Canberra Raiders News

The Canberra Times

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...

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The Canberra Times

The Canberra and Wagga rugby league communities are rallying to support a rising rugby league star after he suffered "life-threatening injuries" in a car accident.

Canberra Raiders junior Jacob Iosefa is in the Canberra Hospital intensive care unit "fighting for his life" only weeks after signing a two-year deal with the Green Machine.

Former Mt Austin High School student Iosefa moved to Canberra to pursue his rugby league ambitions and was part of the Raiders' SG Ball squad.

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The Canberra Times

Let's just start calling it the Jack-Russell connection.

Movie star and owner of the South Sydney rugby league team Russell Crowe has made no apologies for stealing Raiders star Jack Wighton, evoking the spirit of gladiator Maximus to tell Canberrans to never stop supporting the departing five-eighth.

Speaking on Canberra radio station MIX 106.3 on Wednesday morning with breakfast hosts Kristen Davidson and Nigel Johnson, Crowe chatted happily about Wighton and all things national capital - including remembering his own year six school trip.

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