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    When you’re the NRL’s ugly ducklings, you should use it to your advantage

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    By Dan Walsh

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    When you’re the NRL’s ugly ducklings, you should use it to your advantage

    Ricky Stuart loves it. Craig Fitzgibbon is learning to.

    With premiership heavyweights Brisbane and Melbourne making up the rest of this year’s finals series, Canberra and Cronulla are the NRL’s ugly ducklings making good with significantly less to work with. Albeit from opposite corners.

    Even as Raiders coach Stuart and captain Joe Tapine spent their post-game press conference wondering not only how Reece Walsh wasn’t sent off for his headbutt last week, but why Hudson Young was sin-binned for being the recipient, there was a sense of the inevitable in Canberra’s dressing room.

    Walsh would avoid suspension because that’s just how the NRL works, was the theory over a few tinnies. It’s hard to argue against the other prevailing thought – that Young would’ve been rubbed out if the roles were reversed.

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