Cronulla Sharks odds

The near-misses of the nineties and the noughties, the supplements scandal that ruined their 2014 campaign, the long-awaited premiership breakthrough in 2016 – what a wave the Cronulla Sharks have ridden in recent years.

The boys from the Shire scraped into the finals in 2020, but they were a long way off the standard set by the likes of the Melbourne Storm and Penrith Panthers.

Let’s see how the bookies rate Cronulla’s chances in the 2021 NRL Premiership betting.

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Updated Cronulla Sharks futures odds

Best Cronulla Sharks bets for NRL 2021

There are dozens of NRL futures markets for Cronulla, but where are they likely to return some real value?

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• Sharks 2021 premiership betting
  Cronulla Sharks are definite underdogs as they sit in 13th position with bookmakers to win the premiership to win the season. They have only ever won a premiership once back in 2016 however that isn’t saying they can’t do it again. There are better bets when you look at the form of different teams like the Roosters, Storm, Panthers and Rabbitohs however anything can happen once you make the top 8.
  
• Top 8 betting
  The Sharks sit at $3.25 to make the top eight this season. They come into the 2021 season with very few changes to the squad besides Shaun Johnson being injured for the first half of the season. This is a team that always find a way and has made it into the top 8 six years in a row and can very well do this again.
  
• Top Try Scorer
  Sione Katoa came in 6th position in the top tryscorer ladder for the 2020 season. With last year being his first full season with the Sharks we can only expect that he will build on the 16 tries and go even more this year. The best future bet for the 2021 season.
  

2021 Cronulla Sharks draw

Cronulla Sharks players to watch in 2021

Sione Katoa
Born: 21/8/1997
Games: 35
Tries: 23
Position: Winger

Sione Katoa being our Top Tryscorer bet for the sharks shows you he is one to watch this season. Katoa started with the sharks in 2018 however didn’t play his first full season until last year breakout season. Sione scored 16 tries in 19 games with 81 tackle breaks and 17 line breaks last year. All sharks fans will be expecting the same effort from him this year which we believe he will step up to the plate and go even further this year.

Blayke Brailey
Born: 23/9/1998
Games: 35
Tries: 6
Position: Hooker

Blayke Brailey was chosen to be part of the Sharks development program at the age 13 and finally made the number nine jersey his very own once brother Jayden opted to join the knights ahead of the 2020 season. Brailey has also been be chosen for the NSW pathways squad for this season. With very few changes for the Sharks squad this season we belive that Blayke will build on last years performance and be one to watch.

Briton Nikora
Born: 7/12/1997
Games: 40
Tries: 13
Position: 2nd Row

Backrower Briton Nikora made his footprint into the NRL in 2019. In his first year of NRL he played 24 of 26 games and showed what he was capable of. Scoring 6 tries in 16 appearances Briton works perfectly on the right side of the halves. With not only his offence being strong he is one of the key players on the defence line with an 89% tackle efficiency.

Cronulla Sharks records and stats

• Player records
  Most games: 348 – Paul Gallen
  Most career points: 1,253 – Steve Rogers
  Most career tries: 165 – Andrew Ettingshausen
  Most club champion awards: Five – Paul Gallen
  
• Team records
  Most consecutive wins: 15 (2016)
  Most consecutive losses: 13 (2009-10)
  Biggest winning margin: 62-0 (vs. Knights, 2016)
  Biggest losing margin: 4-74 (vs. Eels, 2003)
  Largest NRL attendance: 83,625 (vs. Storm, 2016 NRL Grand Final)
  
• Sharks NRL history
  The Cronulla-Caringbah club formed in 1963 and played in Sydney inter-district competitions. Four years later, the rebranded Cronulla Sutherland District Rugby League Football Club joined the NSWRFL alongside the Penrith Panthers – now fierce rivals.

  Although the Sharks made waves when they beat Eastern Suburbs in their first-grade debut, they finished the 1967 season with only three wins to their name. Steady improvement over the following years saw them crack the finals in 1973 and make it all the way to the decider, where they lost to Manly-Warringah in one of the toughest, dirtiest contests ever witnessed. The two teams met on the same stage five years later with similar results.

  Cronulla fell on hard times in the early 1980s. The club went into administration in ’83 and received a bailout from the league – a luxury afforded to neither Western Suburbs nor Newtown, the latter of which soon folded. Hope sprang from the emergence of local lad Andrew Ettingshausen, who would go on to become one of Cronulla, NSW and Australia’s most celebrated players.

  Despite their on-field promise, the Sharks were drowning again by 1990 and went into receivership three years later. Again, financial hardship heralded a new wave of success. John Lang took the coaching reins in 1994 and steered the club to the semi-finals or better six times in eight seasons. During this time Cronulla joined the breakaway Super League and reached the grand final of the competition’s only season in 1997, where they lost to the Brisbane Broncos.

  For all that effort, premiership success continued to elude the Sharks. Their chances grew dimmer after former Melbourne Storm coach Chris Anderson succeeded Lang in 2002 and set about dismantling the playing group, much to the chagrin of the supporters. Stuart Raper came and went, Ricky Stuart came and went, and still no flag for the Shire. Other difficulties arose, including a supplements scandal that marred the 2013 and 2014 campaigns.

  Cronulla would have to wait until 2016 – a year in which the AFL’s Western Bulldogs and the EPL’s Leicester City also broke long-running droughts. They entered the NRL Grand Final as rank underdogs against the Storm, but a star turn from Clive Churchill Medal winner Luke Lewis inspired the Sharks to a 14-12 win that was 50 years in the making.
  

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