Cronulla Sharks v Brisbane Broncos Live NRL streaming

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Saturday 29th May 2010, 08:30GMT

The Broncos will be looking to move a step closer to the play-offs when they travel to Cronulla on Saturday.They have three players due to back up after Origin I (Folau, Lockyer and Thaiday) but that number is well down on recent years so fatigue should not overly affect the team’s performance. Brisbane have dominated the Sharks in recent years, although Cronulla have won the last three games at Toyota Stadium. It is critical for both sides to defend better than usual if they’re to win this game. The Broncos align much better than Cronulla, but they are much less effective in actually making tackles. So far this season the Sharks have missed 328 tackles, with 191 ineffective (effective 85.8 per cent of the time) while the Broncos have missed a whopping 432 tackles with 245 others ineffective (81.7 per cent effective).

The Broncos have recently revamped their season after suffering six losses in the opening eight rounds. Starting to gel as a team, Brisbane managed to defeat Melbourne in round nine before trumping the Titans in round 10, enjoying their first two consecutive wins of the year.

The Sharks had a good win last week ahead of Eels.

If either side is to be around deep into September, they really must win this game.

Sharks Team in NRL Round 12:

1. Nathan Gardner 2. Blake Ferguson 3. Dean Collis 4. Taulima Tautai 5. Isaac Gordon 6. Trent Barrett (c) 7. Tim Smith 8. Kade Snowden 9. John Morris 10. Luke Douglas 11. Grant Millington 12. Anthony Tupou 13. Paul Gallen

Bench: 14. Adam Cuthbertson 15. Broderick Wright 16. Paul Aiton 17. Siosaia Vave

Broncos Team in NRL Round 12:

1. Josh Hoffman 2. Antonio Winterstein 3. Alex Glenn 4. Israel Folau 5. Jharal Yow Yeh 6. Darren Lockyer (c) 7. Peter Wallace 8. Shane Tronc 9. Ben Hunt 10. Lagi Setu 11. Ben Te’o 12. Sam Thaiday 13. Corey Parker

Bench: 14. Andrew McCullough 15. Matt Gillett 16. Mitchell Dodds 17. Nick Kenny

Reserves: 18. Ashton Sims 19. Corey Norman 20. Gerard Beale

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