{"id":540456,"date":"2026-03-14T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:37:30","slug":"nrl-news-2026-bronson-xerri-release-request-canterbury-bulldogs-phil-gould-post-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/540456\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Bronson Xerri release request; Canterbury Bulldogs; Phil Gould post on X"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> general manager Phil Gould<\/a> has denied Bronson Xerri<\/a> is set to request a release from the club after a report he wants out.<\/p>\n

News Corp wrote on Saturday afternoon that Xerri wants out of his deal that has two years remaining. The report claimed the Bulldogs told him he would not be offered a deal beyond 2027, along with unhappiness over being moved to right centre.<\/p>\n

Gould was inundated with questions on X from Bulldogs fans and responded on social media.<\/p>\n

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Bronson Xerri and Phil Gould. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“This is what I know \u2026 just spoke with Bronson and his manager,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

“Neither Bronson Xerri nor his manager has asked for a release. Neither Bronson nor his manager has spoken to the media. Neither can explain where the media stories have started.<\/p>\n

“Bronson and I will be having breakfast together tomorrow before training. Bronson will be training with the NRL squad tomorrow as per usual \u2026 not sure what else I can tell you.”<\/p>\n

Xerri played for the Bulldogs in Las Vegas and was on a strong right side where Lachlan Galvin and Jacob Preston linked up successfully.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old made his Bulldogs debut in 2024 after signing a two-year deal following his four-year drug suspension.<\/p>\n

Xerri committed to the club until the end of 2027 when he re-signed in November 2024.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On 2GB’s Continuous Call Team, Mark Geyer described the news as “astonishing”. Geyer’s comments came before Gould’s post on X.<\/p>\n

“I did not see that coming, he’s one of the success stories of the last few years,” he said.<\/p>\n

Geyer suggested “there has to be more to it” and added if Xerri was picked in Origin at right centre he’d play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canterbury Bulldogs general manager Phil Gould has denied Bronson Xerri is set to request a release from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-540456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","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\/540456","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=540456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}