2025 R4 Sat - Cronulla v Canterbury @ Sharks

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NRL 2025 - Round 4
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Sharks Stadium, Woolooware / Dharawal (TICKETS)

Saturday 29 March 2025
Kickoff 7:35pm
Live on Fox, Kayo

1. William Kennedy 2. Samuel Stonestreet 3. Jesse Ramien 4. Kayal Iro 5. Ronaldo Mulitalo 6. Braydon Trindall 7. Nicho Hynes 8. Addin Fonua-Blake 9. Blayke Brailey 10. Oregon Kaufusi 11. Briton Nikora 12. Teig Wilton 13. Cameron McInnes
14. Daniel Atkinson 15. Siosifa Talakai 16. Thomas Hazelton 17. Tuku Hau Tapuha
18. Jayden Berrell 19. Mawene Hiroti 20. Hohepa Puru 21. Toby Rudolf 22. Billy Burns

Out: Braden Hamlin-Uele (bench)
In: Thomas Hazelton (bench), Jayden Berrell (reserve), Mawene Hiroti (reserve), Hohepa Puru (reserve), Toby Rudolf (reserve), Billy Burns (reserve)

1. Connor Tracey 2. Blake Wilson 3. Bronson Xerri 4. Stephen Crichton 5. Marcelo Montoya 6. Bailey Hayward 7. Toby Sexton 8. Max King 9. Reed Mahoney 10. Daniel Suluka-Fifita 11. Josh Curran 12. Jacob Preston 13. Jaeman Salmon
14. Kurt Mann 15. Harry Hayes 16. Sitili Tupouniua 17. Kurtis Morrin
19. Joseph O'Neill 20. Blake Taaffe 21. Jack Todd 22. Luke Smith 23. Jonathan Sua

In: Joseph O'Neill (reserve), Blake Taaffe (reserve), Jack Todd (reserve), Luke Smith (reserve), Jonathan Sua (reserve)
Changes: Josh Curran (front row to second row), Jaeman Salmon (second row to lock), Daniel Suluka-Fifita (lock to front row)

Referee: Chris Butler
Sideline Officials: Phil Henderson, Matt Noyen
Video Referee: Grant Atkins

HEAD TO HEAD - 1967 - 2024​

	TOTAL	CRO	CBY	DRAWN
ALL MATCHES	101	42	57	2
SHARKS	41	21	19	1

LAST FIVE MEETINGS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
2022	Round 24	CRO 16-0	Pointsbet	11500
2023	Round 8	CRO 33-20	Accor	12148
2023	Round 16	CRO 48-10	Pointsbet	11901
2024	Round 2	CRO 25-6	Sharks	12928
2024	Round 17	CBY 15-14	Accor	15765

BIGGEST WINS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
2001	Semi Final	CRO 52-10	SFS	21507
2014	Round 2	CBY 42-4	ANZ	12057

NEXT FOUR MATCHES​

	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7	Round 8
CRONULLA	CAN (A)	MAN (H)	NEW (A)	WST (A)
CANTERBURY	NEW (H)	BYE	SOU (H)	BRI (A)

LAST THREE MATCHES​

	Round 1		Round 2		Round 3
CRONULLA	PEN	L 22-28	NQL	W 36-12	SOU	W 27-12
CANTERBURY	SGI	W 28-20	GLD	W 40-24	PAR	W 16-8

STATE OF PLAY: 2025 SEASON​

	POSITION	PLAYED	BYES	W-L-D	FOR	AGAINST
CRONULLA	6th	3	0	2-1-0	85	52
CANTERBURY	2nd	3	0	3-0-0	84	52

 

[This Year?]

Bulldogs are due a loss and the Sharks have the speed and the finesse to run them around.

 

[Valheru]

Should be a good game.

Sharks at home in a ow scoring affair.

 

[ouwet]

Should be a good game.

Sharks at home in a ow scoring affair.

Yeah, unfortunately I'm thinking the same.

More than likely will be wet weather, Cronulla will be dragged down to an arm wrestle but I think Cronulla pretty much at full strength will have a try or 2 more than us missing Kiks, Burton, S Hughes and Kiraz in the end.

 

[Grapple]

Yep I agree we'll get beaten in this one. Sharks will be much more unpredicatble and will have enough spark to create points even if it's another grind.

 

[Dragon Slayer]

I predicted comfortable wins against Cowboys & Souths and it came true to opinion.

Once again I’m predicting a comfortable win.

Would have predicted a close game had the Dogs not lost Burton & Kikau however.

 

[roboshark]

Read Kirraz back?

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Yep, Dogs overdue for a loss, Sharks coming in to a bit of attacking form, they will get up by 8 or so.

 

[2012....Sharks Year]

Yeah, unfortunately I'm thinking the same.

More than likely will be wet weather, Cronulla will be dragged down to an arm wrestle but I think Cronulla pretty much at full strength will have a try or 2 more than us missing Kiks, Burton, S Hughes and Kiraz in the end.

Sounds like you’re making excuses already. We are minus Talakai…Katoa…
Toby Rudolph…Tom Hazleton and Hamlin-Uele. Should be a good game regardless of who is out. Sharks by 4

 

[BWNB]

Sounds like you’re making excuses already. We are minus Talakai…Katoa…
Toby Rudolph…Tom Hazleton and Hamlin-Uele. Should be a good game regardless of who is out. Sharks by 4

Nah dogs are at full strength we are weakened, but will still win.

 

[ouwet]

Sounds like you’re making excuses already. We are minus Talakai…Katoa…
Toby Rudolph…Tom Hazleton and Hamlin-Uele. Should be a good game regardless of who is out. Sharks by 4

Yeah maybe lol

Playing at Shark Park on a Saturday night missing Burton is massive, his kicks alone get us out of trouble and we saw againat Parramatta how much we struggled to get out of our half and Parramatta dominating territory, Cronulla would've put 30 on us if they had the territory of Parramatta.

You're missing a few fringe players but your depth is probably the best in the NRL especially in the forwards.
I think the Dogs will be up for this... Let's hope the players don't make excuses like I am lol.

 

[2012....Sharks Year]

Yeah maybe lol

Playing at Shark Park on a Saturday night missing Burton is massive, his kicks alone get us out of trouble and we saw againat Parramatta how much we struggled to get out of our half and Parramatta dominating territory, Cronulla would've put 30 on us if they had the territory of Parramatta.

You're missing a few fringe players but your depth is probably the best in the NRL especially in the forwards.
I think the Dogs will be up for this... Let's hope the players don't make excuses like I am lol.

Yeah gotta agree that Burtons kicking is a massive loss. Think Sam Stonestreet should be buying a lottery ticket considering he’s been a bit vulnerable under the high ball this last few weeks since Katoa has been out. Regardless should be a cracker between two potential top 4 sides.

 

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