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Canberra five-eighth Jack Wighton had an afternoon to forget on the eve of an anticipated NSW recall as the Raiders fell to a 12-10 defeat against St George Illawarra on Sunday.
Wighton struggled to impose himself on the game – his first since missing State of Origin II with COVID-19 – and was way below par, making four errors and enduring a torrid time with the boot at Wollongong’s WIN Stadium.
The 29-year-old gifted the Dragons their first try of the afternoon when he tapped a short...
Even after 114 years of top grade rugby league, you can still go to a game every week and potentially see something you never thought possible.
This week’s instalment: a short dropout being swatted back inside the 10 metres to a rival player who scores untouched.
If the game wasn’t so serious — two teams circling the bottom of the top eight and desperately scrapping for two points — Jack Wighton probably would have laughed. He’s never done it before, and won’t do it again.
But it...
Not once, but twice the Canberra Raiders were denied potentially match-levelling penalties, but they were their own worst enemy in a wet and wild Wollongong.
The Raiders should've had two penalties for offside - the second in the dying seconds directly in front of the goal posts.
"That's a penalty every minute of the game," Phil Gould said in the Nine commentary.