Round 21 of the NRL season continues on Saturday as the hunt for the top eight heats up.<\/p>\n
First, Canberra will host the battling Wests Tigers, who will be without halfback Adam Doueihi after the playmaker refused to take the field due to a positional switch.<\/p>\n
Then we head to Homebush, where Canterbury will host the high-flying Warriors.<\/p>\n
Later it’ll be the latest round of Queensland’s hottest NRL rivalry, when Brisbane go to Townsville to take on the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
Follow the live blog below, keep up to date with all the latest stats in our ScoreCentre<\/a>, and tune in to our live radio coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:53pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:53pm<\/p>\n 37′ Tigers pull one back<\/p>\n A penalty puts the Tigers on the attack, they strip Canberra for numbers down the right and Bula floats a lovely pass over the top for Tavana to cruise over and score.<\/p>\n Really nice from Bula, he’s been the Tigers best today. Koroisau pulls it across the face and it’s 28-10 just before the break.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:48pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:48pm<\/p>\n 35′ Savage scorches over for another<\/p>\n Canberra give away a ruck penalty but the Tigers give it right back through obstruction.<\/p>\n Two tackles after the restart the Raiders spread it left, Savage gets on the outside of Tupou and leaves him behind to score Canberra’s fifth try of the first half.<\/p>\n Sanders from halfway to the sideline – nails it. Raiders lead 28-6.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:41pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:41pm<\/p>\n 30′ Tigers denied a try<\/p>\n Andrews puts a bomb in, Stuart hasn’t dropped back, he knocks it back and Seyfarth is there to pounce on the loose ball and score.<\/p>\n Tigers needed that….but we might have a touch from Tavana in the contest. We go to the Bunker and there is a touch from Tavana.<\/p>\n Tigers can’t take a trick. Raiders ball.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:36pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:36pm<\/p>\n 26′ Weekes goes all the way<\/p>\n Savage loses a bomb but it goes backwards, Sasagi picks it up and beats a few defenders and he has Weekes in support!<\/p>\n What a man to find! Weekes takes it all the way, staving off Bula late – but we will have a look at it.<\/p>\n Sasagi might have knocked it on as he went to pick up….no, we have try confirmed!<\/p>\n Tigers aren’t happy. Sanders punches it through and it’s 22-6 Raiders.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:29pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:29pm<\/p>\n 23′ Strange does it all himself<\/p>\n Canberra roll down the field, earn a few set restarts and on the last Starling goes blind to Strange, he steps off his left foot three times and surges through a few defenders to score a strong solo try.<\/p>\n Sanders converts and it’s 16-6 to Canberra.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:26pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:26pm<\/p>\n 20′ Tigers kick a 40\/20 but lose a challenge<\/p>\n Koroisau smokes a brilliant 40\/20 down a narrow shortside on the fourth to put the Tigers right back on the attack.<\/p>\n But two tackles later Luai lofts a pass out to Tupou and he’s corralled by Savage and loses the ball. The Tigers will challenge but they won’t get it.<\/p>\n Raiders ball.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:21pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:21pm<\/p>\n 16′ Sanders scores a stunner<\/p>\n Wow, that is some try from the Raiders rookie!<\/p>\n He throws a dummy around halfway, cuts through and cruises straight past Bula to score under the posts! One of the best solo tries of the year.<\/p>\n He converts his own try and it’s Raiders 10-6.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:17pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:17pm<\/p>\n 13′ Tigers strike back through rookie<\/p>\n Horsburgh gets penalised for taking out Andrews after a kick and the Tigers have their first chance at points.<\/p>\n May offloads to Koroisau, he finds Roberts and the young backrower pulls through some awful defence in the middle of the field to score under the posts.<\/p>\n Very soft from Canberra in the middle and once Koroisau converts it’s 6-4 Tigers.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:11pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:11pm<\/p>\n 8′ Stuart strikes first for Raiders<\/p>\n The Tigers run it on the last but Tupou drops Luai’s pass and the Raiders will have the first attacking chance of the day.<\/p>\n On the last tackle Sanders puts the kick up and Stuart flies high to take it and score! Great effort to outleap Tavana, who is a real high-flyer.<\/p>\n Sanders from touch, it’s pretty windy in Canberra so this is a tough one – and he pulls it right. Raiders lead 4-0.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:00pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 3:00pm<\/p>\n And away we go<\/p>\n Tigers kick us off, running right to left.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 2:41pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 2:41pm<\/p>\n Last time they met<\/p>\n God, doesn’t this game feel like a long time ago? The Tigers were riding very high last time they played the Raiders, it was arguably the best they looked all season.<\/p>\n Been a hard few months since and they’re coming off another very difficult week with the Doueihi situation.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 2:32pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 2:32pm<\/p>\n Final teams: Raiders vs Tigers<\/p>\n One change for the home side with Noah Martin out and Ata Mariota starting at second row. Matty Nicholson joins the bench.<\/p>\n Big change for the Tigers is the absence of Adam Doueihi, who beat the wrap on a suspension earlier this week but refused to play after coach Benji Marshall asked him to play lock.<\/p>\n He’s off the end of the bench with Heath Mason coming in. Rookie Javon Andrews will start at halfback in his NRL debut.<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 2:30pm<\/p>\n Sat 25 Jul 2026 at 2:30pm<\/p>\n Hello everyone and welcome to the ABC’s Saturday NRL live blog<\/p>\n Good afternon sports fans, let’s blog some footy.<\/p>\n We’ve got three big games today, each of which carries a different kind of intrigue.<\/p>\n First up is Raiders-Tigers, where Canberra will be looking to keep their finals hopes alive and the joint venture will try to shrug off yet another horror week.<\/p>\n Then it’s Dogs-Warriors, where the former will be trying to keep touch with the top eight and the latter will be after locking up a top two spot.<\/p>\n Finally we’ll be on Queensland time for the latest chapter in the battle between the Cowboys and the Broncos.<\/p>\n I’m Nick Campton, you’re the reader of this live blog, let’s play a bit of footy.<\/p>\n Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round 21 of the NRL season continues on Saturday as the hunt for the top eight heats up.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,160,761,762,158,159,161,85],"class_list":["post-822385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-live-blog","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-rugby-league","tag-season","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822385","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=822385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}