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Raiders two-try hero wants more game time after dismantling Warriors

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Canberra forward Corey Harawira-Naera says he’s got plenty more to offer the Raiders after notching two tries off the bench in their comeback win against the Warriors.

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Harawira-Naera had to wait 54 minutes to hit the field but wasted no time making an impact, his first try putting the home side in front and his second sealing their 26-14 win.

But having only made one appearance in the Raiders’ past six matches before a late call-up to the side last weekend to face Melbourne, Harawira-Naera insisted he could be of more use to the team.

“I don’t know how (coach Ricky Stuart is) gonna work it in the next few weeks, but I feel like it’d be a good idea if Elliott (Whitehead’s) old body isn’t getting bashed around every week and to try and give him a little bit of a spell,” he told reporters.

“But I’m happy to play anywhere, centre, back row, middle, wherever ‘Stick’ wants to chuck me.

“It’s hard to hold it back, you’ve gotta start getting a little bit dirty at your coach because you want to get out there.

“It would be wrong for me not to feel like that, being hungry to get back on the field … I’m just happy to get the win and hopefully we can keep on towards finals.”

Harawira-Naera said it was a vital win for his side, having rallied from a 14-0 hole to gain a vital two points in the race for finals.

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“After beating Storm last week we obviously were favourites to win this game and they’re ones we normally struggle with,” he said.

“Think of games like when we played the Warriors earlier, we should have won, the Dragons game we probably should have …. we’re thinking back when we didn’t make finals like ‘oh, we should have won those games’.

“It’s in the back of our minds that we don’t want to miss finals by one game so I think we’ve gained a little bit of momentum around there.”

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JW 17 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

I didn't really get the should tone from it, but maybe because I was just reading it as my own thoughts.


What I read it as was examples of how they played well enough in every game to be able to win it.


Yeah I dunno if Ben wouldn't see it that way (someone else would for sure need to point it out to him though), I'm more in the Ben not appreciating that those close losses werent one off scenarios camp. Sure you can look at dubious decisions causing them to have to play with 14 or 13 men at the death as viable reasons but even in the games they won without such difficulties they made a real struggle of it (compared to how good some of their first half play was). This kind of article where you trying to point out the 3 losses really would most likely have been wins only really makes sense/works when your other performances make those 3 games (or endings) stand out.


There might have been a sentence here and there to ensure some good comment numbers but when he's signing off the article by saying things like ..

Whilst these All Blacks aren’t blowing teams off the park like during the 2010s, they are nuggety and resourceful and don’t wilt. They are prepared to win the hard way, accumulating points by any means necessary.

and..

The other top sides in the world struggled to put them away. France and South Africa both could have well been defeated on home soil.

I don't really see it. Always making sure people are upto date with the SH standing/perspective! NZ went through some tough times with so many different perspectives and reasons why, but then it was.. amusing how.. behind everyone was once they turned a corner. More of these 'unfortunate' results returned against SA and France at the start of the RWC which made it extra tasty to catch other teams out when they did bring it. So that created some 'conscious' perspective that I just kept going and sharing re thoughts on similar predicaments of other teams, I had been really confident that Wallabies displays vs NZ were real, that the Argentines can backup their thing against Aus and SA (and so obviously the rest), and current one is that England are actually consistent and improving with their attack (which everyone should get onboard with), and I'm expecting a more dominant display against Japan (even though they should have more of their experienced internationals for this one) that highlights further growth from July. 👍

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