ANALYSIS: Can embattled coach Ricky Stuart save Canberra one more time?
Canberra have made the preliminary final nine times since 1988, and Stuart has been a part of all of them, either as a player or a coach.
That's what makes Canberra's current predicament so difficult. The Raiders are struggling, and have been for some time now. When a team struggles, the coach begins to feel the heat around the corner. But the Raiders are not just dealing with a coach, they are dealing with the club's favourite ever son.
They didn't have pretty attacking patterns or finely-tuned game plans, they just went as hard as they could and backed themselves to outlast the opposition. Through sheer effort, they made up the difference and it took them just about as close to winning a premiership as the club will come without actually winning one.
His lack of production is symptomatic of a larger problem across the board – the Raiders just don't make metres. They have 8,555 in six games, the lowest total in the competition, despite boasting strong ball-carriers all over the park. The Raiders back then look like the Panthers do now, battle-hardened and ready for anything, a rugged band of rock-breaking shitkickers who backed down from nobody.Canberra's next trip to Penrith came around this time last year. It was a prime-time battle between two top contenders until Penrith won, handily, and they didn't just win they smacked the Raiders in the mouth and dared them to do something about it.
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