Postgame Livestream Round 16, 2026 Cronulla at Sydney Roosters

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[00:01:24] 12th season of doing it, nights like tonight make it tougher. Really disappointing game. Discipline out the window. Completely disappointed in that side of things. If you take the discipline out of it, and if you hold that ball, you're probably going to win the game or go close to it. It was not as lopsided on the, as far as playing as what the score would suggest, but the discipline. The game was a good one. Nine penalties to four, and three set restarts or two in our favor.

[00:01:51] It was just nowhere near good enough. We ended up with 82% possession, but in the first half we only got into their opposition 20 meter line. I don't know if we did in the first half, I'll have to look that up. Anyway. Interesting. All around, love to hear your thoughts on it. There's a stream yard link if you want to jump in and have your call. No swearing of course, but everything else will be tolerated. All right.

[00:02:18] Sharky Boy Gonzalez says, tough watch with some tough calls. Three out of four is still not bad. We go on. We're definitely going on. That's the good news. My man, Josh Bolling has been into me about the tough calls tonight. We've been disagreeing about that, but I'm open to hearing about all the tough calls, but here's Danny. Danny says, before I go off, willing to think the Sharks forwards had no intensity in the Sharks outside backs. Can't defend. Can't blame Hines and Kennedy for that. Okay.

[00:02:45] So there's no blaming Hines and Kennedy. That's good. Yeah. Lacklaster in a lot of ways, Danny. Thank you. J F M says, unfortunately, I think our poor discipline tonight was the issue. And I completely agree with that. Sean does say we couldn't get the rub of the green. Thank you for that. Sean. Drew says, Will's been good this year. The reason he'd never be elite is he makes errors in big games at big stadiums. Going set for the set in the first half. He makes unforced errors.

[00:03:15] Very unfortunate. I agree with that, Drew completely. You won't hear me defend will about those things. But tonight, I don't know if that costs them things. Like it didn't, like it didn't help. But I don't know if the errors were the problem tonight. Team wide. But I appreciate you saying that. And it wasn't one of his better games. I'm with Wes here. Strange game. Was a strange game. Hello to everyone on the Insta. Hello to everyone worldwide. Love you guys and girls tuning in here for a little while. So don't be shy. Don't be a stranger.

[00:03:43] The only thing I ask is everything above board. We're not going to go for cheap shots and gutter shots. Be as critical as you want. You can say it on this show. I know you think you can't, but you can. But just be fair about it. That's all. Jay says, defensively for most of the night, the boys were really good. Yeah, there was some one-on-ones here or there. However, Ronaldo is poor discipline and didn't have a great game. Braley struggled to get in the front foot. And in turn meant lack of dummy half runs and not playing on the front foot.

[00:04:13] Yeah, I don't know if Blake was the problem there though, Jay, because I thought it was more the forwards, not necessarily forwarding. I thought Blake was fine. I didn't think the arm was an issue and their forwards were great. I don't know who white. We'll just get it out of the way now. AJ Luke Antonio. If you're watching this now or later on, we know why you love him. It's all good. Some criticism for Ash Klein. Always seems to be a little harsher on teams who aren't disciplined. Michael says, Hines, his back was that good or bad?

[00:04:43] I mean, he had a good try assist. I don't think Nico was necessarily a problem there as well, but we can go through all of it, I promise. But I just thought overall the discipline was really, really stink. Jacqueline says, opinion on game plan when we eventually got possession. Targeting Marky Mark and not Tommy T on the other side. Yeah, it's a good point, Jacqueline. Thank you for raising that. They were really going for it. Marky Mark and Ronaldo. It was neck and neck for a while.

[00:05:11] And then it all just went Marky Mark's way. And I do think that that's where tonight you do wonder whether Ronnie pushes it too far on nights like tonight. Because I just thought tonight wasn't the night to do it. Like we just got to play smart and hold the ball and win the game. But he just made himself a target. End of the game, he's on report. We love him to death. And we know that this is what he can do.

[00:05:40] But it's just disappointing when he doesn't do that. He doesn't go pear shape that often anymore. But tonight it definitely did for Ronnie. Big fortnight after the bye with two Queensland games. Yeah, we'll get to that. Thank you very much. Matt says, interesting game. Better set completion. Yeah, the set completion for a while was really good. Silly areas of the wrong times. No go forward. The snooze discipline was there. Ronnie needs to pull his head in.

[00:06:08] I mean he does just a little bit. Just a little bit. Not completely. But just a little bit. I like Jacqueline's point though about not targeting Tommy much. Dennis is not the first time they've targeted and baited Ronnie and got him again. It does go back and forth a bit. Craig says, stupid penalties and mistakes again in the top team. And to me that's where it kind of starts and finishes. And we can go for individuals. We can go for collectives. But that's a collective.

[00:06:36] Like just really poor timed penalties. Poor timed errors. And even when it was sort of still tight. It was 14-8. You knew that you had to improve your game in that area. And you didn't. It kind of went worse. So I'm a believer that if you hold the ball in this game tonight. You go close or you win. So it's a bit frustrating. Future dude says, bad week to be supporting the Sharks. I'll try again.

[00:07:05] Bad week to be supporting the Sharks, the Blues and the Socceroos. Especially with the questionable calls with a ref in each of those games. Future dude, I was one of the millions that got up for the Socceroos. And I have to tell you, I wasn't down for long. Because I finished Wulley when I got up. Well, it was me. Yeah, bad refereeing. But I thought the Socceroos performance was worse than what we saw tonight. Anyway. Pete says, we were never in the game before the Nikko haters start up. I need to take a look at how ineffective his half partner was.

[00:07:35] We were terrible. But the great display of hometown officiating as well. Yeah, I mean, I think a bunch of that is, I will agree with Pete. I didn't think Trindle was that bad. They both had some night, a couple of assists or an assist each, I should say. I think on your point of the hometown officiating, that's why if I'm sending them in to play, I'm telling Ronaldo to sort of tone it down.

[00:08:05] You're not going to win a lot of those battles. And you're not going to win a lot of those things. Like we saw the challenge for the Marky Mark drop from the dropout. And the challenge must have been like 40 seconds after it happened. And they allowed it. I'm with you, Pete and Josh and everyone else on that kind of officiating. That was really weird. And it's 10 seconds. That was easily 30 seconds, I would imagine. So there was some kooky stuff. And I like your last point, Pete. I like it, don't like it.

[00:08:35] We were terrible. But it was a great display of hometown officiating. I'll give you that one. Wes says no quality ball the first half. The rest was just not good enough with discipline. Yeah, very well said. Matt says they weren't even there at all. That's disappointing. Our mate PK, hope you are, sir. A week too early for Braley, three runs in 80 minutes. If he doesn't run, we don't play off the back foot. Yeah, someone else said that before. I thought it was more to do with the forwards,

[00:09:04] not necessarily getting the advantage line as opposed to that PK. But I'm happy to take that on board and check it out in the replay and give you a bit more analysis. I agree with what you're saying. But I wonder if there's another reason why. I don't think it had anything to do with the arm because he was tackling. He didn't look out of place. Let me just check out a few things on foxsports.com.au.

[00:09:33] Braley, he made 40 tackles in this too. His arm can't be too bad, you know? So I don't know if that affects the running and everything. I know it could be more what you're saying, like he's out of the game three or four weeks, et cetera. But yeah, I don't know. Flynn has a joke about Klein, which I won't put up, but I appreciate that. And he says, or they say, seriously, we look flat. Dan Fitz says, terrible, poor performance, already up against it with bad reffing, no field position.

[00:10:01] 35 minutes before a tackle was made in the opposition 20 and Ronnie lost the plot. Yeah, it's a pretty accurate way of describing it. It was hard. It was hard with all that kind of thing. Like they were actually doing okay because they were defending okay. They had been to go back in before half time. And they came out in the second half and looked the better team. And they had that spark where they kicked off after a try and got the ball back. And that was the first half, sorry. Yeah.

