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Raiders five-eighth Jack Wighton faces a nervous wait for tomorrow's match review committee findings.
Wighton made glancing, accidental head contact with Warriors winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak in attempting a tackle late in the first half of Canberra's 36-14 loss on Friday night.
The collision conceded a penalty and put Wighton on report, but he escaped a similar fate to Mitch Barnett who was sin binned for an earlier high contact incident on Jordan Rapana.
The Warriors have spoiled the party for Jarrod Croker's 300th game, digging in defensively before thrashing a woeful Canberra 36-14 at GIO Stadium.
A try-of-the-year candidate from Dallin Watene-Zelezniak helped the New Zealanders overcome an early pummelling and blitz the woeful Raiders to maintain their charge towards a first finals appearance since 2018.
What was meant to be Canberra's celebration of Croker - just their second player to reach 300 games - quickly turned sour with five straight Warriors tries overturning a 6-0 first-half deficit.
The huge win leaves the Warriors 8-6 for the season and level on points with third...
Ricky Stuart was right!
Jarrod Croker has become just the 48th player in first grade rugby league history to play his 300th game and it was special before the ball had even been kicked.
In front of a reported 22,000+ crowd in Canberra, which the Fox League commentators would rival the final game for rugby league Immortal and Raiders legend Mal Meninga, there were incredible scenes as Croker prepared to run out against the New Zealand Warriors.
Croker has been the ultimate club man but has dealt with injury blows so much that coach Stuart asked...