by the Penrith Panthers on Sunday<\/a>, Stuart is looking forward to enjoying the bye next week following a cluster of games in a limited time period.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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But that didn\u2019t stop him from pointing out the club\u2019s draw to begin this year\u2019s campaign when asked by a reporter about what needs to happen over the next seven days, in which they won\u2019t be preparing for a game and will instead be allowed to relax.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I keep saying, those four games in the 18 days and then bouncing into that game last week, where we were really disruptive with injuries. That helped us mentally,\u201d Stuart said post-match.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we got up physically tonight because we got the win last week and your week changes after a win.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s probably the win over the Gold Coast and we should have beaten the Gold Coast too. We were a better team than them so we should\u2019ve won last week too.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the bye has just come at a really good time for us. A couple of these injuries that we\u2019ve got, they get another week off without missing a game.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, he stated that Sunday\u2019s match was a great learning opportunity for halves Ethan Strange and Ethan Sanders as Nathan Cleary delivered a masterclass for their opponents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose two young halves, seeing what Nathan Cleary does tonight is such a benefit for those two boys, the two Ethans,\u201d Stuart added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019ll be them dominating games over the next six to 18 months. That\u2019s just an education. You can\u2019t get that on video.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t get that while sitting down and coaching them. They\u2019ve got to fell it. They\u2019ve got to hear it, what he\u2019s talking (and) you\u2019ve got to see it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said it after the game to the whole squad. That\u2019s how you grow as a team. We\u2019re not happy that we didn\u2019t win. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t close enough in the end to keep competing\u2026we were good enough to be but going back to the two halves and Ethan Sanders, that\u2019s how you get real development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart has once again taken aim at the club\u2019s draw, which saw them play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-661761","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\/661761","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=661761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}