Canberra Raiders

“Didn’t want someone sent off and down to 12 men”: Legend shocked Jack Wighton wasn’t sent off in elimination final

11 September, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Rugby league legend Cameron Smith has slammed the NRL and the Bunker after Jack Wighton was allowed to stay on the field after a biting incident in Canberra’s elimination final loss to the Knights on

Jarrod Croker wins the 2023 the81stminute.com Beetson Raudonikis Medal ‘Essence Award’

3 September, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Ahead of next week’s 2023 Beetson Raudonikis Medal award winners being announced – we are releasing another award before time and just like we did with Andrew Webster as ‘Coach of the Year’ a few

Jarrod Croker calls time on NRL career

14 August, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Canberra Raiders legend Jarrod Croker has announced he will retire at the end of the 2023 season. Read what he had to say on raiders.com.au: “I’ve been weighing the decision up over the past couple

‘Croker 300’: A kid from Goulburn and one from Papatoetoe – separated by fourteen long winters and the same rugby league dream we all share in common

7 June, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Fourteen long years ago, on a Sunday afternoon at Canberra Stadium, a slight 18-year-old Goulburn native ran out in the number 20 jersey for the Raiders against the New Zealand Warriors.

“Will be a legend at the club”: Raiders great and former coach heaps praise on Jarrod Croker ahead of Game 300

6 June, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Club legend and former Canberra Raiders head coach David Furner has heaped praise on Jarrod Croker ahead of his 300th NRL game for the club this weeekend. Furner was in the Wests Tigers coaching box

Footy is back at Campbelltown on Friday night and we bet you didn’t know there had been so many NRL classics between Wests Tigers and the Raiders at Orana Park

1 June, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Forget State of Origin and perhaps John Bateman is pretty happy about that because he’s about to clash with his former team and Ricky Stuart. It has been a long time

Everyone talks about hypothetical 90s Raiders versus Broncos ‘super clash’ grand final but 91 Panthers never got the chance to see how good they could have been

23 May, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis There has been a long-standing argument that the greatest grand final of all time we never got to see was the Canberra Raiders and Brisbane Broncos in the early 1990s. It

‘This has been coming for a long time’: Why there’s no bad guy between the Raiders, Jack Wighton or Ricky Stuart

30 April, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Ricky Stuart divides opinions as a head coach – he always has. Some argue he is a truly passionate Canberra Raiders legend giving back to his former club and doing everything

‘The game is in major strife if that’s a penalty’: Raiders were the better team but that doesn’t Broncos shouldn’t have won after ref’s call

8 April, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 2 categories

COMMENT BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Let us start with some facts like the Canberra Raiders were gutsy, committed and deserved to come away with the two premiership points against the Brisbane Broncos on Saturday night

‘He’s a great bloke’: John Bateman wants Jack Wighton at Wests Tigers

6 April, 2023 The81stMinute 0 Comments 1 category

Wests Tigers’ English International John Bateman would love to have Jack Wighton at Wests Tigers. Bateman and Wighton previously played together in the nation’s capital. Wighton has been tabled a massive $4.4million offer over four

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