Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart says his ideas aren't working and he needs to go back to the drawing board after the Sharks suffered a 12-2 NRL loss to the New Zealand Warriors at Toyota Park.

Stuart said despite a huge emphasis on the Sharks' attack at training, his side were struggling to translate that into points in matches.

"It's something that is bothering me," Stuart said.

"We can't do any more work on it, we're doing enough time on it, we're not transferring it to the footy field well enough.

"I've got to look at myself in the way I'm coaching our attack at training, I've got to change some ideas because obviously what we're doing at training's not working.

"I've got to look at me."

Stuart said the Sharks were guilty of clocking off once a month, a judgement backed by skipper Brett Kimmorley.

"We've fallen into a habit where we've been very strong for a period of a month ... and we have one week off," Stuart said.

"Each month we tend to knock off."

The Sharks have now lost three of their last four games and Kimmorley said they fall into a hole when they're being talked up.

"We were off the pace ... I think we just struggle when we get raps ... our heads just hit the wall," the skipper said.

Warriors winger Manu Vatuvei redeemed himself with the match-clinching try, ending his side's six-game losing streak.

Vatuvei sealed the match in the 76th minute after the halftime score of 6-2 had looked the likely final result.

The winger - who was dropped after spilling the ball on at least five occasions against Parramatta three weeks ago - latched onto a Nathan Fien grubber to seal the visitors' win.

"I thought it would have been nice for him to get a bit more ball because every time he got it he looked like he was going to do something," Warriors coach Ivan Cleary said.

"He's just shown over the last couple of weeks the sort of character he is ... I think he's got a bit of a raw deal."

Skipper Steve Price backed up his heroics for Queensland on Wednesday with 34 hit-ups, covering a staggering 311 metres.

Warriors five-eighth Michael Witt scored his side's other try and booted two conversions in front of 4202 fans, who sat through some sheeting downpours and Toyota Park's infamous southerly for sections of the match.

For the Sharks, winger Luke Covell kicked a penalty goal.

NSW State of Origin hopeful Paul Gallen was placed on report for a high tackle for a 32nd minute shot on Warriors winger Patrick Ah Van which will be scrutinised by the NRL's match review committee on Monday.

With the wind and rain stronger in the first half, the Warriors capitalised on their advantage and were first on the board in the 11th minute when five-eighth Witt split the defence 10 metres out to cross for a simple try.

They had the perfect chance to extend their halftime lead 10 minutes into the second stanza but blew a certain try.

Witt made the bust and appeared certain to score himself, but instead threw a wild floating pass to unmarked winger Ah Van who spilled the ball with the line wide open.

New Zealand were denied again five minutes later when halfback Grant Rovelli's solo effort was disallowed by video referee Phil Cooley, who ruled Warriors lock Michael Luck had obstructed the Sharks' marker defence.

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