Canberra Raiders Fan Blocks Out All Of The Noise And Stays Focused On The Only Thing That Matters

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The extremely noisy news cycle, both domestically and internationally, is doing very little to distract Canberra Raiders fans from the important month ahead.

Local Milk tragic, Bailey ‘Squeaky’ Clean (50), has been a tightly wound ball of nervous energy for several months now.

As his beloved Raiders continue their glorious run as the dark horse challengers of the 2025 NRL season, the superstitions are starting to take hold.

And he’s refusing to take his eyes of the prize.

It’s a fixation that he wishes he could detach himself from, at least for a couple hours a night. But that’s not going to happen. Not after the cruel 2019 grand final. Squeaky knows that seasons like this do not come around that often, and he’s making the most of it with constant surveilling of team announcements and rugby league gossip.

Not even the breaking news of a gruesome political assassination can distract him. The escalating border tensions in Europe have not even registered. All he can think about is Sticky Ricky and the mighty green machine.

As a public servant based in the nation’s capital, Squeaky is usually very dialled in to the Australian news cycle. But the Liberal Party has chosen a very unfortunate week to destroy themselves from the inside – because most of Canberra couldn’t really give a shit.

The flood alerts in regional NSW have broken through either. Neither has the Epstein birthday book that has left the American political class reeling.

Squeaky wishes he could process some of this news, and as tragic as a lot of it is, he would appreciate the reprieve from the Canberra Raiders.

But that ain’t happening, because he’s just hear reports that veteran Canberra prop Josh Papali’i was spotted limping at training – and similarly the Broncos fullback Reece Walsh was also spotted limping at training, also the Broncos hardman Gehamat Shibasaki is back in the squad before this Sunday’s match at Canberra stadium. Also the Raiders coach Ricky Stuart has been a bit quiet in the meida this week, which is unlike him, in fact he’s been doing some funny stuff lately like last week he rested 10 players. It’ll be interesting to see how Big Red plays this weekend too, because you know that the Broncos tried to sign him but he….