MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 21: Sharks coach Shane Flanagan watches his team warm up during the NRL Preliminary Final match between the Melbourne Storm and the Cronulla Sharks at AAMI Park on September 21, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

Disgraced Cronulla Sharks coach Shane Flanagan could continue hie career in England's Super League, per The Sydney Morning Herald.

The premiership-winning Sharks mentor will likely be reregistered by the NRL for communicating with members of Cronulla while being suspended.

The NRL and Super League have an unofficial agreement to hold the same stance on sanctions, as seen with Ben Barba's recent rejection to join the English competition.

However, coaching sanctions are not so clear, leaving the door ajar for For Flanagan to join the Super League.

“We would want to try to stand shoulder to shoulder with NRL decisions, but it is really a matter for the RFL,” Super League chief executive Robert Elstone told The Sydney Morning Herald.

“It will be down to the RFL and its compliance and regulation team. It’s one for them. It won’t be a Super League decision, I wouldn’t think.”

Veteran Shark Paul Gallen believes Flanagan still has a lot to offer the game.

“He did what he did because he’s so passionate about the game, the team and the club and those involved in it," Gallen told The Sydney Morning Herald.

“You’d want to see him back in the game. I don’t know what he will do. I’ve had a bit of a discussion with him, but haven’t got a lot out of him. He’s more concerned about his family at the moment.

“He wants to watch [son and Cronulla half] Kyle play and has a couple of daughters as well. I think he’s just worried about his personal life for the time being.

“Fingers crossed we will see him back in the game one day.”

 

19 COMMENTS

  1. He’s a good coach just to many off field dramas. Maybe ends up at Canberra or Parra or Knights if they get off to a bad start again.

  2. How long is Flanagan’s suspension❓ The writing is already on the wall. He will coach Souffs. Bennett won’t last the season out but if Flanagan can get a reprieve after one season out then he will be there for sure.

  3. Hey will most likely end up at parra or warriors along with his son next year. If warriors fall into bottom four he or brad Arthur will be coaching the warriors if Flanagan ends up at eels.

  4. Here here, although you’ve probably insulted most garbos here. Scrubbing dunnies and picking up dog nards in the park is probably more in line with what he deserves.

  5. The chairman of Peptide Park. I still think that the Gummies winning (if you call it that) the comp in 2016 is without doubt the biggest tragedy/injustice of modern sport. BD (and Ronnie/Flake with Chips [if you’re still out there]) you have my eternal admiration and support.

  6. “He did what he did because he’s so passionate about the game, the team and the club and those involved in it,” Gallen told The Sydney Morning Herald.

    Typical low life Cronulla excuse trying to justify cheating.

  7. A lot of these Low life Cronulla fans dont care they used peptides and cheated the salary, they should be stripped of there only premiership and kicked from the game

  8. You’re dead right champ. We don’t give a toss about your opinion and couldn’t care less about the background noise from others. You can want all you like, won’t be happening. Sharks have a great roster and will go into the finals again this year just to rub a few noses in the dirt. Love it. Keep up the constructive banter……

  9. I had some respect for Flanagan as a coach but as a person he is a liar and a cheat. Having been proven a liar in the whole “contact with the club” saga then you have to seriously question everything he has said in the past including his protestations and claims of innocence during the Peptides scandal. It didn’t ring true then and it certainly doesn’t ring true today.

    He and the Cronulla club / players have been a constant source of bad press for the NRL and yet they have been given every leniency going. Now that we have entered this new era of tough NRL sanctions, you would think (hope) that we would never see Flanagan in the NRL again. Time to put an end to Cronulla.

  10. Needs a good spell out of the game. Has overseen some pretty ordinary things over the last 5 or so years, surely he needs to be out of action for quite a few years

  11. That’s a very big call pal. They may not have the cap rort concealing skill of some others we could well name but they have a very good playing roster nonetheless..

  12. No doubt Flanno should go away for a while. What gets me is the high and mighty untouchable Rooster supporters are willing to give it to Cronulla but the roosters welcome back Joe Kelly as CEO, the man who was in charge of Manly’s Cap when they got caught. Roosters have also let go the doctor who got Cooper Cronk through the Grand Final, but nothing suss there

  13. We’re all just waiting for the inevitable to happen with the chooks and when it does come it’ll make everything bad that’s happened in the shire totally insignificant…..

  14. Everyone needs to shut up about the roosters salary cap, you all sound like jealous little bitche$, you are delusional if you think we are the only team in the nrl to not get caught cheating.

    And if we were ever proven to have cheated to get our premierships in 2013 and 2018, I would want them stripped and I would cancel my membership, that’s the difference between us,You low life sharks fans don’t care about cheating if it’s your team doing the cheating.

  15. The “SHIRE” Which shire you clumsy clot❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓ There are hundreds of Shires through out all of Australia.

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