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Posted: **August 13, 2018, 9:06 pm**

Yeah it’s pretty dire at the moment. You can even see the amount of fans dropping of in the GH, the “best on ground” vote is getting less and less fans vote each week.

The worst thing is 2019 will be like this year I feel with Stuart at the helm. Not much to look forward too.

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Posted: **August 13, 2018, 9:11 pm**

LastRaider wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:06 pm Yeah it’s pretty dire at the moment. You can even see the amount of fans dropping of in the GH, the “best on ground” vote is getting less and less fans vote each week.

The worst thing is 2019 will be like this year I feel with Stuart at the helm. Not much to look forward too.

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Next year will probably be better, you just play the odds, we're going to run pretty low this year, with a very poor win total. Odds say next year will be better. Which isnt to say next year will be good...
but we need as a fan base and as a club understand that we could be just as bad as this year, maybe even worse and still technically have a better year.

It's really hard to be this bad year in and year out. It's much easier to be bad but occasionally luck into being decent/OK.

Posted: **August 13, 2018, 9:26 pm**

I do kind of like the two pommy recruits and the 3 we're getting rid of but still can't shake that feeling that the coach has already lost the dressing room..... yada yada, lipstick on a pig, shuffling deckchairs on the titanic... etc etc...

Posted: **August 13, 2018, 9:26 pm**

mamando wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 8:35 pm We will look back on the Ricky era as much darker than the Furner one in hindsight.

You think things are bad now? Wait until he and the board leave us with a complete mess in every facet/department of the club.

At least we'll have a fancy new apartment block in Braddon

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 10:33 am**

gergreg wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:26 pm I do kind of like the two pommy recruits and the 3 we're getting rid of but still can't shake that feeling that the coach has already lost the dressing room..... yada yada, lipstick on a pig, shuffling deckchairs on the titanic... etc etc...

If they change the interchange rule, we'll be glad we off-loaded both the props.

Austin can be a game-winner, but he lets in too many tries with his poor reads in defence. You could say the same about Leilua, but it looks like we're stuck with him unless he gets injured. That would give Bateman, whom Wayne Bennett prefers in the centres for England, a shot.

We have two works in progress playing for Mounties, but it looks we're stuck with Sezar and Williams in the halves.

I wish Soliola hadn't been resigned, but there you go.

I don't mind the idea of McFadden being brought back to replace Betty White, but unless there's a proper review at the end fo the season where people are willing to pay out a contract, we're stuck with him too.

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 11:13 am**

LastRaider wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:06 pm Yeah it’s pretty dire at the moment. You can even see the amount of fans dropping of in the GH, the “best on ground” vote is getting less and less fans vote each week.

The worst thing is 2019 will be like this year I feel with Stuart at the helm. Not much to look forward too.

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It was one of the least active live match threads I've seen on here. I ended up switching over to LU for a bit of banter (even though it was just fans of other clubs **** talking us) - it's been a while since that was the case.

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 11:14 am**

Brew wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 8:22 pm
Pigman wrote:Yeah i mean i can only speak for myself, but my interest has never been this low
I live canberra, paid for 4 full memberships and struggled to find reasons to get to games.

cant see it changing.
I’m actually with you. Yeah take my Ricky love aside, this is the lowest I have felt about this club only because I really don’t see anything changing at all, no decent prospective signings for next year, most likely appoint McFadden as an assistant coach. The same halves who can’t control and manage a game for next year.

And nothing will change, just carry on and do the same thing and hope it changes or just make excuses when it doesn’t.

Someone asked me at work who I hope would win the competition now that the The Raiders are officially out and I told them the Roosters and in the same breathe I said I wish I chose them as a kid.

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I grew up at Coogee Beach. I was a Roosters bloody junior.

I curse the day my Pop gave me a Canberra Raiders hat and set me on this course.

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 11:25 am**

Right now had memory pop up on Facebook from when the Raiders knocked off the ladder leaders 2 weeks in a row in 2016

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 11:53 am**

Timbo wrote:
Brew wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 8:22 pm
Pigman wrote:Yeah i mean i can only speak for myself, but my interest has never been this low
I live canberra, paid for 4 full memberships and struggled to find reasons to get to games.

cant see it changing.
I’m actually with you. Yeah take my Ricky love aside, this is the lowest I have felt about this club only because I really don’t see anything changing at all, no decent prospective signings for next year, most likely appoint McFadden as an assistant coach. The same halves who can’t control and manage a game for next year.

