Anyone hazard a prediction here? To add to the Knights retardation International superstar Sione Mata'utai is suspended for one week along with two other Knights players.
I don't know why, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the Knights may get up here. What does the Oracle think? BTW, I'll get to the rest of the games for the round tonight
I normally would see the logic there, so many teams that go on a run like the Sharks have this season trip up in a game like this, they completely underestimate the opposition or have been up for so many weeks that they just don't turn up mentally for it. I think the Sharks are a different beast though, they're not a side that's always up the top end of the ladder like the Storm who would perhaps take it for granted a bit and be winding down from a tough origin period, nor are they a younger side like the Roosters of the past few years that have had a few blokes that seem to have a bit of arrogance about them. They've got enormously proud and parochial home crowd that are going bonkers at the moment and are side made up of battlers, many of whom are at their 2nd, 3rd or 4th club and have been seemingly nearing the scrap heap over the last season or two: Barba: Cooked for all money Beale: unwanted by dragons, 3rd club by 24 Maloney: flicked by Roosters, 4th club, may have been a candidate for super league at one point last season Townsend: Home after 2 fairly uninspiring seasons at Warriors Ennis: 5th club, passed over by the dogs for Lichaa Tagaetese: 3rd club, part of the furniture at Cronulla Lewis: fucked of by Penrith, cancer, twilight of career Paulo: 3rd club, never played a finals match Heighington: Twilight, etc Then there's all their peptides rubbish. None of them expected to be here at the beginning of the year so I think they'll be making the most of it. Sharks by 34
If the Knights managed to get last week's side on the park again then maybe, bu they've got several out with injury and suspension so I'll say no. Sharks 40+
Cronulla Sharks vs Newcastle Knights Southern Cross Group Stadium, Sunday 24 July 2016 Kick Off 2:00pm 1. Ben Barba 2. Sosaia Feki 3. Jack Bird 4. Gerard Beale 5. Valentine Holmes 6. James Maloney 7. Chad Townsend 8. Andrew Fifita 9. Michael Ennis 10. Sam Tagataese 11. Luke Lewis 12. Wade Graham 13. Paul Gallen Interchange: 14. Joseph Paulo 15. Chris Heighington 16. Matt Prior 17. Jayson Bukuya 1. Dane Gagai 2. Nathan Ross 3. Pat Mata'utia 4. Peter Mata'utia 5. Brendan Elliott 6. Jarrod Mullen 7. Trent Hodkinson 8. Sam Mataora 9. Danny Levi 10. Korbin Sims 11. Pauli Pauli 12. Mitchell Barnett 13. Jeremy Smith Interchange: 14. Chris Adams 15. Jacob Saifiti 16. Josh King 17. Mickey Paea 20. David Bhana
Sharks should post a cricket score. But I can't shake the feeling that the Knights could sneak an upset. Considering I just got on them at $13.50, worth a punt imo.
If this was at Newcastle I'd feel like an upset was on the cards but Cronulla should handle them easily.
Awta. Fmd Gagai needs to get the fuck out of Newcastle. Would like to see Souths or Wests hunt for him.