Raiders Resign Purtell

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Raiders re-sign winger Purtell in NRL

Friday, March 17, 2006 - 4:10 PM

Canberra has re-signed rookie winger Adrian Purtell for two more NRL seasons.
The signing caps a whirlwind week for Purtell, who made his NRL debut for the Raiders against Manly last weekend.
Originally from Albury, the 21-year-old caught Raiders coach Matt Elliott's eye after an outstanding 2005 season in the reserves and was given a first-grade run out after an impressive pre-season.
Purtell says he is excited about building a future with the Raiders.
"I'm still on a high after my debut last week," Purtell said.
"It's a bit hard to believe, when Matty (Elliott) said I could train full-time I thought I had come to just fill in the numbers," he said.
"But as the trials went on things started becoming a bit more believable and now with the new contract, it's been a great start."
Purtell's signing is the second of the week for the Raiders, who also re-signed promising centre David Howell for two more seasons.
Source: AAP

http://www.nrl.com.au/News/Latest/NewsArticle/tabid/76/NewsId/469/Default.aspx

 

[I Bleed Green]

More positive news on the retention front. Good stuff.

 

[jed]

bloody nuffy, we should be concentrating on CHALK!!!

:lol:

Congratulations management it appears that the players think the club's in a better situation than certain fans here ;-)

 

[azza]

yeah jed stop being such a nego

 

[Grogmonster]

f**k yeah purtell played awesome last week

 

[thickos]

Great news, he seems to be a player with plenty of potential. Good debut too. Don't know how he fared yesterday though...

 

[GreenMachine]

meh he played alright.

He was in much better form at moose later on in the evening though.

 

[Boing Boing]

None of those blokes should have been at the moose except Thommo and Zillman. They should all be doing laps around bruce stadium, over the seats.

 

[GreenMachine]

Well I can confirm that despite North being closed the raiders still managed to have a drink or two.

Bronx Goodwin was on fire.

 

[reptar]

North was closed? why?

 

[GreenMachine]

I think this was on the lips of all raiders players, officials and fans.

I'm pretty sure they are redoing the whole thing and moving north upstairs where it will become a "sports bar"

Devestating news for the team as they were on the receiving end of free drinks at north. In fact a drunk Clinton once went around the other side of the bar and started serving people free drinks until he was booted by the bar staff. lol....

 

[reptar]

Hahaha...

I remember when they used to invade Lot33. Fun times were had by all