Canberra Raiders coach for The Knock-On Effect NSW Cup, Brock Shepperd, believes the 'Green Machine' could be on the verge of following in the successful footsteps of Penrith Panthers.
Shepperd has taken over the Raiders NSW Cup side for 2024 after they finished fourth in 2023, while the Jersey Flegg Cup team was seventh, the UNE SG Ball Cup side were minor premiers and the UNE Harold Matthews Cup was fifth.
Shepperd, who cut his teeth as a coach in the pathways system at Penrith, feels a similar youthful revolution is now underway in the nation's capital.
"I spent 10 years at the Panthers and I was in and around that Under 20s side - assistant coach to the Holden Cup then - when Nathan Cleary, Jarome Luai, Dylan...