{"id":387306,"date":"2024-04-23T00:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T00:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=387306"},"modified":"2024-04-23T01:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:04:27","slug":"sharks-hardman-told-to-retire-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=387306","title":{"rendered":"Sharks hardman told to retire immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R\ufeffespected rugby league hardman Dale Finucane is poised to retire from the game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/nrl-around-the-clubs-round-8-20240421-p5flf2.html?ref=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=rss_sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Sydney Morning Herald reports\">The Sydney Morning Herald reports<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cronulla-sharks\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sharks\">Sharks<\/a> will confirm\ufeff the veteran has been told by medical professionals to hang up the boots immediately due to repeated concussions.<\/p>\n<p>He will front a press conference at Pointsbet Stadium at midday.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-brad-arthur-future-parramatta-eels-meeting-revealed-dolphins-loss-phil-gould-comments\/ca7092c2-11f6-4d36-a452-d5c07e7e2139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gould reveals &#x27;exhausting&#x27; issue Arthur can&#x27;t fix<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2024-skinfolds-banned-at-all-levels-draftees-kane-cornes-matthew-lloyd-talent-pathways\/ef57fafb-ff17-41d6-897a-62a13d42b5d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;World&#x27;s gone mad&#x27; as AFL scraps key fitness test<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/news-2024-wada-chinese-swimmers-tokyo-doping-contaminated-samples\/739acfac-bab3-4519-8777-267f52dc2bcc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WADA whacks &#x27;disinformation&#x27; in China doping scandal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finucane, \ufeff32, has played 251 games across three <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NRL\">NRL<\/a> clubs.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn&#x27;t been on the field since suffering a fractured cheekbone against the Tigers in round three this season.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a0143b2f-e51b-4209-b2d5-655a2b90f9cc\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a0143b2f-e51b-4209-b2d5-655a2b90f9cc\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"2786\" data-height=\"1567\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe south coast product debuted for Canterbury in 2012 and played in that year&#x27;s grand final, losing to Melbourne. He also played in the Bulldogs&#x27; losing grand final team in 2014, going down to the Rabbitohs.<\/p>\n<p>Finucane jumped ship to the Storm in 2015 and won premierships with them in 2017 and 2020\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>The decorated forward joined Cronulla in 2022 on a four-year deal but will finish up 18 months early. He was hailed as a significant signing when he first moved to the Sharks due to his reputation as an outstanding trainer and an important piece in a successful club culture.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the 2024 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/NGHBKQkVweb\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He managed only 13 games last season due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffFinucane played five State of Origin games for New South Wales, debuting in game two of the 2019 series to help the Blues to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>R\ufeffespected rugby league hardman Dale Finucane is poised to retire from the game on Tuesday. The Sydney Morning Herald reports the Sharks will confirm\ufeff the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=387306\" title=\"Sharks hardman told to retire immediately\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378767,"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\/387306"}],"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=387306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387311,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387306\/revisions\/387311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}