[00:10:27] But yeah, it was going to be hard anyway. Ash says, go. I know Sharks FC, they won yesterday. Congratulations. Daniel says, I know Ronnie did a lot of talk. You can get the results. But the 65 routes around him have not pushed back from any other players to help Ronnie really frustrated me. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Maybe that was what we needed.

[00:10:54] They took the kind of origin thing where it's just like six on six kind of battle or whatever. And then maybe they're off their game. But yeah, that's a good point. I just feel like with Ronaldo and I'm torn because we know that's what drives him, that kind of play. And we know that danger where he can push it a bit too far.

[00:11:17] But I feel like tonight, given his maturity in age and growth in playing and experience, there's got to be a point where he goes, I pushed it a bit too far. I'm going to turn it down. I felt like at moments in the game, he was trying. And then it just kind of couldn't become true. He'll chalk that up and he'll come back bigger and better.

[00:11:40] It's just a shame that tonight that contributed to us as far as tries conceded, as far as field position, etc. Like it was definitely played a part. John says, not the result we wanted, but we'll be back. I really struggle with clients refereeing down four nil and one nil at halftime. Yet three of the penalties were marginal. Not Ronnie's best night. We'll fight on up up. Thanks, John.

[00:12:10] Yeah, I think. And my colleague, Josh, as well, was saying things like they were marginal and line ball. And I get all that, but you're the away team and it's just, it's not how it goes, but you know that that's, that's the, that's the risky business of it all. So Chris says, tough game to watch. We've got another buy next week. Thanks, Chris. That's what's kind of annoying too. I'm kind of over going into buyers losing to the Roosters. All right.

[00:12:37] Over to the Insta, our friends over there. Yeah. Dylan says, Marky Mark needed that revenge game after him until I scored a double and knocked him out of the finals last year. Yeah, absolutely. I get that. Jay was frustrated that no one was helping Wilton out on the break late in the game. And the difference there was in the last three weeks, Nephi Peru was backing up, which is a good point. Brad says, discipline was not good enough. They were patient and punished us for dumb mistakes. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you.

[00:13:06] Uh, my nephew is online after being at our house tonight, watching the game, which is exciting. Thank you very much to everyone there. Now, just a reminder, if you want to dial in, you have the ability to, there's no pressure to do so tonight. Everyone's probably over everything after that performance. Roosters win 27 to eight score, score a gummy or whatever it's called. So sharks now sit in eighth position.

[00:13:35] We have a buyer next week. We could have moved up to fourth or fifth, but now the roosters are in fourth or fifth. And that's how tight this comp is. And that's what kind of sucks about tonight. 27 to eight. We go down, uh, team stats. They completed 86%. We completed 82%. It's all from terrible.

[00:13:59] Line breaks for even, they had twice as many offloads and that was super noticeable in the first half, especially it led to some tries. We're actually pretty good at, at not conceding offloads this year in the top three, but tonight it was just a bit too much. They ran for about 400 more meters. They had a hundred more post contact meters. Both missed tackles are really respectable and close. So that's fine.

[00:14:25] They won the penalty count nine, four errors were the same. That's surprising. Tackled an opposition 20 evened out a lot. We won the set restarts three, two. And I'm just going to look at my phone for a second. While I talk to you beautiful people, uh, the rooster man who's been on the show this week, Aaron, while he all said not the best game, but I'll take the win.

[00:14:48] And he was sitting in the, uh, Fox sports corporate box from, if I'm allowed to say so we'll get some individual players shortly and how they went. Terry said poor discipline cost us, but the reality was the roosters looked the better team all night. They did. They did, but I thought Terry went with them. We hung tight. We conceded a couple of tries. They missed the goals. It was eight nil. It was doable at 14, eight. I wasn't completely uncomfortable with that situation, but he just couldn't keep playing the way they were playing.

[00:15:17] And they did. Brett says errors and penalties cost us. Nico was fine. Great try system putting Teague through. Yeah. Nico was fine. You'll get better probably with more time on the field. NRL, Merseyside Reds gave him too much ball. Some decisions seemed unlucky at the ground, but with that many penalties and unforced errors, you have to look inward. I agree on that point. We were dominated by marking Mark dust off and be better. Great points.

[00:15:47] And I think that is my, not my running argument with Joshie because we have, we don't, we never argue, but unforced errors have to make you look inward. And I love that line from NRL Merseyside Reds. That is why we have the best podcast audience in the world. You people, guys and girls, boys and girls, men and women of all ages, of all genres of podcasts, you are the best audience in the world. But don't you forget it led by this person who said you have to look inward. Here's trouble. Loose from Melbourne.

[00:16:18] Fuming. Oh, okay. The Roosters are offside so much of the night, sometimes five, six meters offside. The amount of forward passes they got away with the amount of flying elbows. But when Ronaldo does it, it's a penalty. You know who I'm blaming for the poor field position or game. I appreciate that. I have a slightly different take on that one. I mean, we saw Katoa absolutely take out Tedesco and there was no, they didn't get, we didn't get in trouble for that.

[00:16:45] Like it wasn't as that, it wasn't as one sided I don't think as you think, sir. I did see some forward passes from both teams to be fair. Like I honestly did. I'm not just saying that to be like the podcast dude or whatever. But I take your points. I do. I do. And you know, I like your points. You got good points. Lush. Shake also says, and here we go. Two great people in a row. I never whinge about refs, but that was atrocious. Maybe there's something there that I'm not seeing. I appreciate that. Sharks premiership winning.

[00:17:14] Sharks premiership coming again. Oh no, I didn't want to put that up. They do say though, that we have top four chances and we blew it and they've let us down. Oh, here we go. Here he is. AJ Luke Antonio. Good game. Shanazi. Lot of love legends. So that's AJ. He is. I don't know how to pronounce his first name. I should know. White. Nefar White. He is his biggest fan in the world.

[00:17:44] This guy. So I work with AJ and AJ. He'll say, hello, Shanaz. How are you? And then he'll start talking about Nefar White for hours on end, no matter what the time. And the way I feel about Valentine Holmes, especially when he was a shark. That's how AJ feels about this guy. So we're happy to inform you that he's a really good player and he was really good tonight. And we knew that coming into it.

[00:18:09] We knew that his aggression and his speed of the play of the ball would cost us. And it definitely did. Hope you will, AJ. Okay. Danny said, I'll add the roosters got away with laying in the play of the ball, holding the ball in the rock. Ash Klein likes to keep the crap happy. Cam gets in the way, so shake 20. I'll throw this one up just because Loosh makes me laugh. It's almost like there's a photo.

[00:18:40] Oh, geez. Loosh says, it's almost like there's a photo out there circulating of Klein and DC chumming up off the clock. Oh, Looshy Loosh. I'll see you at round 27, man. If not before. I played a gig in Melbourne last week. You should have come. I'm going to play again there as soon as I can. You got to come down. Dion says, the reffing fairly favored the Chooks tonight. Thanks, Dion.

[00:19:07] Ash says, I didn't go to the game as I was at work, but heard it was pretty good. Disappointing, but onwards and upwards. Love your work, mate. On the podcast, keep it up. You're an inspiration of a legend to everyone. I think many people would disagree with that, Ash, but I will certainly take your praise and I appreciate it very much. Have a good night at work. Prancer says, Jesse was ordinary. Well, I need more information there, Prancer. We've got two Jesses.

[00:19:32] Jesse Ramian ran for 115 meters, couple offloads, one error, about 15 tackles. Jesse Colquhoun, nine runs, 70 meters, one offload, 32 tackles. Maybe referring to him. Pete says, AFB was pedestrian tonight. I mean, I don't know.

