Canberra Raiders NRL News

Young and Smithies apologize for Las Vegas incident, remain with Raiders for upcoming game.

The Canberra Times

Las Vegas: A remorseful and sheepish Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies have apologised for their late-night Las Vegas scuffle.

Young was unsure why they should be allowed to remain with the Canberra Raiders in Sin City, but he said they'd dealt with the issue internally as a club.

Both Young, who is a member of the Raiders leadership group, and Smithies have been allowed to remain with the team in Vegas and both will likely be named in the starting side to face the New Zealand Warriors later on Tuesday.

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Canberra players embarrassed by fight in Las Vegas, apologize for incident, took attention from NRL event.

Canberra Weekly

The two Canberra players who fought each other after a night out in Las Vegas are "embarrassed" about pulling focus from the NRL's showpiece event.

Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies fronted the press on Tuesday morning (AEDT) to apologise for the fracas that took place in an elevator at Resorts World on Thursday night.

It's believed the two forwards began fighting when one was left without a hotel room on return from a night out.

Raiders players Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies have spoken with media today in Las Vegas.#WeAreRaiders #NRLVegas...

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Canberra Raiders players cause hotel security incident in Las Vegas after night out.

Fox League

Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies were two of many NRL players who had taken the opportunity to hit the town in Las Vegas before knuckling down for their season opener at Allegiant Stadium.

Players were allowed to do so, having been trusted as adults to behave, so they had not gone rogue.

Unlike their counterparts, the Canberra Raiders duo found trouble when a scuffle back at their hotel - Hilton Resorts World - blew up into a security incident that had them briefly evicted.

Here are the bizarre details of what happened, according to reports from Vegas.

Young and Smithies returned to their hotel having gone out drinking, on Thursday night local time; not long after arriving in Vegas.

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