2002 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season

Last updated

2002 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season
NRL Rank5th
2002 recordWins: 16; draws: 0; losses: 11
Points scoredFor: 723 (132 tries, 97 goals, 1 field goal); against: 669 (115 tries, 104 goals, 1 field goal)
Team information
Coach Chris Anderson
Captain
Stadium Toyota Park
Avg. attendance13,409
Top scorers
Tries David Peachey (17)
Goals Brett Kimmorley (97)
Points Brett Kimmorley (251)
  2001 2003  

The 2002 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the 36th in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2002 Premiership.

Contents

Season summary

In the off-season the Sharks signed former Melbourne Storm premiership-winning coach Chris Anderson, who also brought along with him the halfback involved in that premiership, Brett Kimmorley.

After a poor start to the season by the Sharks' standards, the Sharks set about with a record-equalling 11-game winning streak which did not crossover with the Bulldogs' famous 17-match run. The highlight of Cronulla's season was a huge 64–14 win over an injury-hit Newcastle Knights at home in round 22, exacting revenge after a 52–6 loss at Newcastle in round six (one of Cronulla's worst ever defeats). Eventually the Sharks finished 5th at the end of the premiership season and were drawn an away final against the Sydney Roosters at Aussie Stadium. Despite scoring five tries apiece, it was the goalkicking that proved the difference as the Roosters emerged victors 30-20 (Brett Kimmorley missed all five of his conversion attempts). The Sharks advanced further due to favourable results, which ultimately saw them pitted against rivals St. George Illawarra in the second round of the finals. The Sharks were seeking revenge after the Dragons denied them a place in the 1999 decider (which would have had them pitted against Anderson and Kimmorley's Melbourne Storm) and indeed the Sharks won 40–24. For the second year in succession, and the third in four years, the Sharks reached the penultimate weekend of the season, only to lose against the minor premiers New Zealand, ending another season in agony.

Ladder

PosTeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPts
1 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 2417072688454+23438
2 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 2417072724498+22638
3 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 2416172672425+24737
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters (P)2415182621405+21635
5 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 2415092653597+5634
6 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 24102122531440+9126
7 St. George colours.svg St George Illawarra Dragons 2493122632546+8625
8 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 24101132471641-17025
9 Northern Eagles colours.svg Northern Eagles 24100142503740-23724
10 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm 2491142556586-3023
11 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 2480162496803-30720
12 Panthers colours.svg Penrith Panthers 2470172546654-10818
13 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 2470172498642-14418
14 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 2450192385817-43214
15 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 2420132707435+27281

1The Bulldogs were deducted 37 premiership points due to gross salary cap breaches.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks</span> Australian rugby league football club

The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. The Cronulla Sharks compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league competition. The Sharks, as they are commonly known, were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, predecessor of the Australian Rugby League and the current National Rugby League competition, in January 1967. The club competed in every premiership season since then and, during the Super League war, joined the rebel competition before continuing on in the re-united NRL Premiership. The Sharks have been in competition for 56 years, appearing in four grand finals, winning their first premiership in 2016 after defeating the Melbourne Storm at Stadium Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New Zealand Warriors</span> Professional rugby league football club

The New Zealand Warriors are a professional rugby league football club based in Auckland, New Zealand that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and is the League's only team from outside Australia. They were formed in 1995 as the Auckland Warriors, and are affectionally known as the Wahs. The Warriors are coached by Andrew Webster and captained by Tohu Harris. The Warriors are based at Mount Smart Stadium in the Auckland suburb of Penrose.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brett Kimmorley</span> Australian rugby league footballer

Brett "Noddy" Kimmorley is an Australian rugby league coach and former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A New South Wales interstate and Australian international representative halfback, he last played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs of the NRL. He previously played for five other clubs: Newcastle Knights, Hunter Mariners, Melbourne Storm, Northern Eagles and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. Kimmorley also represented Country NSW four times and New South Wales ten times as well as playing 15 times for his country including the 2000 World Cup. He also played two Super League Tests. He retired at the end of the 2010 NRL season.

Christopher Anderson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian Kangaroos and New South Wales Blues representative winger, he featured in Canterbury-Bankstown's third grand final win and captained Halifax to both League and Cup success.

The 2006 National Rugby League season consisted of 25 weekly regular season rounds starting on 11 March, followed by four weeks of play-offs that culminated in a grand final on 1 October.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lakes United</span> Australian rugby league club, based in Newcastle, NSW

Lakes United is a rugby league club based in the Newcastle, New South Wales region of Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Josh Morris (rugby league)</span> Australia international rugby league footballer

Joshua Morris is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played as a centre for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL and Australia at international level.

The 2006 Wests Tigers season was the seventh in the Wests Tigers joint-venture club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2006 Telstra Premiership. They're based in based in the Inner West and Western Sydney.

The history of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks rugby League Football Club goes back to its foundation in the 1960s.

The 2007 NRL season consisted of 25 weekly regular season rounds, starting from 16 March and ending on 2 September, followed by four weeks of play-offs that culminated in a grand final on 30 September.

This article details the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks rugby league football club's 2005 season.

The 2008 National Rugby League season consisted of 26 weekly regular season rounds, starting on 14 March, followed by four weeks of play-offs, culminating in a Grand Final on 5 October.

The 2008 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the 42nd in the club's history. Coached by Ricky Stuart and captained by Paul Gallen and Greg Bird, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2008 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 3rd to qualify for the finals. The Sharks then came within one game of the Grand Final but were knocked out by eventual runners-up Melbourne Storm.

The 1999 Melbourne Storm season was the second in the club's history. Coached by Chris Anderson and captained by Glenn Lazarus, they competed in the National Rugby League's 1999 season, finishing the regular season in 3rd out of 17 teams. Melbourne reached the 1999 NRL Grand Final and defeated the St George Illawarra Dragons, claiming their first premiership.

The 2010 NRL season consisted of 26 weekly regular season rounds, starting on 12 March and ending on 5 September, followed by four weeks of play-offs culminating in the grand final on 3 October.

The 2011 NRL season consisted of 26 weekly regular season rounds, which began on 11 March and ended on 4 September, followed by four weeks of the finals series culminating in the grand final on 2 October.

This is a list of rivalries in the National Rugby League.

The 2001 Melbourne Storm season was the 4th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2001 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season in 9th place.

The 2000 Melbourne Storm season was the third in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2000 Premiership and finished the regular season in sixth place, being eliminated in the first week of the finals.

The 2014 NRL season consisted of 26 weekly regular season rounds starting on Thursday March 6, and concluded on Sunday October 5 with the grand final, where the South Sydney Rabbitohs ended a 43-year premiership drought by defeating the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 30–6.

References