[00:20:01] Nine runs, 86 meters. Excuse me. Three tackle bus, 25 tackles, no misses. Certainly not bustling and dominating tonight, was he? Pete also says the same thing compared to the opposition as well. Let me go with our mates over on the, on the Insta. And thanks everyone for tuning in. Got to say that from the bottom of my heart. Thanks for tuning in. And it's tough on nights tonight, but you guys and girls make it fun. That's for sure.

[00:20:31] Okay. Jake says, fair dinkum. What was that? Which I, it was a game of footy. We lost. Jay says, thanks for all the work you do. And again, watch the latest episode of from hope yet. Clinton on soon. Yeah. Clinton will be on soon. We're just working out a few things there. So, but we're just, yeah. Bit of a, yeah. Bit of small, small fine print, but we'll, we'll, we'll get Clinton on. No worries.

[00:21:01] Tell me about what from is. I don't know what that is. And I should know. Thanks everyone to joining and jumping on. Chad says, Marky Mark schooled Ronnie. Iro made two defensive errors. Niko is a great player, but never worth the money. Kennedy's been great, but average tonight. A lot to take in there, Chad. Marky Mark definitely schooled Ronnie. Iro definitely had a couple of defensive reads. Niko is a great player, but never worth the money.

[00:21:29] I mean, I thought tonight he did a lot. And I don't, I don't know what else he could have done given the fact that they weren't in their territory much. Kennedy has been great. Average tonight. I would agree with that. Yep. I didn't think he was particularly good tonight. There was some good moments. There were some bad moments. All right. Sharks lose 27 to eight. Scott says, I thought we were okay, but not great. There was some strong periods in the game from us.

[00:21:56] The Roosters won characteristically disciplined. They put on a very strong performance. Well, it's very mature of you, Scott. And, and I tend to agree. Uh, I, I really was disappointed with a discipline. Not just one man, just in general, some of the dummy half penalties and the offsides and inside the tens. You can avoid that kind of thing. Trish with her eye on the prize said, spoke to Blake after the game. He said his arm is fine.

[00:22:26] The boys seem very down. So that's some great reporting there from Trish. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Uh, that's good that he's, um, he's fine. I thought he played pretty good for a guy with a broken arm or whatever. I know there wasn't a lot of running and I appreciate that, but I thought tonight maybe other people might've lifted along with him and we'll get to some individual players shortly.

[00:22:51] We Jaden says, aside from Klein, if he was terrible when we needed our marquee prop to take it to their pack, we definitely needed someone, sir. And you're right. Uh, it wasn't a great night from AFB. And that was maybe the difference, the forwards. I mean, Collins and white was superb. They really were white with over 200 meters. Even Spencer Lenny was pretty good as well. And that guy doesn't know what the word discipline means, but he was all right.

[00:23:20] Uh, Lucia's back and he says, low key. If we made, uh, if we played terribly, I'd be annoyed for different reasons. We weren't terrible. We weren't great, but the Roosters were equally as average. We were taken out of the game by a third party and it's infuriating. So Lucia's doubling down on the ref stuff. I haven't changed my mind, Lucia, since I read out your first comment. I don't a hundred percent agree with you. I think that we created a lot of our own problems. I understand the Roosters might've got away with some stuff and I'm not condoning that,

[00:23:50] but I think a lot of our things was sort of brought on by ourselves. I do. I mean, it just seemed like we were our own worst enemy enemy tonight. It didn't seem like the ref was. That's, that's my opinion. Chad says there was some bad calls, but overall we were out in foos and made too many silly mistakes, dumb plays. The defense gave us nothing, a horrible flat performance from us. Future dude says the next five games after the bar will be critical. It'll determine the top eight for us. Back to back Brisbane games.

[00:24:18] Both sides of origin will be challenging. The one thing I was thinking was we don't mind our backs against the wall. So the harder we make it, I think the better will kind of lift. And I don't want to be in that situation. I hate that situation. I want to be like winning every game. So yeah, there's some tough games coming up and some tough road trips. And that's why tonight would have been good because you would have been five in a row with a buy, which is six in a row. That would be outstanding.

[00:24:47] It wasn't meant to be. It wasn't meant to be. Ghastly says the heck is up with the ref. I didn't know Trindle was in attendance tonight, but they over complained the attack too much, over complicated the attack too much. Defense was fine. Hard to hold on when they can't get a thing from Klein. Okay. Thank you. Danny says another frustrating game from a frustrating performance, disappointing performance game of the buy.

[00:25:17] Yep. Completely agree. I think we start looking at long-term and players like Stone Street, who is there next year. I don't think Gatoa was that bad. I explained that bit to me at the end, Danny, because I don't know what that means. We start looking at long-term and players like Stoney, who's there next year. So you're saying you throw Stoney in, but then you also say you don't think Gatoa was that bad. And he wasn't that bad tonight at all. He scored a try. Didn't miss any tackles. Ran for over a hundred meters.

[00:25:47] Busted five tackles. One offload, one line break. One error. He was fine tonight, I thought. But yeah, let me know what that means. Sorry if you're feeling a bit behind here. Blues 4 said the amount of offloads by the Roosters was unacceptable. At any level. First half in particular, Blues 4. I would definitely agree with that. All right. Sharks lose 27 to 8. Name not important.

[00:26:17] Losing twice to a team coming from origin is very poor. This team are not contenders. They fail when they should stand up. The tackles all over the place. I won't mention the ref for a reason. Let's not forget that it's the first game we've lost in a month or more. So, hasn't been going that bad. But yeah, tonight was not very good. Scott says AFB looks like he's playing within himself.

[00:26:45] He's still damaging, but it looks like he has more to give. Oh, I hope he gives more. That's for sure. Anthony says, I'm not a Hines hater, but Trindle isn't himself when they're together. Wilton was our best tonight. Teague was good. Teague was really good. Thanks for raising that, Anthony. He ran for over 100 meters. 36 tackles. He busted a bunch of tackles as well. Had some offloads. He was really good. And he's been good all year. I know you're not a Hines hater and that's awesome. We don't want any hate in this team, but...

[00:27:15] I mean, tonight it's interesting because obviously Trindle's off his game. Hines was the better half. They both were not where we needed him to be. I just wonder, can we blame Hines on the fact that Trindle had an off game or is it just a Trindle thing? I don't know why we have to lump it together. I understand why from a stats point of view or whatever makes sense. The games he plays, the games he doesn't play, I get all that.

[00:27:41] But I wonder if there's a possibility, Anthony, that it's not related to Niko. It's just Trindle had an average game. I don't know. Danny says, AFB's playing differently this year compared to last year. Not as impactful. And it feels like 2024 will have no dominant forward. Miss Toby Rudolph out there tonight. But, I thought... Dan makes a really good point.

[00:28:05] He said they had seven Orym players, six or seven, backing up. They seem to have more energy than us. Desko is in freak mode to the point where it's starting to get annoying. Guy just doesn't stop. He's missing half his face and he's still going. Like, come on, man. I get it. Sharks let me down again, person. I'm not going to keep throwing up the client betting stuff. I know you can see it in the comments.

[00:28:34] I'm not picking on you, sir or madam, but I'm not going to pick on a guy because you've got a gambling problem. It's not how I roll. You can keep writing it and I'm not offended by it, but I'm not going to chuck it up. Wesley says, the podcast dude. Love that, Sam. I said that a while ago. I must be behind on the comments. I'm the podcast dude. It's what I tell us to sort of talk myself down. The podcast dude. Andrew says, not enough discipline tonight, but the ref did not like us up up Cronulla penalties for nil against us at halftime.

