NRL Highlights: Raiders v Sharks - Round 8

And now we’re close to perfect this time last week with a big win over North QLD underway in Canberra, the Raiders receiving Sheila, the catcher and back comes Josh Papoli E and we’ve got a penalty with the first tackle of the game for a high shot. Short side Hines working now away to take Wilton. Wilton through stepping, weaving, pulled down to meters out. Sheila try saving effort. Bradley for Hynes. Hazelton slips a pass away. Kifuchi, He keeps it alive. And scooped up by Mckinnis, who dives over next to the upright, is the Canberra Fans aren’t happy with that pass, but they can’t rule on the forward pass in the bunker. They are filthy and so are the players. Joseph Tarpenny and we’re coming from behind Schiller. He cleans it up and the next play Nico will go to the line. Let’s have a look at this pass. It’s flat ish and they’ll get an offload. And Cameron Mcinnis Always there, always there he goes to Mcinnis and then to Hines who sells a dummy. The defence came rushing out but they didn’t complete the tackle. Hines’s her pass was a little wonky. Hit the deck twice. Wilton picked it up. He’ll off load. That’s taken a Canberra hand. Atkinson nearly past them. Hold no zero. You find it hard to see the Canberra team holding out and they won’t. In the try scoring freak Hazelton has got another there’s only one team playing football. Both teams are pretty much completing at 100% but at the moment the Raiders very predictable, putting no pressure on Cronulla at all. Hines a gap in the centre of the rock. Hines Can he get the ball to the turbo. Spectacular offload to Atkinson. Yeah, dies. Going to see if Nico Hines retains possession before offloading. Yeah, that’s hit his elbow. Nico Hines loses the ball forward initially into a defender. This break will do then the world of good. Well, that’s a win stopping Heinz from a near unstoppable position. You, you put together his record as a player and coach. We’ll get back to that because down the wing goes savage. Levi, he’s on the treadmill. He dropped the ball. Oh, you shouldn’t laugh, but you got to laugh as a player and coach. Fifth, most of all, time. Ronaldo nearly splitting them. Well, you know things are bleak when the wingers are lining up for a run in the middle of the field. It goes away to Hines, now out to Kennedy and through the hands. Simple stuff. A third try to the Sharks and they’re threatening to blow this game away. Well, they’re blowing the middle away. They’re just running from dummy half and their outside backs are just rolling forward. 1015 metres every run. Playing the ball so quick. And then once again, players left on the ground. Just overlaps on the outside. No talk and just too easy. Too easy, He felt. All of that tackle from Talakai. Strange. Keep going, Hudson Young Xavier Savage. Good kick. What’s the bounce do Oh balls on the ground grounded by the Sharks. Well, there’s your backyard footy. And once again not much variety in attack. They went wide, no overlap. Xavier Savage puts it over the top. Get a hand on this. So you got to think Starling, I think Starling got a hand on this. But no, they’re not going to just bring the ball back a little bit, settle the bag and get the Sharks coming off their defence line. There’s no fatigue in the line at all. Mariota A metre away. Strange beat Nikora. Ethan Strange over. Oh, don’t think he got the ball down. He drops it. That’s cruel. Well, Talekoi, He plays for an obstruction here. No. Try confirming a knock on so we can see if Ethan Strange gets the ball to ground. It’s a tackle from Kennedy. He doesn’t get it down. He is 1/3 effort and he drops it. He struggles here and then he’ll eventually he remains up at this point. He’ll get it here and he’ll drop it, right? Oh oh there she changes and attempting to ground the ball. Ethan Strange loses possession in goal, but we have a decision. Strange is there to make the tackle 5 away from the line. Heinz plenty of space straight through Britain in quarter so the pass out of dummy half was a great pass. I’m not sure who rang the decoy and the Azusa Wimiaks replay. Nico just goes to the line, scores his first for the year. Pines from inside 40. Oh, he’s hit it sweetly and it’s over the head of Savage. And it takes an eighth to line off break for a 4020. Oh yeah, it’s quarter cold. It’s inside 40. You’ve seen him on methodical. 4020, he was asleep. He was sleepwalking when the ball went past Williams. Hines, Well, there’s gaps everywhere. Hines goes himself and scores. Well, this just comes down to fatigue. They’re out on their feet. The Raiders, he just gets on the outside and just strolls over. It’s hard to find an excuse for that effort in defence. Hard to describe it. Yeah, that was Paul Williams getting some extra time on the field. Came on late in the first of all intercept. Heinz saw it coming from a long way out and they’ve got Nico covered for pace. In fact, 5 Raiders got back there. Played back to it all. Atkinson, Nico, Heinz, Nicoda against the retreating defensive line ball around the corner. Ramian linking up with Sione Kartela. They’re playing magnificent rugby league. The Sharks team here’s the intercept and gets into the the passing lane. Isuzu Mux replay watch the head fake here and he’s tackled by Schiller and they go down the short side and then the long shift ball come wide. Nicora show and go ball inside. Jesse Raymond finds Kotala and what a game that’ll be. Sam Walker back up in Brisbane. Hero through the middle, Ronaldo there, he runs away from him. Stewart made the tackle, which means he’s not back there. In fact, there’s barely anyone back there. Hines, if they catch and pass, they should score. They don’t need to. Ramian over slams it down. It’s 40 nil and the damage was done by ERA in the middle of the field. And then once again, the damage done around the middle. And they get room, they get a quick play of the ball, then they go to the edges and then too much class. You seem awful. It was great last week or Thursday, great to watch the most authoritative statement made by the Sharks in Canberra. It’s a hard place to visit and they have really dismantled this young, inexperienced Canberra team and the scoreline says it all.