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Townsville rugby league prospect Damon Marshall has knocked back offers from the Sydney Roosters and South Sydney Rabbitohs to sign a two-year contract with the Bulldogs. After graduating from Ignatius Park College in 2021, the Western Lions junior took a huge step in his career this week when...

Braidon Burns spent two seasons being coached by Cameron Ciraldo while playing Holden Cup at the Panthers and has warned his Bulldogs teammates to expect hell when the most in-demand man on the market takes over next year. “I did two army camps with him in the pre-season, so it’s going to be...

Bulldogs winger Josh Addo-Carr has spoken of his love for Melbourne and his respect for Craig Bellamy as he attempts to break one of the longest scoring droughts of his career against his former club this weekend. Addo-Carr was transformed from fringe first-grader to NSW and Australian...

It’s an Oztag player’s worst nightmare, the fastest man in rugby league Josh Addo-Carr turning up to play a game in Homebush on a Wednesday night. Somehow the flyer didn’t scored the ‘783’ tries a fan on social media had predicted, but the new Canterbury recruit told News Corp he scored the most...

All is not well at Melbourne Storm – and we’re not just referring to the white powder video scandal involving Cameron Munster, Brandon Smith and Chris Lewis. We’re getting mail that hooker Harry Grant is unsettled about his role this year as a bench forward behind Smith, despite the fact they...

The original target for former rep star Mark O’Meley was walking 100 kilometres in September. Now he is aiming to smash out more than 350km as he pounds the treadmill and the acreage on his farm in Jilliby to raise money for six-year-old family friend, Grace Danfield, who is battling leukaemia...

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St George Illawarra are chasing Canterbury Bulldogs veteran Will Hopoate for an immediate transfer. Coach Anthony Griffin and recruitment boss Ian Millward want the 29-year-old fullback or centre for the remainder of this season and next year. It was looking promising for the Dragons until Nick...

Canterbury’s season of woe has taken a horrible twist with Test winger Nick Cotric ruled out for the season. In a bitter blow for the 15th-placed Dogs, Cotric’s year is over after he suffered a ruptured ligament in his big toe during an innocuous training mishap earlier this week. The former...

Meet rugby league’s ironmen. The physical freaks who are churning out amazing feats both on the field and in the weight rooms. As part of a special part series, News Corp Australia takes you behind the locked doors of NRL gyms to reveal the true pace and power of rugby league’s incredible...

Joseph Shorey lost two of his three sons in an alleged hit and run in Wellington earlier this year. Little Sheldon and Shane — aged six and seven — loved their rugby league and the Canterbury Bulldogs. Their dad will have a broken heart forever but will always be grateful to the Bulldogs for...

Canterbury’s major sponsor and pub baron Arthur Laundy has accused Penrith of selfishness by refusing to let Matt Burton leave, declaring: “They’re not thinking of the lad.” The barb comes on the eve of Saturday’s grudge match at Bankwest Stadium. “Let him go, they are standing in a young...

The NRL will keep its trade window open for an extra month this season in a shock move that will spark a late-season multimillion-dollar transfer frenzy on the eve of the finals. Clubs now have until August 1 — or round 20 — to finalise their 30-man rosters instead of the traditional June 30...

Brad Walter NRL.com Senior Reporter Sun 28 Feb 2021, 02:01 PM New Canterbury halfback Kyle Flanagan is bracing himself to be targeted for special treatment by defenders after a running battle with Cronulla captain Wade Graham in Saturday night’s trial. Flanagan was the victim of several heavy...

Brandon Smith will leave Melbourne Storm in search of a full-time No.9 spot should he lose out to teammate Harry Grant in the battle to replace Cameron Smith at hooker. Storm’s representative players are now back training with its skipper still nowhere to be seen and yet to reveal his plans for...

The Bulldogs have the ability to conduct a $4 million roster purge as new coach Trent Barrett weighs up the futures of 15 Canterbury players. The Bulldogs have half of their squad coming off-contract this year, giving Barrett the freedom to make wholesale changes at Belmore after the club...

The father of the two boys killed by an out-of-control car in the state’s Central West says his heart has been “ripped out” as he prepares to visit his sons in the morgue and the site where they lost their lives. It comes as the unlicensed driver allegedly behind the wheel of the car that...

Off-contract NRL forward Jamil Hopoate has been charged with assaulting his partner and drink driving on the NSW mid-north coast. Police were called to a pub on Bay St, Port Macquarie at 8.30pm last night to reports of an alleged assault. Officers allegedly found Hopoate – the 26-year-old...

Acquisitive pub baron Arthur Laundy has capped off a strong year, paying $35m for Sydney’s Bidwill Hotel in one of 2020’s larger deals. The billionaire owner of Laundy Hotels, which controls more than 70 pubs and hotels in NSW and Queensland, said he bought the large hotel in the outer western...