And nothing will change, just carry on and do the same thing and hope it changes or just make excuses when it doesn’t.

Someone asked me at work who I hope would win the competition now that the The Raiders are officially out and I told them the Roosters and in the same breathe I said I wish I chose them as a kid.

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I grew up at Coogee Beach. I was a Roosters bloody junior.

I curse the day my Pop gave me a Canberra Raiders hat and set me on this course.

Haha what club did you play for?
I played for Paddo Colts

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Posted: **August 15, 2018, 12:13 pm**

Brew wrote: ↑August 15, 2018, 11:53 am
Timbo wrote:
Brew wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 8:22 pm
Pigman wrote:Yeah i mean i can only speak for myself, but my interest has never been this low
I live canberra, paid for 4 full memberships and struggled to find reasons to get to games.

cant see it changing.
I’m actually with you. Yeah take my Ricky love aside, this is the lowest I have felt about this club only because I really don’t see anything changing at all, no decent prospective signings for next year, most likely appoint McFadden as an assistant coach. The same halves who can’t control and manage a game for next year.

And nothing will change, just carry on and do the same thing and hope it changes or just make excuses when it doesn’t.

Someone asked me at work who I hope would win the competition now that the The Raiders are officially out and I told them the Roosters and in the same breathe I said I wish I chose them as a kid.

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I grew up at Coogee Beach. I was a Roosters bloody junior.

I curse the day my Pop gave me a Canberra Raiders hat and set me on this course.
Haha what club did you play for?
I played for Paddo Colts

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Briefly for the Crocs before my dad realised where we were and switched me to union.

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 1:07 pm**

yurithe1 wrote: ↑August 15, 2018, 10:33 am
gergreg wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:26 pm I do kind of like the two pommy recruits and the 3 we're getting rid of but still can't shake that feeling that the coach has already lost the dressing room..... yada yada, lipstick on a pig, shuffling deckchairs on the titanic... etc etc...
If they change the interchange rule, we'll be glad we off-loaded both the props.

Austin can be a game-winner, but he lets in too many tries with his poor reads in defence. You could say the same about Leilua, but it looks like we're stuck with him unless he gets injured. That would give Bateman, whom Wayne Bennett prefers in the centres for England, a shot.

We have two works in progress playing for Mounties, but it looks we're stuck with Sezar and Williams in the halves.

I wish Soliola hadn't been resigned, but there you go.

I don't mind the idea of McFadden being brought back to replace Betty White, but unless there's a proper review at the end fo the season where people are willing to pay out a contract, we're stuck with him too.

Yeah I can see the benefits in having the more mobile pack but the game has always had big men and these days if you win the ruck you go a long way to winning the game and I don't think that would change even with a reduced interchange - you just need to be a bit more sensible with managing interchanges but thankfully Coach is an interchange expert. Our club has recent form with trying to get ahead of the curve and failing. I think they've got this 'reduce interchange' one wrong too.
Soliola was our best forward early in the year and certainly deserved another contract. He hasn't been playing as well in the second half of the year though.
McFadden will probably replace Crawley not White, unfortunately. I'd prefer the club to go in a completely different direction than those two but it's who we are.

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 1:27 pm**

I haven't been to many games the last 2 years because I moved away from Canberra but if I'm honest with myself that is a convenient reason not to go to the games. If I was still based in Canberra I would 100% not be showing up out of protest.

I'm absolutely seething with the Raiders at the moment and any real fan should be fuming with what is going on at Raiders HQ. Those that are content with the club or stuck in some weird dimension where they equate criticism with not being real fans should swiftly come to the understanding they are doing more harm than good; and perpetuating the malaise.

We support the Canberra Raiders, not the Queanbeyan Leagues Club, not the Stuart family, not St Edmunds College, not the Mcintyre family farm, Not the Furners.

Those that refuse to accept the grim reality of what is going on should take their support to the Braddon property development or the QLC car park. Us real fans want and need change.

And yes I am mashing the keyboard at work in anger.

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 1:43 pm**

Mickey_Raider wrote:
We support the Canberra Raiders, not the Queanbeyan Leagues Club, not the Stuart family, not St Edmunds College, not the Mcintyre family farm, Not the Furners.
.

