{"id":889266,"date":"2026-09-12T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889266\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:00:13","slug":"nrl-finals-live-sharks-open-scoring-against-cowboys-in-sudden-death-finals-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889266\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL finals LIVE: Sharks open scoring against Cowboys in sudden-death finals clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Queensland have made three errors already tonight and now Jake Clifford sends a clearing kick out on the full, gifting Cronulla another full set inside the Cowboys\u2019 half.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors\u2019 defence has been strong tonight but they must be tiring from all this defending. They do come up with another try-saver as Braydon Trindall reaches out but drops the ball just short of the tryline.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is what North Queensland needs. They send it wide from inside their own half on the fourth tackle and speedy centre Tom Chester bursts through a gap, then is tackled high by KL Iro \u2013 who is put on report.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys finally get a chance to attack, and after Braydon Trindall makes a strong tackle near the line, Scott Drinkwater fires a bullet cutout pass to send Braidon Burns over untouched. Try Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks 8, Cowboys 6 after 27 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Queensland have made three errors already tonight and now Jake Clifford sends a clearing kick out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-889266","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\/889266","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=889266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}