Canberra Raiders NRL News

Xavier Savage faced tough love from coach, returned stronger, became top try scorer, revived career.

The Canberra Times

Xavier Savage could have left Canberra Raiders headquarters to start packing his bags. Coach Ricky Stuart was ready for the enigmatic winger to find a new club.

So how does he stand inside the building today as Canberra's leading try scorer with a finals dream still within reach? It turns out tough love was just what Savage needed.

Savage had barely been sighted in the top grade for 12 months and returned to club headquarters unfit and out of shape. Stuart's pre-season spray could have gone two ways.

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Canberra stadium delays cost $2.55 billion, Civic stadium cost jumps to $2.9 billion.

The Canberra Times

After all the talk, the ideas, the locations and the seven studies, who knew the most expensive thing about a new stadium in Canberra would be ... not building it.

ACT Sport Minister Yvette Berry has revealed for the first time the cost of the government's stadium procrastination - $2.55 billion. Yes, you read that right. Sitting on their hands for 15 years has cost $2.55 billion.

The ACT government's figures claim the cost of a Civic stadium has jumped from $350 million in 2011 to $582 million in 2021 to now $2.9 billion three years later.

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New Civic stadium cost estimate $2.128 billion to $2.9 billion, 400% higher than previous.

The Canberra Times

The cost of a new stadium in Civic could be close to $3 billion, the ACT government has revealed in a set of figures significantly higher than previous estimates.

The government says the price of a new 30,000-seat city stadium with minimal surrounding infrastructure on the Civic pool site would sit between $2.128 billion and $2.9 billion.

The figure represents a hike of almost 400 per cent on a cost estimate of $582 million presented in a 2021 feasibility study for a city centre stadium.

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