{"id":286273,"date":"2025-11-15T13:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286273\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:55:19","slug":"canberra-raiders-boss-don-furner-fumes-over-very-very-lucky-brisbane-broncos-draw-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286273\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Raiders boss Don Furner fumes over ‘very, very lucky’ Brisbane Broncos draw for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The favourable 2026 NRL draw<\/a> handed to premiers Brisbane has raised eyebrows with Canberra boss Don Furner saying it was “orchestrated” for the Broncos.<\/p>\n

The NRL released it’s fixtures for next year on Friday<\/a> and the reigning premiers have 14 games scheduled at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

Additionally, they will play their Magic Round clash as the away team, when the New Zealand Warriors will be the home team in Round 11.<\/p>\n

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That means they get an extra home game and they’ll also play their derby clash with the Dolphins at their home ground.<\/p>\n

The Broncos will also begin the season with three of their opening four games at home.<\/p>\n

The Raiders on the other hand have the bye for Magic Round next season and were on the road ten times in the opening 17 rounds in 2025.<\/p>\n

“I think they end up playing 14 games at home because they also play Redcliffe there,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n

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Canberra Raiders boss Don Furner.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“They are very, very lucky, but I can’t wait for the year they miss out on Magic Round.”<\/p>\n

When asked about Brisbane’s luck in being the away team in each otheir Magic Round games, Furner said: “No, that’s orchestrated for them.”<\/p>\n

Furner took another dig at the Broncos while stating it was “disappointing” for their fans in Queensland to miss out on seeing their team.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to see when the Broncos have their turn,” Furner said in relation to the Broncos having the bye for Magic Round.<\/p>\n

Former Broncos Corey Parker also criticised the decision not to have the Raiders play in the annual event.<\/p>\n

“I’m having a dig at the NRL. The minor premiers, the best team, the most consistent team throughout the course of the season last year, are not there,” he said on SEN.<\/p>\n

“(It is) an absolute disgrace \u2026 to not see the Raiders, who were the best team last year<\/p>\n

“Why aren’t we seeing the minor premiers this year, on the big stage here at Suncorp next year. I think it’s ridiculous.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The favourable 2026 NRL draw handed to premiers Brisbane has raised eyebrows with Canberra boss Don Furner saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-286273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}