Full Time at CBus Super Stadium and a 5 try to nil second half sees the Sharks take a 40-10 victory
Shaun Johnson pushes the conversion right and doesn't have the hook back he needs to get it through
Bryson Goodwin has a free passage to the tryline as Chad Townsend throws a beautiful over the top pass with Anthony Don coming up and in to give Goodwin the space
Shaun Johnson keeps his 100% kicking record in tact as he converts from close range
One-Way Traffic as Royce Hunt hits the Titans defence spins out of a poor attempted tackle and gets his first NRL try
PENALTY SHARKS: Tyrone Peachey again not happy as he gets penalised for being offside at the scrum
Tyrone Peachey not happy as he knocks the ball out of Chad Towsend's grip and gets called for a correctly ruled knock on
PENALTY TITANS: Briton Nikora penalised for a high shot... didn't look to be high on reflection but referee Sutton thought so live
PENALTY TITANS: Sharks defensive line didn't retreat the 10m according to referee Sutton; Titans with a full set on the Sharks line
Bryson Goodwin coughs up the ball on halfway and the Titans make some good metres on zero tackle
Shaun Johnson converts from close range yet again
Chad Townsend goes across shapes to pass as Ash Taylor comes way too hard off his line and Townsend steps his way to the line to score
PENALTY SHARKS: Tyrone Roberts ruled to have knocked on in the contest and Ash Taylor in an offside position picks it up to score
SET RESTART - The Titans markers are not square so they get a six again from referee Sutton - Some confusion about the situation
Bryson Goodwin goes up and takes a good catch under pressure off the high ball from Ash Taylor
Anthony Don takes an important intercept that would've saved the Titans from conceding again
Ash Taylor looks at the defensive line before he takes the pass and puts it down
Chad Townsend looks to go left but throws a bad pass that goes forward to Wade Graham
Shaun Johnson has no issues with converting from basically in front
Shaun Johnson runs at the line puts the right foot step on breaks the defence and finds Brailey who scores next to the right upright
PENALTY SHARKS: Titans push Bryson Goodwin back towards his own line then try to get up quickly out of defence but are penalised for being too quick
Keegan Hipgrave gets a bad bounce and can't pick up the second kick from Anthony Don who produced some magic out of nowhere
The small but vocal crowd not happy with Chris Sutton electing to play on with a pass they thought was forward
Titans look to play it to the right but Bryce Cartwright is taken into touch and a simple handover
PENALTY TITANS: Aaron Woods penalised for a high shot; The veteran not happy with the call thinking it only game through some gamesmanship
Shaun Johnson converts from right in front
Briton Nikora runs angled towards the posts and a poor defensive read from Ash Taylor gives Nikora a great run to the line
SECOND HALF IS GO! - Titans have the first use of the ball for the second half
HALF TIME - Josh Dugan makes a potential try-saving play on the stroke of HT as the Sharks go into the sheds leading 12-10
Josh Dugan takes the worst option possible as the Sharks had tackles up their sleeve to make momentum but he kicks it into no-mans land and it goes dead
Beau Fermor goes through yet again and decides to pass left to Tyrone Peachey who can't take it and it floats forward out to Thompson
Ash Taylor swings his conversion attempt across the face of the posts from the right touchline.
