NRL Highlights: Sharks v Dragons - Round 9

So away we go in Sunday afternoon footy. It’s a really deep kick off. Kennedy couldn’t quite stretch out and get the kick out, kick off out on the full. Brought back by Oregon Core Fusi for the moment. Here’s Heinz for Tommy. One more hit up on this spell of possession. Can’t get it to him enough. That’s three. Three for the set, for Tom Corfusi over the line, spinning to try and get it down. Ref gets down and says Yep I’ve seen it and Corfusi scores well. Tommy does all the hard work. He takes three hit UPS in that set to get the field position and Oregon Kafusi, well, Tommy’s been scoring in the last couple of weeks. I want to go left now. On the last they keep it in the hands. Hunt Limax was inside, Hunt through 2 tackles. Ben Hunt’s over and lost possession at the death. Great scramble from the Sharks. OK Casey, what’s the one thing about the Dragons? If they’ve got a lot of ball at your end of the field and not coming up with points, eventually Ben Hunt is going to try and do it himself. It’s just a matter of time because that’s their biggest play. Is Ben Hunt going in digging core of Jesse Ramian being offside. We have a decision. Lori, wrestled down by Rudolph who returns from his quad issue today, hunts to Eisenhoof and had Sloane wrapping around out the back into the back rower instead. Now they’re on that short side. Hunt worked it out and Ravalawa scores. The Dragons do have their try, yeah, little Benny Hunt and getting the ball twice in a row. Mentioned that with Nico Hynes down the other end of the field and he’s their go to man. Good things happen around their captain. Desperate to score a try against his former team. Oh, big space opening up to Belen. How did Talakai stop him? Brilliant tackle Hunt? Sloan, Ravalawa. They do get their try. The Dragons. The Fijian has a double And how big is that moment in the final seconds of the half? Very last play of the half, very last play of the half. So field position for the Sharks. Heinz here on the 5th play. Oh, Nico Heinz dragged down by Sloane with an extraordinary try saver. In the end he looks certain to score there. Nico Heinz Talakai also held up on the final play by little getting underneath I think. Yeah great play Jacob Little. Yeah. Even in the wet conditions he looked certain to slide over. We we ended up feet first. He he had to go body first based on all available camera angles will be supporting the on field core of held up. We have a decision we asked for 10 in the bin but nothing doing there and we want to be careful though the Dragons with that kind of cynical stuff. Hines ready to go left hand side taller. Kyle takes some stopping. He got Hunt in front of him and he fancied that match up. And here come the Shark. It’s handy with a robust back row like Talakayk so close to the line getting him one-on-one with the half in the opposition Team Benny Hunt tries vainly here to hold him up. Nico Hynes saw the opportunity. Isuzu Mux replay here at Shark Park this afternoon and there’s Lomax making the one-on-one tackle down low on Willotala and he doesn’t need assistance at the moment. He does it all himself. Look at a run from Eero, his opposite number and knocked out by Hunt out as the ref. See that that’s a knock on making a tackle. Well, they’ve got no challenge, so that’s why you don’t waste your challenge. They’re in control. It’s how bad do they want it and how are they going to get it? Dragon down. That was really awkward contact. Look at the space. Open up for Kartola. Oh, what a step there was. He tripped up there by Sloane, who comes again and completes the tackle. New Brown, back now. Down in back play. Little off, of course, is Toby Hazelton. They weren’t stopping, Tommy. Up you go, Tommy boy. I was just about to say we haven’t seen Tommy for a while. Yeah, had to get him back into the action. Some beautiful play out here to the right hand side for couture to get through Centrefield scrum. Heinz wanted to use the full back. Kennedy and the Dragons had all jumped the gun out on that side and I just killed the clock and take the shot at 2:00, 3 minutes left on the clock. They’ll be trailing by 10. Novotala has been letting them know about it as well. Eight straight wins against the Dragons for Cronulla in this local Derby. They come from behind here in the second-half to get the job done and go back to the top of the ladder.