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Canberra Weekly

Three years after returning to his small NSW hometown, former NRL player Josh McCrone led the Temora Dragons to their first minor premiership in nearly two decades.

But McCrone, a former Raiders player turned coach-captain for the local team, quickly shuts down any suggestion he might be a hero in the Riverina town of 6000 people.

Temora offers me a lot more than I offer Temora, there's no doubt about that, McCrone told AAP.

Temora is a pretty cool little town, it's a tight-knit community where your kids can walk down the street and you know everyone's name.

McCrone was living and training in Manchester, England, when...

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Fox League

Eamonn Tiernan is the NRL editor at foxsports.com.au and he writes Extra Time fortnightly.

Broncos coach Kevin Walters knew the heat would come thick and fast if he signed his son Billy - but he did it anyway.

It wasn't a tough decision, if you can't trust your own son then who can you trust? Kevvie told foxsports.com.au.

Billy had played a handful of NRL games at the point, but it was a tough love conversation from dad around 12 months later that turned him into a bona fide first-grader.

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The Canberra Times

Tom Starling was upset when he got dropped. But he put his head down, his proverbial up, and used it drive himself to get back.

That's one of the reasons why the Canberra Raiders have re-signed him until the end of 2025, having taken up his option for next year and added another season on top of that.

The Raiders also confirmed on Tuesday the signing of Newcastle utility Simi Sasagi, also until the end of 2025, as revealed by The Canberra Times in June.

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