{"id":156567,"date":"2025-09-20T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156567\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:29:09","slug":"cronulla-sharks-edge-north-queensland-cowboys-in-nrlw-thriller-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156567\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronulla Sharks edge North Queensland Cowboys in NRLW thriller \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/cronulla-sharks-edge-north-queensland-cowboys-in-nrlw-thriller\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Cronulla Sharks edge North Queensland Cowboys in NRLW thriller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NRLW-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS 18 CRONULLA SHARKS 24<br \/>CALLUM WALKER, Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Saturday<\/p>\n<p>CRONULLA just about edged North Queensland to make it to the next round of the NRLW finals.<\/p>\n<p>It was nip-and-tuck throughout with both sides responding to each other\u2019s ripostes, but the Sharks were fully worth their victory.<\/p>\n<p>And it was the visitors that struck first when Cassie Staples dotted down on four minutes, but Fran Goldthorp responded almost immediately for the Cowboys to level proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Johnston forced her way over in true Ellie Johnston fashion after Makenzie Weale had taken the lead for North Queensland, and it was Cronulla that led at half-time courtesy of an Anne-Marie Kiria-Ratu effort on the half-hour.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides traded big hits and errors inside the opening quarter of the second-half, but it was the Sharks that struck the killer blow on the hour with the ever-impressive Georgia Hannaway grabbing a deserved four-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Hannaway herself continued to convert with aplomb to make it 24-12, but the Cowboys did manage to have the final word through Bree Chester.<\/p>\n<p>COWBOYS: 1 Jakiya Whitfeld, 2 Krystal Blackwell, 3 Abigail Roache, 4 Jasmine Peters, 5 Fran Goldthorp, 6 Kirra Dibb (C), 7 Tahlulah Tillett, 8 Lillian Yarrow, 9 Emma Manzelmann, 10 Makenzie Weale, 11 Tallisha Harden, 17 Essay Banu, 13 Bree Chester. Subs (all used): 12 China Polata, 14 Alisha Foord, 15 Lily Peacock, 16 Tiana Raftstrand-Smith<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Goldthorp (8), Weale (11), Chester (70); Goals:\u00a0Dibb 3\/3<\/p>\n<p>SHARKS: 1 Jada Taylor, 2 Cassie Staples, 3 Tiana Penitani Gray (C), 4 Grace-Lee Weekes, 5 Georgia Ravics, 6 Emma Verran, 7 Chantay Kiria-Ratu, 8 Ellie Johnston, 9 Georgia Hannaway, 10 Manilita Takapautolo, 11 Talei Holmes, 12 Jaydika Tafua, 13 Brooke Anderson. Subs (all used): 14 Tyla King, 15 Rhiannon Byers, 16 Stephanie Faulkner, 17 Anne-Marie Kiria-Ratu<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Staples (4), Johnston (20), Anne-Marie Kiria-Ratu (32), Hannaway (61); Goals:\u00a0Hannaway 4\/5<\/p>\n<p>SCORING SEQUENCE:\u00a00-6, 6-6, 12-6, 12-12, 12-18; 12-24, 18-24<\/p>\n<p>Rugby Leaguer &amp; League Express Player of the Match<br \/>Knights:\u00a0Bree Chester;\u00a0Titans:\u00a0Georgia Hannaway<\/p>\n<p>Penalty count: 9-8; Half-time: 12-18; Referee: Kasey Badger; Attendance:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS 18 CRONULLA SHARKS 24CALLUM WALKER, Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Saturday CRONULLA just about edged North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-156567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156567","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=156567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}