Round 4: Cronulla Sharks vs St.George-Illawarra Dragons

[Queenslander]

Cronulla Sharks vs St.George-Illawarra Dragons
Monday April 9, 7:00pm; Toyota Park

Referee: Tony Archer

Team Notes:

Sharks

Dragons

Teams:

Cronulla Sharks

1 Brett Kearney
2 David Simmons
3 Ben Pomeroy
4 Fraser Anderson
5 Luke Covell
6 Brett Seymour
7 Brett Kimmorley
8 Phil Leuluai
9 Kevin Kingston
10 Luke Douglas
11 Reece Williams
12 Lance Thompson
13 Greg Bird.

Interchange:

14 Craig Stapleton
15 Ben Ross
16 Cameron Ciraldo
17 Isaac De Gois
19 Paul Gallen (one to be omitted).

St.George-Illawarra Dragons

1. Brett Morris
2. Josh Morris
3. Luke MacDougall
4. Matt Cooper
5. Wes Naiqama
6. Ben Hornby (c)
7. Mathew Head
8. Justin Poore
9. Tony Caine
10. Jason Ryles (c)
11. Ashton Sims
12. Sam Isemonger
13. Ben Creagh.

Interchange:

14. Adam Peek
15. Danny Wicks
16. Dan Hunt
17. Richard Williams
18. Corey Payne
19. Rangi Chase
20. Keith Lulia (three to be omitted).

***Please use this thread for game day spoilers and general match information***

[Capital_Shark]

Finally good to see my team change after a loss, something Raper was incapable of.

I like the changes from Ricky too. Kearney is at his best at fullback, chiming into the line with speed and ball playing skills, even if he can be a little suss under the high ball, its worth it.

Simmons will add some speed out wide, he's just gotta stop returning the ball like a cat. Anderson and Pommeroy in the centres I like, both aggressive runners and fairly sound in defense. Anderson moved 1 in from the wing will see him get more ball, which I like cause he's been strong and dangerous with the little bit he's had on the wing.

Interested to see Seymour and Noddy in the halves. Seymour's speed will come in handy as Noddy has slowed noticeably. Seymour's experience playing second fiddle to Locky will remove any dominance conflict in the halves.

Douglas and Leuluia starting is good to see, they both ran the ball up well last weekend, as did Stapleton who will give 'em hell coming off the bench. Ross had the least impact of all the forwards, which is probably why we're seeing him start from the bench. He'll improve though, he is coming back from a year off with injury.

I'm expecting to see Ciraldo get the chop and Gallen come into the team if his fitness is good enough, which will be a great boost for us.

Won't be an easy game by any means, but hopefully Ricky is tearing into 'em and we can come away with a grubby win in the local derby.

Sharks 1-12.

[Coaster]

I was surprised Seymor didnt play for you last weekend.

He is not that bad of a player, just didnt fit into the Broncos structure.

Ill back the Sharks if they play like they did first 2 rounds.

:edit: Gallen back is a massive plus

[Poida]

How long is Hannay out for?


Tough one but Ill go with the Sharks by 6

[Capital_Shark]

How long is Hannay out for?


Tough one but Ill go with the Sharks by 6

Until Ricky puts him back. He's not injured. It was Cooper who got injured - he's out for 3 weeks or something if I remember correctly. No real loss but, not to FG anyway, he'll be dwelling in PL for a while when he gets back I reckon.

[Hoppy2007Dragons]

Brett Morris back you ripper.

This should be a cracker of a game, the local derby always is, going on Ryles recent form and Poores good game last week, i think we can dominant Gallen and Ross, (when he comes of the bench) hopefully head and hronby can click and get us some ball wide.

Hopefully this week we can take the oppurtunitys with both hands and cut out the silly mistakes.

Dragons by 1-6.

CS feel like a sig bet?

[Steelers]

We have a half decent side considering their misfortunes as of late.

[Capital_Shark]

CS feel like a sig bet?

I make it a rule to never bet on my team, but thats only ever been with money, so yeah, seeing as its the local derby, your on mate.

[Rabbitohs-07]

Be a good game this one. Finally they used thereheads and moved Kearney where he should be playing. As Shark's said he might be a bit sus under the high ball but his ball playing skills and speed makes up for it it.

[Dragons]

I think this is a turn around for the Dragons and am picking a good win by the boys. (13+)

[Rabbitohs-07]

We don't have a biest opinion do we here?

Oh and sorry I have to say this. Why the F%$! is Luke McDougle in the damn team. He sucks so much

[Hoppy2007Dragons]

Good cs, looking forward to it.

Also Macdougall has yet to play his best for the dragons, he played quite well at Souths, the one aspect i like is his dummy half running its generally straight forward and hitting as hard as possible.

Its because Gasnier is out.

A full strenght back line i believe would be:

1. Hornby
2. B Morris
3. Cooper
4. Naiqama
5. J Morris
6. Gasnier
7. Head

So with gas out and hornby at 5/8, luke is the only other expirenced back, giving stanley, Lulia, Williams, B Morris are all debuts, so he is in their because hes played first grade before.

[Capital_Shark]

I liked the look of Rangi Chase out of dummy half for the Dragons the other night, our big fellas would wanna be aware when he's on the field.

[Hoppy2007Dragons]

I didn't Cs, he kept getting drivng backwards when he went for a dummy half run and ended up making little or losing ground at time, but i can see him as a hooker of the future.

[Capital_Shark]

I didn't Cs, he kept getting drivng backwards when he went for a dummy half run and ended up making little or losing ground at time, but i can see him as a hooker of the future.

His lack of NRL experience showed, no doubt. I just thought he looked the goods and has buckets of potential. Depending on how quick the kid learns, it shouldn't take long to knock the errors on the head, then he'll be very dangerous I think.