{"id":721356,"date":"2026-06-07T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721356\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:34:38","slug":"nrl-news-2026-dragons-vs-sharks-result-video-highlights-moses-suli-tackle-criticised-by-andrew-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721356\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Dragons vs Sharks result, video, highlights; Moses Suli tackle criticised by Andrew Johns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dean Young<\/a>\u2019s half-time speech to the Dragons<\/a> backfired, while one Red V player copped a pasting from Andrew Johns<\/a> as Cronulla<\/a> won 34-12<\/a> in a superb comeback without marquee men Nicho Hynes and Blayke Brailey.<\/p>\n

After a sluggish start from both sides at Shark Park, a penalty goal in the 20th minute put the Dragons ahead. <\/p>\n

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Cronulla celebrates a try.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cronulla hit back quickly through Ronaldo Mulitalo but by half-time the Dragons were leading 12-6 after tries for Valentine Holmes and Mathew Feagai. <\/p>\n

Nine\u2019s Emma Lawrence reported from the sideline that Young\u2019s message to his troops was simply around replicating the feeling they had from winning against the Broncos last round – their first win in 15 matches. <\/p>\n

He\u2019d have been wishing he said something else when Briton Nikora and William Kennedy made it 18-12 by the 50th minute. <\/p>\n

The worst moment arrived seven minutes later when the Sharks had a scrum near halfway. KL Iro hit the line and skipped around a feeble effort from Moses Suli before Sam Stonestreet pushed up in support and scored. <\/p>\n

Clint Gutherson was seen irate from the in-goal area before Johns ripped into Suli. <\/p>\n

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Moses Suli’s attempt on KL Iro.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this level, your punishment there should be you go in the middle of the field and make 20 tackles,\u201d he said on Nine\u2019s coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lead extended for the Sharks moments later when Mulitalo grabbed his second and effecitvely sealed the result. <\/p>\n

Cronulla\u2019s cherry on top came when Braydon Trindall dummied near the line and went over after Daniel Atkinson missed a one-on-one tackle. <\/p>\n

\u201cA great second half by the Sharks, led by their half Braydon Trindall and fullback William Kennedy was sensational,\u201d Johns said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA real professional performance. They were quite flat in the first half but coach Craig Fitzgibbon challenged them and they rose to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

St George Illawarra remain on the bottom of the ladder after 14 rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean Young\u2019s half-time speech to the Dragons backfired, while one Red V player copped a pasting from Andrew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-721356","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\/721356","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=721356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}