{"id":703909,"date":"2026-05-30T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703909\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:18:12","slug":"nrl-round-13-live-tigers-build-strong-first-half-lead-over-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703909\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL round 13 LIVE: Tigers build strong first-half lead over Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage Tigers centre Heamasi Makasini has gone off for a head injury assessment after copping a head clash from Sitili Tupouniua, with Starford To\u2019a replacing him in the backline.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are popping offloads now while completing just about all of their sets \u2013 the one error from Xerri leading to the Tigers\u2019 try.<\/p>\n<p>A big left-foot step from Jarome Luai sends Lachie Galvin sprawling on the turf as Luai splits the Bulldogs\u2019 defensive line, much to the joy of the pro-Tigers crowd, but a pass goes astray and Canterbury comes away with it.<\/p>\n<p>The Dogs start to put some pressure on but Leo Thompson runs onto a Matt Burton pass and is hit hard by Sione Fainu, losing the ball in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers 6, Bulldogs 0 after 15 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenage Tigers centre Heamasi Makasini has gone off for a head injury assessment after copping a head clash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-703909","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\/703909","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=703909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}