2024 Canberra Raiders NSW Cup

[The Greenhouse]

47th min TRY RAIDERS to Peter Taateo under the posts. It follows a Jets error on their own 40 metre line, and the Raiders capitalise. Adam Cook converts.

Raiders 18-0

[Ilanraiders]

How’s woolford going?

[The Greenhouse]

51st min TRY JETS to Mawene Hiroti in the corner. The Jets regathered their own bomb to the Canberra red zone… and they throw some desperate offloads. The last one very suspect. Looked to go forward. Mawene Hiroti converts his own try.

Raiders 18-6

[Seiffert82]

That last pass was definitely forward.

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[The Greenhouse]

56th min TRY RAIDERS to Mitchell Spencer, the second rower running wide. The Raiders hit back quickly. Converted Adam Cook.

Raiders 24-6

[Seiffert82]

How’s woolford going?

Generally sharp service. He's generally leaving the playmaking to the halves. His passing does allow the halves to play a bit wider, certainly compared to Starling.

We are dominating field position. The Jets have made a few breaks though the middle, but I've admittedly missed seeing who caused those linebreaks.

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[Ilanraiders]

How’s woolford going?

Generally sharp service. He's generally leaving the playmaking to the halves. His passing does allow the halves to play a bit wider, certainly compared to Starling.

We are dominating field position. The Jets have made a few breaks though the middle, but I've admittedly missed seeing who caused those linebreaks.

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Thanks for update.

[Seiffert82]

Cotric has been good in this game.

It may be just me, but it looks like his shape has changed a bit. He looks a lot more agile.

Trevilyan on for Woolford.

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[The Greenhouse]

62nd min TRY RAIDERS to Nick Cotric, huge cross field bomb to the in goal is taken by Cotric and he scores. Spectacular. Adam Cook converts.

Raiders 30-6

[The Greenhouse]

65th min TRY RAIDERS to Mitch Henderson. Set up by a break down the middle from Waitere in the lead up. Adam Cook converts. The Jets just being worn down now.

Raiders 36-6

[Seiffert82]

The Jets defence is starting to fall apart here. No line speed and the line is ragged, holes appearing everywhere.

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[Seiffert82]

Nice work from Trevelyan out of dummy half there for that try, shaped to go right but switched to the short side on the left. Shift from Waitere to Stuart for a saloon passage.

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[The Greenhouse]

74th min TRY RAIDERS out wide to Jed Stuart. Converted Adam Cook.

Raiders 42-6

[The Greenhouse]

77th min TRY JETS to Blake Hosking in the corner, after the Jets got the ball back off the kick off. Converted Mawene Hiroti .

Raiders 42-12

[The Greenhouse]

FULL TIME

Canberra Raiders 42
Newtown Jets 12

Good win in the end, after a scrappy first half.

MATCH REPORT: Canberra Raiders NSW Cup side claims strong win over Jets

The Raiders NSW Cup team claimed a commanding 42-12 victory over the Newtown Jets at Canberra Stadium on Sunday afternoon. A strong second half from the Raiders saw them score 30 points in the final 40 to help secure the win. The match began with a slow and steady start, with both teams playing set for set.

Ten metres out, halfback Mitch Henderson managed to grubber to himself and planted the ball over the line. With a successful conversion from Adam Cook, the score was six – nil at 13 minutes.

Read more: https://www.raiders.com.au/news/2024/04 ... over-jets/

Raiders defeat Jets with dominant second half: https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2024/04/2 ... aidersJets

[Ilanraiders]

Good win

[Rick]

Thanks for the updates!


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[greeneyed]

2024 NSW Cup Round 9: Canberra Raiders v Blacktown Sea Eagles



Canberra Raiders v Blacktown Sea Eagles
Saturday 4 May, 1:45pm
Brookvale Oval
Broadcast: NSWRL TV live stream

Canberra Raiders

1. Manaia Waitere 2. Michael Asomua 3. TBA 4. TBA 5. Jed Stuart 6. Mitch Henderson 7. Adam Cook 8. TBA 9. Zac Woolford 10. Peter Hola 12. Noah Martin 20. Mitchell Spencer 13. Hohepa Puru (c)

14. Adrian Trevilyan 15. Luke Webley 16. Loghan Lewis 21. Peter Taateo

Blacktown Sea Eagles

1. Lehi Hopoate 2. Watson Heleta 3. Clayton Faulalo 4. Bailey Hodgson 5. Ray Vaega 6. Jamie Humphreys 7. Brandon Wakeham 8. Aitasi James 9. Gordon Chan Kum Tong 10. Austin Dias 11. Brad Parker 12. Zane Dunford 13. Jacob Sykes

