“Didn’t want someone sent off and down to 12 men”: Legend shocked Jack Wighton wasn’t sent off in elimination final
The81stMinute Rugby league legend Cameron Smith has slammed the NRL and the Bunker after Jack Wighton was allowed to…
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Jarrod Croker wins the 2023 the81stminute.com Beetson Raudonikis Medal ‘Essence Award’
Ahead of next week’s 2023 Beetson Raudonikis Medal award winners being announced – we are releasing another award…
Jarrod Croker calls time on NRL career
Canberra Raiders legend Jarrod Croker has announced he will retire at the end of the 2023 season. Read…
‘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
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Fourteen long years ago, on a Sunday afternoon at Canberra Stadium, a slight 18-year-old…
“Will be a legend at the club”: Raiders great and former coach heaps praise on Jarrod Croker ahead of Game 300
Club legend and former Canberra Raiders head coach David Furner has heaped praise on Jarrod Croker ahead of…
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
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Forget State of Origin and perhaps John Bateman is pretty happy about that because…
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
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis There has been a long-standing argument that the greatest grand final of all time…
‘This has been coming for a long time’: Why there’s no bad guy between the Raiders, Jack Wighton or Ricky Stuart
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Ricky Stuart divides opinions as a head coach – he always has. Some argue…
‘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
COMMENT BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Let us start with some facts like the Canberra Raiders were gutsy, committed…
‘He’s a great bloke’: John Bateman wants Jack Wighton at Wests Tigers
Wests Tigers’ English International John Bateman would love to have Jack Wighton at Wests Tigers. Bateman and Wighton…