NRL finals live updates: Cronulla Sharks vs North Queensland Cowboys semifinal — blog, scores and stats

The Sharks look set to take an 18-0 lead.

Winger Ronaldo Mulitalo was streaking down the left touchline and handed the footy inside.

There are many Sharks able to take the ball and it’s fullback Will Kennedy who drops the footy.

North Queensland followers can thank halfback Jake Clifford.

He dived on the move and bought his fingertips to it, knocking the ball backwards and barely disrupting it is previous to Kennedy which led to the the drop.

Wow.

The Sharks have scored on the set after their penalty attempt.

Nicho Hynes places up a excessive kick which is falling below the goalposts.

Cronulla winger Ronaldo Mulitalo leaps greater than his counterpart, Kyle Feldt.

Mulitalo faucets the ball again to Braydon Trindall, who passes to Cam McInnes who geese his head, reaches out, AND SCORES.

There may be drama early.

Braydon Trindall has been awarded a penalty attempt for the Cronulla Sharks.

Cronulla elected to run the ball on the final sort out, and there have been about three offloads because the Sharks tried to maintain the play alive.

Trindall will get the ball and places in a grubber kick for the in-goal.

TACKLED BY REUBEN COTTER.

Referee Ashley Klein has gone to the bunker to substantiate his perception it must be a penalty attempt.

If it isn’t, will probably be a sin-bin to Cotter.

However the opinion of the referee and the bunker is that Trindall would have gotten to the ball earlier than the Cowboys cowl defence.

We have now performed eight minutes and it’s quick and free-flowing.

There have been two errors, and each have concerned Jesse Ramien.

The Sharks centre pressured a Cowboy knock-on deep in North Queensland territory. That set of six was the very best probability of both facet for a rating, however the Cowboys’ defence held agency.

The Raimen dropped the footy whereas attempting to play the ball.

North Queensland had their finest probability with a full set of six contained in the Cronulla 30-metre line.

However the Sharks held agency.

That is shaping to be a troublesome, tight and thrilling semifinal.

We’re underway.

Tonight, one group strikes onto the preliminary closing and the loser has their premiership dream dashed.

The Sharks kick-off and they are going to be working to the left of your display screen.

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That is how ABC Sport sideline eye John Gibbs has described circumstances on the Sydney Soccer Stadium.

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A large congratulations to tonight’s whistle-blower — Ashley Klein.

He will probably be officiating his four-hundredth NRL match tonight.

The price of flights from Townsville to Sydney has greater than doubled, leaving die-hard Cowboys followers devastated they’ll miss out on tonight’s semifinal.

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We’re quarter-hour away from kick-off within the semifinal between Cronulla and North Queensland.

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There are simply six groups left this season, which implies 11 fan bases are barracking for the lesser of evils.

Bulldogs followers cheering for Melbourne.

Tigers followers cheering for the Roosters.

No-one cheering for Manly.

It is a particular time of yr.

The Sharks and the Cowboys produced one of many nice matches lately, throughout the 2022 finals sequence.

It was North Queensland’s Valentine Holmes — a Cronulla premiership profitable in 2016 — who produced a two-point area objective to win the sport for the Cowboys.

The group lists are in — and the Sharks have made adjustments.

Jesse Ramien returns to the facet and can play within the centres. He’ll put on quantity 22 this night.

Siosifa Talakai, sporting quantity 3, has moved again to the bench. 

That forces quantity 14 Daniel Atkinson to be 18th man.

That’s an attention-grabbing resolution. Atkinson has been very helpful for the Sharks in 2024 and is a flexible participant.

The Cowboys are as marketed.

Reuben Cotter and Tom Dearden will take the membership to a semi-final of their first premiership marketing campaign as co-captains of the Cowboys.

It is a chance the pair, nonetheless of their early twenties, dreamed of as youngsters not too way back.

However the pair don’t want the story to finish tonight.

Nicho Hynes has conceded he might eternally be referred to as a participant who has didn’t win huge video games, however his teammates have come to his defence forward of tonight’s semifinal.

The winner of tonight’s semifinal will face the Penrith Panthers subsequent week within the preliminary closing.

The Melbourne Storm will host both the Sydney Roosters or Manly Sea Eagles within the different preliminary closing.

Good night Australia.

There are not any extra second probabilities in 2024.

Win, and you’re one step nearer to being topped premiers.

Lose, and the season ends.

The primary NRL semifinal is on tonight because the Cronulla Sharks are internet hosting the North Queensland Cowboys.

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