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Not many coaches get to succeed where Jack Gibson has failed. Cheap Clippers Jerseys .Shane Flanagan can do just that - and boast one of the games great coaching achievements - if Cronulla claim their maiden premiership with a win over Melbourne in Sundays NRL grand final.Super-coach Gibson secured Parramattas first premiership success in 1981, and then made it a hat-trick of titles two years later just for good measure.Nicknamed The Guru, Gibson also ended a 40-year title drought at the Roosters in 1974 and threw in the 75 premiership as well.After his incredible success at the Eels, Gibson moved to the Shire for three seasons from 1985 to 1987 but even he couldnt deliver the Sharks their highly-sought after silverware.Cronulla qualified for the finals in the two years after Gibson left, but his longest- lasting legacy of his time there has been his immortal quote: Waiting for Cronulla to win a premiership is like leaving the porch lamp on for Harold Holt.Fittingly, Flanagan paid tribute to Gibsons long-time offsider Ron Massey for his guidance after Fridays preliminary win over premiers North Queensland.Consider what 50-year-old Flanagan has done to take his team from wooden spoon and ASADA ban ignominy to the edge of grand final glory in the space of just two years.It would have seemed nigh impossible in 2014 when he was serving his one-year suspension for governance issues from the clubs 2011 supplements program scandal.Sharks boss Lyall Gorman says Flanagan spent much of that time working on his approach to coaching.Shane came back after 12 months off, and a long time to reflect on where he was going and his style of leadership, and he has emerged as the figure we can all see now, says Gorman.There is his strong leadership, his exceptional man management skills, his passion for the club and the game and his vision for the future.Win, lose or draw he wont be satisfied on Sunday.His goal and my goal is to make this the club of choice in the NRL.He has absolute clarity about that and a great team around him.Flanagan is universally loved by his players and Gorman said he is very adept at the art of man management. Something Gibson also excelled at.He builds a tremendous rapport, Gorman says.He knows when it is time to be disciplined and strong and tough and knows there are other times when you can sit back and relax.He can take the heat out of the moment, put that anxiety aside. But he is very driven at the same time.Gorman, who joined the Sharks at the end of 2014, says Flanagan suffered before that from a lack of support.Our governance model and management model around the club has improved a lot and so no longer does it all fall on his shoulders.He probably felt back in 2013 a very large percentage of his club was on his shoulders.Along with skipper Paul Gallen, Flanagan has served as a figurehead for Cronulla through its toughest time, which including the suspension of 17 current and former players over the supplements scandal.The duo can lead the Sharks to their greatest triumph on Sunday.Since he came back (from suspension) he has been great, Gallen says of Flanagan.His recruitment has been really good.Obviously he got guys like Jack Bird and Valentine Holmes to be the players they are today.He has also set up a really good senior player squad, picking up guys like Michael Ennis and turning Wade Graham into the leader he is today.It has been a massive effort by him particularly after what he went through. Cheap NBA Jerseys .com) - Yankee Stadium is the home of the Bronx Bombers, but on Sunday afternoon it will open its gates to host the latest addition of the Hudson River Rivalry. Cheap Clippers Jerseys China .J. -- Marty Brodeur beat the Pittsburgh Penguins yet again. http://www.cheapclippersjerseys.com/ . MORITZ, Switzerland -- Fog prevented downhill racers from getting their Olympic dress rehearsal. Lewis Hamilton has questioned why the British Grand Prix started under the Safety Car, while his fellow drivers have criticised how long it stayed out.As with the Monaco Grand Prix, rain before the race meant race control felt it was too risky to start the race as normal. The pack was led away under the Safety Car, which then stayed out for six laps.Though Hamilton himself complained about aquaplaning in the early laps, he was heard saying Come on Charlie, lets go, before it came in, a message aimed at FIA race director Charlie Whiting.?I personally think we could have started from the grid, Hamilton said. For sure there were patches all over the place and it would have been tricky but thats what Formula One is all about. But then we did stay for sure far too long. It was pretty much intermediates by the time they let us go.It would have been fun. I think it was just as wet and there was more water on the track in 2008 [Hamilton won his first British GP that year] when we started from the grid so thats why I said that.Hamiltons comfortable race victory could have been very different, with the reigning world champion nearly running into the back of the slow-moving Safety Car at Copse.?I had glazed my rear brakes and they were low on temperatures. I was trying to pick up them, but the safety car was so slow, you cannot imagine. Our car is so fast, and you cannot see that well behind the safety car, I braked and the thing wasnt stopping, so I nearly hit the safety car. It is a first, fortunately I didnt.Not everyone agreed with Hamiltons opinion. Jenson Button thought the track was too wet for a normal start, though he said the Safety Car stayed out for much longer than was needed.It was definitely a safety car start, it was super wet, loads of standing water, Button said. But we waited a long time. The safety car should have come in two laps earlier.The problem is then everyone pits at the samee time so you cant do anything different [strategically]. Cheap Swingman Clippers Jerseys. Toro Rossos Carlos Sainz says the spray in the early laps was difficult for those running down the order.They played very safe, he said. The start needed to be behind the safety car because you could see absolutely nothing in the middle of the field. But two laps to see how the track is, see where the puddles are, then go for it.Ferraris Sebastian Vettel said the decision showed people do not have enough faith in Pirellis extreme wet tyre.?It depends where you are to be honest. I was looking forward to a start because it gives you a chance to move ahead. Obviously if you are in the lead then its a safe bet that you will stay in the lead when you start behind the Safety Car. Initially I think it was the right call initially to start behind the Safety Car because there was quite a lot of standing water in the first half of the track, whereas the other half was quite dry.I think to criticise its not really the call whether to start behind the Safety Car or not, I think to criticise is the fact that nobody has any trust in the extreme wets. So youd rather take a lot of risk going on to the intermediates where there was a lot of aquaplaning in the beginning, simply because its the quicker tyre. So I think weve mentioned a couple of times that the extreme wets are basically good enough to follow the Safety Car and then you want to fit the intermediates. So nothing has changed in that regard.The early Safety Car, and a Virtual Safety Car triggered by Pascal Wehrlein spinning off, neutralised much of the strategy around the grid. 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