Canberra’s brilliant new half announces himself to NRL

Ethan Sanders secured Canberra's No.7 jersey, winning a match with a last-minute field goal.

Canberra Daily

Ethan Sanders waited patiently to inherit Canberra's No.7 jersey, but he's grabbed his moment to announce himself to the NRL in a hurry.

Two years after he left Parramatta to become the Raiders' halfback heir-apparent, the 22-year-old made the starting job his own with a match-winning field goal to sink Manly at Brookvale Oval on Saturday night.

In a play that seemed to catch all involved off-guard, Sanders, in just his fifth NRL outing, had no qualms firing a 35-metre drop goal with the Raiders' first set in golden point in an instinctive play that earned them the 29-28 win.

"We weren't planning on doing it, but we ended up getting a quick play-the-ball and I just took it, I didn't really think about it,"...

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