A man who turned his back on signing for the NZWarriors cruelly ended their season as Toby Rudolf's late try sealed Cronulla_Sharks' NRL finals spot and set the league's top eight in stone | app85 SMHsport
The Warriors were only six minutes away from prolonging the NRL finals race by another week before Rudolf's charge from close range confirmed the eight teams a fortnight before the end of the COVID-19 interrupted regular season.
The Sharks celebrate Ronaldo Mulitalo's second try as the Warriors realise their remarkable season is all but over.The Sharks will be bracing for an elimination final against either the Raiders or Rabbitohs, by which time the suspended Wade Graham and Chad Townsend will be back. "I’m very proud of this organisation," Warriors interim coach Todd Payten said. "I feel like we’ve become a team over the past eight weeks and it’s showed in the way we’ve played. It’s not just me, it’s all our staff have done the job and the players have held up their end of the bargain."
But he wasn't in a mood to ensure that sacrifice was going to be rewarded with the most miraculous finals berth in memory.
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