Canberra Raiders News

Fri, 11th July, 2025, 11:46 AEST
Xavier Savage speaks on his Torres Strait Islander heritage, NRL scouts and bouncing back for the Raiders
Xavier Savage, a Cairns native, connects deeply with his Torres Strait heritage and ancestral land.
The Daily Telegraph
Xavier Savage has a premiership trophy with the ladder-leaders at the forefront of his mind.
But lingering in the back is a piece of land in the Torres Strait Islands.
Born and raised in Cairns, Savage grew up in a big family that already had strong ties to their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
A life-changing journey to the Torres Strait as a 15-year-old only deepened that connection.
Savage met local elders, who revealed his ancestral bond to the Islands went back six generations and that his family owned a parcel of land that had sat untouched for decades.
The 23-year-old...
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Fri, 11th July, 2025, 7:20 AEST
NRL Run Home: Every team's predicted finish as big guns tipped to miss top 8
The NRL season heats up, with tight playoff races and certain fan disappointment.
Fox League
We are two-thirds through the 2025 NRL season, with just nine rounds remaining as the race for finals spots heats up.
Raiders and Storm fans can already rejoice, with your teams rated a 100% chance of making the eight, with the Bulldogs and Warriors also more or less guaranteed to be playing finals.
Entering Round 19, only six points separate the fifth-placed Broncos (22pts) and 15th-placed Parramatta Eels (16pts).
The
Fox Sports Lab
has crunched the numbers to produce every team's top eight and top four chances as well as the likelihood of winning the minor premiership which, for now, appears to be a race between three.
Look away if you are a Titans or Rabbitohs fan, as according to the
Lab
, your season is all but done, although you probably knew that already.
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Thu, 10th July, 2025, 21:23 AEST
Sharks and Raiders: Swimming Towards Victory's Shore
Sharks and Raiders seek their first NRL win in Round 2 after losses in Round 1.
LeagueNews.co
In Round 2 of the NRL, the Sharks and Raiders are each seeking their first win of the season when they clash on Saturday afternoon.
The Sharks, coming off a narrow defeat to the Eels in Round 1, are optimistic about their chances under coach Tony Herman.
Captain Tiana Penitani Gray is expected to play a crucial role in bolstering the backline, while emerging centre Annessa Biddle poses an additional attacking threat on the right edge.
On the other hand, the Raiders are eager to bounce back from their loss to the Dragons in their opening match.
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