The NRL is investigating new technology involving the placement of microchips in footballs which could enable match officials to rule instantly on forward passes and other controversial decisions instantly. Initial discussions have commenced with an English-based company with hopes of testing...

Penrith will meet with Stephen Crichton's new management this week as one of the game's hottest rookies refused to guarantee he would remain at the club beyond next season. Crichton was expected to sign a new three-year $1.5 million deal with the Panthers once he switched management companies...

Bookmakers have little faith in recently appointed coaches Trent Barrett, Kevin Walters and Anthony Griffin lifting their clubs above the premiership cellar next season. The TAB has issued its first betting market on the wooden spoon (most losses) for 2021, with Canterbury Bulldogs favourites...

The Canterbury Bulldogs have moved to fend off interest from western Sydney rival Parramatta in boom forward Matt Doorey. Doorey made his NRL debut in round 14 this year for the Bulldogs under interim coach Steve Georgallis and played five games before suffering a season-ending PCL injury. The...

Canterbury Leagues Club factions will formally ask their chairman George Coorey to step down at a board meeting on Wednesday night. Coorey has told friends he will point-blank refuse to move aside. Coorey has been accused of inappropriate behaviour towards women earlier this year. Bulldogs...

Publicly Tim Lafai’s breaking point was blood-soaked knuckles and an arrest. But the truth is that moment seemed inevitable. If not that, then something far worse. Lafai speaks to Michael Carayannis about that fateful day in April and how he has set about rebuilding his life after sinking to...

By Danny Weidler There are signs that Trent Barrett has matured as a man and a coach, but he is bound to run into trouble again without a senior advisor helping him through the barbwire and verbal bullets that will come his way at rugby league’s most troubled club, Canterbury. Those who know...

The Bulldogs have been hit with a $25,000 suspended fine after club legend Terry Lamb breached biosecurity protocols at a training session. Lamb apologised to the club on Friday, but that didn't stop the NRL from issuing a breach notice on Friday night. Acting NRL CEO Andrew Abdo acknowledged...

A supermarket boss has given one of his customers the bird after it’s claimed the man tried to return almost 5000 rolls of toilet paper and 150 bottles of hand sanitiser which he couldn’t sell online. Go to 5 min 20 sec John-Paul Drake, an executive with South Australian supermarket chain...

Chris Kennedy NRL.com Reporter Mon 2 Mar 2020, 06:01 PM After playing almost an entire season as winger in 2019, Canterbury flyer Reimis Smith is hoping to make left centre his home this season. The mid-season pick-up of Dallin Watene-Zelezniak last year pushed Will Hopoate to the centres...

Chris Kennedy & Jamie Soward In a daily series analysing who will line up in each position for all 16 teams in the opening round of the Telstra Premiership in 2020, NRL.com looks at the improving Bulldogs. NRL.com says: Back row recruit Joe Stimson may have to start on the bench given the...

2004 premiership winner Brent Sherwin discusses his role at the club that will see him work with the halves over the course of the summer and the 2020 season. Video in below link https://www.bulldogs.com.au/news/2019/11/29/sherwin-its-good-to-be-around-the-boys/

Tony Currie was a classy outside back for the Maroons and Kangaroos who tasted premiership glory with the Bulldogs in 1988 and Broncos in 1992. In the latest instalment in a series of Legend Q&As from the Rugby League Week archives, Currie reveals how his former coach Phil Gould got “the...

Who is off-contract and when is always a talking point in rugby league. The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs confirmed earlier in the month their top 30 for the 2020 season. The current NRL contracted squad stands at 29 players with one spot still available before the June 30 deadline. Under the...

Find out a little more about the 11 rookies who will join the NRL team over the summer as part of an extended training squad. JACKSON TOPINE Height: 181cm Weight: 95kg Birthplace: Auckland, New Zealand Date of Birth: 22-8-2001 Position: Second-row/Lock Junior Club: St. George Dragons...

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Blindside has been told hooker Nathan Peats’ name has been thrown up to the Bulldogs. Peats, who is paid $600,000-a-season, is off-contract at the end of 2020 and may leave the Gold Coast earlier if he can secure a longer deal elsewhere...

Broncos strike centre Kotoni Staggs has turned down a number of lucrative offers from rival NRL clubs to remain at Red Hill until the end of the 2022 season. Staggs on Tuesday celebrated his 21st birthday in New Zealand with his Tongan international teammates ahead of their blockbuster Test...

The Bulldogs have visited Papua New Guinea for the eighth year in a row to help the community. Jayden Okunbor, Jack Cogger, Reni Maitua, Frank Pritchard, Daniel Holdsworth and Corey Payne were amongst the travelling party who visited Kavieng. The group helped to build a school and made...

