2025 R9 MAGIC Fri - Cronulla 28-18 Parramatta @ Suncorp

[League Unlimited News]

NRL 2025 - Round 9
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks v Parramatta Eels
Suncorp Stadium, Milton / Yuggera-Turrbal (TICKETS)

Friday 2 May 2025
NRL kickoff 6:00pm.
Live on Fox, Kayo

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

Out: Mawene Hiroti (centre)
In: Kayal Iro (centre), Braden Hamlin-Uele (bench)

1. Isaiah Iongi 2. Bailey Simonsson 3. Viliami Penisini 4. Sean Russell 5. Josh Addo-Carr 6. Dylan Brown 7. Mitchell Moses 8. Jack Williams 9. Ryley Smith 10. Junior Paulo 11. Charlie Guymer 12. Kitione Kautoga 13. J'maine Hopgood
14. Dylan Walker 15. Luca Moretti 16. Matt Doorey 17. Sam Tuivaiti
18. Ryan Matterson 19. Joash Papali'i 20. Dean Hawkins 21. Bryce Cartwright 22. Jordan Samrani

Out: Kelma Tuilagi (second row)
In: Charlie Guymer (second row)

Referee: Peter Gough
Sideline Officials: Phil Henderson, TBC
Video Referee: Chris Butler

HEAD TO HEAD - 1967 - 2024​

	TOTAL	CRONULLA	PARRAMATTA	DRAWN
ALL MATCHES	92	49	43	0
SUNCORP	0	0	0	0

LAST FIVE MEETINGS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
2020	Round 13	PARRAMATTA 14-12	Netstrata	1714
2021	Round 3	PARRAMATTA 28-4	Bankwest	19236
2022	Round 2	CRONULLA 18-16	Pointsbet	11459
2023	Round 2	CRONULLA 30-26	CommBank	16663
2024	Round 13	PARRAMATTA 34-22	CommBank	11665

BIGGEST WINS​

YEAR	ROUND	RESULT	VENUE	CROWD
1995	Round 20	CRONULLA 48-18	Parramatta	9016
2003	Round 24	PARRAMATTA 74-4	Parramatta	7050

NEXT FOUR MATCHES​

	Round 10	Round 11	Round 12	Round 13
CRONULLA	MANLY (A)	MELBOURNE (H)	SYDNEY (A)	(BYE)
PARRAMATTA	DOLPHINS (H)	NEWCASTLE (A)	MANLY (H)	PENRITH (A)

LAST THREE MATCHES​

	Round 6		Round 7		Round 8
CRONULLA	MANLY	W 24-18	NEWCASTLE	W 34-14	WESTS TIGERS	L 18-20
PARRAMATTA	CANBERRA	L 12-50	WESTS TIGERS	W 38-22	(BYE)

STATE OF PLAY: 2025 SEASON​

	POSITION	PLAYED	BYES	W-L-D	FOR	AGAINST
CRONULLA	7th	8	0	4-4-0	187	148
PARRAMATTA	16th	7	1	2-5-0	117	224

 

[Bazal]

What an epic cripple fight to start the round. I'm glad the NRL have finally thought of us Eels fans an out us first up for the week, so that we get the baldness out of the way and can get on with it.

Sharts by a handful, unless Nico and Tricky need to find a field goal to win

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Dunno what Bazal is on about, I think Parra do this easy.

 

[This Year?]

Short turnaround for the Sharks. If the Eels put the Sharks halves under pressure then you never know...

 

[Fangs]

This one is going to be great I reckon.

Hamlin-Uele and Iro both back. But the Eels have the mighty Moses.

This might be a big weekend for the bottom 4 (Eels, Knights, Panthers and Titans). We might see some true magic.

Eels by 6.

 

[Apey]

Eels on the up with Moses back and Sharks not super convincing. Going Eels as well.

 

[Vic Mackey]

The Sharks have thrown away two wins V Raiders and us. Iro is a big in, if he plays on Sunday they probably win as Hiroti and then Atkinson were both horrible at left centre. Parra went well V us but Easter is always a high quality wacky game where form doesnt really carry on.

Sharks by 12.

 

[JamesRustle]

No unforced changes to the Sharks team from last week. Don't the sharks have any depth, or are they going through an injury crisis?

This will be a test of the sharks mental toughness, to see if they can put last weeks winnable loss behind them and beat the lowly Eels. Personally, I don't think they're up to it. Moses and Iongi to have a ball out there.

Eels 32-24

 

[Someone2]

Eels by 8

 

[This Year?]

These back to back to back political ads make me feel like I'm lining up to vote.

 

[Ruby Roundhouse]

eels 18+ over these frauds

 

[Diesel]

Parra to win. They looked good against the Tigers while Sharks had no direction last week.
Parra 22-12

 

[This Year?]

Oh great Stutter-gronk live on fux leeg

 

[Wb1234]

Eels are on the up

 

[_snafu_]

lol lucky bounce.

 

[This Year?]

Vossy is going to use every pun he can isn't he?

 

[MRN]

What a way to start MAGIC ROUND

 

[Ruby Roundhouse]

SJ is the lars ulrich of commentary

 

[Ruby Roundhouse]

lol sharts

 

[GreenMachine121]

They’d be a better side without Trindal