What\u2019s triggered Broncos\u2019 reality check; proof Tigers have changed<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWhen this story broke, my first correspondence with the Bulldogs was, \u2018Gus has done it again and moving one another one to create space\u2019 and the response was \u2018not this time\u2019. I can only take them on their word, so my understanding is it an attitude issue with Bronson Xerri,\u201d Riccio revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to play right centre, the Bulldogs coaches challenging Bronson to play on the right and he doesn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n
\u201cI reckon ultimately this one is on Bronson. It\u2019s what he wants to do in his career… If the attitude doesn\u2019t change, I don\u2019t think the Dogs want a player who doesn\u2019t want to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, foxsports.com.au\u2019s Paul Crawley isn\u2019t buying it, pointing to the Dogs\u2019 recent history of moving players on. <\/p>\n
\u201cXerri may have an attitude problem that the Bulldogs may not like but the fact of the matter is they have said he played duress and injury last year, they gave him an extension and one game into the season after a win, he gets dropped,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut on top of that, and this is what doesn\u2019t sit well, is that days before, his managers had a meeting and they\u2019ve told him he won\u2019t be extended beyond 2027. Why does that conversation have to come up now?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issue is that they\u2019ve told him nearly two full seasons out from his contract ending that he won\u2019t be required.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs won their only game this season, the Round 1 clash in Vegas over the Dragons.<\/p>\n
On that night, Xerri played well, making 24 tackles and running for nearly 130 metres. <\/p>\n
‘It’s a long way back’ Riccio on Broncos | 05:08<\/p>\n
For that reason and the fact that Xerri\u2019s replacement is the hot-and-cold Enari Tuala, Anasta agrees with Riccio that the player might be the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe odd thing that I look at is his performance in Round 1 and the player they\u2019re bringing in \u2026 It has to be the attitude because if I\u2019m picking on performance, I\u2019m picking Bronson,\u201d Anasta said.<\/p>\n
The NRL360 host went onto say that he predicts Xerri to be gone within the next month, a move that could prove to be a win-win for both parties.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think at the end of the day is I\u2019m not going to comment on his attitude because we have no idea. I actually think this is going to land well for both because what\u2019s going to happen is that the Dogs will free up some cap space, they have room to move Matt Burton there and if you\u2019re Bronson, if you\u2019re not happy, you\u2019re not going to play well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe this will be the case and it\u2019s speculation now, but I think he\u2019ll land at a new club within a month because if it\u2019s his attitude and he\u2019s being dropped for a player that isn\u2019t as good as him, I can\u2019t see him working back into the team no matter how good he plays in NSW Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Sydney-based club has been linked to Bulldogs centre Bronson Xerri, who is reportedly unhappy at Belmore. Watch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-546000","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\/546000","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=546000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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