Canberra Raiders NRL News

Canberra Raiders CEO advocates for investment in modern facilities to attract events and visitors. Las Vegas prime example.

The Canberra Times

Las Vegas: Build it and they will come. Canberra Raiders chief executive Don Furner says if cities want events and people to come to them then they need to invest in modern facilities.

Furner spent last week getting a first-hand look at Las Vegas, which is arguably the king of attracting both visitors and events.

He toured the Las Vegas Raiders' $255 million training facilities, which boasts an indoor training field for the NFL team, and then visited the $3 billion Allegiant Stadium, where the Green Machine kicked off the NRL season.

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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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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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