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Its the most damning record in rugby league finals history and now Cronulla must smash a 43-year hoodoo to qualify for their first premiership decider since 1978.No club since preliminary finals were introduced in 1954 have lost six in a row in unified competitions, except the ill-starred Sharks.Falling a game short of a season decider for a seventh consecutive time since they lost the 1978 grand final replay against Manly doesnt bear thinking about for long-suffering Sharks fans.Super League aside, the Sharks last preliminary final win in a united competition was a 20-11 victory over Newtown in 1973 before they lost 10-7 - also to Manly - in the clubs first-ever grand final.Just as disconcertingly going into Friday nights showdown with defending premiers North Queensland, the Sharks managed to score just 30 points in that unprecedented run of six straight grand final qualifier losses - and never more than 10 points in one match.In another unwanted record, Cronulla are contesting their 16th finals series since last making the title match.South Sydneys 10 unsuccessful finals campaigns between their 1971 premiership triumph and return to the 2014 grand final is not a patch on Cronullas run of outs in playoffs.But perhaps the Rabbitohs 43-year wait between drinks is an omen for the Sharks to break their own 43-year grand final drought.Legendary coach Jack Gibson famously said that waiting for Cronulla to win a premiership was akin to leaving the porch light on for missing Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.In a spooky omen for the Sharks faithful grasping for hope, Holt was born in 1908 - the birth year of premiership rugby league in Australia - and is recorded as dying in 1967, the year Cronulla entered the competition.Cronullas preliminary finals curse has haunted some of the Sharks greatest players, with club Immortals Andrew Ettingshausen and Gavin Miller, Test stars Mark McGaw, Mat Rogers and current skipper Paul Gallen never having experienced the thrill of grand final week.Officially acknowledged as one of Cronullas 10 club legends, David Peachey suffered the torment of four preliminary finals defeats, including three in four seasons.Gallen is the lone survivor of the Sharks most recent preliminary final loss to Melbourne in 2008.But there is hope.Shane Flanagans class of 2016 at least features five players - Ben Barba, James Maloney, Luke Lewis, Chris Heighington and Michael Ennis - who have won preliminary finals and, whisper it softly, even grand finals with other clubs.Dont turn that porch light off just yet.CRONULLA CURSE: SHARKS PRELIMINARY FINAL WOES2008: lost 28-0 to Melbourne2002: lost 16-10 to Warriors2001: lost 18-10 to Newcastle1999: lost 24-8 to St George Illawarra1996: lost 24-0 to Manly1988: lost 9-2 to Balmain1973: BEAT Newtown 20-11*In 1978, the Sharks qualified straight for the grand final and didnt contest a preliminary final. 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This is a big loss for the entire wrestling community, Saine told The Associated Press on Friday.Fatim Jawara, a goalkeeper with the Gambia womens soccer team, died last month trying to reach Europe from Libya. Authorities say both athletes are believed to have drowned.Saine said Mbengu was one of Gambias highest paid wrestlers, and he couldnt explain why he should embark on this perilous journey.ddddddddddddWrestling is popular in Gambia and Mbengu was described as a talented and tough competitor by Alhaji Cham, a reporter who covered the sport in Gambia. Cham said Mbengu had a promising career ahead of him.I dont know what prompted him to take the back way to Europe, Cham said.The U.N. refugee agency estimated at the end of last month that at least 3,740 migrants and refugees have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Gambia, a tiny nation on the west coast of Africa, is among the top 10 countries whose nationals have fled to Europe across the Mediterranean. ' ' '