[00:29:03] Yeah, it wasn't good, Andrew. It wasn't good on both points there. Thank you so much. I need to do something quickly in admin world. Tate says, four from four this year without Nico, 11 from 12 without Nico the last two years. It's either his team or Trindle's. It can't be both. Okay. I take that point. I know where those points come from. Tate. I'm not denying that is numbers.

[00:29:32] I just, I'm not convinced it's necessarily a thing. Like I know it's a thing we can talk about because it's there in black and white. I get that. But tonight, would you blame the halves? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I thought outside backs now forwards. I don't have the halves. I don't have the spine was the problem. Really? Just looking something up on line. Well, I talked to you wonderful people.

[00:29:59] Roger says the ref controlled field position and the Roosters result tonight. Not happy with that. Sharks defended well, but poor discipline cost the Sharks any momentum. They did well despite the calls. I agree with some of that. Roger. Thanks for being in touch. Much appreciated. Again, I thought a lot of the calls were justified. It doesn't mean the Roosters not having the same calls made is not justified, but yeah, I, I take that point.

[00:30:31] Now, Brendan says, I thought we missed Toby's energy. So I thought so as well. I did. That was noticeable with the, I mean, yeah, Jesse Colquhoun, someone pointed out tonight. I'm never going to say a bad word about Jesse Colquhoun, but he was not as dominant tonight. I didn't think. Let me do this as well. Name not important says when we're not, when are we making signings? Cause this team's obviously not winning anything in time soon. The ref should be bent.

[00:31:00] Uh, enough with the ref stuff. Like as in like the personal bashing of this guy having a addiction problem. When are we making signings? Uh, we're re-signing people. Young kids are coming through. They are the future. They're definitely the future. And I think you'll see some sort of minor to medium signings for the Sharks. I don't think there's anyone huge coming on the way as far as I'm aware.

[00:31:29] So, or against a lot of people have been asking me about the record with the referee tonight and penalties and win losses and that kind of thing. So I can tell you that we've lost two more games than we've won under Klein, under Craig Fitzgibbon. Make that three probably. So three less games we've won. We've lost one 10, lost 13 against Klein under Fitzy.

[00:31:58] And we average probably one penalty less than the opposition average against the ref. So, it's nothing horrific. Tonight, I can't explain a lot of the stuff, but as far as a campaign that this ref doesn't like us is a bit silly. Loosh says, something personal? Just messing with you, dude. Just messing with you. I love you.

[00:32:26] Malcolm says, Scott's probably frustrated because nobody ever supports him. Oh, you'll have to catch me up there. I don't know what that means. Loosh is talking about from. It's amazing. Similar concept to lost. Okay, I'm listening. But without the broadcast network getting involved to ruin the story. If you like mystery, soft horror, suspense, it's fantastic. I don't like mystery. I don't like soft horror. I don't like suspense, but I love lost. So you might have me there. Shake says, I wish some of the players that were leaving now instead of the end of the year.

[00:32:56] Beats rate is a good point. Do you think the Warriors game might have taken what we thought it might have? I think that it definitely did. Now, that's not a reason for me because they've had eight day turnaround. Eight day technically, obviously. There's travel and that kind of stuff. But it was one of the most physical games I've seen in recent memory. Like they bashed the absolute crap out of us and we did back to them. So it was big. It was emotional, but you gotta be better than that. But I take your point, Pete. It's a good point you raise.

[00:33:26] Ed says, from is like lost, not worth the investment. The yellow man is Ashley Klein, a terrible devil. Malcolm does say we had nine days rest, Pete. Um, Wesley says we were as flat as a two week old opened Pepsi. Uh, Ed was at the game and he said the stadium is fantastic. The Sharks not so much. It's a good stadium. Hey, we talked about that during the week. Okay. Pete says offloads penalties killed us and our chances tonight.

[00:33:57] Clevo says sad about the loss, but happy we're getting some lost love on the pod. My all time favorite show. I didn't know it was your all time favorite show. That isn't Larry David involved. Well, we should talk about lost. We should do a lost podcast. It would go forever. And then he says, yes, the, the lost hate from Ed wasn't appreciated, which I also, I'm a huge Ed guy, but don't give me any, you know, I love lost. Come on. The acting in lost, the direction, cinematography. I get it. Got a bit kooky. I get that.

[00:34:27] I get it. Thailand. Cronulla shark supporters group. Give them a follow on the Facebook. Our friend. There's posting a lot of content. Uh, it was a lack of enthusiasm and intent and attitude problem. When they get that right, fix up the errors. We'll be fine. Yeah. I mean, it's an easy fix. Like I'll give you that. Yeah. Thank you. Shake says the Roosters have been one of the most penalized teams for years, but now their

[00:34:53] first game back in a home, in a, in a month at home, they were super disciplined. Give me a break. Uh, Lush says at least one shark was fantastic tonight. You Sam, the best post game therapist have called me down. I've called me down a lot. Calm me down a lot. Appreciate you, brother. I appreciate you. I appreciate all the brothers and sisters in the shark cast universe. I'm fired up. I want to do that game again. I can't believe we lost. It sucks.

[00:35:23] And now I've got no energy from that rant. Uh, Blake Bradley for life says multi did what he always does. It just didn't work tonight. And I appreciate that. I do. And that's a really simplistic, but I say that with compliment. Like that's a, that's a really good way of putting it. And, and I did sort of hint that we know what we're getting when it works, it works, but it doesn't, it doesn't. So I'm not trying to change the guy, but it was a bit of a difference tonight. I have to say.

[00:35:53] Kevin says the Rogers have seven origin players plus client on their side. Thank you, Kevin. Now Dickie says that's a lot. It's covering up my whole face, Dickie, which isn't a bad thing, but I'm going to lean up here. This is getting out of control. Uh, Dickie said we didn't turn up with the defensive attitude tonight and we lost the middle battle. I didn't have the line speed. We couldn't stop the big blokes off loading. I have no doubt.

[00:36:22] Blake Bradley came back early and struggled defensively all night. I'm one of his biggest fans, but I feel he would have been better coming back after the boy. Oh, hang on a sec. Hang on a sec. Dickie. That's your name. Dickie. I know I'm not being rude. You're saying that he struggled defensively all night. I've got him missing two tackles from 40. 40 is our most.

[00:36:51] Well, actually Britain made a couple more tackles. I don't think he struggled all night defensively. Dickie. I also don't think he came back early. So I had a lot of mail this week about people's thoughts on Nico and Blake coming back before the bye and I loved every single one of them. I love the feedback and the communication from you guys and girls is awesome.

[00:37:15] But I have to say, I thought it was a bit OTT like the club is not going to let top five players who are so crucial to the rest of the year come back before a bye. If they're not ready, like it's just not going to happen tonight was not a must win game. They're not going to let them come back. If they're early Blake Braley came back. Quicker than what a normal person would be the broken arm, but he was ready. Like he was medically cleared.

[00:37:44] Nico Hines was ready, medically cleared. That's the end of the line. It's the bottom line of Stone Cold Steve often would say like, that's it. So I know there's a lot of people who are worried about it and I appreciate that worry. I'm a warrior like you guys and girls, but if he's medically cleared, that's it. There's no more to the point. Like if he'd broken his arm again tonight, it would have been irrelevant to him having a broken arm last week.

[00:38:06] Like it's just, you got to put some trust, not blind faith, but trust in some of these people who it's their life to get this right. And I'm talking about the doctors. I'm talking about the coaches. They're not going to muck around with these guys. If you think Craig Fitzgibbon is going to muck around with a guy's health, you need to look again. Tim says errors and penalties killed us piggybacks set up to set. Hines look good. Trindle and him need to combine more less tucking blokes under and back to create something different.

