{"id":164662,"date":"2025-09-24T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164662\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:22:07","slug":"north-queensland-cowboys-interested-in-matt-burton-future-with-bulldogs-under-cloud-where-will-he-play-next-year-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164662\/","title":{"rendered":"North Queensland Cowboys interested in Matt Burton, future with Bulldogs under cloud, where will he play next year, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bulldogs future of Matt Burton is cloudy, with a Queensland team linked to the versatile 25-year-old.<\/p>\n

With Bulldogs general manager Phil Gould predicting young half Mitch Woods will be given a crack early next season alongside Lachlan Galvin in the halves, Burton\u2019s place in the side is in some doubt.<\/p>\n

Burton could move into the centres or even fullback, but that would mean one of Connor Tracey or Bronson Xerri has to make way. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is an interesting one. If Mitch Woods does play seven as expected and Lachlan Galvin to six, where does it leave Matt Burton?,\u201d NRL360 host Braith Anasta wondered.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got Crichton, you\u2019ve got Xerri. Is Connor Tracey the fall guy? Do they put Crichton or Burton at fullback? Do they test that out?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere does it leave Matt Burton. There have been rumours around the Perth Bears.\u201d<\/p>\n

The led to The Daily Telegraph\u2019s Dean Ritchie interjecting with the Cowboys as a club that has been linked to Burton.<\/p>\n

Burton is under contract at the Dogs until the end of 2027, but as the club showed this season, they aren\u2019t afraid to make a huge roster call.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Cowboys. There are rumours circulating,\u201d Ritchie reported. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of speculation. I think he might be moved on at some stage in the next year or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foxsports.com.au\u2019s Paul Crawley says it wouldn\u2019t be the right decision to shift Burton out of five-eighth and replace him with Galvin, let alone move him on early<\/p>\n

\u201cGalvin is a really, really exciting talent. As a five-eighth, even more exciting than as halfback. But is he a better five-eighth than Matt Burton at this stage?\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis kicking game is not ready to take over from Matt Burton. It\u2019s just nit. We saw it on the weekend, he does not have the kicking game to be elite at that level.<\/p>\n

If the Bulldogs are going to return to their best next year, surely Matt Burton is the five-eighth but it doesn\u2019t sound like it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulldogs future of Matt Burton is cloudy, with a Queensland team linked to the versatile 25-year-old. With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,2347,63,689,30195,74183,17343,11096,28814,108404,2105,108334,4744,4617,33215,673,764,677,11396,31205,85,670,1080],"class_list":["post-164662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-august","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-cameron-spencer","tag-connor-tracey","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-dean-ritchie","tag-fall-guy","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gus-blasts","tag-kicking-game","tag-lachlan-galvin","tag-lord-gould-of-brookwood","tag-new-south-wales","tag-north-queensland-cowboys","tag-oceania","tag-paul-crawley","tag-rival-club","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-roosters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164662","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=164662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}