**Hasn't he fallen from grace…he's one player who left the Tigers and went backward real fast...At the Tigers Collis was rated a future SOO rep, he even played for City a few times...now he can't even crack an NRL spot with the lowly Sharks...who are screaming for backs...**
Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan is urgently looking for quality backs prepared to make a mid-season switch to the NRL club.
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Flanagan was quick to pinpoint his side's main weakness after Friday night's 31-12 loss to South Sydney, the Sharks' fifth straight defeat.
Out of favour Canterbury-Bankstown utility Ben Roberts has been linked to Cronulla but Flanagan said finishers were his top priority, a problem made bigger by the potential long-term loss of 2011 recruit John Williams with ankle ligament damage.
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"It's pretty easy," Flanagan said.
"I've got the forwards there, I just need some smart finishers, and (it's) obviously quality players in the backs I'll be looking for.
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"We've got a bit of money left.
"I want to do the right thing there. I don't just want to go out and spend it for the sake of spending it.
"I want to make sure that I'm improving the club for obviously this year and in the next."
As well as winger Williams, Flanagan brought veteran centre Colin Best back to the club this season while **former Wests Tigers regular first grader Dean Collis is languishing in the NSW Cup.**
"Some of the players there are a little bit out of form at the moment, my finishers and my backs," Flanagan said.
"The players in there are busting their arses, week in week out they're doing the best they can at the moment.
"We can win football games and we're competitive but we need to be competitive for 80 minutes and we haven't been."
The Sharks also sent out a mid-season SOS last year when ex-coach Ricky Stuart parachuted former NRL rookie of the year Tim Smith into the halves.
That move was far from a raging success and Smith played his first top level match of 2011 on Friday night because of an injury to Albert Kelly.
Whiz kid fullback Nathan Gardner was rushed back from an ankle injury to take on the Rabbitohs and hobbled through the match but he is expected to be in much better shape for the clash with the Sydney Roosters after next weekend's bye.
"He might have aggravated it late in the second half there but he was probably 90 per cent," Flanagan said.
"Nathan Gardner at 90 per cent is something we need, he is a tryscorer."
Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan is urgently looking for quality backs prepared to make a mid-season switch to the NRL club.
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Flanagan was quick to pinpoint his side's main weakness after Friday night's 31-12 loss to South Sydney, the Sharks' fifth straight defeat.
Out of favour Canterbury-Bankstown utility Ben Roberts has been linked to Cronulla but Flanagan said finishers were his top priority, a problem made bigger by the potential long-term loss of 2011 recruit John Williams with ankle ligament damage.
Do the Sharks need an injection of backs? Have your say below.
"It's pretty easy," Flanagan said.
"I've got the forwards there, I just need some smart finishers, and (it's) obviously quality players in the backs I'll be looking for.
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"We've got a bit of money left.
"I want to do the right thing there. I don't just want to go out and spend it for the sake of spending it.
"I want to make sure that I'm improving the club for obviously this year and in the next."
As well as winger Williams, Flanagan brought veteran centre Colin Best back to the club this season while **former Wests Tigers regular first grader Dean Collis is languishing in the NSW Cup.**
"Some of the players there are a little bit out of form at the moment, my finishers and my backs," Flanagan said.
"The players in there are busting their arses, week in week out they're doing the best they can at the moment.
"We can win football games and we're competitive but we need to be competitive for 80 minutes and we haven't been."
The Sharks also sent out a mid-season SOS last year when ex-coach Ricky Stuart parachuted former NRL rookie of the year Tim Smith into the halves.
That move was far from a raging success and Smith played his first top level match of 2011 on Friday night because of an injury to Albert Kelly.
Whiz kid fullback Nathan Gardner was rushed back from an ankle injury to take on the Rabbitohs and hobbled through the match but he is expected to be in much better shape for the clash with the Sydney Roosters after next weekend's bye.
"He might have aggravated it late in the second half there but he was probably 90 per cent," Flanagan said.
"Nathan Gardner at 90 per cent is something we need, he is a tryscorer."
