{"id":793224,"date":"2026-07-11T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793224\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:20:10","slug":"nrl-2026-stephen-crichton-sprays-matt-burton-and-jethro-rinakama-try-scoring-opportunity-bulldogs-vs-raiders-news-videos-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793224\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Stephen Crichton sprays Matt Burton and Jethro Rinakama, try-scoring opportunity, Bulldogs vs Raiders, news, videos, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton has delivered a frustrated blow-up at teammates Jethro Rinakama and Matt Burton after a clear try-scoring opportunity went awry.<\/p>\n

Crichton, backing up from the Origin decider, put in a deft grubber behind the Raiders defence as his side trailed by 18 points in the first half of their Saturday night clash.<\/p>\n

Burton and Rinakama were both in front of the single defender converging in Xavier Savage \u2014 but in the end neither player grounded the ball, which contacted Rinakama\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n

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It prompted a fiery response from Crichton, who punted the ball into the crowd before spraying his teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow Stephen Crichton wound up there,\u201d Andrew Voss said, before Michael Ennis added: \u201cStephen Crichton… absolutely filthy, Burton looked certain to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Raiders were handed a six-tackle set after the play, which marked their second try ;eft wanting after Rinakama lost the ball over the tryline to open the contest.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was fuming wasn\u2019t he… that\u2019s two bombed tries now. A genuine try-scoring opportunity missed,\u201d Ennis said.<\/p>\n

Before Voss asked: \u201cWere Crichton\u2019s frustrations, was it just missing the try, was he actually frustrated with a teammate? It\u2019s hard to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Ennis believed Crichton\u2019s language was just for his teammates to \u201cget it down\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs skipper Stephen Crichton has delivered a frustrated blow-up at teammates Jethro Rinakama and Matt Burton after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-793224","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\/793224","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=793224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}