Cronulla prop Toby Rudolf likes to call the group ‘The Great Eight’.

‘“The Great Eight?’ I prefer ‘The Sensational Seven, plus Toby’,” Cronulla captain Blayke Brailey says.

Rugby league players staying together at the one club for any number of years has become almost unheard of in the salary cap era.

But eight of the Sharks players who feature for the Shire club in Saturday night’s semi-final against Canberra were all teammates six years ago when the mighty Newtown Jets won the NSW Cup grand final, followed by the State Championship on NRL grand final day.

Brailey, Rudolf, Will Kennedy, Sione Katoa, Ronnie Mulitalo, Braydon Trindall, Teig Wilton and Sifa Talakai were on the field when Billy Magoulias put through a chip kick in golden point against Wentworthville, with winger Tyrone Ph

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