2016 Canberra Raiders season

2016 Canberra Raiders season
Team information
CEO	Don Furner Jr.
Coach	Ricky Stuart
Captain	Jarrod Croker
Stadium	GIO Stadium - 25,000
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The 2016 Canberra Raiders season is the 35th in the club's history. Coached by Ricky Stuart and captained by Jarrod Croker, they compete in the NRL's 2016 Telstra Premiership.

Squad list

See also: List of Canberra Raiders players

Canberra Raiders 2016 Squad

NRL Squad								Coaching staff
Blake Austin – FE, HK, HB Kurt Baptiste – HK, HB, FE Mitchell Barnett – SR Luke Bateman – SR, LK Shannon Boyd – PR Adam Clydesdale – HK Jarrod Croker (c) – CE, WG Shaun Fensom – LK, SR Josh Hodgson – HK		Jarrad Kennedy – SR, LK, CE Brenko Lee – CE, WG Edrick Lee – WG, CE Joseph Leilua – CE, WG Jeff Lima – PR Frank-Paul Nu'uausala – PR, SR, LK Tevita Pangai Junior – SR, LK Josh Papalii – SR, LK Jordan Rapana – WG, FB, CE		Iosia Soliola – CE, SR Aidan Sezer – HB, FE Paul Vaughan – PR, SR, LK Sisa Waqa – WG Jack Wighton – FB, CE, FE Sam Williams – HB, FE Elliott Whitehead – SR, CE				Head coach Ricky Stuart Assistant coaches Dean Pay Mick Crawley Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s) Updated: 18 November 2015 Source(s): Raiders 2016 Squad

Gains

Player	Signed From	Until End of	Notes
Aidan Sezer	Gold Coast Titans	2018
Elliott Whitehead	Catalans Dragons	2017
Adam Clydsdale	Newcastle Knights	2017
Jeff Lima	Catalans Dragons	2017

Losses

Player	Signed To	Until End of	Notes
David Shillington	Gold Coast Titans	2017
Mark Nicholls	Melbourne Storm	2016
Joel Edwards	Wests Tigers	2017
Mitch Cornish	Parramatta Eels	2016
Josh McCrone	St. George Illawarra Dragons	2016
Jeremy Hawkins	Melbourne Storm	2017
Dane Tilse	Hull Kingston Rovers	2017
Bill Tupou	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	2017
Kyle O'Donnell	Retirement

Ladder

2016 NRL season
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Melbourne Storm	24	19	0	5	2	563	302	+261	42
2	Canberra Raiders	24	17	1	6	2	688	456	+232	39
3	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (P)	24	17	1	6	2	580	404	+176	39
4	North Queensland Cowboys	24	15	0	9	2	584	355	+229	34
5	Brisbane Broncos	24	15	0	9	2	554	434	+120	34
6	Penrith Panthers	24	14	0	10	2	563	463	+100	32
7	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	24	14	0	10	2	506	448	+58	32
8	Gold Coast Titans	24	11	1	12	2	508	497	+11	27
9	Wests Tigers	24	11	0	13	2	499	607	−108	26
10	New Zealand Warriors	24	10	0	14	2	513	601	−88	24
11	St. George Illawarra Dragons	24	10	0	14	2	341	538	−197	24
12	South Sydney Rabbitohs	24	9	0	15	2	473	549	−76	22
13	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	24	8	0	16	2	454	563	−109	20
14	Parramatta Eels	24	13	0	11	2	298	324	−26	181
15	Sydney Roosters	24	6	0	18	2	443	576	−133	16
16	Newcastle Knights	24	1	1	22	2	305	800	−495	7

¹ Parramatta were deducted 12 competition points and their for/against tally accumulated between rounds 1-9 for gross long-term salary cap breaches.

Fixtures

Pre-season

NRL Aukland Nines

Main article: 2016 NRL Auckland Nines

The NRL Auckland Nines is a pre-season rugby league nines competition featuring all 16 NRL clubs. The 2016 competition was played over two days on 6 February and 7 February at Eden Park. The Raiders feature in the Piha pool and played the Dragons, Sharks and Titans.

Regular season

Raiders 30-22 Panthers Raiders 21-20 Roosters Knights 24-24 Raiders Raiders 20-24 Titans Bulldogs 8-22 Raiders