Canberra Raiders NRL News

Pre-season games may not accurately predict regular season success given limited playing time for key players.

The Riotact

It's hard to read too much into pre-season games with key players either rested or given limited time on the field.

You only have to look at the fate of the two previous NRL pre-season champions. The Broncos won the 2024 pre-season challenge only to finish 12th in the premiership while the 2023 pre-season champions, Manly, also finished 12th in the regular season.

The Raiders accounted for a Panthers outfit minus their premiership players, 22-16, in their opening pre-season game before going down to the Sharks 40-10.

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Ricky Stuart baffled by Raiders' penalty count woes in close win over Sharks, questions fairness.

Zero Tackle

Canberra Raiders head coach Ricky Stuart is still at a loss to describe his team's inability to win a penalty count, despite the fact they snuck over the line in a final-minute thriller against the Cronulla Sharks on Thursday evening.Only a late, last ditch and ad-lib try could get the Raiders over the line against the Sharks in a game where they were trounced in the penalty count."I think the penalty count was 7-2, ok fine if we're giving penalties away that's great but you can't tell me other teams don't give away penalties as well," Stuart said during his post-match press conference.

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Raiders score impressive team try, new SuperCoach PODs emerge, time to drop a cheap player.

The Daily Telegraph

The Raiders produced one of the best team tries of the year, two massive SuperCoach PODs have emerged, and its time to move on from one cheapie.

Recap our live blog coverage below and see the XX things we learned.

1. MASSIVE PODS EMERGE

They've already looked good in patches so far this year, but both Hudson Young (106 points) and Briton Nikora (78 points) shape as intriguing SuperCoach options going forward. And to make Young's score even more impressive was the fact that he lost 10 points after being sinbinned.

Both owned by less than 6000 SuperCoaches, they are massive PODs with massive attacking upside and serious try-scoring...

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