And there were have the gap in thinking between the fans and those who run the club.

Posted: **August 15, 2018, 2:10 pm**

T_R wrote: ↑August 15, 2018, 1:43 pm
Mickey_Raider wrote:
We support the Canberra Raiders, not the Queanbeyan Leagues Club, not the Stuart family, not St Edmunds College, not the Mcintyre family farm, Not the Furners.
.

And there were have the gap in thinking between the fans and those who run the club.

Nails it. Also expresses the dilemma I face when deciding whether to renew.

Posted: **August 19, 2018, 9:39 am**

This is Canberra
Stick has us slippin' up
Stick has us slippin' up
Look what we’re whippin' up
Look at how we’re playin' now
Greenhouse be trippin' now
Yeah, this is Canberra

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, tell somebody
You go tell somebody
Grandma told me
Get your money, Shannon
Get your money, Wighton
Get your money, Austin
Get your money, Junior

This is Canberra
Look what we’re whippin' up
Look how we’re geekin' out
We’re so fit
We’re just unlucky
NRL’s so petty
Ref’s are against us
Watch us move
This a set play (ha)
Sammy passes to Bateman (yeah)
On the last
Ooh, know that
Get it
Ooh, that didn’t work
Run it up, run it up, run it up,
Knock it on, knock it on, knock it on
I got the plug our defences (woah)
They gonna find you on the wing

You just a bad fan in this world
You just a barcode, ayy
You just a bad fan in this world
Drivin' massive road trips, ayy
You just a big dawg, yeah
I kenneled him in the backyard
No proper life to a dog
For a big dog

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Posted: **August 19, 2018, 9:56 am**

What is the tune?

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Posted: **August 19, 2018, 10:03 am**

Childish Gambino’s This is America

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Posted: **August 19, 2018, 11:44 am**

LastRaider wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:06 pm Yeah it’s pretty dire at the moment. You can even see the amount of fans dropping of in the GH, the “best on ground” vote is getting less and less fans vote each week.

The worst thing is 2019 will be like this year I feel with Stuart at the helm. Not much to look forward too.

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Actually, I noticed that the "Sack Ricky" thread has had a lot of views and is at 44 pages. It's only been going since March this year. The writing is on the Greenhouse wall.

Maybe we need to see this translated into action with some "Sack Ricky" banners at today's game and the one against the Rabbitohs.

Unfurl it in the seating behind our goal line after an opposition try because I'll bet the security guards will be told to remove it if it's spotted beforehand.

Posted: **August 19, 2018, 11:47 am**

yurithe1 wrote:
LastRaider wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:06 pm Yeah it’s pretty dire at the moment. You can even see the amount of fans dropping of in the GH, the “best on ground” vote is getting less and less fans vote each week.

The worst thing is 2019 will be like this year I feel with Stuart at the helm. Not much to look forward too.

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Actually, I noticed that the "Sack Ricky" thread has had a lot of views and is at 44 pages. It's only been going since March this year. The writing is on the Greenhouse wall.

Maybe we need to see this translated into action with some "Sack Ricky" banners at today's game and the one against the Rabbitohs.

Unfurl it in the seating behind our goal line after an opposition try because I'll bet the security guards will be told to remove it if it's spotted beforehand.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a “Give Sticky the flicky” banner yet. Sounds better than “Oust Doust”.

I figured Sticks war on free speech might have included banners

Posted: **August 19, 2018, 1:06 pm**

Fuifui Bradbrad wrote:
yurithe1 wrote:
LastRaider wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:06 pm Yeah it’s pretty dire at the moment. You can even see the amount of fans dropping of in the GH, the “best on ground” vote is getting less and less fans vote each week.

The worst thing is 2019 will be like this year I feel with Stuart at the helm. Not much to look forward too.

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Actually, I noticed that the "Sack Ricky" thread has had a lot of views and is at 44 pages. It's only been going since March this year. The writing is on the Greenhouse wall.

Maybe we need to see this translated into action with some "Sack Ricky" banners at today's game and the one against the Rabbitohs.

Unfurl it in the seating behind our goal line after an opposition try because I'll bet the security guards will be told to remove it if it's spotted beforehand.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a “Give Sticky the flicky” banner yet. Sounds better than “Oust Doust”.

