Canberra Raiders NRL News

Canberra Raiders' extensive travel schedule in 2025 NRL season demonstrates impact of travel on sport.

The Riotact

If an academic were to do a PhD on the impact travel has on high-performance sport, they need look no further than the Canberra Raiders in the first 12 rounds of the 2025 NRL season.

It has been calculated that the Raiders will cover 48,000 kilometres in the air and on the ground in the first three months.

The travel schedule includes starting the season in Las Vegas before away games against Manly, the Cowboys, Parramatta in Darwin, the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Auckland, interspersed with five games at Canberra Stadium.

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Sports journalist Peter Chapman was a prominent figure in 1990s Canberra, covering the Raiders' successful era.

The Riotact

Sports journalist Peter Chapman was one of the faces of Canberra in the 1990s, alongside his great mates newsreader Greg Robson and weatherman Mike Larkan.

Having looked back on the life and times of both Robbo and Larko, we now cast the spotlight on Chapo - the rugby league tragic who arrived in town the year the Raiders first won the premiership. He covered their most successful era and then joined the club to become their marketing manager at a time rugby union team the Brumbies had eaten into their support base.

We ask the 69-year-old to reflect on the 1989 grand final, the super...

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Raiders, Brumbies, and GWS playing in Canberra on Anzac weekend, testing which code is most popular.

The Riotact

With the Raiders, Brumbies and GWS all playing in Canberra on the Anzac weekend next year, it is being viewed as a litmus test: which code is the most popular in the ACT?

The Giants take on the Western Bulldogs on Saturday, 26 April, at 7:35 pm. At the same time, the Brumbies face the Hurricanes across town at GIO.

The following day at Canberra Stadium, the Raiders take on the Dolphins.

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