After implementing changes to create a more free-flowing competition this year, NRL head of football Graham Annesley wants fans to give their views on the state of the game on the field. Through a 26-question survey on NRL.com, supporters have the opportunity to provide direct feedback on what...

Corey Rosser NRL.com reporter Fri 11 Oct 2019, 09:01 AM NRL.com is bringing back the legendary series of Legend Q&As made famous by Rugby League Week magazine. We will be reliving the achievements of some past champions, sharing the highs and lows of their brilliant careers. From the hardmen...

As he fights to be fit for New Zealand’s international campaign, Kiwi skipper Dallin Watene-Zelezniak has revealed how close he came to quitting rugby league earlier this year. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak admits he felt like quitting rugby league altogether during a messy 2019 before regaining his...

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Canterbury have drawn up a 20-player hit list - headed by Latrell Mitchell and the Trbojevic brothers - as the clubs plots it’s rise from the ashes. The Bulldogs are set to embark on a $7 million spending spree, with Latrell Mitchell and the Trbojevic brothers at the top of a shopping list that...

Bulldogs CEO Andrew Hill has revealed a brand new character assessment process the club will undertake for potential recruits, starting with former Knight Jesse Ramien. Jesse Ramien will have to prove he has “Bulldogs DNA’’ should he come knocking next year. Bulldogs CEO Andrew Hill has...

Multiple people have reportedly been stabbed in Sydney's CBD by a man wearing a balaclava. Police on the scene at King Street and Clarence Street have advised people to avoid the area. "There is a police operation that is ongoing in CBD," a police spokesperson said. Emergency services are...

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs forward Adam Elliott has been nominated for the 2019 Ken Stephen Medal for his contribution to the local community. Elliott joins James Tedesco, Josh Addo-Carr, Gavin Cooper, Connor Watson and Sia Soliola as some of the game’s biggest names to be nominated by their...

It might be painful for Canterbury fans to hear, but coach Dean Pay admits the Bulldogs won't realistically push for finals football until 2021. Pay is doing his utmost to get the best out of the NRL's youngest and least experienced squad and would love "another three to four Dallin...

Alisha Harrison has so much to live for, yet so little time. There’s her seven children, the last of them coming into the world just after she was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. Little Isaac’s arrival was then tempered by the news the cancer had spread to her liver, making it the...

St George Illawarra winger Jordan Pereira has reportedly been cleared of serious damage to his neck after a nasty looking incident in the Canterbury Cup. The Dragons confirmed that he was taken to hospital as a precaution and suffered a concussion and an injury to his right shoulder, though it...

MOD EDIT - NOW CONFIRMED https://www.bulldogs.com.au/news/2019/06/04/joe-stimson-to-join-the-bulldogs-on-a-three-year-deal/ The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs have added to their forward strength by signing talented second-rower Joe Stimson for the next three seasons, keeping him at Belmore...

Margie McDonald Senior Reporter Sun 26 May 2019, 10:01 AM "Great man and great Bulldogs legend." That's the epitaph Des Hasler would write for former Canterbury-Bankstown forward Steve Folkes. In 2012 as the incoming coach at the Bulldogs, Hasler spawned the idea of a state-of-the-art high...

Two of rugby league's youngest and quickest players are set to light up Belmore Sports Ground on Sunday afternoon. And they will only get faster, according to the two Olympic sprinters working with them. Nick Meaney will wear the No.1 jersey for Canterbury, while Ryan Papenhuyzen remains a good...

Margie McDonald Senior Reporter Thu 2 May 2019, 05:01 PM Bulldogs chair Lynne Anderson says former coach Des Hasler is not to blame solely for the club's salary cap mess and is always welcome as a member of the Canterbury-Bankstown family. The Bulldogs are manoeuvring out from underneath the...

Lachlan Lewis on his relationship with his legendary uncle Wally James Phelps, The Sunday Telegraph April 27, 2019 7:00pm HIS legendary uncle did not ring to wish him luck before he made his NRL debut — nor did he call to offer congratulations after leading his side to a shock first-up win. In...

Sam Squiers has been given a look inside the new state of the art Bankwest Stadium which will revolutionise how we view Rugby League https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/04/02/a-look-inside-the-new-bankwest-stadium/

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Chris Kennedy NRL.com Reporter Fri 15 Mar 2019, 08:00 AM Adam Elliott told NRL.com last December he was on track for the first full pre-season of his senior career. A couple of weeks later an ankle niggle sent him to a specialist, who delivered the bad news: an ankle operation and...

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Margie McDonald Senior Reporter Timestamp Wed 27 Feb 2019, 04:31 PM A return to less structured football, keeping off-field issues separate from their performance and the resurgence of Kieran Foran will result in the Bulldogs rising again in 2019, according to skipper Josh Jackson. Canterbury...

