{"id":325918,"date":"2023-08-25T04:20:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325918"},"modified":"2023-08-25T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:59:04","slug":"sharks-dealt-hynes-blow-in-top-four-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325918","title":{"rendered":"Sharks dealt Hynes blow in top-four push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\ufeffhe <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/cronulla-sharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sharks\">Sharks<\/a> have suffered a blow in their bid to crack the top four over the last two rounds of the regular season with gun halfback <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nicho-hynes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Nicho Hynes\">Nicho Hynes<\/a> ruled out of Sunday&#x27;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/newcastle-knights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Knights\">Knights<\/a> due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks confirmed to Wide World of Sports that Hynes would not face the Knights in Newcastle after injuring a quad at training.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cronulla expects the reigning Dally M Medal winner will only be sidelined for one match.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-penrith-panthers-half-back-jarome-luai-goes-down-with-season-threatening-shoulder-injury-as-eels-record-shock-win\/dd916243-44a6-4dbd-a00c-a26a14653779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Panthers&#x27; three-peat chances rocked by Luai injury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-latrell-mitchell-cody-walker-earned-right-bigger-says-anthony-mundine\/765d2fa0-abbe-4ff8-8d93-084ce6918415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mundine says Latrell, Walker &#x27;deserve&#x27; bigger say<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/athletics\/world-championships-2023-australian-stewart-mcsweyn-advances-to-mens-5000m-final-after-tripping-in-heat\/2ffb32f6-1adc-4384-9220-ff548e3dda5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Aussie given spot in final after falling mid-race\ufeff\"><strong>Aussie given spot in final after falling mid-race\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sharks are placed fifth on the ladder on 32 points, two points behind the fourth-placed Storm, and will meet the Knights and \ufeffRaiders in their remaining regular-season matches.<\/p>\n<p>The trip to Newcastle already loomed as a difficult task for the Sharks given the Knights&#x27; hot streak \u2014 they&#x27;ve won seven matches on the bounce \u2014 \ufeffand the loss of Hynes has made their job even tougher.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stream the NRL premiership 2023 live and free on<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/NGHBKQkVweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><em><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sharks are likely to shift Braydon Trindall from five-eighth to halfback, move Matt Moylan from the bench to five-eighth and promote a reserve to the pine.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Fitzgibbon&#x27;s men lost three matches in a row, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-shaun-johnson-injury-scare-nz-warriors-beat-cronulla-sharks\/30559ab8-30d2-4c5c-9401-4f4696135c02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"and were even hammered 44-12 by the Warriors\">and were even hammered 44-12 by the Warriors<\/a>, but have fought back with three consecutive victories over the Rabbitohs, Titans and Cowboys.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"35541774-8b47-4a78-bb13-4e99ab41ea32\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/35541774-8b47-4a78-bb13-4e99ab41ea32\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>T\ufeffhe Sharks have suffered a blow in their bid to crack the top four over the last two rounds of the regular season with gun <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325918\" title=\"Sharks dealt Hynes blow in top-four push\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325921,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325918\/revisions\/325921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}