Round 11 - Parramatta Eels VS Cronulla Sharks *Contains Spoilers*

It'd give them another dimension their attack though. Douglas, Snowden, Gallen and Tupou all play pretty big minutes and they're all huge workers in attack so the forward load would still pretty much be covered, and Barrett could just play as an extra link and focus a lot more on his running game. I think it'd add something to the team.

Alternatively he could just play centre; I definitely think he'd be a much better centre than Tautai even though it's been a long time since he'd played there.

Honestly though, the most noticeable thing about the Sharks is just how slow they do everything. There's no crispness to their play at all and the players routinely run contradicting lines. I loathe to blame a coach for a team's failures as teams are often just shithouse, but Cronulla have quite a good team on paper and it's hard to pinpoint areas that make them so bad - I really think Stuart needs to be looked at.

 

Yeah, I really liked the look of Wright. Reminded me heaps of Matt Gidley. He spent the first part of the year playing five-eighth in the 20s, then he started playing lock in the NSW Cup. Now he's finally playing centre in the NSW Cup.

 

Really don't know. The fact that I signed him for 180k in NNRL this year is probably a good indication of what I think of him.

 

Gordon's okay. Yet to be convinced he's better than Stapleton though who seems to get scapegoated all the time.

 

I really don't think changing the team make-up is going to make too much of a difference though - the team itself looks fine. Getting Barrett out of five-eighth might help but the team just looks so slow and poorly coached.

 

I didn't quote your post though, did I?

Was a general comment on what we were talking about.