Jordan Rapana re-signs with Green Machine to end 2023

[Pete Cash]

Rapana has been an excellent player for the club, he may have made a few silly errors in his day but nobody could ever fault his effort. Even now he still puts in every week but he is slowing down and isn't finishing to the degree that he used to.

So if he gets a deal from the gold coast we shouldn't stand in his way but I have nothing but I will always love his time at the Raiders.

[Northern Raider]

Love Rapa, but if he can get a deal to go "home" to the GC where his NRL career began. Then good luck to him.

30yr old wingers have a shelf life.

So how about we trade him for CoreyT, Sami, or Marzhew

Corey Thompson close to the most underrated winger in the comp.
Phillip Sami, don't think I've not seen a player's form nose dive as much as his this season. Hard to believe this is the same guy that ran down JAC.
Marzhew is a back rower playing wing. Good for hit ups coming out of your own end. Not sure he has much else to offer.

[Northern Raider]

Rapana has been an excellent player for the club, he may have made a few silly errors in his day but nobody could ever fault his effort. Even now he still puts in every week but he is slowing down and isn't finishing to the degree that he used to.

So if he gets a deal from the gold coast we shouldn't stand in his way but I have nothing but I will always love his time at the Raiders.

He's be one of my favourite Raiders of the Sticky coaching era.

[Timbo]

I'm not prepared to let the guy leave the club without some sort of controversy.

Can he perhaps get in a fist fight with Donny jr down at the QBN Leagues or something??

I think you mean can he stack on a blue at QBN Leagues when they overcharge him like a wounded bull for a flash feed.

[The Nickman]

I'm not prepared to let the guy leave the club without some sort of controversy.

Can he perhaps get in a fist fight with Donny jr down at the QBN Leagues or something??

I think you mean can he stack on a blue at QBN Leagues when they overcharge him like a wounded bull for a flash feed.

No, because that won't upset Bonehead, it'll just endure him to him further.

[-TW-]

I'd be happy to keep him, but if the GC want to pay him overs then I wouldn't begrudge him leaving

The club is probably at a point where it's weighing up an extra year for Raps vs a HSS or Timoko leaving

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[mick63]

FB rumours?
It’s plausible.He has lived and played there.
Personally I would enjoy seeing him go around here or there for another year or two.
His commitment and passion and especially his heart can’t be overstated.
The bloke plays with every ounce of energy and desire each week.
That spirit isn’t easily replaced in a team environment.
He has played fb,centre,winger and had a crack each time he was asked to do a job there.
And now that he has to play outside croker/Scott/Wighton/Williams he just hasn’t had the opportunities.
Sure he has lost some finish/pace from when he was scoring 22/23 tries a year.
But the disproportionate amount of dirty work he has to do each and every week to cover for the shortcomings of the higher paid inside him shouldn’t be forgotten in the equation.
It won’t happen but I would love to see him off the bench and playing in the middle.
He has the nous and instinct that’s required to find and put someone into a hole.
He can make his tackles and no one competes like Jordan does.
So if it happens and he leaves he will go as one of my all time favourite players.

[Matt]

Love Rapa, but if he can get a deal to go "home" to the GC where his NRL career began. Then good luck to him.

30yr old wingers have a shelf life.

So how about we trade him for CoreyT, Sami, or Marzhew

Corey Thompson close to the most underrated winger in the comp.
Phillip Sami, don't think I've not seen a player's form nose dive as much as his this season. Hard to believe this is the same guy that ran down JAC.
Marzhew is a back rower playing wing. Good for hit ups coming out of your own end. Not sure he has much else to offer.

We need this badly!
He is mini Sivo BTW.
Marzhew - 177cm, 104kgs, 24yrs
Sivo - 186cm, 105kgs, 27yrs

[Seiffert82]

I'm not prepared to let the guy leave the club without some sort of controversy.

Can he perhaps get in a fist fight with Donny jr down at the QBN Leagues or something??

