9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\nCRONULLA SHARKS<\/p>\n
1. William Kennedy<\/p>\n
Showed his class by setting up Katoa’s try but was caught badly out of position when Papenhuyzen scored. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
2. Sione Katoa<\/p>\n
Scored two exciting tries and got the better of Coates – no easy feat. Rating: 7<\/p>\n
3. Jesse Ramien<\/p>\n
Created one of Katoa’s tries and ran with power – as he has all season. Rating: 7<\/p>\n
4. KL Iro<\/p>\n
Youngster with an amazing knack for scoring did it again – albeit all too late – and made over 200 run metres. Rating: 8<\/p>\n
5. Ronaldo Mulitalo<\/p>\n
Got few chances in the red zone but ran for 160 metres and tried to lift his team with his enthusiasm. Rating: 6.5<\/p>\n
6. Braydon Trindall<\/p>\n
Strong kicking game but a little down on his ball-playing best throughout the season. Rating: 6.5<\/p>\n
7. Nicho Hynes<\/p>\n
Ran the attack well but like Trindall, failed to lay on a try and that is where the game was lost. Rating: 7<\/p>\n
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Nicho Hynes\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
8. Addin Fonua-Blake<\/p>\n
Quiet in his first stint but all power and grit in his second, bending the Storm line back with a series of bursts. Rating: 7.5<\/p>\n
9. Blayke Brailey<\/p>\n
Was seen limping in the warm-up and wasn’t as dangerous out of dummy-half as in the lead-up games. Rating: 6.5<\/p>\n
10. Toby Rudolf<\/p>\n
Took a heavy head knock early and that seemed to dull some of his effectiveness. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
11. Billy Burns<\/p>\n
One of the main men in the Sharks’ late season charge, was again strong with a try assist and a couple of line breaks. Rating: 7.5<\/p>\n
12. Teig Wilton<\/p>\n
Down on his recent form and missed a vital tackle on Hughes when he scored a a vital try. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
13. Jesse Colquhoun<\/p>\n
A busy player in defence but needs to work on his ball skills over the summer. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
14. Briton Nikora<\/p>\n
Made a big difference when he entered the arena and unlucky not to score a try as the Storm defence swarmed on him over the line. Rating: 7<\/p>\n
15. Siosifa Talakai<\/p>\n
His size and strength caused the Storm some problems when he entered the game. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
16. Oregon Kaufusi<\/p>\n
Had little impact with just four runs in his 20 minute stint. Rating: 4<\/p>\n
17. Braden Hamlin-Uele<\/p>\n
Tried hard to lift the Sharks up front but just couldn’t provide that vital moment of spark. Rating: 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne have advanced to yet another grand final, continuing a stellar period of dominance under coach Craig Bellamy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-170389","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\/170389","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=170389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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