{"id":704375,"date":"2026-05-30T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704375\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:41:29","slug":"we-feel-aggrieved-ciraldo-blasts-officiating-and-fumes-over-series-of-disappointing-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704375\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We feel aggrieved\u2019: Ciraldo blasts officiating and fumes over series of \u2018disappointing\u2019 calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canterbury Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo has revealed his frustration with the officiating after several calls went against his side in their clash against the Wests Tigers<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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In a match that featured multiple controversial moments, Ciraldo was irate when speaking following the club\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n

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Asked about some of the big turning points in the contest such as the Josh Curran charge-down that was overturned by the Bunker and the Stephen Crichton no-try, Ciraldo didn\u2019t hide his disappointment. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, not at all,\u201d Ciraldo said in response to being asked if he was happy with the decisions that were made.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sending another email in this week and I get something written back. The Josh Curran one, maybe the charge down is gone. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis foot did touch him, but Josh charged the ball down first and was chasing the kick and then Jarome\u2019s foot hit him.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s the way it is, I\u2019ll cop that. Jarome clearly didn\u2019t think it was a penalty because he turned and chased, but again, if the foot touches, okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ciraldo unloads on dubious ref decisions | 07:57<\/p>\n

However, it was the decision to deny Crichton a try, Lachlan Galvin being held up and his fullback Jacob Kiraz being taken out that appeared to leave the Bulldogs coach most frustrated.<\/p>\n

Speaking about it, Ciraldo questioned how the officials made the incorrect call.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more disappointing one was to go down the other end. Someone offside takes out our fullback, then that\u2019s a try,\u2019 Ciraldo added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s worse? Someone touches your foot or someone takes out your fullback and they score a try.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there\u2019s the other tries. They look like they were held up, but it\u2019s a try. Critta gets over the line, looks very similar to that but it\u2019s a no try. <\/p>\n

\u201cGalvin gets the ball clearly stripped right in front of the referee, no penalty. Stephen throws a guy down on the ground, the ball comes out, penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think every coach feels like that to be honest. We all feel like that; we all feel aggrieved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall praises stubborn Tigers defence | 06:19<\/p>\n

Opposition coach Benji Marshall agreed with Ciraldo\u2019s frustration, conceding that Curran\u2019s charge-down on Jarome Luai should have stood, meaning it would have been counted as a four-pointer.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I thought we were a bit lucky with some of the calls. I thought the charge down was probably a try to be honest,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like that we\u2019re protecting kickers but I thought we dodged a bullet there to be honest. <\/p>\n

\u201cA couple of other calls we\u2019ve been on the end of those as well and that hurts too, so I can imagine Cameron would have been in here talking about those.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canterbury Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo has revealed his frustration with the officiating after several calls went against his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-704375","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\/704375","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=704375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}