Despite the loss, Jarrod Croker will remember this week for the rest of his life.
He never anticipated how big his 300th NRL game would be and by the end the Canberra Raiders just seemed to run out of legs.
They couldn't go with a New Zealand Warriors side in the second half after the visitors were atypically resolute in the first, running away 36-14 victors at Canberra Stadium on Friday night.