Canberra Raiders NRL News

The NRL season heats up, with tight playoff races and certain fan disappointment.

Fox League

We are two-thirds through the 2025 NRL season, with just nine rounds remaining as the race for finals spots heats up.

Raiders and Storm fans can already rejoice, with your teams rated a 100% chance of making the eight, with the Bulldogs and Warriors also more or less guaranteed to be playing finals.

Entering Round 19, only six points separate the fifth-placed Broncos (22pts) and 15th-placed Parramatta Eels (16pts).

The
Fox Sports Lab
has crunched the numbers to produce every team's top eight and top four chances as well as the likelihood of winning the minor premiership which, for now, appears to be a race between three.

Look away if you are a Titans or Rabbitohs fan, as according to the
Lab
, your season is all but done, although you probably knew that already.

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Josh Papalii's son Noah became a star during Origin, touching hearts with a tribute on TV.

The Daily Telegraph

It was the tear-jerking comment that broke a nation's hearts.

Queensland enforcer Josh Papalii's young son Noah became the unexpected star of State of Origin after a touching tribute to his baby brother before three million TV viewers on Wednesday night.

The Maroons prop savoured the ultimate Origin swansong, coming out of retirement to help inspire Queensland's 24-12 defeat of NSW to win the 2025 series decider at Sydney's Accor Stadium.

The 33-year-old later conducted an interview with Channel 9 to reflect on the epic win, but Papalii Jnr stole the show when he was suddenly asked...

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Josh Papalii, off-contract with Canberra Raiders, is open to playing for Newcastle Knights next year.

Zero Tackle

Canberra Raiders prop Josh Papalii has admitted he is open to staying in the NRL next year even if it is with a new club, and now it appears the Newcastle Knights could be the club to extend a contract offer.

The veteran prop is off-contract with the Raiders at the end of 2025, and despite being in good enough form to make his return to the State of Origin arena for the decider on Wednesday night, he will not receive a new offer from Ricky Stuart's side.

Papalii was all but seemingly locked into a move to England for 2026 - potentially with St Helens - but then last week in Origin camp that...

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