Canberra Raiders NRL News

Wed, 13th September, 2023, 14:34 AEST
Suspended Jack Wighton set to miss Rabbitohs' trip to Las Vegas
The Canberra Times
Jack Wighton is set to miss next year's NRL season opener in Las Vegas after Mal Meninga put a line through allowing the South Sydney recruit to serve a suspension in the Test arena.
The outgoing Canberra Raiders star was hit with a three-game ban for biting Newcastle five-eighth Tyson Gamble during a pulsating elimination final on Sunday.
The Rabbitohs are hoping to shave one game off the ban by having next year's NRL All Stars match included in the suspension - but either way, Wighton will miss the season opener.
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Wed, 13th September, 2023, 13:07 AEST
Newcastle's Determination to Preserve NRL Finals Streak Defies All Odds
ABC Sport
Why Newcastle is ready to once again go to hell and back to keep its NRL finals run alive
Less than week after going to hell and back and balancing on the raggedy edge separating an epic, club-defining victory from a soul-crushing defeat, Newcastle will have to saddle up and do it all again.

The Knights' 30-28 extra-time victory over the Raiders on Sunday was less of a football match and more of a life experience. It was the kind of thing that doesn't have winners, just survivors.

If the Novocastrians had cruised to the easy victory many suspected would be coming their way, they'd likely be even money to beat the Warriors on Saturday night, if not favourites.

But now, battered and bruised and missing a couple of stars, it is Newcastle's turn to dig deep and defy the odds.
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Wed, 13th September, 2023, 11:50 AEST
Souths hoping Wighton will miss just two NRL games, Kangaroos return ruled out
The Sydney Morning Herald
South Sydney are hoping to shave at least one NRL game off Jack Wighton's suspension by having the Indigenous All Stars match included in his ban, but there won't be a shock Kangaroos return for the retired representative star.
The NRL judiciary found Wighton guilty of biting Tyson Gamble in Canberra's elimination final loss to Newcastle, resulting in a three-game suspension. Wighton had pleaded not guilty in the hope of clearing his name, but was unsuccessful after an 80-minute hearing on Tuesday night.
Wighton will switch from Canberra to the Rabbitohs in the off-season at a time when there is a cloud over his representative...
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