14. Brad Abbey 15. James Uesele 16. Kayne Kalache 17. Ben Seufale

18. Cameron Brown

Last round: The Canberra Raiders produced a 42-12 victory over the Newtown Jets on Sunday. Just a month ago, the two teams had fought out a 28 all draw - and it was a close affair in the first half at Canberra Stadium in Round 8. The attack of both teams was clunky, and there were plenty of errors. Raiders half Mitch Henderson posted a good individual try in the 13th minute. A grubber, a chase. It took until the 36th minute for the next points to be scored - with Nick Cotric making a break out wide and running the ball around to score near the posts. 12-0 in favour of the home team at half time.



The second half was different, with the Raiders wearing the Jets down - and the Newtown defences eventually cracked. Raiders forward Peter Taateo scored under the posts in the 47th minute. Newtown five eighth Mawene Hiroti scored a very dubious try shortly afterwards - after the Jets regathered the ball from a bomb and threw some desperate offloads. However, the final pass was very clearly forward.

Raiders second rower Mitch Spencer struck back almost immediately, running wide. In the 62nd minute, a huge cross field bomb from Mitch Henderson was gathered in by Nick Cotric in the in goal - and he had his second try of the game. Spectacular stuff. Three minutes later, a big break down the middle from fullback Manaia Waitere set up another opportunity for the Raiders. Mitch Henderson took it, scoring his second try of the match. Jed Stuart rounded out the scoring for Canberra in the 75th minute, crossing in the corner. Newtown lock Blake Hosking scored a consolation try with a couple of minutes left.

The Raiders had a healthy 58 per cent share of possession, and almost nine minutes more with the ball than the Jets. Completion rates for both sides were poor - at about 76-77 per cent. But the Raiders produced over 820 more running metres and 200 more post contact metres than the Jets. The Raiders also made more tackle breaks (49-20) and offloads (10-4) and one more line break (6-5). The Jets missed 49 tackles (Raiders 20) and posted 19 ineffective tackles (Raiders 6). That translated into an effective tackle rate of 91 per cent for Canberra and 83 per cent for Newtown.

Emre Guler (216) led the way in running metres, followed by fullback Manaia Waitere (200), Hohepa Puru (164) and Nick Cotric (152). Twelve players broke 100 metres gained, including both halves, Mitch Henderson (101) and Adam Cook (104). Nick Cotric made 12 tackle breaks. Both Waitere and Henderson have been credited with a try assist. Hohepa Puru (38) topped the tackle count, with Noah Martin (35) not far behind.

This round: The Raiders travel to the northern beaches of Sydney in Round 9 - to meet the Sea Eagles at Brookvale. The Sea Eagles are coming off a 36-22 loss to the Eels at HE Laybutt Field on Sunday. The Eels led 22-6 at half time - and by 36-10 after 65 minutes. But Blacktown was able to score two late tries, with winger Raymond Tuaimalo Vaega completing a hat trick right on full time. The Sea Eagles have had recent wins over the Jets (14-10) and Warriors (24-18) - and also recorded losses to the Panthers (26-20) and Dragons (38-10).

The Raiders last met the Sea Eagles in Week 1 of the 2023 NSW Cup finals at North Sydney. Kaeo Weekes scored two second half tries to give the Sea Eagles a 22-12 lead at the 60 minute mark. But the Raiders scored two tries in the space of the next 10 minutes. First, James Schiller bagged his second try of the match - and then fullback Chevy Stewart converted his own try to deliver a two point win for the Green Machine.

Team news: The Raiders have failed to name a full team, with gaps at centre and starting prop. The holes have been left by the promotion of Albert Hopoate, Nick Cotric and Emre Guler to firsts. The team is otherwise unchanged. Simi Sasagi has been named at 18th man for the NRL team, but he and James Schiller could be late additions.



2024 season record: Raiders 5 and 2, 1 draw (4th, +132), 1 and 1 away
Sea Eagles 4 and 4 (8th, -36), 1 and 2 at home
Form: Raiders DWLLW
Sea Eagles LLWWL
Recent meetings: 2023 Finals Week 1 Raiders 24 defeated Sea Eagles 22 at North Sydney Oval
2023 Round 20 Sea Eagles 24 defeated Raiders 18 at HE Laybutt Field
2023 Round 12 Sea Eagles 19 defeated Raiders 12 at Canberra Stadium
2022 Round 24 Raiders 24 defeated Sea Eagles 12 at Canberra Stadium
2022 Round 4 Raiders 26 defeated Sea Eagles 18 at HE Laybutt Field

[The Greenhouse]

Welcome to our coverage of today’s NSW Cup clash between the Canberra Raiders and Blacktown Sea Eagles at Brookvale Oval. Kick off is at 1:45pm. This match will be live streamed on the NSWRL TV app. We will have live scores right here in this thread. Please join in with your own commentary if you are watching.

