Siosifa Talakai has revealed Cronulla players were “at each other’s throats” during a mid-year collapse to Brisbane, before an honesty session helped turn around the Sharks’ season. Now the dark horse of the NRL title race, Cronulla will fittingly return to the place where their mid-year recovery began for Friday night’s preliminary final against Melbourne at AAMI Park. “In the second half against Broncos, we were at each other’s throats,” Sharks forward Talakai told AAP this week. “I think it was because we were under so much pressure and we were so frustrated with each other. “He said look each other in the eye, it’s only who’s here in this room that can get us out of it.