The Bulldogs attack again, but Stephen Crichton\u2019s last-tackle kick is plucked from the air nicely by Storm debutant Hayden Watson. Crichton tackles the 19-year-old, then drags him towards the Storm goal-line and gives him an extra shove. Sua Fa\u2019alogo isn\u2019t thrilled with that and gives Crichton a shove, and the referee blows a penalty against Crichton for the second effort.<\/p>\n
The Storm go upfield with the penalty, and end their set with a sharp kick into the in-goal from Watson, and the Melbourne defence traps Jacob Kiraz in-goal to force a dropout.<\/p>\n
It looks like Melbourne are going to score on the next set when Fa\u2019alogo puts Nick Meaney through a gap, but when Meaney draws the final defender and whips an offload backwards it goes straight to Matt Burton.<\/p>\n
The end-to-end stuff continues, and a good Bulldogs set ends with Crichton sending up a bomb. Two wingers go up for it, the ball spills free to Burton, and he offloads to Josh Curran who scores in the left corner. There\u2019s a suggestion in replays that Dogs winger Jethro Rinakama may have knocked on when competing for the bomb, but the bunker clears it and the visitors have the lead.<\/p>\n
Crichton caps a wild few minutes with a perfect conversion from the sideline.<\/p>\n
Bulldogs 26, Storm 22 with 17 minutes left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulldogs attack again, but Stephen Crichton\u2019s last-tackle kick is plucked from the air nicely by Storm debutant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-835600","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\/835600","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=835600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}