2025 Season

HarVeeGee13 said:
He is, but every time it’s a head clash big guy on little guy, we hear “duty of care, onus on the defender”.

Not when it’s a little guy leaping head first into a big guy though?

Seems like a bit of a double standard. Does the duty of care not apply to concussed front rowers?
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Who knows anymore.
Joe Tarpini got a smack right across the nose.
Earlier this year that would have been a penalty and 10 in the bin.
What a joke the NRL is!
 
Why the Raiders were so adamant about playing Brisbane on a sunny arvo (which only suited the Broncs) instead of playing on a freezing cold Canberra night I’ll never understand.
 
These obstruction rules are a ****ing joke honestly. The defending players should have to look like they are at least trying to have it overturned. Currently all you have to do is not try and then throw your arms up at the ref and have a cry.

The games current format sucks and more and more people are turning away in droves. This crap doesn’t help.
 
Maybe Hudson Young should just be less stupid. Bombed a try just before that too.

Only thing that bothers me is it’s probably a try if it’s against us.
 
MBQLD said:
These obstruction rules are a ****ing joke honestly. The defending players should have to look like they are at least trying to have it overturned. Currently all you have to do is not try and then throw your arms up at the ref and have a cry.

The games current format sucks and more and more people are turning away in droves. This crap doesn’t help.
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Is this the comment of someone who tipped the Raiders, by the way? 🤔😂
 
KPGreatness said:
Seeing the raiders be minor premiers, lose in straight sets all at home is stuff of legend and I’m all the way here for it.

It’s so great.
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I’m really disappointed for them, would have been great to see a different club and set of fans go all the way. Much like the Knights they’re not one of the fashionable sides. Instead we’re left with Storm, Broncos, Panthers … feels like I’ve seen this movie every year for about 15-20 years.
 
Absolutely called that the Sharks would do them pretty comfortably lol.

Every weakness the Raiders had has bitten them at once.

- Horrible right edge defence.
- Hudson Young is an idiot.
- For all the hype they get in attack this year, they rely on comprehensively dominating contact and came up against a pack featuring AFB, Talakai, Hamlin-Uele, Hazelton, etc… not really that sophisticated compared to the Sharks.

Their 19-5 record has an 8-1 record in one score games in there and they have a rookie halfback next year. Signs point to a big regression IMO.
 
jamesgould said:
I’m really disappointed for them, would have been great to see a different club and set of fans go all the way. Much like the Knights they’re not one of the fashionable sides. Instead we’re left with Storm, Broncos, Panthers … feels like I’ve seen this movie every year for about 15-20 years.
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This Sharks team can absolutely beat the Storm, way way tougher look about them and the Storm weakness is through the middle. Would not write them off. Hughes playing with one arm if he’s “fit”.
 
Is there maybe a bit of vindication for Newy’s obsession with securing top, top talent at all costs in this outcome?

Raiders lost a game from an unlosable position to basically one player putting his team on his back last week. Tonight they had a long, long period of dominance they couldn’t capitalise on, and Cronulla’s more expensive, better spine was the difference (along with Fonua Blake who seems to save gas for the second half and really ram the point home atm). Whatever people think of Nicho I thought that was a very classy, slick performance, and he Trindall, Blayke Brailey and AFB were the four best players on the field. Almost a $4 million investment in those guys I believe…

Didn’t seem like Canberra had that guy who could own the big moments or break the game open in the end.

Meanwhile our honestly kind of **** team last year almost stole a game over a much better team almost totally just because of how good Kalyn is.
 
Ricky Stuart doing his best Brian Smith impression.

Last week's game took a lot out of the Raiders and losing Strange only made matters worse.

Can't see the Raiders being a top 4 side in 2026 but probably still in the 8 due to their forward pack.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
Is there maybe a bit of vindication for Newy’s obsession with securing top, top talent at all costs in this outcome?

Raiders lost a game from an unlosable position to basically one player putting his team on his back last week. Tonight they had a long, long period of dominance they couldn’t capitalise on, and Cronulla’s more expensive, better spine was the difference (along with Fonua Blake who seems to save gas for the second half and really ram the point home atm). Whatever people think of Nicho I thought that was a very classy, slick performance, and he Trindall, Blayke Brailey and AFB were the four best players on the field. Almost a $4 million investment in those guys I believe…

Didn’t seem like Canberra had that guy who could own the big moments or break the game open in the end.

Meanwhile our honestly kind of **** team last year almost stole a game over a much better team almost totally just because of how good Kalyn is.
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Woah, don’t go saying **** like this to the morons on social media.

Apparently, we are better off without KP or he should play off the bench. I’ve seen so many cooked takes.

I seriously don’t get it. To win a comp, you need as many top level players as you can squeezed into your team.

People saying KPs salary was holding us back but what was one of POS first big moves, spending big money on another top level spine player. Turns out it wasn’t KP, it was the half a dozen plodders all earning well above their worth.

The Storm hoard good spine talent for as along as they possibly can. When Pezet came along they didn’t just say, hmm let’s **** Hughes off we’ve got too many halfbacks. They re-signed both.

It’s insane to think the Knights aren’t going to be better with KP, Brown, Smith and Sharpe rather than just Sharpe, Brown and Smith. You’d only want to lose KP if it meant a top level prop or halfback in return.
 
Celticman98 said:
Ricky Stuart doing his best Brian Smith impression.

Last week's game took a lot out of the Raiders and losing Strange only made matters worse.

Can't see the Raiders being a top 4 side in 2026 but probably still in the 8 due to their forward pack.
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Fair play to him, no excuses.
 
Newygirl said:
Woah, don’t go saying **** like this to the morons on social media.

Apparently, we are better off without KP or he should play off the bench. I’ve seen so many cooked takes.

I seriously don’t get it. To win a comp, you need as many top level players as you can squeezed into your team.

People saying KPs salary was holding us back but what was one of POS first big moves, spending big money on another top level spine player. Turns out it wasn’t KP, it was the half a dozen plodders all earning well above their worth.

The Storm hoard good spine talent for as along as they possibly can. When Pezet came along they didn’t just say, hmm let’s **** Hughes off we’ve got too many halfbacks. They re-signed both.

It’s insane to think the Knights aren’t going to be better with KP, Brown, Smith and Sharpe rather than just Sharpe, Brown and Smith. You’d only want to lose KP if it meant a top level prop or halfback in return.
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Moreover, tier 1 talent is nearly impossible to recruit. So if you've managed to snag one, keeping them around is priority number one while you attempt to produce/poach as much talent as you can in that short window you get with that tier 1 talent, assumimg you have one.

That's what gave me the ****s about AOB, we wasted 6 years of an irreplaceable talent. A better coach would've poached a half under Brown like circumstances in 2022 at the latest. Now that bloke is low-key jack with the club and has been made to look the fool to everyone who told him he was making an error going to Newy. Newy wasn't the problem. Next year will demonstrate this.
 
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