Canberra Raiders News

The Canberra Times

Canberra Raiders great Steve Jackson has been a grand final hero, a chicken shop owner, and a real estate agent, but now he has his sights set on politics.

The legendary Raider who scored the game-winning try for the Green Machine in the 1989 grand final against Balmain will head to the polling booth on Saturday hoping to be elected the new mayor of Mackay.

"I'm just learning on my feet and I get quite anxious whether I say the right or wrong things, but at the end of the day all my friends say to me - just be you," Jackson told The Canberra Times.

"That's why people like me ... it's because what they see is what they get, and in the...

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The Canberra Times

Mal Meninga's intercept? "I got it on the try line and ran the whole way." Although, the rugby league Immortal laughs, the memories are a little hazy 30 years on.

Which is why we're delving into the story of two of Canberra's greatest teams as the Canberra Raiders celebrate three decades since their 1994 premiership in the same year the ACT Brumbies mark 20 years since their last Super 12 title.

But when The Canberra Times sat down to analyse which side was better, we soon realise we would have had more luck trying to run over John Lomax and Quentin Pongia or stop George Gregan and Stephen Larkham at the peak of their powers.

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The Riotact

It can't be easy having one of the game's greatest halfbacks as your coach.

The expectations for success in that position at the Raiders have been unnecessarily high, with every halfback rated in comparison to Ricky Stuart.

And there have been plenty since Stuart's forced departure to the Bulldogs at the end of the 1998 season.

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