Chris Kennedy NRL.com Reporter Timestamp Fri 15 Feb 2019, 01:01 PM Bulldogs forward and north Queenslander Rhyse Martin has returned from a mercy dash to flood-stricken Townsville, having spent a brief break from training going door to door handing out supplies. Last weekend, Martin flew up...

FROM wooden spoon dogfight to NRL finals — that’s Dean Pay’s bold 12-month plan to rescue Canterbury from one of the darkest periods of their history. Used to fighting it out for the old Winfield Cup, on Thursday night at ANZ stadium, Canterbury and fellow 1980s glamour club Parramatta will...

THE STATS THAT SHOW JUST HOW BAD THE BULLDOGS ARE By Dean Ritchie “FRUSTRATION becomes debilitating.” These are the three words from Des Hasler which underline the pain of Canterbury’s season from hell. And the numbers highlight his misery — according to Fox Sports Lab statistics, the...

CHRISTIAN NICOLUSSI, The Daily Telegraph an hour ago Subscriber only CANTERBURY players appear bogged down by a ‘’nervous energy’’ as the club deals with intense speculation about their overcooked salary cap for 2018. While big-money recruit Aaron Woods has no plans to backflip on his Belmore...

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Bulldogs must look to Des Hasler’s winning record, not be blinded by emotion, writes Paul Kent IT is funny how we find our own narrative to suit our emotions. In hard facts, on Sunday afternoon the Bulldogs beat the last-placed team in the final two minutes to go from 14th to 13th on the...

Canterbury legend Paul Dunn is considering running at the upcoming Canterbury board elections in a move that would again put him on a collision course with Bulldogs chairman Ray Dib. Members will head to the ballot box early next year in what is likely to be a fiery fight for control of the...

Matt Buxton (Twitter: @MattBuxton) Sat 1st July, 05:00PM CLASSY CLEELAND: The crafty five-eighth scored a double in the second half. The class of Josh Cleeland guided the Canterbury Bulldogs to a last minute 22-20 thriller over the New Zealand Warriors at Belmore Sports Ground. The crafty...

Canterbury have built a reputation as the Dogs of War but coach Des Hasler now wants his struggling NRL outfit to show more finesse. The Bulldogs will be out to resuscitate their flailing top-eight ambitions when they meet Parramatta in a crucial encounter on Thursday. To do so, Hasler...

The NRL ladder would look very different if teams could close out games like Melbourne Storm Paul Kent, The Daily Telegraph June 27, 2017 6:00pm Subscriber only CRAIG Bellamy nearly burst a valve Saturday night. It nearly happened after Daniel Tupou narrowed the score to 24-18 when just seven...

MATT LOGUE, The Daily Telegraph June 18, 2017 11:55am Subscriber only DEPARTING Melbourne halfback Cooper Cronk has agreed to be a specialist halves coach for the club next season. Storm football manager Frank Ponissi told The Sunday Telegraph Cronk would be involved with the club in a variety...

Wed 14 Jun, 2017, 12:30pm By Martin Gabor, National Correspondent‌‌, ‌‌‌NRL.com @MartinJGabor EMAIL PRINT Chase Stanley made a successful return for the Bulldogs. Credit: Robb Cox. Copyright: NRL Photos. Chase Stanley has spent more time in the rehab room than on the field throughout his 11...

Bulldogs five-eighth Josh Reynolds has been ruled out of his side's Round 14 clash with the Dragons at ANZ Stadium on Monday afternoon. Reynolds last played in Round 9, when he injured his hamstring in Canterbury's win over Canberra. Despite being named to return on Tuesday the playmaker hasn't...

David Riccio, The Daily Telegraph June 8, 2017 4:13pm Subscriber only UPSET Canterbury members have been emailed an invitation to discuss the club’s current plight with the Bulldogs hierarchy next week, including coach Des Hasler. Having told club officials he was unaware of his requirements...

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Matt Logue, The Daily Telegraph June 5, 2017 7:42pm Subscriber only Canterbury have moved a step closer to resolving the contract drama with star forward David Klemmer after a positive meeting with the prop’s manager on Monday. The Bulldogs’ faithful went into meltdown over the weekend when...

Phil Rothfield, The Daily Telegraph June 5, 2017 7:00pm Subscriber only NOT long after fulltime at the ANZ Stadium debacle on Sunday evening, Bulldogs coach Des Hasler was supposed to meet face-to-face with fans at the club’s Belmore headquarters. The Bulldogs had advertised all week that the...

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James Phelps, The Daily Telegraph June 4, 2017 10:25am Subscriber only IT has been 1851 days since Des Hasler gave his Bulldogs a spray. “I think one is coming,’’ said Josh Morris on the eve of Hasler’s milestone game as an NRL coach. “It would have to be close. And yeah, it is something we...