{"id":672240,"date":"2026-05-15T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672240\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:04:21","slug":"nrl-live-updates-sharks-playmakers-dominating-dogs-in-magic-round-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672240\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL LIVE updates: Sharks\u2019 playmakers dominating Dogs in Magic Round opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronaldo Mulitalo brings down an attacking bomb and offloads to Jesse Ramien, but the Bulldogs\u2019 cover defence is good enough to drag Ramien over the sideline. But the Dogs are going to need to start defusing those bombs themselves \u2013 they\u2019ve already conceded one try from a kick tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Next time the Sharks get inside Canterbury territory Braydon Trindall blasts a bomb in the same direction, towards Bulldogs winger Jonathan Sua, who can only get a hand to the ball before it bounces over the sideline.<\/p>\n<p>And Cronulla make them pay again, Braydon Trindall taking the ball to the line then holding up a pass for Will Kennedy, who dummies his way through a gap to score the Sharks\u2019 third of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks 18, Bulldogs 0 after 17 minutes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Kennedy scores for Cronulla.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/09cac2ea1a4660970828146b058e0dbaab9fba46.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Will Kennedy scores for Cronulla.Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Mulitalo brings down an attacking bomb and offloads to Jesse Ramien, but the Bulldogs\u2019 cover defence is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-672240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672240","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=672240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}