Star's admission as Sharks miss $100k pay day

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Cronulla Sharks seasoned Dale Finucane has hilariously admitted that helium was unaware of the offloads required for his broadside to triumph the $100,000 NRL pre-season challenge.

Finucane's Sharks ran distant with a comfy 36-16 triumph implicit the Canterbury Bulldogs astatine Belmore, but finished 7 offloads abbreviated of the people of 10 required to instrumentality distant maximum points from the match.

Maximum points would've seen the Sharks drafting level with eventual winners Manly, wherever a countback would've seen them triumph the monolithic prize owed to having a amended constituent differential.

"I've lone conscionable go alert of that challenge," Finucane told Fox League aft the match.

"I wasn't adjacent alert until past extremity erstwhile the boys were calling retired for the offloads. It would've been bully to win."

Four Sharks stars got connected the board, with Ronaldo Mulitalo and Teig Wilton scoring doubles, portion Sione Katoa and Samuel Stonestreet besides registered tries.

Despite going 2 from 2 successful the pre-season challenge, Finucane inactive identified areas for his broadside to amended up of circular one.

"I thought the champion happening to travel retired of it for america was our resilience successful the effort line," helium said.

"We evidently leaked 1 towards the extremity there, but for the astir portion it was rather pleasing.

"I deliberation conscionable our cardinal errors (are an country for improvement). We had a mates peculiarly aboriginal connected successful the archetypal fractional ... they're astir apt the ones that are easiest to fix."

Cronulla ruined what would've been an different fairytale homecoming to Belmore for Canterbury's prodigal son, Josh Reynolds.

Playing successful his archetypal lucifer successful Bulldogs colours astatine location since leaving the nine successful 2017, the 33-year-old notched a second-half try, sending the fans into raptures.

Bulldogs manager Cameron Ciraldo was near with an further headache connected apical of the loss, with prima off-season accomplishment Viliame Kikau failing a first-half HIA aft scoring a effort with his archetypal touch.

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