The Canberra Raiders have pulled off one of many membership’s nice victories, bouncing again from a 20-0 deficit after 28 minutes to drag off a well-known 26-24 win.
Having handed the Sea Eagles the hefty begin simply 5 days after being annihilated 40-0 by Cronulla, Canberra coach Ricky Stuart may have been forgiven for wanting to leap within the automobile and head again down the Federal Freeway.
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However at full-time, the aid was clear from Stuart within the coach’s field as he hugged his assistants within the field.
“I’ll go together with the licence of describing this as a well-known Canberra Raiders victory,” Andrew Voss mentioned on Fox League. “Unbelievable.”
Having confronted an 8-3 penalty depend towards them, the Raiders by some means bounced again, largely because of returning skipper Elliott Whitehead.
Scoring two tries himself and organising one other with an unimaginable flick go, Whitehead stamped his authority on the match.
Whitehead might have scored two however it was the primary attempt that he arrange that sparked the comeback.
He snatched a go from Jake Trbojevic out of the air, earlier than flicking for Kaeo Weekes to streak away to attain below the posts.
“That’s fairly unimaginable,” Andrew Voss mentioned on Fox League. “The Raiders with one thing a bit miraculous.”
Steve Roach mentioned on Fox League it was “particular”.
At halftime, Whitehead’s countryman James Graham declared it was “top-of-the-line try-assists you’re ever more likely to see.”
After an enormous match, even coach Stuart was singing his praises.
“He doesn’t need to get a wrap however having Elliott again, he performed top-of-the-line video games tonight I’ve seen him play, not simply the 2 tries however his management, his contribution in conferences this week,” Stuart mentioned.
“It’s what I mentioned final week, we missed three or 4 of our senior boys final week and he was large this week. He was nearly as good off the sector this week as he was on it.”
Whitehead quipped: “Bout time you gave me a wrap.”
A clearly proud Stuart mentioned the comeback “was a part of the Raider’s DNA”.
“How we carried out final week wasn’t us,” Stuart continued. “We had a option to make to indicate what our actual DNA is and that was one hell of a win.”
The win was some flip round from final week’s nightmare towards the Sharks and the earlier week’s loss to Brisbane.
It was additionally the ninth consecutive time the Raiders have chalked up a victory after being overwhelmed to nil the earlier week.
With Dave Lyall, NCA Newswire
