The Canberra Raiders have sacked Todd Carney for being a serial dickhead and the NRL has said he will not be able to play for any other NRL team until the 2010 season. Thank god, its about bloody time! It seems as though the game has been on a bit of a cleansing recently, getting…
The Canberra Raiders have done it tough over the last decade but there are finally signs that things are starting to turn around. They are probably the youngest team in the NRL but they sport a number of top class players that any team would love to have in their lineup. I’ve been hyper critical…
So if you didn’t know, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph is running an online poll to try and find out who the top player in the NRL is. Seeing this, Canberra fans decided they wanted to have their say and within hours of the poll opening they bombarded the site with votes for Canberra halfback Todd Carney….
The rumblings started late last year but now its been all but confirmed that Trent Barrett wants to end his stint in Super League and head back home to the NRL for what is being called one last season. Why anyone would want to sign Barrett for just one year is beyond me, but there…
Question: You’re the CEO of an NRL club and your brother is the coach. You’ve had a terrible season, the clubs going in the wrong direction and you need a change. How do you sack your own brother? Thats the question that could face Canberra Raiders CEO Don Furner in the future after he named…
Canberra’s resident idiot Todd Carney seems to be in hot demand at the moment with reported offers from the Penrith Panthers and Manly Sea Eagles topping the $1.6 million mark over a four year contract. Its been known for a while that Carney is shopping himself around despite denials, but why Penrith or Manly would…
The Canberra Raiders have made approches to two players but can only afford one of them. One player is Paul Whatuira, New Zealands Test center, a two time Premiership winner, one of the most professional players in the game, a leader and a player that gives you his best every week. The other player is…
The Canberra Raiders can hold their head high today knowing they are proving all their critics wrong. The Raiders headed to Penrith this weekend without halfback Todd Carney and it seemed no one was willing to give them a chance of upsetting Penrith at home. Canberra had other ideas. The Raiders dominated the match and…
The Canberra Raiders came into season 2007 as red hot favorites to win the wooden spoon, but after a number of impressive performances against more fancied rivals, the Raiders are showing the rest of the competition that they will be no easy beats this season. One very welcome change from last season has been the…
The Canberra Raiders are going to struggle in 2007, everyone knows that. The club lost a number of experienced first grade players at the end of last year and they have not been able to replace that experience. Some people have questioned how the Raiders will recover when quite frankly, no established stars want to…