Jordan Rapana has received 18 stitches to a gory head wound while Brisbane’s Martin Taupau avoided any charge for the controversial contact that split the Raiders fullback open.
Rapana travelled back to Canberra on Sunday morning following Saturday’s 20-14 upset of the ladder-leading Broncos, in which he was taken from the field on a Medicab after a heavy collision with Taupau.
The Canberra winger was in obvious distress after Taupau accidentally kneed him in the back of the head, with blood pouring from a gruesome gash onto the Suncorp Stadium turf.
The 77th-minute penalty against Taupau...