Canterbury-Bankstown 26–8 Cronulla-Sutherland — Major Semi-Final, 1988 NRL Finals Series
28 Aug 1988 · Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, NSW · Attendance: 31,684
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Major Semi-Final, 1988 NRL finals series: Canterbury-Bankstown 26–8 Cronulla-Sutherland, at Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, NSW on 28 Aug 1988.
Sourcing caveat: This scoreline required extra verification passes — an initial extraction under-listed Canterbury-Bankstown's tries and gave conflicting answers on whether Cronulla's Alan Wilson had a try at all. The figures below are what two independent enumerated re-reads of the raw table agreed on and which reconcile the final score exactly, but are flagged here given the known extraction-reliability issue with wide scoresheet tables.
Scorers
| Canterbury-Bankstown | Tries: Joe Thomas (2); Terry Lamb; Steve O'Brien; Peter Tunks Goals: Terry Lamb (3/5) |
| Cronulla-Sutherland | Tries: Alan Wilson Goals: Alan Wilson (2/3) |
Team sheets
| Canterbury-Bankstown | Cronulla-Sutherland | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Alchin | Fullback | Jonathan Docking | 1 |
| 22 | Steve O'Brien | Wing | Glenn Coleman | 2 |
| 2 | Glen Nissen | Wing | Andrew Ettingshausen | 3 |
| 3 | Andrew Farrar | Centre | Mark McGaw | 4 |
| 5 | Robin Thorne | Wing | David Harris | 5 |
| 6 | Terry Lamb | Five-Eighth | Michael Speechley | 6 |
| 7 | Michael Hagan | Halfback | Ron Quinn | 7 |
| 8 | Paul Langmack | Lock | David Hatch (c) | 8 |
| 10 | Paul Dunn | Prop | Alan Wilson | 9 |
| 15 | David Gillespie | Prop | Gavin Miller | 10 |
| 11 | Brandon Lee | Second Row | Dan Stains | 11 |
| 12 | Joe Thomas | Hooker | Michael Porter | 12 |
| 13 | Peter Tunks (c) | Second Row | Craig Dimond | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 9 | Steve Folkes | Danny Lee | 28 | |
| 14 | Mark Bugden | Malcolm Wheeler | 26 | |
| 18 | Greg Barwick | Sean Watson | 18 | |
| 19 | Simon Gillies | John O'Connor | 17 | |
| Phil Gould | Coach | Allan Fitzgibbon | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Graham Annesley |