Having driven their back-half redemption last season and carried them to a semi-final appearance, they've already helped avert an early-season calamity and turn their poor start into a 4-4 record after nine rounds.
Second-phase football appears vital to a pack featuring heavy-hitters such as Joe Tapine, Josh Papali'i, Corey Horsburgh, Hudson Young and Emre Guler, with the Raiders producing 13 offloads a game in wins compared with just seven per game in losses.
They found a whopping 24 offloads in their 31-30 win against the Dolphins last weekend, the most by a team in any single game this...