{"id":476276,"date":"2026-06-14T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476276\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:23:11","slug":"warriors-drop-to-heartbreaking-defeat-against-cronulla-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476276\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors drop to heartbreaking defeat against Cronulla Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cronulla Sharks half Braydon Trindall has slotted a long field goal with seconds remaining to snatch a 10-8 nailbiter against NZ Warriors at Go Media Stadium.<\/p>\n

By Grant Chapman of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n

As fulltime approached, the home side had chance to draw even again, but centre Adam Pompey was wide right with a penalty attempt, as the Warriors suffered their fifth loss of the NRL season.<\/p>\n

Without several senior players through injury and State of Origin commitments, the Auckland side trailled 8-0 after 26 minutes, with Cronulla centre Jesse Ramian scoring his team’s only try.<\/p>\n

Moments later, the Warriors found the scoreboard, when halfback Te Maire Martin sliced through for a try next to the posts and they were just two points astray at halftime.<\/p>\n

Midway through the second half, Pompey levelled the contest with a penalty and both teams had their chance to grab victory in the dying moments.<\/p>\n

‘Tricky’ Trindall took his chance, when the Sharks entered the Warriors half and he connected sweetly from about 45 metres out.<\/p>\n

The Warriors kicked off short and regained the ball inside Sharks territory. They won a penalty, when wing Sione Katoa was guilty of an early tackle, but Pompey was wayward with his kick at goal and Cronulla survived for their fourth straight win.<\/p>\n

Warriors coach Andrew Webster handed an NRL debut to rookie hooker Makaia Tafua, who impressed with accurate passing and hard hits.<\/p>\n

The result leaves the Warriors in second on the points table, after back-to-back losses, now six points behind Penrith Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cronulla Sharks half Braydon Trindall has slotted a long field goal with seconds remaining to snatch a 10-8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,3006],"class_list":["post-476276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}