Canberra Raiders NRL News

Thu, 22nd February, 2024, 12:37 AEDT
Which NRL player from the 2000s will outlast the rest?
ABC Sport
A generation of NRL players are close to the end, so who will be the final player standing from the noughties?
On Tuesday, Roosters warhorse Jared Waerea-Hargreaves announced that 2024 will be his final season in the NRL, drawing a long and storied career to a close and beginning a closing of the door on a whole era of the sport.

Waerea-Hargreaves debuted for Manly back in 2009 and is one of just a handful of NRL players who debuted in the first decade of the 2000s still in the league.

As the oldest player in the NRL in 2024, this season was always looking to be Waerea-Hargreaves's swansong and it seems likely the race to be the last man standing from the 00s is between three players.

Canberra's ageless wonder Jordan Rapana, who debuted in 2008 before taking six years away from the sport due to a...
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Wed, 21st February, 2024, 21:01 AEDT
The defibrillator giving Harawira-Naera hope in recovery battle
The Sydney Morning Herald
Readings from a defibrillator strapped to Corey Harawira-Naera's chest have indicated the sidelined Raiders back-rower can increase his training loads, but a return to rugby league this season remains unlikely.
Harawira-Naera met specialists this week in his ongoing recovery from a career-threatening seizure suffered on the field in May last year.
Sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the health issue, confirmed that the Canberra forward was fitted with a defibrillator - a little larger than a Post-it note - underneath his arm several months ago. The device constantly monitors...
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Wed, 21st February, 2024, 18:52 AEDT
Raiders star's career remains in limbo nine months after terrifying seizure
The Canberra Times
Corey Harawira-Naera's future hangs in the balance despite a meeting with specialists, including a cardiologist, in Sydney on Tuesday.
While Harawira-Naera's been cleared for an increase in exercise intensity, he still hasn't been cleared to return to contact training - despite it being reported in the Sydney media he'd been cleared for an NRL return.
It means the likeable Kiwi's future remained unclear almost nine months after he suffered his terrifying seizure at Homebush last year.
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