Cronulla Sharks

Despite entering the NSW Rugby league Premiership in 1967, the Cronulla Sharks are yet to register a first grade title in over 40 years of competition. Despite this, the Sharks have unearthed some of the game’s finest players headed by League legends Steve Rogers and Andrew Ettingshausen. The closest Cronulla have gotten to a Premiership victory was in their three Grand final losses in 1973, 1978 and 1997.

Cronulla-Sharks Articles

Carney shines in Sharks’ NRL trial win

by Joe Barton - February 4th 2012 @ 5:00am

Carney set to follow Gallen’s lead

by Liam FitzGibbon - February 1st 2012 @ 6:45am

Why the NRL’s future is looking Sonny

by Chris Chard - January 5th 2012 @ 4:30am

Hail the return of the prodigal son! The best thing to come out of New Zealand since Footrot Flats is set for an NRL encore with the Bondi Boys, in the biggest player movement since Dally Messenger signed on for a salary of eleven tuppence and half a dozen cravats in nineteen-oh-nothing. The man, the [...]

Amateur Hour: when sport shines

by Chris Chard - November 9th 2011 @ 6:09am

Just when you begin to see professional sport as some sort of slick, super-human cyborg sent back from the future to stamp the laughs out of grown men and women running around and sweating a lot, it strikes. The timing? Exceptional! The results? Hilarious! Set your alarms, it’s amateur hour! Once upon a time, labelling [...]

Ross labels Carney Cronulla’s x-factor

by Steve Jancetic - November 8th 2011 @ 5:13am

Five ways to make Cronulla cool again

by Chris Chard - November 2nd 2011 @ 5:24am

While the doomsdayers out there like to moan about Cronulla-Sutherland’s crowds, fast food queues or collapsing massage tables, the Sharks are facing a much larger threat. The threat of being the most boring footy club in Australia. It wasn’t always like this. Back in the mid 1990s, a Saturday night at Shark Park was second [...]

Dear Todd: an open letter to the Sharks’ new signing

by Melanie Dinjaski - October 29th 2011 @ 8:20am

Dear Todd, I am writing this letter to voice my mixed emotions on your tumultuous career to date, in an effort to comprehend where you stand right now. Todd. I’m saying your name out loud right now. Todd. It’s like an audible thud of disappointment. The metaphorical sound of how you’ve made league fans feel [...]

Carney desperate to be a Shark, says Gallen

by Ian McCullough - October 28th 2011 @ 4:19am

Another last chance for bad-boy Carney

by Steve Jancetic - October 27th 2011 @ 4:37am

Wayward Carney is thrown to the Sharks

by David Lord - October 27th 2011 @ 2:59am

Todd Carney: loose cannon alcoholic, or rugby league super star? There’s a fine line between the two for the very talented 25 year-old on his third and last chance – fire, or be fired permanently. Carney’s booze drinking blew it with the Raiders between 2003 and 2008. Despite being Rookie-of-the-Year in 2004, after a handful [...]

NRL Articles

Rugby league’s new era: where to now?

by joshie93 - February 10th 2012 @ 3:00pm

At 11.30am today, on February 10, 2012, rugby league and the NRL in Australia and New Zealand changed forever. A board of eight respected rugby league community members, otherwise known as the Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC), assumed office and will took control from the ARL and News Limited. It has been a long time [...]

New dawn for rugby league gets underway

by AAP - February 10th 2012 @ 12:22pm

Rugby league commission ushers in new era

by Ian McCullough - February 10th 2012 @ 6:41am

Ennis confident about his NRL fitness

by Ian McCullough - February 10th 2012 @ 6:36am

Why sporting seasons should never cross paths

by Chris Chard - February 10th 2012 @ 3:20am

Much of the talk in sports circles this week has revolved around Channel Nine’s scheduling clash between a One Day cricket international and an opening round NRL fixture. But can we really pin the blame for this on Sutcliffe, Spidercam and the boys at Nine? Surely it’s the sports themselves, in this case perennial Prime [...]

Independent Commission four years in the making, but worth the wait

by David Lord - February 10th 2012 @ 2:00am

It would be a positive start for rugby league’s new Independent Commission if Melbourne and Manly removed their knives from David Gallop’s back. Today is the day, ending nearly four years of bickering, and territorial in-fighting. The 13-man code has at last regained control of its own game for the first time since 1995. And [...]

Kearney still to choose Eels kicker

by Ian McCullough - February 9th 2012 @ 4:13am

Federal Court has it wrong on sports broadcast copyright

by The Cattery - February 9th 2012 @ 3:51am

In a rare show of solidarity, AFL boss Andrew Demetriou and NRL boss David Gallop were photographed together yesterday walking through the corridors of power on Capital Hill. They had just finished lobbying both sides of the political divide about possible changes to the Copyright Act to combat the recent Federal Court decision allowing telecommunications [...]

An open letter to Channel Nine

by Ghost Crayfish - February 9th 2012 @ 3:46am

Dear Channel Nine, I write to you as one of many frustrated rugby league fans. Please hear me out. This letter is not about the infuriatingly poor quality of your NRL commentary team, nor is it focussed on the laughably tired format and tone of your Footy Show. I don’t even intend to complain about [...]

The NRL’s scariest players

by CurtisW1908 - February 8th 2012 @ 9:04am

They are the hired guns of their generation. Giants amongst men better known for their intimidating physiques than their skill or finesse. Feared by their opponents, these guys are the real deal. There are two rules when it comes to these hitmen. Don’t run at them and stay the hell out of their way! 10: [...]