The Sharks have suffered a serious blow with veteran lock Dale Finucane going through as much as three weeks on the sidelines after he was charged for a harmful throw in his aspect’s emphatic 52-16 win over the Dragons.
Finucane was positioned on report 19 minutes into the competition for a lifting sort out on Blake Lawrie that led to a Tautau Moga attempt from the following set.
Interim Dragons coach Ryan Carr mentioned “that’s footy” and had no situation with the choice for Finucane to remain on the sphere, however he’s now going through a 2-3 week ban after receiving his third cost of the season.
The Sharks ahead was suspended for 3 video games for a hip-drop sort out in opposition to the Warriors in spherical 5 and can miss the subsequent two matches if he takes the early responsible plea this time round for the grade 1 offence.
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“I didn’t really see it on the big screen, but hopefully not,” he mentioned on Thursday evening when requested if he had something to fret about.
“I’ll have to look at the footage of it, but it’s hard to comment on it because I haven’t really seen the footage.”
Losing Finucane would proceed a irritating few months for the Sharks who’ve needed to cope with accidents to key middles Toby Rudolf, Royce Hunt and Braden Hamlin-Uele.
Rudolf is about to make his return by way of NSW Cup this weekend having not performed since spherical 5, whereas Hunt is predicted to overlook one other month with an ankle damage.
Hamlin-Uele failed to complete Thursday evening’s recreation as a consequence of a rib damage that he suffered within the opening play when Lawrie smashed him from the kick-off.
He was in a position to play on however didn’t return within the second half as Finucane and cult hero Tom Hazelton did a lot of the injury by the center.
“It was off the kick-off and it looked like a shoulder charge to me,” Fitzgibbon mentioned of Hamlin-Uele’s damage.
“We’re not sure if it’s rib cartilage, broken ribs or something like that, but he finished that stint which is kind of weird because he finished OK but he knew he had something.
“It wasn’t that bad but it got worse at halftime, so we couldn’t get back him back after halftime.
“We’ve been turning them over a little bit, but I think they’ve been performing strongly the guys that (have come in). Everyone’s sharing the workload.
“Tommy was strong again and I think Dale has had his best two games for the club over the last two weeks.”
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