2009 Canberra Raiders season

The 2009 Canberra Raiders season was the 28th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 13th (out of 16).

Pre-season

The Canberra Raiders lost founding father Les McIntyre in the pre-season in February leading to the distruption of a pre-season camp and his name being embroidered on the club jerseys for the rest of the season 2009 season.^[1]

Season summary

Despite a disappointing start to the season for the Raiders, losing too many close matches, they were able to defeat the Melbourne Storm 26 – 16 at Canberra Stadium (Canberra's first victory over Melbourne in 7 years and 14 games) in round 16, keeping their slim finals hopes alive.^[2] The Raiders in round 21 handed the Brisbane Broncos club the heaviest defeat in their history with a 56–0 trashing at Canberra Stadium, the largest winning margin of the season. The Raiders also had a memorable win over the number one team at the time St George-Illawarra Dragons, by 24–12.^[3] Despite wins against three of the top four (St George Illawarra Dragons, Gold Coast Titans and the Melbourne Storm) and coming within three points of the other (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs) losses to bottom placed teams Cronulla Sharks and Sydney Roosters at home saw the raiders finish in 13th.

Results

Telstra Premiership

Trial Games
Round	Opponent	Result	Can.	Opp.	Date	Venue	Crowd	Position
Trial 1	Cronulla Sharks	Win	32	12	24 Jan	Seiffert Oval		N/A
Trial 2	Brisbane Broncos	Loss	16	30	21 Feb	Dolphin Oval	10,500	N/A
Trial 3	Bulldogs	Loss	16	24	28 Feb	Meakin Park		N/A
NRL Regular Season Games
1 (1989 League Legends Cup)	Wests Tigers	Loss	26	34	16 Mar	Campbelltown Stadium	17,392	11/16
2	Sydney Roosters	Loss	4	28	22 Mar	Canberra Stadium	13,100	16/16
3	Parramatta Eels	Loss	16	18	28 Mar	Parramatta Stadium	11,110	16/16
4	North Queensland Cowboys	Win	23	18	6 Apr	Canberra Stadium	12,193	15/16
5	Cronulla Sharks	Win	24	14	11 Apr	Toyota Stadium	8,561	11/16
6	Gold Coast Titans	Loss	10	16	17 Apr	Skilled Park	18,510	14/16
7	Bulldogs	Loss	20	30	26 Apr	Canberra Stadium	10,241	13/16
8	Penrith Panthers	Loss	10	18	2 May	Canberra Stadium	8,850	14/16
9	BYE				9–11 May			14/16
10 (Heritage Round)	Melbourne Storm	Loss	6	46	18 May	Olympic Park	10,112	14/16
11	New Zealand Warriors	Win	38	12	24 May	Canberra Stadium	8,383	14/16
12	South Sydney Rabbitohs	Win	34	18	1 Jun	ANZ Stadium	9,805	12/16
13	BYE				5–8 Jun			11/16
14	Cronulla Sharks	Loss	22	24	14 Jun	Canberra Stadium	10,104	12/16
15	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Loss	14	20	21 Jun	Brookvale Oval	8,182	15/16
16	Melbourne Storm	Win	26	16	28 Jun	Canberra Stadium	9,551	12/16
17	Gold Coast Titans	Win	34	28	5 Jul	Canberra Stadium	9,800	10/16
18	Newcastle Knights	Loss	4	23	11 Jul	Energy Australia Stadium	15,355	12/16
19	Penrith Panthers	Loss	14	27	18 Jul	CUA Stadium	8,074	14/16
20	Wests Tigers	Loss	4	25	26 Jul	Canberra Stadium	11,150	14/16
21	Brisbane Broncos	Win	56	0	1 Aug	Canberra Stadium	10,200	13/16
22	Bulldogs	Loss	20	23	8 Aug	ANZ Stadium	13,310	13/16
23	St George Illawarra Dragons	Win	24	12	15 Aug	Canberra Stadium	19,350	13/16
24	New Zealand Warriors	Loss	20	34	23 Aug	Mount Smart Stadium	8,812	13/16
25	Newcastle Knights	WIn	30	14	31 Aug	Canberra Stadium	9,400	13/16
26	Brisbane Broncos	Loss	10	22	6 Sep	Suncorp Stadium	35,112	13/16

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Colour	Result
Green	Win
Red	Loss
Yellow	Golden point Win
Blue	Bye

Toyota Cup (Under 20s)

The Under 20s team was unsuccessful in defending its National Youth Competition title, the season started well but injuries and players moving up into first grade saw them enter a six match losing streak late in the regular season and saw them just scrape into the top eight on points differential. The team were able to upset the minor premiers Manly in week one of the finals but fell to the Wests Tigers in week two ending their title defence.

