{"id":123577,"date":"2025-09-06T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123577\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:52:09","slug":"cameron-ciraldo-on-heavy-loss-to-sharks-what-did-he-say-bulldogs-press-conference-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123577\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Ciraldo on heavy loss to Sharks, what did he say, Bulldogs press conference, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo is looking ahead to the \u201cnew competition\u201d when the finals kick off next weekend, willing to put Saturday night\u2019s 24-6 loss to the Sharks<\/a> in the rearview mirror. <\/p>\n

It was a tough night for the Bulldogs, who lost two key outside backs to injuries. Bronson Xerri will miss at least a week after suffering an early category 1 head knock while winger Marcelo Montoya limped off with a potentially serious ankle injury. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not looking great for Marcelo. It\u2019s a bit early to say [that his season is done] but he\u2019s in a fair bit of pain,\u201d Ciraldo said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re lucky to have a bit of depth there. A guy like Enari Tuala was our best player and he\u2019s made the most of his opportunity, and it looks like somebody else will get one too.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Jacob) Kiraz is progressing well but next week could be a stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jethro Rinakama is the favourite to replace Montoya while Matt Burton could switch into the centres for Xerri, which could open the door for Toby Sexton to return to the halves.<\/p>\n

Ciraldo admitted it was a difficult game for his players to get up for given no matter the result, the Bulldogs were locked into a qualifying final against the Storm next Friday night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m glad that\u2019s over and we can get on to the next phase of the competition,\u201d Ciraldo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we were nowhere near our best and that\u2019s what happens when your mindset is slightly off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were a bit impatient with the ball, a bit excitable. Probably our fault, we didn\u2019t put too much emphasis in attack this week as there was nothing to play for.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we have been the third most consistent team all year, and we deserve to finish where we are. It hasn\u2019t been perfect the last little period, been up and down, but we deserve to finish third and give ourselves the best chance over the next four weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisappointing tonight. We had a home crowd of 30,000, but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the loss, Ciraldo is confident his team will be able to right the ship for the finals. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a totally different game once you get to finals. There\u2019s a lot more ball in play, there\u2019s a lot less stoppages. I think our game will be much more suited to it than the game has been the last two weeks,\u201d Ciraldo said.<\/p>\n

Fox League\u2019s Braith Anasta noted that even after the result and the dual injury blow, Ciraldo was \u2018stoic\u2019 in the Bulldogs press conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo is looking ahead to the \u201cnew competition\u201d when the finals kick off next weekend,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[1813,47898,64,63,18194,7618,4565,11096,77724,86919,10382,63072,763,44363,24575,761,762,158,668,86921,30384,86922,85,86920,4440],"class_list":["post-123577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-ankle-injury","tag-answer-critics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-braith-anasta","tag-cameron-ciraldo","tag-cronulla-sharks","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-dead-rubber","tag-dual-injury-blow","tag-finals-chances","tag-finals-kick","tag-fox-league","tag-heavy-loss","tag-home-crowd","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-press-conference","tag-rearview-mirror","tag-rugby-league-news","tag-sides-comeback-win","tag-sports","tag-telling-response","tag-toby-sexton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}