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by BJ
March 3, 2024, 8:51 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

A new Canberra Stadium

I’m with Billy on the this new stadium idea “is probably the worst”.
by BJ
March 1, 2024, 4:27 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Las Vegas Raiders: Canberra puts hand up for blockbuster trip in 2025
Replies: 71
Views: 7326

Re: Las Vegas Raiders: Canberra puts hand up for blockbuster trip in 2025

LimeGreenMachine wrote:
BJ wrote: March 1, 2024, 4:22 pm What’s Paul Kent doing back on NRL on Fox?
Found not guilty of the charges against him
Ahhh I didn’t hear that news.
by BJ
February 28, 2024, 4:57 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews *Teams p1
Replies: 784
Views: 49465

Re: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews

That’s right Finchy.

You can have 1 weak member in Spine positions but more than that and you start to Struggle.
by BJ
February 27, 2024, 1:36 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews *Teams p1
Replies: 784
Views: 49465

Re: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews

Yep can’t disagree that our attacking structures don’t resemble the modern day.
by BJ
February 27, 2024, 12:50 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews *Teams p1
Replies: 784
Views: 49465

Re: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews

For Strange’s long term development a stint at left half might be very good for him. Both Cronk and Thurston played a bit out of position early and I think it helped them later in their career.
by BJ
February 26, 2024, 3:52 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews *Teams p1
Replies: 784
Views: 49465

Re: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews

I think Woolford should be getting the starting hooker for game 1. But he didn’t do himself any favours yesterday with some lazy efforts.
by BJ
February 26, 2024, 9:22 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Canberra Raiders injury/suspension update
Replies: 102
Views: 10455

Re: 2024 Canberra Raiders injury/suspension update

The match review committee are probably feeling a little guilty after the very dodgy and incredibly inconsistent Horsburgh charge.
by BJ
February 26, 2024, 9:19 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 581
Views: 32417

Re: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

The match review committee are probably feeling a little guilty after the very dodgy and incredibly inconsistent Horsburgh charge.

Good news for Strange.
by BJ
February 25, 2024, 4:01 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 581
Views: 32417

Re: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

I think Saulo was the best of our lesser name players over the two trials.

Some promising stuff from Strange today too.

All in all, I’d score us a B for our trial performances, which is better than I can remember for a while.
by BJ
February 25, 2024, 3:18 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 581
Views: 32417

Re: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

None of our hookers have been good today. Poor service from Levi and too much lazy play from Woolford.
by BJ
February 25, 2024, 2:25 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 581
Views: 32417

Re: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

I’d like more of our players to react a bit more excited on scoring tries. Too many refs and the bunker make their initial decisions based on the reaction of the try scorer. Seb Kris a few times has been called no try live by the on field ref and on the replay it’s a clear try with one look by the ...
by BJ
February 25, 2024, 2:23 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 581
Views: 32417

Re: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

I’d like more of our players to react a bit more excited on scoring tries. Too many refs and the bunker make their initial decisions based on the reaction of the try scorer. Seb Kris a few times has been called no try live by the on field ref and on the replay it’s a clear try with one look by the v...
by BJ
February 25, 2024, 8:02 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 581
Views: 32417

Re: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

Let's see Ch9 try and ignore the 2024 Pre-Season Cup champions shall we!? I'd also imagine LL and Dave Fifita will be tripping over themselves for a mid season transfer -just for the chance to win some silverware. Canberra’s lax policing of driving under the influence might encourage LL to come her...
by BJ
February 22, 2024, 12:26 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders miss out on signing a second-row target Luciano Leilua
Replies: 223
Views: 12948

Re: Canberra Raiders miss out on signing a second-row target Luciano Leilua

Raiders also tried to do similar things to Storm in Brisbane by connecting with Logan and basing lower tier players there. NSW Rugby League stopped that by threatening to kick Canberra region out of NSW competitions. Rugby League is not a free market like many think. Powerbrokers and powerful clubs ...
by BJ
February 21, 2024, 5:20 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Raiders star's career remains in limbo nine months after terrifying seizure
Replies: 336
Views: 60761

Re: Raiders star Corey Harawira-Naera cleared for return months after suffering on-field seizure

Firstly this is great news for CHN and the Raiders club. On a secondary note. A friend’s relative was physically electric shocked when a lady with an inbuilt pacemaker and defribullator collapsed on him on a walk. I don’t believe he was badly injured but it obviously caused a scare and an issue. See...
by BJ
February 21, 2024, 11:00 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Canberra Raiders injury/suspension update
Replies: 102
Views: 10455

Re: 2024 Canberra Raiders injury/suspension update

Based on the NRL’s new interpretation for suspensions we better start naming Corey Horsburgh in the NRL first 17 on Team List Tuesday or he’ll never use up his suspended weeks. I can hear another convoluted and stage managed Annesley media conference “well we just didn’t know if Ricky was going to n...
by BJ
February 21, 2024, 8:57 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders miss out on signing a second-row target Luciano Leilua
Replies: 223
Views: 12948

Re: Canberra Raiders express interest in Cowboys forward Luciano Leilua

Bluesbrother. When you Luciano Leluia is an absolute wrecking ball.
I presume you are saying he plays like Miley Cyrus.

