players on unders to come to a club that hasn’t played finals in 8 years. No football manager in the NRL era has done that. None. Zilch. Nada. It fuckin makes no sense.

So you would have paid $1.4 million for Moses ?? You can’t say we “missed” him mate. It’s not as though we didn’t realise he was on the market and submitted our bid too late. Same with Luai. He went for more money. Moses stayed for less to be with a better side. I just can’t see how this is...

On NRL 360 he pretty much said that the dogs are on the improve but there are a few whispers around about Gus disagreeing with team selections. Said that it’s a story because of Goulds profile. It’s all nauseating to be honest. We lack middles and a good halfback. Some journos and a fair few...

Says Gould and Ciraldo are disagreeing on team selections. No sources. Just rumours

Yep exactly. I'm not sure what people expect. They have the best roster in the comp. Panthers dusted them up because they are the best team with the best system in the comp. I guess the frustration is building because we have sucked for so long. We will probably be 1 and 5 after next week when...

Oh please. As if 3 games is a big enough sample size

Mate Flanagan had enough chances. He is going ok at the dragons but its only 4 games in and he is playing with a world class halfback. The dragons actually signed him as a hooker. He is only playing in the halves because their first string five eighth mistook some bloke's head for a nail....

Does anyone even know if Crichton has the fitness levels to play fullback ? He had a limited pre season and has barely played any NRL there. He was decent in the World Cup but that’s hardly a genuine sample size.

You should email him mate. Tell him we need a world class halfback as well.

Don’t you have shirts to iron ?

Just had the wrong jersey on

Especially when we could have activated Wilson at 18th ffs. They literally had 15 fuckin minutes over the half time break to review it.

Agree mate but do you expect ? Happens every Good Friday. Lattrell charged today but we don’t even get a penalty. I do think we made a blunder by not switching the wingers over though. Kiraz nowhere near as good on the left wing. Also we design of plays to put our left winger in space and...

It’s south’s on Good Friday mate. They always get the calls

Yep he missed last years Good Friday game after getting knocked out at training. Then fox went down early and one of our backrowers went to the centres. Obvious flogging then happened

Yep agreed mate. We won’t really know how to judge that game until after this Friday. Gold Coast were awful. They have serious problems. It’s strange to see a club with a decent roster go so bad with a new coach.

Maybe 50-6 with the Brimson / Foran debacle. Although I reckon Foran was offside from the kick ..

Just checked the stats and a few stand out. - 9 to 3 penalty count against us (we did get 3 restarts though) - Errors were similar. They made 12. We made 10. - 8 line breaks to 1. We really should have won by 50

Home ground advantage makes a big difference mate. I reckon if that game was played at a lifeless Accor stadium with 12,000 fans then the score line is nowhere near as dominant

Pretty sure Taafe has never played an nrl game at halfback so would be shocked if this was even a consideration. He would be a massive defensive liability in the front line

Will foz break down after 10 minutes now he is back at Belmore ?

He can only do so much wen. Met with Moses. Met with AFB. A caller on the bsb rang in during the week when Josh Reynolds was on. Painful dude named Adrian that some of you would have heard. He had a shot at Gus and bagged him for not signing a top quality half or prop. Joshy had a shot at him...

I have heard that some people think we need props and a top line halfback. Hopefully Gus is aware of this.

We had nowhere near the team on paper that manly, Canberra and Brisbane had mate. We overachieved because we were a great team.

Yep the 2 extra times in the previous games combined with a 30 degree day caught up with us. Along with the 15 international players in the other side ….

Glad you got to see the second one mate. Marty Bella should give you a refund for 94

Literally one of the dumbest posts ever to say 2024 manly is better than 95 manly. You nailed the response. 95 manly won 15 in a row. They lost 2 games all year. Same as the raiders. Those 2 teams were so far in front of the others. It actually should have been the grand final. It took the...

Gus lives in a house that was once owned by infamous Sydney criminal George Freeman.

Even though the paper is a joke I am still astounded that his bosses haven't stepped in told him that he is sounding like a broken record. He is bagging us in every single column he writes. The old flog just doesn't know when to stop.

Great thread . I really hope we start winning soon so we can stop dishing up things like this. In what fucking world is Bennett coaching the dogs ???? He is in his 70’s. Family in QLD. Had a stint with rabbits as a last hurrah to try and win another comp after he was sacked by broncos. Sorry...

If Kikau stays down he gets sent

One of the worst calls was the Kiraz obstruction that didn’t get picked up. It was about 5 minutes after we were penalised for exactly the same bloody thing. The ref looked at the touchie but it happened near the posts so he should have called it himself. The sharks then ran it back to halfway .

