Raiders enforcer Hudson Young has revealed how coach Ricky Stuart unleashed within the sheds after their “embarrassing” loss to the Storm in Round 24.
Stuart laid the boot into his aspect after Canberra’s dismal 48-2 thrashing in Melbourne, which put their finals possibilities underneath menace.
Stuart informed reporters he was “absolutely embarrassed” and hardly took any questions in an 80-second post-match press convention.
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Quizzed within the presser on what his message to the gamers was after the defeat, Stuart bluntly replied: “Ask them, mate.”
Now Young has lifted the lead on Stuart’s largest blow-up of the season, telling the Fox League Podcast the coach was “burning” within the dressing room.
“You know Ricky. He’s very emotional and very passionate,” Young defined.
“That’s why we love playing for him and that’s why we love playing for the Raiders as well, because he sets the way and it rubs off on us as well.
“We were very disappointed. I can’t use the language that he used at us.
“It’s good to have a coach like that as well because it shows he cares. Turning up again on Monday, we had to put that behind us he was leading the way in putting it behind us.
“But deep down, it would have still been burning him.”
Canberra are sixth on the ladder however have regarded shot over the previous month in thumping losses to the Storm and Knights, whereas scraping wins over cellar-dwellers the Tigers and Bulldogs.
On present kind, the Broncos will put a cricket rating on them this Saturday evening in what’s shaping as a brutal farewell to GIO Stadium for Jarrod Croker and Jack Wighton.
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That means the Raiders might want to beat the in-form Sharks within the final recreation of the common season with a purpose to play finals.
Canberra are on observe to complete the common season as the primary workforce in historical past with a optimistic profitable file and a factors differential of -100 or worse. Only two groups ever have performed finals with a triple determine destructive differential – the 2021 Knights (-143) and 2002 Raiders (-170) – and neither had profitable information.
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