{"id":156242,"date":"2025-09-20T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156242\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:57:10","slug":"nrl-finals-live-updates-canberra-raiders-vs-cronulla-sharks-blog-scores-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156242\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL finals live updates: Canberra Raiders vs Cronulla Sharks \u2014 blog, scores and stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">\u2014 reporting by AAP<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ethan Strange has been ruled out of Canberra&#8217;s NRL semifinal against Cronulla in a big blow to the minor premiers&#8217; hopes of avoiding a devastating straight-sets exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In the midst of a breakout season, the gun five-eighth took ill overnight and will be replaced in the halves by utility Simi Sasagi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Sasagi has enjoyed a great year in his own right, but has never started a first-grade game in the halves before, though he has played a handful of NSW Cup games there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">English recruit Matty Nicholson will join the bench to replace Sasagi, with Danny Levi promoted to 18th man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Read the full story, before tonight&#8217;s semifinal, by tapping the link below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2014 reporting by AAP Ethan Strange has been ruled out of Canberra&#8217;s NRL semifinal against Cronulla in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,16308,13213,160,761,762,158,159,161,85],"class_list":["post-156242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-finals","tag-finals-series","tag-live-blog","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-rugby-league","tag-season","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156242","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=156242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}