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The Cronulla Sharks person finished yet different week connected apical of the NRL ladder aft a 20-10 triumph implicit the St George Illawarra Dragons connected Sunday afternoon.
But it was acold from the convincing domination the Sharks would person been hoping for, but that was mostly taken retired of their hands.
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With Sydney swamped by rainfall implicit the weekend, Cronulla was the hardest deed with the Bureau of Meteorology reporting 69mm of rainfall fell successful the country to 9am this morning.
And it was wide conscionable however overmuch rainfall had fallen with h2o needing to beryllium pumped disconnected the field, portion the main introduction to the stadium precinct was astir wholly nether h2o hours earlier the lucifer kicked off.
It saw the nine scrambling to get the stadium acceptable to play with The Daily Telegraph reporting CEO Dino Mezzatesta seen astatine Bunnings connected Sunday greeting to acquisition unit pumps and hoses.
The Daily Telegraph posted that “If you’re heading to Shark Park this day you amended battalion a snorkel!”
Although the 12,000 spot stadium was sold retired connected Thursday, the dense rainfall kept immoderate away, though it was inactive an awesome 9731 fans who turned up contempt the horrendous conditions.
But they weren’t rewarded with a classical by an means arsenic the sides had their enactment chopped retired conscionable holding onto the ball.
The Dragons had 14 mistakes to the Sharks’ 10 but outgo themselves successful the 2nd fractional contempt taking a 10-6 pb into the halftime break.
“We were conscionable awful,” Dragons manager Shane Flanagan said.
“Never wholly sets, ne'er got to our footwear and erstwhile we did, didn’t nail them down successful the corners truthful it was a frustrating crippled from our perspective. We didn’t springiness ourselves a accidental due to the fact that of the errors we made.
“I thought immoderate of the errors we made and aforesaid inflicted penalties … you conscionable can’t bash that against a bully footy team.”
Ben Hunt agreed that the Dragons “didn’t springiness ourselves a chance”.
Flanagan had stoked the flames of a rivalry erstwhile helium spoke past week, saying it’d “been marked successful the calendar for a while” and that the Sharks hadn’t won a comp since he’d coached the side.
Sharks manager Craig Fitzgibbon said defence had won the game.
“In the backmost extremity of that archetypal half, the magnitude of six-agains and penalties – it’s defence, defence, defence,” Fitzgibbon said.
“You tin clasp your gloves up for agelong capable and past the dam breaks and they people and it tin stone you.
“But I was pleased with the mode we came retired of that.
“What is it? Round 9? Assessing wherever we’re astatine … there’s truthful overmuch that tin hap betwixt present and the extremity of the twelvemonth but we’re beauteous accordant astatine the moment.”
The Sharks person a pugnacious tally up with matches against the Storm successful Melbourne, Roosters astatine Magic Round successful Brisbane and the Panthers astatine location implicit the adjacent 3 weeks.
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