I think you mean can he stack on a blue at QBN Leagues when they overcharge him like a wounded bull for a flash feed.

Good times. Gooood times.

[greeneyed]

He wasn't at the Queanbeyan Leagues... he's the boss of the Queanbeyan Leagues... he was at a "flash restaurant".

[Northern Raider]

Love Rapa, but if he can get a deal to go "home" to the GC where his NRL career began. Then good luck to him.

30yr old wingers have a shelf life.

So how about we trade him for CoreyT, Sami, or Marzhew

Corey Thompson close to the most underrated winger in the comp.
Phillip Sami, don't think I've not seen a player's form nose dive as much as his this season. Hard to believe this is the same guy that ran down JAC.
Marzhew is a back rower playing wing. Good for hit ups coming out of your own end. Not sure he has much else to offer.

We need this badly!
He is mini Sivo BTW.
Marzhew - 177cm, 104kgs, 24yrs
Sivo - 186cm, 105kgs, 27yrs

Dime a dozen those guys. Go to any local footy game and you'll see somebody with those numbers. Just because they are similar stature to Sivo doesn't make them Sivo.

[BadnMean]

We need this badly!
He is mini Sivo BTW.
Dime a dozen those guys. Go to any local footy game and you'll see somebody with those numbers. Just because they are similar stature to Sivo doesn't make them Sivo.

Sounds like a Sivo reggies because he's too small for FG.

If we have Dufty in our back 5, with Charnze and Savage then we need to be using a large body on the other wing, not an undersized player. (our other centre options HSS and Timoko are also smallish, Kris is decent size but any one of the 3 could get the gig).

[Billy Walker]

Interesting reading through this thread. Kicks off strongly along the lines of what a champion Raps has been but yeah time to move on, then sentiment kicks in and we start talking one more year, maybe 2, possibly an option on 3....

You’re all up bunch of big sentimental softies who would probably still give Chicka a train and trial contract if he put his hand up for one haha

[Finchy]

I'd have no issue carrying Rapa based on his competitiveness and legend status at the club, provided we had strong outside backs to cover for his lack of pace and try-scoring ability these days. Similar sentiment for Croker. But when the entire backline is crap, you can't hide or carry anyone anymore, in which case it's time buy new players.

[Canberra Milk]

My favourite player. Leilua got a lot of the credit in 2016, but it turned out that Rapa was just as good if not better. What a player to watch, competitive, fast, can create something out of nothing, willing to chance his arm, a born attacker...

If he could have defended better I think a move to centre might have prolonged his career a good couple of years... maybe that's what will happen at his next club, if he does leave

[T_R]

My favourite player. Leilua got a lot of the credit in 2016, but it turned out that Rapa was just as good if not better. What a player to watch, competitive, fast, can create something out of nothing, willing to chance his arm, a born attacker...

If he could have defended better I think a move to centre might have prolonged his career a good couple of years... maybe that's what will happen at his next club, if he does leave

I've thought a few times this year that with the new rules, a better-defending Rapana could have eked out a few more years as a 2nd rower / 14.

[Raiders666]

All this over a FB rumour?

[benda]

I got a feeling Rapana will finish his career with the Raiders. He wouldnt want to leave now is my guess.

[Matt]

Love Rapa, but if he can get a deal to go "home" to the GC where his NRL career began. Then good luck to him.

30yr old wingers have a shelf life.

So how about we trade him for CoreyT, Sami, or Marzhew

Corey Thompson close to the most underrated winger in the comp.
Phillip Sami, don't think I've not seen a player's form nose dive as much as his this season. Hard to believe this is the same guy that ran down JAC.
Marzhew is a back rower playing wing. Good for hit ups coming out of your own end. Not sure he has much else to offer.

We need this badly!
He is mini Sivo BTW.
Marzhew - 177cm, 104kgs, 24yrs
Sivo - 186cm, 105kgs, 27yrs

Dime a dozen those guys. Go to any local footy game and you'll see somebody with those numbers. Just because they are similar stature to Sivo doesn't make them Sivo.