Here are the final teams.

Canberra Raiders

1. Manaia Waitere 2. Michael Asomua 3. James Schiller 4. Prinston Esera 5. Jed Stuart 6. Mitch Henderson 7. Adam Cook 10. Peter Hola 9. Zac Woolford 21. Peter Taateo 11. Simi Sasagi 15. Luke Webley 13. Hohepa Puru (c)

8. Mitchell Prest 12. Noah Martin 16. Loghan Lewis 20. Mitchell Spencer

18. Tane Kiriona

Blacktown Sea Eagles

1. Lehi Hopoate 5. Ray Vaega 3. Clayton Faulalo 19. Bailey Hodgson 21. Jaxson Paulo 6. Jake Arthur 7. Brandon Wakeham (c) 10. Austin Dias 9. Jamie Humphreys 20. Aitasi James 11. Brad Parker 12. Ben Condon 22. Aaron Woods

8. Jacob Sykes 13. James Uesele 14. Kobe Rugless 16. Zane Dunford

18. Caleb Navale

[The Greenhouse]

We have a delayed start. Was always going to happen after the start of Jersey Flegg was shifted to 12:15pm.

Live stream now set to start at 1:55pm, presumably for a 2:00pm kick off.

[The Greenhouse]

The Sea Eagles head onto the field now. Now the Raiders are out there. They've made the Sea Eagles wait a bit.

Sea Eagles kick off. We are underway. And the Raiders are driven back into the in goal on the first tackle. The Sea Eagles get the ball from the short drop out.

[The Greenhouse]

2nd min The Raiders hold the Sea Eagles out. But that was an embarassing start for Canberra. Can't say I've ever seen a line drop out forced off the kick off.

PENALTY RAIDERS for a ruck infringement.

[The Greenhouse]

4th min Simi Sasagi stopped just short of the try line on the last tackle.

[The Greenhouse]

7th min PENALTY RAIDERS in the red zone. Standing in the middle of the ruck on the last. But now Woolford loses the ball. The Raiders have been making huge metres in their last two sets.

[The Greenhouse]

8th min The Sea Eagles make a break down their right edge. There is a penalty for the Sea Eagles for a player being taken without the ball. But all the Raiders were doing was going for the ball.

[The Greenhouse]

10th min Raiders hold the Sea Eagles out. Michael Asomua is probably lucky to avoid a penalty for a shoulder charge in stopping Bailey Hodgson. But now the Raiders make an early error. Sea Eagles scrum 20 metres out.

[The Greenhouse]

12th min The Raiders defence again holds on, the grubber easily defused. Blacktown have had a lot of opportunity, but the Canberra goal line defence certainly up to it.

[The Greenhouse]

14th min Michael Asomua gets an easy intercept and a penalty to boot for offside. Now Puru loses the ball in a four man tackle, 30 metres from the try line.

[The Greenhouse]

17th min Good kick defusal from Mitch Henderson and now Schiller makes a big break down the touchline.

[The Greenhouse]

18th min TRY RAIDERS to Simi Sasagi. It follows a set restart in the red zone. That was perfect passing from Adam Cook to put him in a gap. Cook has been impressive since returning to the club on a training deal. Adam Cook converts from in front.

Raiders 6-0

[The Greenhouse]

20th min Blacktown kick off goes dead on the full. PENALTY RAIDERS on half way.

[The Greenhouse]

21st min TRY RAIDERS to Simi Sasagi. Lovely move started by Woolford, goes through the hands of Waitere and then Cook. Cook two try assists already. Adam Cook converts.

Raiders 12-0

[The Greenhouse]

24th min ERROR RAIDERS from Taateao, just 10 metres out from the goal line. The ground is greasy after the recent rains.

[The Greenhouse]

25th min PENALTY RAIDERS for a double movement. Zane Dunford gathered in the awkward bounce for the Raiders and charged at the line, but was held short before promoting the ball.

[The Greenhouse]

26th min ERROR RAIDERS from James Schiller near half way. The Raiders' defence has been impressive, especially on the edges. But they can't keep throwing the ball away. Well maybe they can, as the Sea Eagles lose the ball in a ruck on an early tackle.