{"id":141831,"date":"2025-09-14T05:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141831\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:05:12","slug":"ronaldo-mulitalo-tees-off-on-media-and-sharks-critics-what-did-he-say-sharks-v-roosters-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141831\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Mulitalo tees off on media and Sharks critics, what did he say, Sharks v Roosters, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharks star Ronaldo Mulitalo has never been short of a word, and the fiery winger was at his boisterous best once again following his side\u2019s upset finals win over the Roosters. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Earlier in the week, Mulitalo rubbished the criticism <\/a>that has been levelled at the Sharks\u2019 poor finals record since 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve played finals every year while there are eight or nine other clubs that haven\u2019t played finals… People just keep changing the goalposts. I couldn\u2019t care less what anyone says about finals,\u201d Mulitalo said.<\/p>\n

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Immediately after Saturday night\u2019s win in which Cronulla won just their third final in 13 attempts, Mulitalo again took aim at the media and the team\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI love these bunch of boys. All the crap that\u2019s been said in the media about us, they\u2019ve kicked us while we\u2019re down \u2026 shove that up your pipe, brah,\u201d Mulitalo told Triple M post-game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love each other, we work hard for each other and our community. No one gave us a shot here, no one. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey all came down here thinking it was an easy win (for the Roosters) so I\u2019m just really grateful for the win. We\u2019ll celebrate tonight and then get ready for next week. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo one\u2019s given us a shot, we\u2019ve flown under the radar and that\u2019s exactly how we like it. <\/p>\n

\u201cKeep bagging us out in the media boys, we\u2019re going to keep getting after it. I love this group of boys and we\u2019re going to keep working hard for each other win or lose next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mulitalo was in a running battle with opposing winger Mark Nawaqanitawase, which had been talked up all week heading into the clash. <\/p>\n

Nawaqanitawase won the battle early, burning Mulitalo with pace to score the game\u2019s first try but Mulitalo scored a first-half double and got the last laugh with his side progressing to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

However, the Sharks No. 5 believes it was the Roosters flyer that won the individual battle.<\/p>\n

Mark Nawaqanitawase beat Ronaldo Mulitalo for speed to score the game\u2019s first try, but it\u2019d be the Sharks winger who got the last laugh.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what it\u2019s all about, give the fans something to watch. He\u2019s an outstanding athlete and to be fair I feel like he played a better game than me tonight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe contested well under the high ball \u2026 he\u2019s got a long and bright future in this game. I love playing against guys like that, you get the best out of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon praised Mulitalo\u2019s performance, noting a light-hearted moment post-game when the winger apologised to Fitzgibbon.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe felt the pinch when Mark scored (the game\u2019s first try). He said \u2018Craig, I\u2019m sorry. I said something during the week and I shouldn\u2019t have done it.\u2019 That\u2019s Ronny. That\u2019s why we love him. He\u2019s not scared,\u201d Fitzgibbon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Ronny takes on an opponent and they get him, he\u2019ll get them back. He\u2019s combative in that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an out and out Shark, he loves his teammates and the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good duel out there. Mark played well. It was exciting for the game and if you\u2019re a fan and watching Mark and Ronny going at it, it\u2019s awesome.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharks star Ronaldo Mulitalo has never been short of a word, and the fiery winger was at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,4738,4565,11096,96629,96628,2105,96627,761,762,673,158,677,11094,24006,85,670,45262,96626],"class_list":["post-141831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-craig-fitzgibbon","tag-cronulla-sharks","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-fiery-winger","tag-first-half-double","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-media-boys","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-semi-finals","tag-sharks-coach","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-triple-m","tag-upset-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}