[00:38:35] Yeah. Good point, Tim. I love all that. I agree with all of that. There was a lot of inside balls, a lot of tucking back under. It just wasn't that creative on a pretty dry night. Chris says we were refed out of the game from the start, played catch up footy, push passes that weren't there. The captain challenged from the rooster was laughable. I rewinded it back. Here we go. 21 seconds, which is, which is even that's less than what I had it at, but it's still 11 seconds over what it should be.

[00:39:05] But I'll completely take your word for it. Chris, thank you for doing that research again, shark cast pod audience, the greatest podcast audience in the entire world. No matter what the genre is, whether it's sports science sharks, NRL, mental health. What, what else? So many podcasts left, right and center and you guys and girls are the best. Look at that. Chris. Well done. Congratulations. And thank you. Uh, Brad, this is funny.

[00:39:34] The, uh, I think it's funny. Brad says I'm a passionate sharks fan, but even I would have loved marking Mark to put one on Ronnie's chin. Too much rubbish in his game and Arabian is back to his brain dead brain explosions. Can't be unhappy with the effort. Generally had a go, but it wasn't our night. Oh, discipline. I thought that Jesse Ramian had some good stuff and I thought he had some bad stuff to be fair.

[00:40:00] Uh, I don't continue to agree with you about Ronnie and what you've written here. It just made me laugh and I appreciate the humor attached. I think that it's, it'd be rich for me to say he pushed it too far and be really adamant about it. Like I, I agree. I think that he did like hand on my heart. I think that he pushed it too far, but that's what he does. So I can't complain when he gets it wrong. Well, don't complain when he gets it right.

[00:40:30] You know, uh, Danny says, can people stop blaming the spine? It was not the issue tonight. Thank you. Although Pete says, except for the field goal last week, Trindle was pretty average for most of the game. And we have a special guest calling in, which I love. From parts unknown, weight unknown, Mitch. Yeah. Uh, parts unknown, Dacey Avenue, mate. Just crawling.

[00:41:00] Yeah, right. Crawling on my way home. This is what I love. This is why we have post game, aside from catching up with everyone and, and, and having analysis. I love the people who are at the ground and they get in their cars and they call us. What's going on, Mitch? How'd you see it? Oh, a bit of a bland performance. And I just don't think our forwards established any, any foothold in the game at any stage.

[00:41:26] Um, and we played no football down in, uh, the Roosters red zone. Well, not enough. What was it like being there with the whole world against Ronaldo Militano? How, how was that vibe? Oh, he played the wrestling heel tonight, didn't he? Yeah. Um, yeah. Look, I love the guy. He's always on the edge. So yeah. He, he, he lost, he lost the contest and I, he lost the belt to Marky Mark and I, if we're doing wrestling parlance.

[00:41:57] He did. Uh, he did. But hopefully there's a round three at some stage later in the year. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Uh, tell me what you liked out there. What did you like for the Chucks tonight? Or who did you like? Uh, give me some positivity before we go somewhere else. Well, it was just a comment on, um, Blake didn't have the greatest game. I think that's what he's done out there tonight. He 40 something tackles and two missed. And I don't think he got exposed at all.

[00:42:24] And his bravery always astounds me, mate. And since he's first coming to first grade and he's back three weeks after a broken arm and he's out there, you know, doing what he does every week when he turns up for us. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good point. I noticed when he tackled, it must've been Spencer Lenu who had just been on the field. And that's when I looked at him and went, yeah, you're pretty, you're pretty brave. You're only a little dude and you've got a broken arm. Yeah.

[00:42:51] Tackling something like that, which is like, it's second nature. Like, Oh, here he comes tackle. Uh, yeah, I thought he was good tonight. Like I didn't think he, I appreciate he didn't run that much, but I really don't think it had anything to do with the arm. I just think we couldn't get back, go forward from the forwards. Unfortunately, uh, Jesse Colum with a bit of a quiet night, although I don't know how many minutes he played to be fair. Uh, I thought probably our best forward was T Wilton, but he tried hard, made some good meters.

[00:43:21] Um, yeah, he was on a few crash balls there and I just, you know, one, he just marched through there in the second half, but yeah, Roosters seem to have, have us covered on the edges there tonight. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. What was the vibe like out there? Uh, look, I was just saying to the people I was there with at the game. Um, it was great to be there on a, you know, Sunday night. There's 20,000 people there. It was good. Yeah. Is that your first time? It's a great stadium.

[00:43:50] Your first time there or? No, no, I've been there for our two semis we've had there for the, the, uh, South and the Cowboys semis. So it wasn't my first time there. I think the place is great. Fantastic. You know, how lucky are the Roosters? That's their home ground, I guess. Yeah, for sure. Uh, what was the parking situation like? Um, I parked in the, the dusty car park, you know, in front of the hoarding there. Oh, right. They still do that.

[00:44:20] Oh, got me Mitch. You got me. Yeah. You're back. I didn't know the dusty car parks was still a thing. Yeah. Well, they, you know, that's 30 bucks in there, mate, still. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. I was going to park an entertainment quarter and then I was like, oh, I'll try that one. It was closer. I thought, oh, it's not as far to walk probably. I don't know. And what was the representation like there on TV? It looked like there was some Sharks fans there. Is that a fair description?

[00:44:49] Yeah, there was. And I got there quite early. Look, I'll tell you about my game day experience quickly. I was lucky enough to be there as a guest of a SCG member. And, mate, did you know about this like exclusive gym they have there, this sporting club? No. It's sort of, it's nestled in between the SCG and Allianz. It's called the Sporting Club of Sydney. And like, you know, I was lucky enough to get access to there.

[00:45:19] So I met them. My ticket was basically through a friend of a friend. And he said, get in there early, mate. We'll go into the sporting club. I'm like, oh, okay. Well, what's this place? Go in there. It's got a 50 meter lap pool, 25 meter indoor pool, big gym, sauna, spa, cold plunge, infrared sauna, steam room, childcare center, wellness center. It's some exclusive gym, essentially, like, yeah, facility.

[00:45:48] And I didn't know it was there. Who's it for? Who's it for? Well, I think priority is given to SCG and trust members, I guess. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, you know, I obviously had a visitor pass for the day. And yeah, mate, I was having a dip and doing some laps in the pool and having a stand before the game. I'm like, what is this place?

[00:46:12] There's, you know, beautiful change rooms and facilities and towels provided at reception when you walk in. Did you like have to borrow some togs or something? What was it? Oh, I packed. I packed for it. My mate said, hey, bring your swimmers. We're going to go on a heated pool before the game.

[00:46:29] Well, I mean, you know, there were rumors and they're, they're totally not come true now, but there were rumors that we were going to get a, a lap pool or a, or a spa or something up on the, near the roof of the new leagues club looking over the field. Now it's not happening anymore. So let's not talk about it. But I noticed our friend Cleve on, on the X mentioned it this week. So that's about as close as that. I think you're getting my friend is a Sharks fan. I think structurally that wasn't going to work, but let's, let's steer it in the direction of the Sharks.

[00:46:59] Like please, this is what, this is what we should be aiming for something like this, a facility like this for our players to be using. And then, you know, for our members to have access, access to, should they, should they want to join up for something like this? Yeah. Yeah. And working on the scale of what I saw today, because, you know, some taxpayer dollars went into this facility, I'm sure.

[00:47:23] Um, we're not the beneficiaries of, of that sort of funds at this stage, but you know, doesn't mean we can't be, and doesn't mean we shouldn't be aiming to have what we're calling, you know, uh, an elite training center or, uh, academies or whatever they're building for everyone else. We should be lobbying hard for something like this ourselves. What did you make of the league club video that was released this week? Um, yeah, I can see the vision there. It looks promising. Yeah.

[00:47:53] You know, I work in the hospitality sector and you know, I can see what they're trying to achieve there. Um, yeah, I'm very open minded to what they're, what they're going to be doing there. Uh, back to the game. We lack some forward power. Now, can you put that down to anything? Like, why would that be? Uh, yeah, you touched on it just now. Look, maybe it was a, it was a tough trip to the Warriors and that was a knock them down, drag them out, skull drag of a game.

