legend said:
We'll see next year because it's the usual suspects that write the Raiders off every year and a few Raiders who left this year did so at the right time. IMO Croker and Smith are ready to retire and our biggest losses were Mogg and Schif but again Schif will be 32 next year.
Hodgson was no great loss and Costigan more than replaces him IMO.
I can't with until round one next year to see the new look Canberra Raiders and their fearsome forward pack. ;-)
I'm definately not writing them off. I don't think any team can be written off next year, apart from maybe the Roosters, most teams are about the same or better. Some like the Raiders are going for youth and giving their youngsters a go, which I think is great, but lets be honest here, that'll either work well or it'll back fire, I hope it works well.
On the forward pack, again, alot of youth it'll either work or it wont, but to call it an impressive or fearsome pack is taking it a little far, especially when you have packs like the Broncos, Storm, Rabbitohs, Bulldogs, Eels, Warriors, Knights, Eagles ect running around. About the only Raider's forward I would want at the Broncos would be getting Learoyd Lahrs back, and he's about the only one that'd get a start too.