I figured Sticks war on free speech might have included banners

Give Stick the flick

Posted: **August 19, 2018, 10:03 pm**

Dr Zaius wrote: ↑August 19, 2018, 1:06 pm
Fuifui Bradbrad wrote:
yurithe1 wrote:
LastRaider wrote: ↑August 13, 2018, 9:06 pm Yeah it’s pretty dire at the moment. You can even see the amount of fans dropping of in the GH, the “best on ground” vote is getting less and less fans vote each week.

The worst thing is 2019 will be like this year I feel with Stuart at the helm. Not much to look forward too.

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Actually, I noticed that the "Sack Ricky" thread has had a lot of views and is at 44 pages. It's only been going since March this year. The writing is on the Greenhouse wall.

Maybe we need to see this translated into action with some "Sack Ricky" banners at today's game and the one against the Rabbitohs.

Unfurl it in the seating behind our goal line after an opposition try because I'll bet the security guards will be told to remove it if it's spotted beforehand.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a “Give Sticky the flicky” banner yet. Sounds better than “Oust Doust”.

I figured Sticks war on free speech might have included banners
Give Stick the flick

well really that could just be:

Flick Stick.

Posted: **August 20, 2018, 7:38 am**

Yeah and you could do it in all caps and place the L and the I a little too close together...

Posted: **August 20, 2018, 5:45 pm**

Lets face it, we are a pokie/development company that runs an NRL team as a sweetener to the ACT government to receive tax and planning exemptions.

Posted: **August 20, 2018, 5:51 pm**

gangrenous wrote: ↑August 20, 2018, 7:38 am Yeah and you could do it in all caps and place the L and the I a little too close together...

Thanks gangrenous, I got a good laugh at that.

Posted: **August 20, 2018, 9:32 pm**

You’re welcome supershammy (can I call you that?), I’m here all week. Try the veal!

Posted: **August 20, 2018, 10:30 pm**

gangrenous wrote: ↑August 20, 2018, 9:32 pm You’re welcome supershammy (can I call you that?), I’m here all week. Try the veal!

I was going to do that, but I didn't want to be edited...

Posted: **August 20, 2018, 10:31 pm**

Lui_Bon wrote: ↑August 20, 2018, 10:30 pm
gangrenous wrote: ↑August 20, 2018, 9:32 pm You’re welcome supershammy (can I call you that?), I’m here all week. Try the veal!
I was going to do that, but I didn't want to be edited...

I'm also not sure that security would let anyone get away with it.

Posted: **August 21, 2018, 2:59 am**

gangrenous wrote: ↑August 20, 2018, 7:38 am Yeah and you could do it in all caps and place the L and the I a little too close together...

I once did the same thing to my mate named Clint

Posted: **September 16, 2018, 9:21 am**

I went to Souths vs Dragons last night, cracking atmosphere.
It got me tired and worn down, trapped in this Raiders cycle where we are hardly involved in these big games. It was depressing.

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Posted: **September 16, 2018, 9:51 am**

I thought you might have become a Dragons fan Brew!

Posted: **September 16, 2018, 2:09 pm**

greeneyed wrote: ↑September 16, 2018, 9:51 am I thought you might have become a Dragons fan Brew!

Hey, why not? At least you'd know your team was in with a shot once every couple of years, rather than once every couple of decades.

Posted: **September 17, 2018, 12:54 pm**

gangrenous wrote: ↑August 20, 2018, 9:32 pm You’re welcome supershammy (can I call you that?), I’m here all week. Try the veal!

supershammy is fine gangrenous.

Posted: **September 17, 2018, 1:09 pm**

I've felt WAY less hope for our club in previous years than I do now.

I'm disillusioned with management and the coach, but our roster isn't that bad. Our roster is polish-able into a Top 4 team with the right coach IMO.
Those years from 2011-2014 were just a never ending **** show really. Way worse

Posted: **September 17, 2018, 1:53 pm**

Beej, to a point thats why it hurts more now - you can see what this squad is capable of, and we have massively underachieved the last 2 years. We built a squad to have success within a certain window of opportunity, and we have squandered that opportunity.

At least 11-14 expectations were low.

Posted: **September 17, 2018, 2:43 pm**

You can't eat past success. Likewise, losing the way we have this year hurt at the time, but it doesn't affect what we are capable of in the future.

There are some rumours that Ricky is looking to give it away. On-field success could turn quickly with this squad.

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