NRL LIVE updates: Bulldogs’ finals push faces tough Warriors test

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Canterbury’s round 21 clash with the Warriors at Accor Stadium.It’s a crucial game for the Bulldogs, who after a horror first half of the season are now closing in on a return to the top eight. They’re currently 10th, two competition points behind the eighth-placed Cowboys and with an inferior for-and-against, but they’ve won four of their past five games – easily their best run of form this season.It’s been the other way round for the Warriors, who lost only twice in the opening dozen rounds of 2026 but have three wins and three losses since then. They’ve lost a couple of their breakout stars from the first half of the year – playmaker Tanah Boyd (ACL, season) and early Dally M frontrunner Jackson Ford (pectoral, finals) – but are otherwise pretty fit, while the Bulldogs welcome Stephen Crichton back to the team and Viliame Kikau back to the starting side this week.Kick-off is at 5.30.