{"id":378755,"date":"2024-03-23T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=378755"},"modified":"2024-03-23T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T10:03:54","slug":"ciraldos-philosophy-pays-off-after-shock-dogs-shutout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=378755","title":{"rendered":"Ciraldo's philosophy pays off after shock Dogs shutout"},"content":{"rendered":"

The defensive-minded approach of Bulldogs<\/a> coach Cameron Ciraldo<\/a> has paid off, with the side producing a dominant 32-0 win over the Titans<\/a> on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

For the first time in recent memory, Canterbury kept their opponents scoreless across 80 minutes, \ufeffgiving the Belmore Oval faithful a rare performance to cheer about.<\/p>\n

The hosts opened the scoring in the 17th minute through Jacob Preston and never looked back, with the likes of Viliame Kikau<\/a> and Reed Mahoney<\/a> starring in the rout.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to media post-game, Ciraldo backed the growing belief within the Dogs locker room and claims there was no need for panic, despite two-straight losses to the Eels and Sharks to kick off their campaign.<\/p>\n

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"It's easy after a couple of losses to change things around and stop believing, but I feel like everyone in the building kept believing in what we were building," he said.<\/p>\n

"We got the result, but I have been feeling that at training, we have been showing a lot of winning behaviours and it was only a matter of time before it came out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"I've made no secret of the fact we want to build this club around defence. Our attack is going to keep evolving, but our defence is giving our attack a little breathing space.<\/p>\n

"Keeping a team to zero is a huge achievement, it's not something that happens all the time – it's really important you make it count. We stuck to our processes until the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"The belief is built within the building – people are starting to believe."<\/p>\n

Watch the 2024 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ciraldo heaped praise on hulking edge forward Kikau, claiming the Fijian international is "back to his best" and described him as a "nightmare" for opposition defences.<\/p>\n

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Canterbury operated at over 90 per cent tackle efficiency and despite giving away triple the amount of penalties, were able to withstand Gold Coast all afternoon.<\/p>\n

"I wasn't really worried even though we lost those first two games," new captain Stephen Crichton said post-game.<\/p>\n

"Tonight, the boys were switched on and took those opportunities and went after the game, instead of sitting back and waiting for it."<\/p>\n

The side will look to continue their winning ways against the Rabbitohs next weekend in a traditional Good Friday fixture. \ufeff<\/p>\n

For the Titans, they will be sweating on the fitness of captain Tino Fa'asuamaleaui, who left the field with a knee injury during the second half.<\/a> \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The defensive-minded approach of Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo has paid off, with the side producing a dominant 32-0 win over the Titans on Saturday afternoon. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378760,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378755\/revisions\/378760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}