Canberra Raiders News

Thu, 6th March, 2025, 14:43 AEDT
Tapine, Savage accept bans after Raiders' big Vegas win
Canberra's Joe Tapine accepts 2-game ban and Xavier Savage suspended for 1 game after NRL win.
Canberra Weekly
Canberra captain Joe Tapine has accepted a two-game ban while star winger Xavier Savage will miss one match after pleading guilty to charges from their win over the Warriors in Las Vegas.
Tapine went to the sin bin for shoulder-charging Warriors co-captain Mitch Barnett in the second half of the 30-8 victory that opened the NRL season on Sunday (AEDT).
He will miss Canberra's next two games against Brisbane and Manly, avoiding the risk of a third match with an early guilty plea for his grade-two charge.
Joseph Tapine has been sent to the sin bin for this shoulder charge.📺...
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Thu, 6th March, 2025, 13:06 AEDT
Adam Reynolds hits back at talk of Michael Maguire 'over-cooking' his players
Michael Maguire's tough off-season training for Broncos criticized, but he denies overworking players, calling it "bullshit".
Wide World of Sports
There's been talk of new Broncos coach Michael Maguire overworking his team during the off-season and leaving them disgruntled because few players throughout the NRL have been "mucking up", leaving "not much to write about".
That was the view expressed by Adam Reynolds when Wide World of Sports asked the Broncos captain what he thought of the chatter, which peaked following a three-day army-style camp run by Maguire west of Brisbane.
Maguire rubbished talk of "over-cooking" his players as "bullshit" in an interview with Fox Sports ahead of the Broncos' season-opening clash, adding: "I have a grin on my face now when I hear that stuff".
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Thu, 6th March, 2025, 11:39 AEDT
Las Vegas attracts record TV audience for NRL replay
NRL matches at Allegiant Stadium attracted over three million viewers in US, Australia, and New Zealand.
LeagueNews.co
warriors.kiwi are reporting
More than three million viewers in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand tuned into the opening two matches of the NRL season at Allegiant Stadium, as new broadcast records were set across the game.
In further proof that rugby league's globalisation strategy is already paying off after just the second year of the NRL's Vegas venture, viewership in the US increased by more than 600 per cent on the 2024 season opener.
With exposure on the FOX network driving unprecedented viewership in the US, the Raiders-Warriors match attracted an average US audience of 371,000, with streaming on WatchNRL taking the total number of viewers above 400,000.
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