Club awards

Award	Winner
Mal Meninga Medal	Josh Dugan Josh Miller
Coaches Award	Bronson Harrison
Rookie of the Year	Josh Dugan
Fred Daly Memorial Clubman of the Year Trophy	John Woods
National Youth Competition Player of the Year	Steve Naughton
National Youth Competition Coaches Award	Jarred Kennedy
Gordon McLucas Memorial Award (Junior representative player of the year)	Haydon Hodge
Geoff Caldwell Memorial Award (Vocational Encouragement)	Mark Nicholls

Squad

No.		Position	Player
		FB	David Milne
		WG	Adrian Purtell
		CE	Jarrod Croker
		CE	Joel Monaghan
		WG	Phil Graham
		FE	Terry Campese
		HB	Marc Herbert
		PR	Dane Tilse
		HK	Glen Buttriss
		PR	Scott Logan
		PR	David Shillington
		SR	Bronson Harrison
		LK	Alan Tongue (Captain)
		SR	Trevor Thurling
		SR	Tom Learoyd-Lahrs
		SR	Nigel Plum
		PR	Troy Thompson
		SR	Joe Picker
		WG	Michael Brophy
		CE	Daniel Vidot

No.		Position	Player
		WG	Justin Carney
		CE	Brad Cross
		SR	Andrew Edwards
		LK	Shaun Fensom
		HK	Stuart Flanagan
		WG	Sam Huihahau
		PR	Daniel Joyce
		WG	Brett Kelly
		SR	Cy Lasscock
		FE	Josh McCrone
		PR	Josh Miller
		FE	Zac Russ
		PR	Nick Skinner
		HB	Matt Smith
		CE	James Stuart
		SR	Joel Thompson
		SR	Glen Turner
		FB	Josh Dugan
		HK	Travis Waddell
		WG	Drury Low

Ladders

2009 NRL season
	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	St. George Illawarra	24	17	0	7	2	548	329	+219	38
2	Bulldogs	24	18	0	6	2	575	428	+147	38*
3	Gold Coast	24	16	0	8	2	514	467	+47	36
4	Melbourne	24	14	1	9	2	505	348	+157	33
5	Manly-Warringah	24	14	0	10	2	549	439	+90	32
6	Brisbane	24	14	0	10	2	511	566	−55	32
7	Newcastle	24	13	0	11	2	508	491	+17	30
8	Parramatta	24	12	1	11	2	476	473	+3	29
9	Wests Tigers	24	12	0	12	2	558	483	+75	28
10	South Sydney	24	11	1	12	2	566	549	+17	27
11	Penrith	24	11	1	12	2	515	589	−74	27
12	North Queensland	24	11	0	13	2	558	474	+84	26
13	Canberra	24	9	0	15	2	489	510	−31	22
14	New Zealand	24	7	2	15	2	377	545	−188	20
15	Cronulla-Sutherland	24	5	0	19	2	359	568	−209	14
16	Sydney Roosters	24	5	0	19	2	382	681	−299	14

* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2

National Youth Competition season 2009
	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Manly	24	19	1	4	2	879	417	+462	43
2	St. George Illawarra	24	19	0	5	2	758	461	+297	42
3	Melbourne	24	19	0	5	2	833	597	+236	42
4	Wests Tigers	24	15	1	8	2	709	588	+121	35
5	Brisbane	24	15	0	9	2	698	551	+147	34
6	South Sydney	24	13	1	10	2	776	568	+208	31
7	New Zealand	24	13	1	10	2	725	612	+113	31
8	Canberra	24	11	2	11	2	706	685	+21	28
9	North Queensland	24	12	0	12	2	668	683	-15	28
10	Newcastle	24	9	1	14	2	596	756	-160	23
11	Bulldogs	24	9	1	14	2	649	867	-218	23
12	Parramatta	24	8	0	16	2	604	698	-94	20
13	Penrith	24	8	0	16	2	573	755	-182	20
14	Gold Coast	24	8	0	16	2	542	738	-196	20
15	Sydney	24	6	0	18	2	443	736	-293	16
16	Cronulla	24	4	0	20	2	391	838	-447	12

References

↑ David Stockman (23 February 2009). "Tributes flow for Raiders founder". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
↑ "Hungry Raiders break Storm curse". ABC. 28 June 2009. Archived from the original on 29 June 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
↑ "Raiders upset Dragons". Sportal Australia. 15 August 2009. Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2009.

External links

Canberra Raiders: Season Review – NRL.com

Canberra Raiders

Est. 1982 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Club	History Records Players (Representatives) Coaches

Home grounds	Seiffert Oval Bruce/Canberra Stadium

Culture	Mal Meninga Medal 1989 League Legends Cup

League	NSWRL ARL SL NRL

Premierships (3)	1989 1990 1994

Seasons (35)	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Other competitions	Current National Youth Competition Auckland Nines S. G. Ball Cup Harold Matthews Cup Past Amco Cup Jersey Flegg Cup New South Wales Cup

Affiliations	Souths Logan Magpies New York Raiders Canberra Raiders Cup Mount Pritchard Mounties

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Competitions	Super League Results Grand Final Championship Championship 1 Challenge Cup Final

SL Teams	Bradford Bulls Castleford Tigers Catalans Dragons Crusaders Harlequins Huddersfield Giants Hull FC Hull KR Leeds Rhinos Salford City Reds St Helens Wakefield Wildcats Warrington Wolves Wigan Warriors

Other clubs	Barrow Raiders Featherstone Rovers Toulouse Olympique Whitehaven RLFC Widnes Vikings

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Competitions	State of Origin NRL season Results Grand Final Toyota Cup Results Queensland Cup New South Wales Cup

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