Go check his QLD Cup numbers. The guy breaks records for fun. Meters, TBs, tries, etc

[Mercury]

I got a feeling Rapana will finish his career with the Raiders. He wouldnt want to leave now is my guess.

I think you're on the money.

I'd love to give him 1 more year he's been great for the Raiders. Sentimental and all that I know!! Absolutely my favourite player.

[myanonymoususername]

Enjoy Titans they’re on the improve. You’ve given great service

Titans are as bad as us

Except, unlike us, they’ll win another game this year

We are going to flog the Broncos this weekend

No, we're not. I'm very confident that Karmichael Hunt is going to tear us a new one in his comeback game.

[Ruben Daley]

Rapa is an all-time great. I hope he finishes with us though I’ll back him wherever he goes.

We’d have won three premierships if all our players had his ticker and toughness.

[gerg]

Love Rapa, but if he can get a deal to go "home" to the GC where his NRL career began. Then good luck to him.

30yr old wingers have a shelf life.

So how about we trade him for CoreyT, Sami, or Marzhew

Corey Thompson close to the most underrated winger in the comp.
Phillip Sami, don't think I've not seen a player's form nose dive as much as his this season. Hard to believe this is the same guy that ran down JAC.
Marzhew is a back rower playing wing. Good for hit ups coming out of your own end. Not sure he has much else to offer.

We need this badly!
He is mini Sivo BTW.
Marzhew - 177cm, 104kgs, 24yrs
Sivo - 186cm, 105kgs, 27yrs

Dime a dozen those guys. Go to any local footy game and you'll see somebody with those numbers. Just because they are similar stature to Sivo doesn't make them Sivo.

Go check his QLD Cup numbers. The guy breaks records for fun. Meters, TBs, tries, etc

Dropped it cold 3 or 4 times. An NRL level winger can't be making that many errors.

[Ruben Daley]

Also, 8 tries from 10 games playing for a team that can’t score is pretty bloody good.

Add 144m per game and 5 tackle busts too.

I totally get the focus on the rebuild and getting youngsters in and if that means Rapa is allowed to leave, I can’t argue, as much as it would disappoint me.

But if this is output in an ‘end of career, declining ability’ season then it shows just how good he is.

[Hong Kong Raider]

Corey Thompson close to the most underrated winger in the comp.
Phillip Sami, don't think I've not seen a player's form nose dive as much as his this season. Hard to believe this is the same guy that ran down JAC.
Marzhew is a back rower playing wing. Good for hit ups coming out of your own end. Not sure he has much else to offer.

We need this badly!
He is mini Sivo BTW.
Marzhew - 177cm, 104kgs, 24yrs
Sivo - 186cm, 105kgs, 27yrs

Dime a dozen those guys. Go to any local footy game and you'll see somebody with those numbers. Just because they are similar stature to Sivo doesn't make them Sivo.

Go check his QLD Cup numbers. The guy breaks records for fun. Meters, TBs, tries, etc

Dropped it cold 3 or 4 times. An NRL level winger can't be making that many errors.

Marzhew didn't look that special last week but it was the first time that I've seen him play. I need to see him more

Sami has been dreadful this year. Dreadful pass at the end of the Storm game. Hopeless in the SOO game last year as well.

[Canberra Milk]

Rapa is an all-time great. I hope he finishes with us though I’ll back him wherever he goes.

We’d have won three premierships if all our players had his ticker and toughness.

Agree and even Matty Johns mentioned him when talking about wingers who changed the game

Nadruku was dynamite, Nagas was exhilarating, and Rapana is very much in the conversation alongside them

It's true those are great stats for somebody supposedly on their way out, in a **** of a team

[Hong Kong Raider]

Rapa is an all-time great. I hope he finishes with us though I’ll back him wherever he goes.

We’d have won three premierships if all our players had his ticker and toughness.