[00:48:23] So maybe we've got a bit of a, um, uh, hangover from that, but you know, they had, they had players backing up from big minutes in origin and I didn't seem to be. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Affected by that. So yeah. That's a good point. That's a really good point that you make. I didn't forget about it. Yeah. We can't sit there and claim. Yeah. We can't sit there and claim warriors killed us and we had eight days and they had blokes backing up for four days later. Yeah. That's a great point. That's a great point.

[00:48:53] Uh, great effort tonight, Mitch, getting up there and having a bit of a dip and a swim. What was the food situation like? Did you have some catering? What's the deal there? Oh yeah. Well, they, um, they had a cafe in that place as well. The, the sporting club of Sydney. Yeah. Um, there was a coffee in there and you know, you could order at the table and they bring it out for you. Um, and then yeah, I was up in the members area for the game. So yeah, the, you know, the, the bar and food situation up there was yeah. Great. Yeah. The situation was great.

[00:49:24] Everything was great. I was on the 40, 40 meter line. I was sitting right below our coaches boxes essentially. Oh, how good. Yeah. Oh, I was very, very lucky. Like, uh, uh, my, my, my mate of a mate is obviously, yeah, he, he's a, he's a good guy. Shout out to Mark and my mate Jansi for, um, for teaming it up. Yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. I can't believe you went for a dip before the game. That's unbelievable. That's crazy.

[00:49:50] I punched out 10 laps in the pool, mate, got the goggles on and for a gentle little 10 lap, 500 meters. Wow. I can't think of anything worse. That's amazing. Uh, all right, Mitch, thanks for calling in. I really appreciate it. You're not a safe hour, Sammy. No, it's not that. It's not that. It's more just, it's not a pregame ritual do laps. You know what I mean? That's all. That's all. But for the people in the Eastern suburbs, it is mate.

[00:50:18] Like, you know, we just, uh, we're not leading up down here in the Shire. I don't know. I don't know. They go in and have a nice sauna and a steam. I mean, that's getting closer to what I could do, I reckon. Was there a spa there? Oh, there was a spa. Cold punch. Yeah, mate. You name it. They had it. Cold punch. I could do it. I could do a hot spa. That would be more my alley. Uh, that would be a good idea. You could jump from one to the other. Yeah. Nice. All right, Mitch, safe travels, my man. It was cold.

[00:50:48] Safe travels. We'll talk to you soon. Really appreciate you dialing in and take care and we'll, we'll, we'll, uh, we'll be back before you know it. So, uh, you take care. Cheers, mate. Can't wait to get back to our home ground. Yeah. Love it. The great, uh, cold plunge that is ocean protect stadium. So, uh, talk to you soon, Mitch. Thanks brother. Cheers, Sammy. Have a good night, mate. You too. That's the great Mitch. One of our loyal listeners. Now there's a bunch of comments here. I need to get to. Yes, there is.

[00:51:18] Here we go. Uh, stick death, not an 80 says I'm an ex player. I think we have good weeks, bad weeks, and the click wasn't there this week. Tricky had control last week. We didn't see it this week. All right. Thank you very much. And he also likes the hoodie. I appreciate that. It's good hoodie. Jordan says, hind is a big, big issue at this club. It doesn't say much else about that.

[00:51:45] So Jordan, if you want to, um, be more detailed, we can talk more about it, but, uh, I, I really didn't think that was a problem tonight, sir, but I'm happy if you'd have your say. Craig says, Klein didn't help, but we didn't help ourselves either. What Braley was clearly back too early. And then Nico tricko tricky combo needs to end. Keep one and play them at seven and bring a ball running six in both want to be generals.

[00:52:14] And team doesn't work that way. All right. I don't know if Blake was back too early, Craig. Um, I'd need proof as to why that was or some reasoning because I don't, I think played pretty good. It wasn't, uh, lights out Blake. But again, when your props are making 86 meters and 71 meters respectively, I mean, they're not going for it. Right. On the tricky Nico thing.

[00:52:40] So you say the combo needs to end, keep one and bring in a ball running six. There was some miscommunication tonight, but I hadn't played together for a little while. Maybe next game it gets better. Wes says, although I'm not a fan of Ash Klein, he wasn't the reason we lost tonight. It was a weird game. Both sides were a bit boring. Thank you. Grunge Meister Fuzz, the greatest name in the world says tricky as game manager.

[00:53:08] Nick has a chance to be real game breaker, but we've both managing who's breaking penalties. A killer for sure. Regardless of score. I love Ronnie getting up in Mikey's face. Yep. Yeah. It's a good point. If they're both managing who's breaking, it's a good point. Good point. Now, some negativity here from Sharks. Let me down. Make the most of the buy. We won't beat the Dolphins and have no attack that can excite us. Yep. Okay. Well, we're playing the Dolphins in a little while.

[00:53:37] Not quite just yet. Kevin says, what was the penalty count? Please. The penalty count, I think, was nine penalties to four. Sorry if that's a bit late there, Kevin. Uh, Susan says, Sharky's had an order again. Let's stop the bitching. Have our buy and start up again. Up, up. Thanks, Susan. Um, yeah. Uh, no one's really bitching. I think everyone's just, um, having their say, which is awesome.

[00:54:06] And I think that the buyers come at an okay time, I guess, because Nico and Braley are back and we can work on that spine and the combinations and everything else. Although tonight I didn't really think that was the problem. Future dude says, seems like the Chooks have been our bogey team as our flag side lost 22-18. The women lost their trial match and the Jets bucked the trend.

[00:54:34] Uh, we had the trial match last night for the women's game and it is on nrl.com if you want to go watch it. Uh, there was a lot of chopping and changing of teams. It was a trial match. So we looked all right with the main ladies on there from what I was watching. Um, but yeah, just keep that in mind. They didn't all play the whole game and that kind of thing. It was a trial match, but yeah, good weekend for the Chookies mainly. Pete says, I'd love to know what tonight's game plan was considering a top four position was on the line. Uh, yeah, it's a good point.

[00:55:04] It's a good point. Uh, I don't, I, well, the game plan would have been, I think to hold the ball. And kick to the corners. And there were times when they did it, the times they looked pretty tenacious times. They looked like they were holding on. They didn't concede too much. And then they got back in the game. Like it looked okay. It looked okay at times. And I think, was it Mick Annis? Was it someone else who said it's a very Craig, I mean, Greg Alexander, very Craig. It's given like past month, tough, gritty footy.

[00:55:32] And there were, there were signs of that tonight until it kind of blew out. Uh, John says, I didn't watch the game tonight. I saw the highlight reel. Defense is hopeless instead of coming up in a line that kept backpedaling and can't tackle. Uh, to an extent. Yeah. I mean, probably need to go back and watch all the tries and everything. And I'll analyze those in deep analytical form. But yeah, uh, I wouldn't say defense is hopeless.

[00:55:59] Like they repelled them quite a lot, but they gave them a lot of ball. Loosh says, I went to the MCG on Wednesday and paid $80 for four, four pints beers. $20 a beer? Yikes. Well, I've got bad news for you, Loosh. When you come in round 27, beers are on you again. Unluggy. Kevin points out they put, they scored at least two tries from penalties. Jason says, uh, get a Sam off the last week.

[00:56:28] It's disappointing results tonight. I hope we have a reset with our attack. Uh, whether that's with the coach Freddie coming in after we drop union commitments, finishing or whether it's for next season, too much passing left to right and right to left without engaging the defensive line. We have to ask more questions in attack. We don't get it done on the big games. Thanks, Jason. That's awesome. Appreciate that. You know, I guess Freddie's coming in soon.

[00:56:54] Uh, so be interesting to see what the changes are and the, he's very well spoken of in union world in league world, particularly with the Cronulla camp. They were that impressed. They wanted him to come back. So it's, it's positive. Uh, but hopefully hits the ground running. Uh, sharks let me down again. He's saying, who's our big name signing international outside back. They're talking about that.

[00:57:18] We're getting the one they're probably hinting at is Joey Manu, but it's honestly, like I know Kieran and I joke about it on Mondays and Tuesdays, but it's probably not going to happen. So aside from Jay Manu, I'm not sure who they'd be referring to. If someone can refresh my memory, that'd be awesome. Sharks lose 27 to eight. Not happy, not happy, not happy, not happy. I am happy with everyone joining in though. That is awesome. Thanks everyone who's written in tuned in.

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[00:58:47] So all that really helps us and we appreciate it. Sharks lose 27 points to eight. Not happy about that. And let's look at some individual performances here from the sharks. I'd love to know what you guys think of these people. As we go along and we do podcasts throughout the week. So if you're not subscribed and listening throughout the week, I don't know what you're doing, but you should be doing that because that would be awesome for us and hopefully awesome for you.

[00:59:15] Will Kennedy at fullback, about 130 run meters, one error, which was very noticeable and probably not his best game of the year. That's for sure. Certainly off in places, but yeah, a slight, a slight down over game for Will, but I, you know, he, I'm sure people out there hating on him. I don't think it was that bad. As my friend Aaron, who was on the show this week, sent me a photo of his dad.

[00:59:41] So he's, so Wally, who's on our show whenever the Roosters are on and he's my colleague, Wally. His dad is a Roosters fan. I'm just going to put him up here. Look, there he is in all his gear on the train. So I don't know what happened to Wally there. Sione Katoa. Let us know what you thought of Sione. There is the battle between him and Stone Street. I saw Stoney scored at least one try in cup today. Stoney did play cup. Those didn't know.

[01:00:07] So Katoa, over a hundred run meters, five tackle busts, one offload. Some dirty working out of our own territory, which I quite liked. And one error as well. One try set up beautifully by, hmm, hmm, hmm. I think it was Nico Hines. Jesse Ramey, 115 meters, two offloads, one tackle bust, 14 tackles, one error. I thought he was okay.

[01:00:36] Like it was, he was hit and miss. I think he was diabolical. K.L. Iro, 130 meters, two tackle busts, one offload, 16 tackles, three misses. Penalty conceded, two penalty conceded for Jesse Ramey, I should say. K.L., yeah, a little bit off, particularly with that first try. And he's got to get his one-on-one tackling better because he's a really good defender. He's just got to make it happen. So, Rinaldo Miletalo, very heavily involved.

[01:01:05] He still was busy, but unfortunately conceded three errors, two penalties, at least one try. And conceded one try, scored a try, two to be fair, with a great pass from Trindle at halftime. Yeah, we spoke a little bit about Ronnie. So, if you didn't hear it before, I thought discipline-wise he just took it a step too far, but I'm not able to complain about that too much because he does that, we win, he does that and we lose.

[01:01:34] So, you take the good with the bad. Braden Trindle ran four times for 40 meters. He kicked 12 times for 350 compared to Nikko's eight for 240. So, both, you know, close to even there. Both involved kicking-wise. Trindle had one try assist. He looked a little bit clunky at times. I thought the effort was there. Hines, I thought, was the better half.

[01:02:03] He had two line break assists, one try assist. He ran for more meters over more runs. So, slightly more involved. But again, not sort of where we need him to be. But I thought, I didn't think the halves were the problem, but the attack was a little clunky at times, and that's their responsibility. For Noah Blake, we've sort of discussed, didn't crack 100 meters, didn't miss a tackle. He did play nine minutes of origin, which doesn't factor in too much,

[01:02:31] but the whole origin experience probably takes something out of you somewhat, of course. But that's no excuse. Like, he was just not the dominant forward he usually is. Blake Braley, tonight, I thought was decent. Made 40 tackles. And just didn't have the go forward from the forwards to sort of hit that line around. I think I'm just going to be a little bit of a fan of the running. Admire the hell out of him. One of my favorite players. And perfectly happy for him to come back.

[01:02:59] And it's not related to state of origin. People sort of think he wants to play origin three. Well, yeah, of course he does. But he's a shark through and through. He's a shark's captain. And that's what he was doing tonight. Jesse Colquhoun, just over 70 meters, 32 tackles to be fair. And probably not, he probably wasn't a very dominant game from Jesse Colquhoun, unfortunately. Britton Nikara ran for 50 meters. Made 42 tackles, the most in our club today. Didn't miss one. So you can't say the effort wasn't there in defense.

[01:03:30] Off a full game of origin. So, it's admirable. T. Wilton close to our best tonight. 120 meters. Four tackle busts, two offloads, one line break. 36 tackles. McInnes with almost 40 tackles. Only five runs to 40 meters. A lot more kind of handling of the, not overly dominant tonight at all, McInnes. Billy Burns I thought was okay. He brought the mongrel when we needed it. Probably just not enough of it.

[01:03:59] Did concede a penalty. Had one error in him, I think as soon as he came on the field. But I like him there and it just wasn't his night. It wasn't our night. Oregon Gafusi did not make the field tonight. Talakai made the field. He tried hard, ran for about 60 meters without much luck on the end of those runs. Tall Tom Hazleton, about 80 meters, 16 tackles. Tried hard. I hope Apuru didn't get much of a chance to do much.

[01:04:29] Ran for 25 meters, 12 tackles. And tried hard with some line engagements and that kind of stuff. And Marwini Haroti did not make it onto the field. So get in touch with us. SharkCastPod at gmail.com. Let us know about who you thought was good, who you thought was not good. Why? What were you doing with them? I want to hear from you guys and girls about everything. So drop us a line via the email, via the website. SharkCast.com.au SharkCast.com.au You can leave a voicemail. You can leave just an email.

[01:04:58] And you can drop us a message on all the socials. That's what's going on there. Sharks lose, unfortunately, 27 to eight. And it's the end of the round. So we finish in eighth on 20 points. Next week, we go up to 22 with the bye. Which in theory, if everyone else falls over and falls down, will be equal second. But equal third, I should say. But we know that the bye, it's our third bye.

[01:05:25] So it's a bit of a false hope there at six points we didn't really earn, so to speak. So a lot of work to do. The season is still very much alive, but we need more improvement than tonight. Tonight was just, you know, discipline-wise, just out the window. We know we've got it in us to play that way, unfortunately. But like last week, it was amazing. And if they played it last week tonight, we would have won by a bunch. So it wasn't meant to be.

[01:05:54] Okay, Sharks lose 27 to eight. What a weird, weird night. What a weird game. And we'll start to wrap up. If no one else has too much more to say on the game, on the club, let me know what you thought of the Leagues Club video. I thought it was pretty cool. I'm looking forward to having a cocktail and a pizza, I can tell you. So we've got the bye. Loosh says, I will say, the season is still wide open.

[01:06:24] There are so many teams vying to be smashed by those mongrel Penrith Panthers in the grand final. Well, they did lose to the Titans. That was pretty cool. Yeah, I take your point. It could be anyone's grand final appearance. Loosh, let's look at the next run for the Sharks. We have the bye this week. Then we have Brisbane away. So Saturday week, Brisbane on the 4th of July. 7.35 kickoff.

[01:06:52] Boy, those Americans really got under my skin this week. Dolphins the week after on Saturday, the 11th of July. It's a 3 p.m. game. Loosh is going to tip us against the bye. That's awesome. Then we come home finally on a Friday. Friday, the 17th of July. We play the Knights. It's a 6 o'clock kickoff. That'll be a lot of fun. And the Knights are pretty good. So it's not an easy win as usual. And then we go to Brookie on a Sunday at 4 o'clock. A bunch of Sundays coming up.

