{"id":512151,"date":"2026-03-01T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:57:18","slug":"nrl-las-vegas-2026-bulldogs-win-classic-after-questionable-trainer-incident-knights-defeat-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512151\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Las Vegas 2026: Bulldogs win classic after questionable trainer incident, Knights defeat Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footy fans rejoice, the NRL is back.<\/p>\n<p>For the third year running the season kicked off in Las Vegas and fans were treated to two tantalising contests.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of four games, the 2026 edition was cut down to just three, starting with a Super League battle geting things underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights then put on a show as they took down the Cowboys in a thriller before the Bulldogs snuck past the Dragons in a golden point nail-biter.<\/p>\n<p>The victory however wasn\u2019t without controversy with the Bulldogs appearing to bend the rules in the dying stages of the clash.<\/p>\n<p>You can recap all of the action in the blog below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footy fans rejoice, the NRL is back. For the third year running the season kicked off in Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[256489,64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-512151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-matchidnrl20260101","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512151","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=512151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}