Agree and even Matty Johns mentioned him when talking about wingers who changed the game

Nadruku was dynamite, Nagas was exhilarating, and Rapana is very much in the conversation alongside them

It's true those are great stats for somebody supposedly on their way out, in a **** of a team

Agreed. Rapana is probably my favourite of all of them. Had everything and my fondest memories were 2016. Sad to see him leave. Loved Noa, Nagas, and Chicka Ferguson as well.

[BadnMean]

Interesting reading through this thread. Kicks off strongly along the lines of what a champion Raps has been but yeah time to move on, then sentiment kicks in and we start talking one more year, maybe 2, possibly an option on 3....

You’re all up bunch of big sentimental softies who would probably still give Chicka a train and trial contract if he put his hand up for one haha

I'd back Chicka to beat Rapa in a footrace right now too.

[Billy Walker]

Interesting reading through this thread. Kicks off strongly along the lines of what a champion Raps has been but yeah time to move on, then sentiment kicks in and we start talking one more year, maybe 2, possibly an option on 3....

You’re all up bunch of big sentimental softies who would probably still give Chicka a train and trial contract if he put his hand up for one haha

I'd back Chicka to beat Rapa in a footrace right now too.

I wonder what Chicka is up to these days. He’d near be 70 years old but I’d say he’d still offer as much as Simo has most the season.

[Seiffert82]

Rapa is an all-time great. I hope he finishes with us though I’ll back him wherever he goes.

We’d have won three premierships if all our players had his ticker and toughness.

Agree and even Matty Johns mentioned him when talking about wingers who changed the game

Nadruku was dynamite, Nagas was exhilarating, and Rapana is very much in the conversation alongside them

It's true those are great stats for somebody supposedly on their way out, in a **** of a team

Chicka was an all-time legend of the game. Nobody is ahead of him for mine.

Nagas was beautiful to watch. Sucks that injuries ended his career early. Nadruku and Hoppe changed the way wingers played the game. They were top shelf too.

Rapana is damn close to Chicka though. I've never seen a winger single handedly keep us in so many contests as he has. I'm already a bit devastated that his career is coming to an end. The guy has been incredible for us. What an amazing find, at the bottom of the NRL scrapheap.

No question for me that he and Ferguson are our best two wingers of all time.

[The Nickman]

Still Nagas and Nadruku for me, but I'll always be heavily biased towards our 1994/95 teams.

[Northern Raider]

Corey Thompson close to the most underrated winger in the comp.
Phillip Sami, don't think I've not seen a player's form nose dive as much as his this season. Hard to believe this is the same guy that ran down JAC.
Marzhew is a back rower playing wing. Good for hit ups coming out of your own end. Not sure he has much else to offer.

We need this badly!
He is mini Sivo BTW.
Marzhew - 177cm, 104kgs, 24yrs
Sivo - 186cm, 105kgs, 27yrs

Dime a dozen those guys. Go to any local footy game and you'll see somebody with those numbers. Just because they are similar stature to Sivo doesn't make them Sivo.

Go check his QLD Cup numbers. The guy breaks records for fun. Meters, TBs, tries, etc

Dropped it cold 3 or 4 times. An NRL level winger can't be making that many errors.

But he's big and breaks tackles!!!

[Roger Kenworthy]

Nagas had a very short peak, I'd have Rapa over him. Nadruku is the best we've had IMO. Leaves Chicka and Rapa. I'd go Rapa but that's only cos I've seen so much more of him.

[greeneyed]

Nagas had a very short peak, I'd have Rapa over him. Nadruku is the best we've had IMO. Leaves Chicka and Rapa. I'd go Rapa but that's only cos I've seen so much more of him.

They rank this way for me now:

1. Chicka Ferguson
2. Jordan Rapana
3. Noa Nadruku

Nagas not really close to those three. Joel Monaghan ahead of him for mine. In the mix with Phil Graham for fifth.

We will have the 40 year dream team voting at the end of this year.

[The Nickman]

Joel Monaghan ahead of Ken Nagas?

That's it, I'm out.