Full Time
80:00
3:00pm Sat July 4, 2020
Round 8 - Cbus Super Stadium, Robina / Yugambeh - Crowd: 1995
80min

Full Time at CBus Super Stadium and a 5 try to nil second half sees the Sharks take a 40-10 victory

76min

Conversion: Sharks
Attempted by Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson pushes the conversion right and doesn't have the hook back he needs to get it through

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 40 Sharks
75min

Try: Sharks
Scored by Bryson Goodwin. Kick to come.

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

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 40 Sharks
73min

Conversion: Sharks
Kicked by Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson keeps his 100% kicking record in tact as he converts from close range

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 36 Sharks
72min

Try: Sharks
Scored by Royce Hunt. Kick to come.

One-Way Traffic as Royce Hunt hits the Titans defence spins out of a poor attempted tackle and gets his first NRL try

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 34 Sharks
71min

PENALTY SHARKS: Tyrone Peachey again not happy as he gets penalised for being offside at the scrum

69min

Tyrone Peachey not happy as he knocks the ball out of Chad Towsend's grip and gets called for a correctly ruled knock on

64min

PENALTY TITANS: Briton Nikora penalised for a high shot... didn't look to be high on reflection but referee Sutton thought so live

63min

PENALTY TITANS: Sharks defensive line didn't retreat the 10m according to referee Sutton; Titans with a full set on the Sharks line

61min

Bryson Goodwin coughs up the ball on halfway and the Titans make some good metres on zero tackle

58min

Conversion: Sharks
Kicked by Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson converts from close range yet again

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 30 Sharks
58min

Try: Sharks
Scored by Chad Townsend. Kick to come.

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

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 28 Sharks
56min

PENALTY SHARKS: Tyrone Roberts ruled to have knocked on in the contest and Ash Taylor in an offside position picks it up to score

54min

SET RESTART - The Titans markers are not square so they get a six again from referee Sutton - Some confusion about the situation

53min

Bryson Goodwin goes up and takes a good catch under pressure off the high ball from Ash Taylor

53min

Anthony Don takes an important intercept that would've saved the Titans from conceding again

52min

Ash Taylor looks at the defensive line before he takes the pass and puts it down

51min

Chad Townsend looks to go left but throws a bad pass that goes forward to Wade Graham

51min

Conversion: Sharks
Kicked by Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson has no issues with converting from basically in front

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 24 Sharks
50min

Try: Sharks
Scored by Blayke Brailey. Kick to come.

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

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 22 Sharks
49min

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

48min

Keegan Hipgrave gets a bad bounce and can't pick up the second kick from Anthony Don who produced some magic out of nowhere

46min

The small but vocal crowd not happy with Chris Sutton electing to play on with a pass they thought was forward

46min

Titans look to play it to the right but Bryce Cartwright is taken into touch and a simple handover

45min

PENALTY TITANS: Aaron Woods penalised for a high shot; The veteran not happy with the call thinking it only game through some gamesmanship

43min

Conversion: Sharks
Kicked by Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson converts from right in front

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 18 Sharks
42min

Try: Sharks
Scored by Briton Nikora. Kick to come.

Briton Nikora runs angled towards the posts and a poor defensive read from Ash Taylor gives Nikora a great run to the line

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 16 Sharks
40min

SECOND HALF IS GO! - Titans have the first use of the ball for the second half

40min

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

39min

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

37min

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

36min

Conversion: Titans
Attempted by Ashley Taylor.

Ash Taylor swings his conversion attempt across the face of the posts from the right touchline.

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 12 Sharks
35min

Try: Titans
Scored by Anthony Don. Kick to come.

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

Sharks lead Titans 10 - 12 Sharks
34min

Beau Fermor on debut goes through for a long run but gets caught 15m short of the line

34min

CHALLENGE UNSUCCESSFUL: Bryson Goodwin was the last to touch the ball with it coming off his forehead. Both sides now without challenges

34min

CAPTAINS CHALLENGE: Sharks challenging the call of ball coming dead by Bryson Goodwin with a knock-on being ruled against the Sharks

33min

Conversion: Sharks
Kicked by Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson's conversion is perfect and the Sharks are back in front by 6

Sharks lead Titans 6 - 12 Sharks
33min

Try: Sharks
Scored by Andrew Fifita. Kick to come.

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

Sharks lead Titans 6 - 10 Sharks
32min

Both sides down to 16 with Mitch Rein coming from the fireld for the Titans with a calf injury

29min

Matt Moylan forced from the field with him hamstring causing issues again

28min

Anthony Don returns serve taking his own 1-on-1 strip from Matt Moylan

27min

1-on-1 strip from Chad Townsend as the Sharks go back onto the attack

26min

Conversion: Titans
Kicked by Ashley Taylor.

Ash Taylor has no issues converting to level the scores

Tied up at Titans 6 - 6 Sharks
25min

Try: Titans
Scored by Corey Thompson. Kick to come.

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

Sharks lead Titans 4 - 6 Sharks
24min

Bryce Cartwright loses the ball in trying to play it and all the pressure is off the Sharks and onto the Titans

23min

Sharks under-pressure deep in their own 20 as they get to 23m out on 5th tackle

21min

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

20min

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

19min

PENALTY SHARKS: Ash Taylor just strips the ball out of the Sharks players hand on the ground.

19min

Sharks mounting pressure and they go for the all or nothing pass but Jack Williams puts it down

18min

SET RESTART - Titans need their defensive line to reset so give themselves another tackle to stop the Sharks

17min

PENALTY SHARKS: Titans leave the line early and are penalised

16min

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.

16min

Wade Graham plays at a grubber kick and then dives on it as The Titans cannot get through the Sharks defensive line

15min

SET RESTART - The Sharks give away their first set restart of the afternoon but not too damaging on tackle 1

14min

Jack Williams somehow loses the ball in trying to get up and play it despite a possible hand to knock it out

13min

PENALTY SHARKS: Titans penalised on tackle 1 for getting off their line too quickly - Sharks straight into attack

13min

Conversion: Sharks
Kicked by Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson has no issues converting from 10m to the left of the uprights

Sharks lead Titans 0 - 6 Sharks
12min

Try: Sharks
Scored by Braden Hamlin-Uele. Kick to come.

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

Sharks lead Titans 0 - 4 Sharks
12min

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

11min

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

10min

SET RESTART - First of the afternoon as the Titans were pinged for a leg pull from referee Sutton

9min

Titans look to keep the ball alive but they struggle to make any metres

8min

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

7min

NO TRY - Tyrone Peachey knocked on in trying to pick it up, looked as if he did live watching despite the live TRY decision

7min

BUNKER: The Titans pick up the ball off a charge-down and we're checking whether Tyrone Peachey knocked on in the pickup

6min

40/20 attempt from Shaun Johnson is a good kick but doesn't take the angle Johnson needs

5min

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

4min

70m set for the Sharks with some good metres; The last tackle kick from Moylan taken on the full ingoal by Tyrone Peachey

3min

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

2min

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: