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It's not the news Canberra Raiders fans were hoping for, but star five-eighth Jack Wighton is set to test the open market.
Wighton had an option in his favour for 2024, but he's opted against taking that up and will instead see what he can get elsewhere.
It doesn't mean he won't remain with the Green Machine beyond this season, and he could still end up signing an upgraded deal to remain in Canberra.
Jack Wighton might've only hit Jackson Hastings with just enough force to knock him over, but the NRL match review committee have returned fire by knocking the Canberra Raiders star out with a sledgehammer.
It's unclear whether it's the same sledgehammer Wallabies star, I mean Sydney Roosters star, Joseph-Aukuso Sua'ali'i used to smash Charnze Nicholl-Klokstad with in the middle of the back in round two.
Wighton's two-game ban for knocking over Newcastle halfback Jackson Hastings - albeit while catching him high - just doesn't stack up compared with the cheap shot Sua'ali'i unleashed on...
Rugby league icon Bryan Fletcher has praised the start of Lachie Miller’s NRL career as unprecedented.
Miller, who joined the Knights from the Sharks over the summer, was a standout in Newcastle’s upset win over the Raiders on Sunday and Fletcher was left stunned the former Olympian has played just 11 first-grade games.
“They (Newcastle) were very good, I thought Lachie Miller, this was his 11th game in first grade, what he has done in 11 games I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do what he is doing,” Fletcher said on the Matty Johns Show.