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WITH four days remaining until the entire Cronulla playing squad break for Christmas, the intensity prior to yesterday morning's field session at Shark Park was surprisingly high.
That was, until club chief executive Steve Noyce made the short walk from his office, on the eastern side of Cronulla Leagues Club, to the collection of players preparing for ball work on the adjacent playing field.
Aware of the bombshell that was about to drop, a $1m fine and head coach Shane Flanagan suspended, Noyce wanted to get to the players before the rest of the world did.
Cronulla Sharks coach Shane Flanagan leaving his home in Bangor in Southern Sydney after being stood down from the club as head coach. Picture: Hunter Tim Source: News Limited
"It was important to make sure the guys heard it from me and understood it,'' Noyce said.
"The best form of communication is from someone who is at the club and who knows the nature of what's going to happen.''
Truth be told, Noyce could've been speaking gaelic.
As far as the players were concerned, only one question required answering; "Who will coach us?''
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Noyce did his best to alleviate the hysteria by confirming that it was "business as usual" and that the club had yet to approach any other coach.
And while it's often said that player power can dictate a coach's career in Flanagan's case, it could end up saving his, with whispers of a potential player revolt reverberating around Woolooware yesterday.
The Sharks head into next season with a host of stars off-contract and with their playing future at the club revolving around if Flanagan is backed by chairman Damian Keogh and the current Sharks board to return once any suspension is served.
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Andrew Fifita, Wade Graham, Isaac De Gois, Sosaia Feki and Johnathon Wright lead the list of 14 players off contract at the Sharks in 2014.
Fifita, one of the hottest property's on the open market, was moving towards extending his future at the club before yesterday's hammer blow.
What impact it has on the Test prop, who Flanagan offered a lifeline too in 2012, is now surely clouded.
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The scenario is of course all too familiar, with Flanagan's loyal band of players, including Beau Ryan, Todd Carney, Luke Lewis and Paul Gallen, leading the campaign for his re-instatement after being stood down by the Sharks board three days before the beginning of last season.
How successful the players are a second time round remains to be seen.
But even with the daily forecast of a tornado about to hit the club, yesterday's NRL provisional findings still came as a shock to the playing group.
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While some, including Carney and Graham, committed to scheduled hospital visits, the rest of the players were given the afternoon off training.
They will return to Remondis Stadium today with Flanagan's assistant Peter Sharp at the helm.
For how long Sharp remains in charge, is the answer every player and supporter of the embattled club wants answered.
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