NRL Round 26 - Sharks Vs Knights - 2:00pm Sunday 31st August - Sharks Stadium

Dolphins have to win today and improve their for and agaisnt to keep their finals hopes alive.
Last season when they needed to win to keep their season alive, they couldn't even beat the Knights.
 
jamesgould said:
Cronk was so on the money a few minutes ago in commentary, we compete in all the right areas, but just don't have the quick thinking or instincts to do the right thing when it counts. Cogger definitely isn't capable of directing things in that way. I know we're missing Ponga and Sharpe, but they are't either.

Can only hope Brown can bring that next year - I think he will at least be able to control things like - when's the right time to take a short line drop-out, what end of set play should we be aiming for, that sort of thing.
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Unfortunately, Brown is not that type of player. He's very laid back, moment to moment type of contributor.

You wont see him spraying people. Very little forward thinking. Just a finely skilled, instinctive footballer. And not particularly busy or bothered one either. When he was playing in the halves next to Hawkins I didnt see Brown call for the ball once. Im sure he did, but I didnt see it. And Hawkins was getting the ball either side of the ruck, making all the calls/plays and Brown was just floating super wide on the left waiting for the ball to come his way.
 
knights80 said:
Can’t really use that formula

We beat Dolphins twice so that doesn’t mean Dolphins deserve it

On the whole Titans have a far superior squad and have done stuff all , the whole year

Granted we are bad, but our worse period really only started after that Warriors ganme
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Fair call
 
Les Misérables said:
Unfortunately, Brown is not that type of player. He's very laid back, moment to moment type of contributor.

You wont see him spraying people. Very little forward thinking. Just a finely skilled, instinctive footballer. And not particularly busy or bothered one either. When he was playing in the halves next to Hawkins I didnt see Brown call for the ball once. Im sure he did, but I didnt see it. And Hawkins was getting the ball either side of the ruck, making all the calls/plays and Brown was just floating super wide on the left waiting for the ball to come his way.
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He’s actually such a good read & react guy with his ball playing, which is what makes him so frustrating. There’ll be nothing on, he’ll do something really classy like an inside out ball that gets one of his middle forwards a lightning fast play the ball, and then he’ll just drift out to the left side of the field waiting two passes wide again. The exact sort of situation where Munster or Hughes gets into dummy half or gets ready to hit the ball at pace at first receiver on the next play. He’s the player with the greatest ability to do something with the opportunity he generated and he just sort of dawdles away from the play.

That being said he was looking like he was on the trajectory to become a really special player in 2022 and I do think he played pretty well mostly in 23/24. And at least he has those classy touches to begin with.
 
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