Quick hands from the Titans on the right and some rushing in defence from Talakai and Goodwin gives Anthony Don space on the right to score
Beau Fermor on debut goes through for a long run but gets caught 15m short of the line
CHALLENGE UNSUCCESSFUL: Bryson Goodwin was the last to touch the ball with it coming off his forehead. Both sides now without challenges
CAPTAINS CHALLENGE: Sharks challenging the call of ball coming dead by Bryson Goodwin with a knock-on being ruled against the Sharks
Shaun Johnson's conversion is perfect and the Sharks are back in front by 6
Wade Graham's ball playing skills to the fore as he goes left before passing inside to Andrew Fifita who takes a great low one-handed pass and forces his way to the line
Both sides down to 16 with Mitch Rein coming from the fireld for the Titans with a calf injury
Matt Moylan forced from the field with him hamstring causing issues again
Anthony Don returns serve taking his own 1-on-1 strip from Matt Moylan
1-on-1 strip from Chad Townsend as the Sharks go back onto the attack
Ash Taylor has no issues converting to level the scores
Against the run of play - Shaun Johnson doesn't find Chad Townsend but Corey Thompson picks it up and despite a valiant effort from Sione Katoa, The Titans get on the board
Bryce Cartwright loses the ball in trying to play it and all the pressure is off the Sharks and onto the Titans
Sharks under-pressure deep in their own 20 as they get to 23m out on 5th tackle
Jack Williams has an open hole in front of him and just needs to take the pass from Moylan and he puts it down and it rolls dead
CAPTAINS CHALLENGE: Taylor ripped the ball out of the Sharks players hands believing that there was a Sharks knock on not called by Chris Sutton in the lead-up; Captains Challenge taken by Titans and quickly it's shown the right call by referee Sutton
PENALTY SHARKS: Ash Taylor just strips the ball out of the Sharks players hand on the ground.
Sharks mounting pressure and they go for the all or nothing pass but Jack Williams puts it down
SET RESTART - Titans need their defensive line to reset so give themselves another tackle to stop the Sharks
PENALTY SHARKS: Titans leave the line early and are penalised
Blayke Brailey out of dummy half kicks towards the left and it goes into touch 5m out from the line and the Sharks get a full set.
Wade Graham plays at a grubber kick and then dives on it as The Titans cannot get through the Sharks defensive line
SET RESTART - The Sharks give away their first set restart of the afternoon but not too damaging on tackle 1
Jack Williams somehow loses the ball in trying to get up and play it despite a possible hand to knock it out
PENALTY SHARKS: Titans penalised on tackle 1 for getting off their line too quickly - Sharks straight into attack
Shaun Johnson has no issues converting from 10m to the left of the uprights
First points to the Sharks as Braden Hamlin-Uele runs a good line has a one-on-one with Keegan Hipgrave who cannot stop the momentum
BUNKER: Braden Hamlin-Uele has crossed but Chris Sutton needs to make sure that it was momentum that got him over the line not a double movement
REPEAT SET - Blayke Brailey kicks out of dummy-half and Aaron Woods is the intended chaser and is just beaten to it by Moeaki Fotuaika who grounds it
SET RESTART - First of the afternoon as the Titans were pinged for a leg pull from referee Sutton
Titans look to keep the ball alive but they struggle to make any metres
PENALTY SHARKS: Blayke Brailey ruled inside the 10 by Chris Sutton which gives the Sharks a reprieve given the calamitous error by Tryone Roberts at the back
NO TRY - Tyrone Peachey knocked on in trying to pick it up, looked as if he did live watching despite the live TRY decision
BUNKER: The Titans pick up the ball off a charge-down and we're checking whether Tyrone Peachey knocked on in the pickup
40/20 attempt from Shaun Johnson is a good kick but doesn't take the angle Johnson needs
70m set now for the Titans off the 20m restart but the kick at the end is taken by Goodwin cleanly on his own line
70m set for the Sharks with some good metres; The last tackle kick from Moylan taken on the full ingoal by Tyrone Peachey
Good set first-up for the Titans but the kick finds Moylan on th full who gives to Katoa who gets up to his own 30
Good first set for the Sharks making 45m and the Titans will bring it away from their own 10m
Chris Sutton calls time on and we're underway on the Gold Coast - Cronulla using the ball first
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Chris Sutton
Touch Judges: Jon Stone, Liam Kennedy
Video Referee: Steve Clark, Ben Galea
GOLD COAST TITANS (10)
Tries: Corey Thompson, Anthony Don
Field Goals:
Conversions: Ashley Taylor (1/2)
Penalty Goals:
CRONULLA-SUTHERLAND SHARKS (40)
Tries: Braden Hamlin-Uele, Blayke Brailey, Andrew Fifita, Briton Nikora, Chad Townsend, Royce Hunt, Bryson Goodwin
Field Goals:
Conversions: Shaun Johnson (6/7)
Penalty Goals: