The Sharks are embarrasing, one of the best packs in the league, Gardner at FB and they get beat by the Titans at home. What a joke, boot them out. Gallen alone deserves better.
Young halves are no good together, Raiders down at the bottom, Sharks at the bottom, Cowboys without JT have Jones and Thompson and got beat by the Dogs, they need an experienced half alongside them to be consistent and learn from. I watch the Cowboys every week and without JT they rely on Bowen to play FB and do the kicking game and halves job. Ray Thompson is young and was meant to be promising but he's had 2 years now and even with JT injured he doesn't take control, he cant kick, he passes hospital passes when he does get the ball and on the last tackle he hides. He needs dumping. The Cowboys have had this for year, a 6 to play alongside JT. It's been years and they still haven't sorted it out, if they dont they'll never do anything and JT deserves better. I'd put Payne there and Segeyaro at hooker as he's a better hooker than Payne but they let too many points in to do anything come finals time. They've just released Tonga, a Test and Origin star on big bucks and signed Kane Linnett from the Roosters, buy a quality half, even Mortimer is better than what they've got and could sow his 09 form at a new club.

Yes, but did you see the try?

twas quality

What happened? I'll have to wait until Thursday and NRL Fulltime otherwise.

One of David Mead's tries was sprinting down the wing he chased a kick that was going out and picked it up one handed from over the line before it bounced, gathered it and held on to then dive over the line. Ball handling skills at their finest.


type in:

David Mead try vs Sharks

into a search engine

Last week you started a thread about how good the Cowboys were now you slag them off!!

Yeah i did and they are having a great season but with the current halves they are embarrasing. They need JT otherwise too much goes on Bowen's shoulders. And they also miss Matt Scott.

The problem is, apart from a kid trying to break into the team, what kind of player is going to be willing to sit around waiting for Thurston to get injured to get a game? Thurston does miss a few, but whoever is the reserve knows that as soon as he's fit its back to the Qld Cup.

BTW there does seem to be a relative dearth of outstanding halfback prospects in the NRL at the moment.

This has been the case for about 8 years now. Several clubs voiced a concern about halves. They ain't coming through like they used to and some are looking at the mini/mods rules as youngsters. Halves are encouraged to pass as you get more points. One of the things mentioned was that less are taking on the line.

gallen deserves better?.. he deserves 4 weeks for that kick he did on the tacklers head

The size of the crowd says it all. Embarrasing club the Sharks are. Bears must be spewing that a club like the Sharks are in the NRL yet they can't get the CC Bears with all its strengths in!

Agreed,cant believe he didnt cop a ban,he actually looks back to see where Beau Henry is lying ,then makes no attempt to play the ball,just kicks him deliberately.Hes also getting as bad a whinger to the refs as Thurston is.

It's australian Bill. You forgotten? If it was someone not famous, they'd have got punished.

but i did seem to forget he was the nsw captain!!!!! and dave taylor ended up with 5 weeks out for some thing and nothing

That only comes into effect around S.O.O. time