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Canberra Weekly

Canberra have a plan to fill departing five-eighth Jack Wighton's boots for next NRL season, but coach Ricky Stuart is keeping those cards close to his chest.

Young backup half Brad Schneider is off to Super League club Hull KR and Stuart squashed speculation fullback Sebastian Kris could move to No.6, leaving the Raiders in desperate need of a playmaker when Dally M medallist Wighton heads to South Sydney.

Long-time backup Matt Frawley appears the leading candidate for the job, with the Raiders not currently linked to any external candidates in what Stuart admits is an increasingly barren marketplace.

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The Canberra Times

Canberra have a plan to fill departing five-eighth Jack Wighton's boots for next NRL season, but coach Ricky Stuart is keeping those cards close to his chest.

Young backup half Brad Schneider is off to Super League club Hull KR and Stuart squashed speculation fullback Sebastian Kris could move to No.6, leaving the Raiders in desperate need of a playmaker when Dally M medallist Wighton heads to South Sydney.

Long-time backup Matt Frawley appears the leading candidate for the job, with the Raiders not currently linked to any external candidates in what Stuart admits is an increasingly barren...

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Canberra Weekly

Ricky Stuart maintains the RLPA used NRL players in their game-day media boycott as tensions continue to rise around collective bargaining agreement talks.

NRL players will shun media commitments on match days with the union demanding the game's administrators meet with them and an industrial relations mediator.

More money is not the issue, the RLPA says, but there are concerns over specific areas of the pay deal including managing its own funds and the NRL's ability to lengthen the season without approval.

The boycott is a fresh setback in protracted negotiations that have rumbled on for 20 months, with Canberra boss Stuart blasting...

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