[01:07:21] Then we've got Sunday at home against the Bunnies. Derby part 2 on a Sunday. Away at the cesspool known as Coggera. I did hear, I did hear a rumour that I heard somewhere that the Dragons are not going to be playing at their home grounds. They're going to be moving elsewhere. They're not going to be playing at Coggera or Wollongong. So that's yeah, forevermore. I heard that rumour. That's what a person on a podcast should not say. I heard a rumour.

[01:07:50] The Dragons aren't doing this or that. Lucia, it's our big run. It's now or never 10 games left to make our mark. Yeah. I don't like being in this position, Lucia. I like being ahead of where we want to be, you know, and we're not there, unfortunately. And we've been pretty blessed under Fitzgibbon to be in pretty good positions. Not dissimilar to this, but probably better in a bunch of the years. But you know, if they're good enough, they'll get there, right? So we've got Brisbane next. Brisbane aren't very good.

[01:08:19] They are the premiers and it's Suncorp, but they're not very good. So that means they're beatable. Let's just go win. Hey, one game at a time, baby. John says, unfortunately, things aren't going to be getting better. We're going to be plodding along. The Dolphins are showing how to play forwards, running hard and straight and half moving the ball wide. Well, on your second point, John, the Dolphins are killing it. They're on a really great streak and bless them. And we play them soon. So we better rise to the occasion. I don't know if I would agree to say things aren't getting better.

[01:08:49] We're plodding along. We just won four in a row. We're all on a bit of a high and we're now back to a bit of a step back. So yeah, it's not fun. And as, as our friend Jacqueline said, one step forward, two steps back sometimes. And it feels like that. And I think that's sort of your point, John, but things weren't going along too bad, but just tonight wasn't really happening. Now, here we go. This is really important from our friend Lewis, who is just an upstanding young man.

[01:09:19] I love Lewis so much. He's family. Lewis says, frustrating night, but footy aside, huge shout out to both the sharks and the roosters for going above and beyond for a moment. And he's a mate of ours fighting MND. Both this week at the game tonight. They won't post about it, but it's the rugby league community at its best. It really puts things in perspective. Grateful we're able to share in the love of this great club each week, man.

[01:09:48] You just Lewis. You just always hit it out of the park. You're such a great dude. I love you, man. And thank you for bringing reality back to all of us because it is just footy. I know it's not just footy, but you know what I'm saying. So on the MND stuff, it's just shocking. And I'm so sorry to hear that your friend has it and send my love and, and shoot me a message. Anything I can do to help. But that is what the community is about, especially rugby league community.

[01:10:15] And we know that next week is also the Mark Hughes foundation weekend. And on the show, we're going to be talking to a Sharks family who are doing a lot of charity work in that field. Cause unfortunately their son went through some really bad things and thankfully seems to come out okay-ish for the moment, which is great. So that's what the community is about. And I'm glad you had a good night, Lewis. Hope your friend had a great night.

[01:10:41] And it's, um, yeah, it's, it's really, I love the fact that you said that they're not going to post about it and they should, they should post about it. Like they should be proud of their achievements with spreading love around the community. Thanks, Lewis. Hope you're well, man. Hope little ones. All right. Mitch, who we spoke to before says I made a new shark friend tonight. Chat to Paul. That's a positive. Absolutely. Hey, Paul. I hope Paul's listening.

[01:11:07] And Mitch, one of the things we asked people to do is when you meet other sharks fans, you go, do you listen to shark house pod? If they don't, you set them up on their phone or whatever to have a listen. So Mitch, if you have Paul's number, get him to tune to shark house pod. If he's not already, cause a lot of people do tune in, which is wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. That's what's going on. And we do have a bi-week or officially in bi-week, but we're not going away. We're here to bug and we're here to persist with this club that we love.

[01:11:38] And as I mentioned, we're going to be talking to Adam. Who's a sharks long time member. Uh, you've already seen him on other podcasts and you've seen him in the media and through sharks.com.au, uh, spreading the word about the Mark Hughes foundation. And for things in that general vicinity, uh, his son had a battle and a half and the family therefore has as well. Uh, Adam's going to come on the show early in the week and we have a chat and then it's not all going to be gloom and dune.

[01:12:06] It's going to be about what we can do to help. And his, his life as a sharks fan as well. So we'll make it footy central, but also very much about helping the Mark Hughes foundation. So we'll tell you all about that during the weekend. We'll do our other shows where we can. There'll be a gear and show. I hope there'll be a flagship, the whole thing. So stick with us. Shark Cuts pod. We love what we do. We love doing it for you guys and girls up, up Cronulla.

[01:12:31] We didn't rule the world tonight, but we rule in general and wasn't our night. We weren't disciplined enough time. My friends sharks lose and I'm not happy. We will talk to you soon early in the week. Most likely that reminds me, I, I forgot it was by week and I told someone I couldn't do something between three 40 and four 45. Cause I'm doing a live podcast, but there probably won't be a live podcast cause there won't be any teams.

[01:13:02] Or will there be a live podcast? Will we throw caution to the wind and just talk to you guys and girls? I don't know. Probably not. NRLW starting soon. Make sure you're all over that. Let me get you some information right now. We did lose a trial match last night, but it's just a trial match. It doesn't really matter at all. Sharks. First game is the first game of the NRL season. NRLW season Thursday, July 2nd, 7.45 PM. The Knights are coming to town.

[01:13:30] Ocean Protect stadium, 7.45 Thursday, 2nd of July. It will be on the television networks and everything, but you can go down and watch the game. And there's different ways you can get a ticket. It doesn't cost you the world. And it's a really good vibe. It's a kid friendly and a lot of fun. NRLW. So make sure you head out there. Our first two games. In fact, we're at home round one, Thursday, 2nd of July round two, Thursday, 9th of July 7.45 kickoff.

[01:14:00] So on Thursdays, are we getting into school, school holiday territory there? Maybe as well. Maybe. So that'll be coming up before you know, we'll be talking about this on, on the, on the, on the, on the podcast. John says, as always appreciate your efforts and commitment to this podcast. Namaste. Thank you, John. Appreciate you. And, um, kind of what I do. It's, it's a lot of fun and it helps me a moat. And tonight kind of wasn't fun watching that game.

[01:14:29] And then doing this has been a lot of fun. I'm talking to you guys and girls and it's going to be okay. I don't know when it's going to be okay, but it's going to be okay. And hopefully it'll be okay against Brisbane in two weeks time. Thank you though, John. I appreciate that. We get a lot of messages, uh, kind words. It has been brought up cause I brought it up that we've had a few, uh, negative people in recent times, just kind of jabbing away and, and trying to get a rise out of me.

[01:14:58] And it's, um, you know, it's not going to be tolerated. So it's all okay. I'm, I'm a big boy and, and it's all cool, but I definitely appreciate the good words. So thanks so much, John and everyone else. We're getting out of here. Shack us pods getting out of here. Up, up Cronulla. I can't play the songs. We didn't win. Do you want me to do a song? I've got a guitar here. No one wants that. We back before, you know, up, up Cronulla and let's just go out with, no, I can't go with that one either. We'll just say goodbye. Why don't we just say goodbye?

[01:15:29] John says, good night. Thank you. Brendan says, thanks Sam. Disappointed the boys have bounced back. They're too good of a team not to. I'm off for some Springsteen therapy. Oh, that's what's missing from my weekend. Brendan, some Springsteen therapy. Enjoy what's left of your weekend, Sam. Thanks so much, Brendan. Appreciate you. Springsteen. That's what we need. That's what we need. We all need Springsteen in our life. You don't believe me. It's true. Up, up Cronulla. Thank you so much.

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