{"id":416487,"date":"2026-05-07T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:01:17","slug":"internal-punishments-revealed-for-bulldogs-missed-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416487\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal punishments revealed for Bulldogs missed flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs<\/a> have decided to come down on the players who missed a flight to Brisbane for their clash with the Broncos.<\/p>\n

The incident, which took place two weeks ago, has been finalised with internal punishments.<\/p>\n

They have been given minor sanctions like many other NRL<\/a> teams for indiscretions that bring down the standards set by the club.<\/p>\n

It includes being late to training or missing a flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The players, who included Marcelo Montoya<\/a>, Viliame Kikau<\/a> and skipper Stephen Crichton<\/a>, were made to roll a dice to decide their punishment, according to the Daily Telegraph.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The publication is also revealing that the punishments include dying their hair, paying a fine, or singing karaoke in front of teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The reason the players missed the flight has surfaced, with one player becoming unwell and was aided by other teammates, subsequently missing their flight.<\/p>\n

After coming under scrutiny for an internal issue, coach Cameron Ciraldo<\/a> lifted the lid upon arrival in Brisbane, this time for their Thursday night clash with the Dolphins<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a checklist there ready to go – no one missed the plane so that’s the first little win we have had for the weekend,\u201d coach Cameron Ciraldo<\/a> said to the publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what our culture is like internally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re very proud of that culture. Obviously there’s ties where there is little mishaps along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I have already said that I am happy that three of our guys stayed back to make sure that one didn’t miss the plane. That is a good thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when you are losing, these little things happen. You need to be better and the boys have put their hand up straight and realised they need to be better.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we have moved on pretty quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs will brush off the incident and look towards getting their season back on track when they face a red-hot Dolphins<\/a> outfit at Suncorp Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs have decided to come down on the players who missed a flight to Brisbane for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-416487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}