1 try dudded by ref in way 1 try with foot just touching line They then get a try allowed where the bloke drops it and they deem it a kick. We were a lot closer than the score suggested. Not to mention so many other dud calls : Kikau high tackle Non call on Kiraz escort

Mate you have nailed it. Even though Ciraldo has only been coach for a year you are dead set right to label every player that has left the club in recent times is “killing it”. Would love for you to give a few examples to solidify your expert option. Keep in mind though that you can’t really...

One of the all time great ref stitch ups. Cost us a try by getting in the road and then blows a penalty 15 seconds later when they get the ball back.

John’s said Ciraldo told Burto to call him. Was all positive. Just asked him for advice. Main thing he told him was to not make a pass/run decision until he looks up. If he sees a broken line or an opportunity then run. If he sees nothing then give early ball. Also told him that all halves...

Burton rang Matt John’s about his comments this week

I thought the sharks would have promoted Royce Hunt’s younger brother Michael. Or Mike as he is more commonly known as.

I am pretty sure that heading into Round 2 last year not many people gave us a chance against the Storm down in Melbourne after we got hammered by Manly. We didnt have much go our way in that Manly game. A dodgy sin bin and some other 50/50 calls that were bordering on daylight robbery. The...

The game at shark park last year was men v boys

Looking like T-Rex 2.0 at the moment

Since when did Isaac start working at the roar ??

Yep it’s a tough slog mate. We can sign a high quality half back because we don’t have good middles. Moses knew that. And elite middles won’t come until we strengthen our pack so they don’t have to carry the others. Only choice is to build from within and then hopefully be in a position to...

The dogs name was Bella. On his first game back someone in the crowd had a sign that said : “Call me Mitch. Love Bella xx”

Sorry mate you are comparing apples and bowling balls. Everyone knows it’s a totally different market these days. The cap went up 20% last year and clubs locked in their key players. That was never the case back in Dessie’s day. The tigers paid $1.2 million for Luai. That should tell you how...

All good bro. We all just want a successful team. I could probably best sum it up this way. I listen to most podcasts because I spend a lot of time travelling for work. I am not a Brent Read fan at all but he made a good point about our performance on the weekend. Said something like : “It...

So basically what you are saying is that no one should ever be hired as an NRL coach if they haven’t been an NRL coach before ?? We will have some old farkin coaches using that logic. Can’t wait for Warren Ryan to take over next year. I also agree with everyone who is saying mass changes...

They will make Josh Jackson come back and stick an additional $750k on our cap

At penrith he was was getting the ball at centre from world class halves mate and on the back of good go forward. If he plays centre for us then who gets him that ball ? And where does the go forward come from ? He probably is a better centre than 5/8th but I still think his best position for...

No way is he gunna make any big changes after one game in which we hardly any ball. I think Crichton will end up at fullback but not sure he has the miles in the legs yet. Short pre season and only 20 minutes of a trial game. Pretty safe to assume he will have a longer pre season heading into...

Here is how I would sum up the game : - Parra are a better team than us - They played better than us on the day - The main reason they are better is that they have an elite halfback and really good middle forwards

Sorry not sure what you mean ??

Well the dolphins have been horrendous today. Titans horrendous last night. You saying their coaches are setting the standard ??

He can’t even make the Dolphins team

That’s the million dollar question. Is it the coaches fault we can’t hold the ball ? Is it Gus’s fault we are recruiting and retaining people who can’t hold the ball ? And it’s not just the errors. It’s the stupid penalties and other areas of poor discipline.

Yep that’s because we don’t have fucktards like Gutherson and Moses who put their arms out and question the ref after every tackle. It’s nauseating

Elements of our team are good on paper mate but we lack good middle forwards and a good halfback. Unfortunately these are the 2 main things that good sides have

Some people don’t seem to realise that when one team completes 41 out of 46 sets and the other team completes 24 out of 43 sets then fatigue might just be a little bit higher for the second team. We literally gave ourselves no chance in that game. The Burton fifth tackle penalty summed it up...

If you have a look at some set plays in the second half we created good chances for Kiraz on the left wing. Unfortunately the plays were clearly designed to get JAC some open space and Kiraz didn’t have the speed to take advantage. He ended up cutting back inside. Both times JAC scores if he is...

Agreed. Comparing the titans to Parra is ridiculous. But it does highlight what a good halfback can do for a team.

Critta can play both mate. Xerri is out and out a left sided player

Surely they can get someone better ffs.

Does anyone think Mark Carroll is seriously underrated as a commentator ??

Yep of course. The player market these days makes it nearly impossible to sign a high quality halfback. Woods and O’Neill are waiting in the wings