{"id":544018,"date":"2026-03-16T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:22:11","slug":"nrl-news-2026-bronson-xerri-situation-phil-gould-comments-on-bulldogs-team-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544018\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Bronson Xerri situation; Phil Gould comments on Bulldogs team list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> general manager Phil Gould<\/a> is keeping his cards close to his chest around Bronson Xerri<\/a> with the expectation he is set to be dropped to the NSW<\/a> Cup.<\/p>\n

Xerri is reportedly disgruntled after being moved to right centre and now his position in the first-grade side is under threat.<\/p>\n

Gould had breakfast with Xerri the day after it was reported the 25-year-old could be looking for a release from the club.<\/p>\n

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On Nine’s 100% Footy, Gould was asked to clarify what was happening and initially offered little.<\/p>\n

“Don’t you worry about Bronson, he’ll be right,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Paul Gallen then put it to Gould that Xerri would be in reserve grade this week and that he couldn’t be all right.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs boss stayed sheepish.<\/p>\n

“Team list Tuesday comes out tomorrow, I don’t know, I don’t pick the team,” he said, drawing laughs from the panel.<\/p>\n

Cameron Smith, like many former players<\/a>, said Xerri and the Bulldogs just needed to concentrate on their football.<\/p>\n

Gould agreed by offering his longest statement on the matter.<\/p>\n

“The biggest thing is you can’t get caught up with the speculation in the media, I can’t control what the media says and what they speculate and we don’t want to buy into it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We know what we’re doing internally, we know what the situation is, we’ll keep working hard for the future and that’s all we need to do.”<\/p>\n

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The Bulldogs play the Raiders on Thursday night, with the team to be announced at 4pm (AEDT) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canterbury Bulldogs general manager Phil Gould is keeping his cards close to his chest around Bronson Xerri with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-544018","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\/544018","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=544018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}