Football star Jaeman Salmon reignites long-running feud with Raiders coach Ricky Stuart with blistering spray: 'Weak-gutted dog'

Long-running tensions bubbled to the aboveground arsenic a Stephen Crichton-led comeback cemented Canterbury's spot astatine the apical of the NRL ladder against second-placed Canberra.

The Bulldogs scored 32 unanswered points to overturn a 20-point halftime shortage and soundlessness the bulk of the sell-out 23,827 assemblage astatine GIO Stadium connected Saturday afternoon.

The 32-20 triumph puts Canterbury 4 points wide successful archetypal place, with 8 wins from 9 matches.

But manager Cameron Ciraldo volition beryllium acrophobic implicit the fittingness of second-rower Jaeman Salmon, who limped from the tract with an evident injured ankle successful the 2nd half.

Salmon was a stand-out for the Bulldogs, scoring their 2nd effort pursuing a Crichton enactment break.

The 26-year-old made himself nationalist force fig 1 successful the nation's superior with his fiery effort celebration, opening up an aged feud with Raiders manager Ricky Stuart.

Salmon made a beeline for the nearest camera, stuck his scale digit into the centre of his thorax and shouted 'weak-gutted dog', successful notation to a remark Stuart directed astatine him successful 2022.

Stuart looked to debar reigniting the feud erstwhile asked astir the remark aft fulltime.

'Honestly, however overmuch bash you truly deliberation I attraction astir that?' helium responded.

The barb goes backmost to August 2022 erstwhile Stuart attacked the past Penrith Panthers subordinate successful a post-match property conference.

'I person had past with that kid (Salmon). I cognize that kid precise well.

'He was a anemic gutted canine arsenic a kid and helium hasn't changed now. He is simply a anemic gutted canine idiosyncratic now.'

Crichton was instrumental to the Canterbury comeback, scoring their archetypal effort aft the interval arsenic good arsenic assisting the second.

Another enactment interruption from the Bulldogs skipper resulted successful a effort done winger Marcelo Montoya, who brushed past a scampering Canberra defence aft Connor Tracey was denied by an astonishing tackle from Ethan Strange.

'I thought the skipper conscionable enactment the squad connected his backmost determination for a 10-minute play to footwear america off, and conscionable gave the full squad a batch of assurance successful the mode helium went astir the game,' Ciraldo said.

Prop Max King surged implicit from adjacent scope to enactment the Bulldogs successful the pb aft 58 minutes, completing the turnaround from nary to 22 successful little than 15 minutes.

It was a stark opposition from the archetypal half, erstwhile it looked similar the ascendant Raiders would tally distant with it.

Canberra second-rower Hudson Young asserted his lawsuit for a State of Origin call-up, scoring his eighth effort of the play arsenic the location broadside scored 4 unanswered tries.

Second-rower Zac Hosking opened the scoring for the Raiders, powering implicit disconnected a abbreviated shot from Tom Starling retired of dummy half, earlier fullback Kaeo Weekes continued his awesome tally of signifier with the second.

Xavier Savage finished disconnected a slick determination aft accelerated hands from Jamal Fogarty, and Matty Nicholson enactment Matt Timoko into a gap, who drew Bulldogs fullback Tracey and served up a elemental four-pointer to his winger.

But Canberra's good attacking signifier was absent successful the 2nd period, portion the Bulldogs looked similar different squad aft their half-time rev-up.

'We get a batch of pats connected the backmost being a top-four side, but we virtually had to look astatine ourselves successful the reflector erstwhile we came successful (at halftime),' Crichton said.

'Our mentality going into the 2nd fractional was a batch amended than the archetypal fractional so, yeah, it was recognition to the boys there.'

Tries to Viliame Kikau and Jacob Kiraz, who ran an awesome 148 metres and made 12 tackle busts, sealed the result.