{"id":551029,"date":"2026-03-19T17:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551029\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:54:15","slug":"cameron-ciraldo-injured-in-gio-stadium-coaching-box-mishap-broken-window-ricky-stuart-comments-raiders-vs-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551029\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Ciraldo injured in GIO Stadium coaching box mishap, broken window, Ricky Stuart comments, Raiders vs Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulldogs<\/a> coach Cameron Ciraldo<\/a> has revealed he would require stitches after a bizarre mishap in the box at GIO Stadium on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

In wet and wild conditions in Canberra, the visitors held on for a gritty 14-10 win over the Raiders<\/a>, with rain falling heavily for the entire 80 minutes.<\/p>\n

Away from the chaos on the field, there was plenty off it as well.<\/p>\n

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During his post-game press conference, Ciraldo revealed the window in his coaching area smashed and left him with a cut on his hand.<\/p>\n

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Cameron Ciraldo shows off the cut on his hand.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“It’s all right. I need to go get stitches now,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There was plenty happening in that last seven minutes. It actually happened when we scored our last try.<\/p>\n

“It was hard to stay present and there was plenty of noise coming from down below.<\/p>\n

“It was quite foggy and we couldn’t see what was happening, so we tried to open the window and the whole window smashed on us.<\/p>\n

“There was glass all over us and I’ll get a couple of stitches now.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

Ciraldo called for changes at Canberra’s iconic but outdated home venue.<\/p>\n

“If I can have my two cents, I think this place is a great place to play and great atmosphere, but it deserves an upgrade,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You can’t have stuff like that happening.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart<\/a> was informed of the situation in his own presser and gave a fiery response about the lack of care from those in charge of renovating the facility.<\/p>\n

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Ricky Stuart addresses the media.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“I didn’t see it [the Ciraldo incident],” he said.<\/p>\n

“There’s no good whinging about it; the people you’ve got to whinge to don’t give a shit.<\/p>\n

“People that make decisions about our stadium don’t care about the stadium and they don’t care about the nation’s capital and the shithouse stadium we have.<\/p>\n

“That’s why I don’t whinge about it. I don’t care \u2026 They don’t care. It’s hard whinging to a person who doesn’t care about the actual outcome of it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Canberra had a chance to win in the dying stages, but a try-saving effort from Connor Tracey saw the visitors hang on for a narrow victory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo has revealed he would require stitches after a bizarre mishap in the box at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-551029","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\/551029","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=551029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}