Stuart Flanagan Joins Gummies

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Stuart Flanagan Joins the Sharks
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Stuart Flanagan joined his new Sharks teammates at training on Monday for the first time since signing with the club.

The hooker was released from his three-year-deal at the Canberra Raiders and looked relaxed as he was put through a series of drills at Barden Ridge Sports Complex.

After suffering a shoulder injury at the beginning of last season, Flanagan fell out of favour with the 'Green Machine’ and found himself playing in the lower grades at the back end of 2009.

With the 2010 season ahead, Flanagan is looking to resurrect his career, which first began at the Wests Tigers as an understudy to Australian representative Robbie Farah in 2006.

“It will give him an opportunity to get his career back on track after falling out of site over the last couple of years,” coach Ricky Stuart said.

“His ability out of dummy-half as an attacking player is great and is something we will be looking for throughout next season.”

Flanagan will head to Kiama for an early season training camp with the squad this week.

 

[weststigerman]

Wow, that makes it 3 hookers the sharks have signed for 2010\. Good luck to Flanno.

Why do I have a suspicion Johnny will be back in the halves for the Sharks?

 

[alex]

Wow, that makes it 3 hookers the sharks have signed for 2010\. Good luck to Flanno.

Why do I have a suspicion Johnny will be back in the halves for the Sharks?

Because he's the next Cooper Cronk :laughing:

Here's hoping Flanagan gets the first grade time he deserves … unfortunately in a team with 3 hookers.

 

[parrramattaPRICHY]

Wow, that makes it 3 hookers the sharks have signed for 2010\. Good luck to Flanno.

Why do I have a suspicion Johnny will be back in the halves for the Sharks?

unfortunately for the poor sharkies stick has a mean streak of buying too many players in one position the other year forwards then hookers… silly

 

[benjibrotown]

Wow, that makes it 3 hookers the sharks have signed for 2010\. Good luck to Flanno.

Why do I have a suspicion Johnny will be back in the halves for the Sharks?

unfortunately for the poor sharkies stick has a mean streak of buying too many players in one position the other year forwards then hookers… silly

Instead of buying three average hookers I dont see why Cronulla didnt go out a try to sign one good quality hooker. In my opinion players like John Morris are just going to make cronulla more boring and containing less strike power then ever.

 

[parrramattaPRICHY]

fair point

 

[tigergirlz]

good luck to a player with a lot of potential.

 

[Sabre]

This is a quote from the sharks LU forum

Alot of people on here probably wont agree with this comment but I like the looks of.
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9\. aiton
7.morris
6\. barrett
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14\. flanagan ( has alot of potenital)
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Im willing to give morris first crack over porter.

😱pen_mouth:

 

[Geo]

:laughing: what about this one…....here I thought some WT supporters had problems...

Re: Flanagan set to sign with Sharks
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That's a good point frenzy, its a free ten metres extra on the kick, and almost no pressure on the kicker.
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On Aiton- he's down to return round 1 2010 from a knee reco, on the club injury list so he might not be ready for the start of the season anyway. I wonder if they're looking at flanagan partly as cover for him in case his recovery goes badly and he struggles all year(s).
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Regardless, I'm keen- Flanagan was Farah's understudy for three or four seasons and highly rated there before he left for the raiders, so he's got talent and a great background under farah/sheens (whatever you say about sheens he's undeniably a top skills coach). He's lost confidence/been injured/gone stale at the raiders, but he's still got talent and we need talent, so I'm all for it.
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Ideally I'd like to see this by the end of the season (meaning that each player has remained injury free and played to something near their potential)
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9) Flanagan (Imagine Farah-like skills and pace combined with the toughness of our pack- hopefully a long-term, class option at 9 for us)
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14) Aiton (An average to good starting hooker, but possibly the best impact hooker in the business)
18) Morris (An average to poor half, an average hooker, but a brilliant experienced utility- again, one of the best utilities in the comp, but not great at anything else)
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Let joudo mature in the nsw cup.
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They won't start like that, but the ideal situation come *round 26 2010 I reckon.

*and we are fighting for the SPOON......