I’d put LL in the occasional Sledgehammer description, not an absolute wrecking ball.
by BJ
February 20, 2024, 9:01 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 581
Views: 32417

Re: 2024 Trial 2 v Cowboys: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

Yeah I’m with you guys on giving the young spine players time. Bellamy has often taken that approach over the years, bringing in a young stud as a season progresses. Plenty of very promising young spine players have lost their way by being exposed to the rigours and stressors of NRL a bit too early ...
by BJ
February 18, 2024, 7:42 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

Billy the main caption from the ACT government website is “World class public transport for a compact, efficient city”. If Canberra’s public transport network is “world class”, then Danny Levi is a world class player too. [emoji846] Do any public transport experts around the world when speaking at ...
by BJ
February 18, 2024, 4:39 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

Billy the main caption from the ACT government website is “World class public transport for a compact, efficient city”. If Canberra’s public transport network is “world class”, then Danny Levi is a world class player too. [emoji846] Do any public transport experts around the world when speaking at c...
by BJ
February 18, 2024, 3:59 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

Spot on Gerg. Remember when many of us got all those ACT Government brochures and newsletters regularly delivered to our houses promoting “More Buses, More Often” across 2018 and 2019. Then the ACT government took away our local bus stop and bus service and pretended that it was all part of some gra...
by BJ
February 18, 2024, 3:34 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews *Teams p1
Replies: 784
Views: 49465

Re: 2024 Rd 1 v Knights: Teams and Previews

BadnMean wrote:
-TW- wrote: February 18, 2024, 1:50 pm There was a couple of seasons he had Papalii running off his shoulder where he looked a world beater
If Papalii gets CTE it will be because the NRL failed to protect him from being pinged in the head every week by a McCrone rocket pass to the skull from 2m away.
Ha ha.
by BJ
February 18, 2024, 2:25 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

The Tram is the friend of all….. (Chief Ministers’ who sign up for it , business case unseen to win the balance of power following a poor election result).
by BJ
February 18, 2024, 1:13 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

A new Canberra Stadium

Yeah that was an interesting point by Keiran Perkins on radio during the week who highlighted that the MCG can line up twenty trains and take 30,000 people in the first 20-30 minutes. Light rail to Bruce might move 2000 in the same time period.
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 9:07 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

We're not moving them in and out in a 30-60 minute period. People will park in a range of places over the city and walk over. There are a heap of ways in and out of Civic. 30,000 people in cars aren't going to descend on Constitution Avenue. There'd be much less congestion than at the current stadi...
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 8:56 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 461
Views: 30471

Re: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

Yeah Levi was good tonight.

The issue is he looks good in the second tier but never seems to transfer it to NRL level.

I’m pretty sure it will be Woolford Starling round 1.
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 8:16 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

There’s over 20,000 carapaces around Civic and over 5000 in the Canberra Centre alone. A 30,000 crowd won’t be an issue for a Sports Stadium that will never be built in that area anyway.
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 7:58 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Raiders re-sign Pasami Saulo to end of 2026
Replies: 93
Views: 4738

Re: Raiders re-sign Pasami Saulo to end of 2026

I think Mooney and his manager are after a bigger contract. Which might open up depending on Papa’s career timeline.

Saulo will have signed a lower level deal.
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 7:49 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 461
Views: 30471

Re: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

Gee the Ref and Touchies let some forward passes go for both teams. Including one or two of our tries and a massive one for Eels that led to nothing.
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 7:46 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 461
Views: 30471

Re: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

For the people wrapping Strange’s defence did they not see the misses, getting pushed off too easily, not locking in with his inside defender and some poor positioning. Now this is absolutely not a shot at him. He’s a young guy who looks like he will develop into a good player. But his defence looke...
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 5:07 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*
Replies: 461
Views: 30471

Re: 2024 Trial 1 v Eels: Teams and Game Day *Teams p1*

Couple little early concerns from me Strange’s defence.

More just a young guy thing than anything major. These are the challenges for having young halves in first grade.
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 2:00 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

A new Canberra Stadium

Haha, good luck finding parking for 30000 fans to attend a game at Manuka oval. The roads melt down with a 13,000 crowd. Seriously, some of you blokes. Civic could barely accommodate traffic for 30,000. Manuka would be a disaster. You are spot on about Manuka. But Civic easily accommodates way more...
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 10:42 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

Haha, good luck finding parking for 30000 fans to attend a game at Manuka oval. The roads melt down with a 13,000 crowd. Seriously, some of you blokes. Civic could barely accommodate traffic for 30,000. Manuka would be a disaster. You are spot on about Manuka. But Civic easily accommodates way more...
by BJ
February 17, 2024, 7:40 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: A new Canberra Stadium
Replies: 2472
Views: 233740

Re: A new Canberra Stadium

Haha, good luck finding parking for 30000 fans to attend a game at Manuka oval. The roads melt down with a 13,000 crowd. Seriously, some of you blokes. Civic could barely accommodate traffic for 30,000. Manuka would be a disaster. You are spot on about Manuka. But Civic easily accommodates way more...