LIVE: Twist in Burgess' budding coaching career

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This is simply a polarising one.

The Raiders person tally successful a long-range effort but a glaring guardant walk was overlooked by a interaction judge.

Sebastian Kris iced a phenomenal Raiders effort but not earlier Jack Wighton threw a guardant pass.

Hudson Young tried to bat the Wighton walk to Kris but appeared to not interaction the footy.

Kris pounced connected the footy and, admittedly, did a superb occupation for his try, racing 60 metres and beating a drawstring of defenders.

"What's the interaction justice doing? He's lasting close there!" Andrew Johns says connected the Nine coverage.

"That's a metre-and-a-half forward, that one," adds co-commentator Billy Slater.

The 2nd fractional of the Raiders-Tigers clash kicks disconnected with Canberra starring 10-6.

Rabbitohs fable Sam Burgess is acceptable to instrumentality to England to instrumentality up the caput coaching occupation astatine the Warrington Wolves, reports Nine's Michael Chammas.

Burgess has spent 12 months astatine South Sydney arsenic an adjunct manager and appears to beryllium connected the verge of making a cardinal determination successful his budding coaching career.

"The negotiations betwixt Warrington and Sam Burgess' cause person begun and he's informed South Sydney of his involvement successful taking up that job," Chammas said connected Nine.

The Raiders instrumentality a 10-6 pb to the sheds.

We person a effort of the twelvemonth contender, folks!

The Tigers person conscionable tally successful 1 helluva effort successful the nation's capital.

David Nofoaluma takes an intercept 85 metres retired and streaks down the tract but is forced to dilatory down and caput successful tract arsenic he's pursued by Jordan Rapana and Matthew Timoko.

Nofoaluma lets rip a 20-metre shot to Luke Brooks, who's moving similar a greyhound with its ears pinned back, and the Tigers halfback rifles a shot to Charlie Staines, who sprints the remaining 20 metres and dives to people successful the near corner, beating Nic Cotric.

Incredible!

"How good's that!" Andrew Johns says connected the Nine coverage.

"Talking astir Mal Meninga and the Canberra squad of the mid-1990s ... That was a effort you utilized to see. Long tries, velocity men..."

The Raiders people again arsenic Hudson Young barges implicit from adjacent range.

The NSW Blues back-rower bursts onto a shot from Zac Woolford astatine dummy-half and crashes over.

Canberra leads 10-0 aft 30 minutes pursuing a palmy Jamal Fogarty conversion.

The Raiders unfastened the scoring 25 minutes into the contention arsenic Sebastian Kris dots down!

Playing successful the centres alternatively of astatine fullback this afternoon, the speedster races successful pursuit of a Jack Wighton footwear connected the near borderline earlier a WICKED bounce burns the Tigers.

The shot takes a spectacular deviation and lands successful the mitts of Kris, who plants the footy to springiness Canberra a 4-0 lead.

"A small spot of a fortunate bounce but they created their ain luck," Billy Slater says connected Nine's coverage.

A mates of large plays!

Wests Tigers young weapon Jahream Bula flies precocious for the shot and scrambles toward the effort line, lone to beryllium brought undone by a treble movement.

And soon after, Raiders ace Jack Wighton splits done the Tigers defence connected the near borderline but throws a wayward shot implicit Albert Hopoate's head, the footy going into touch.

Wighton really had a mates of teammates connected his wrong but did not cognize they were there.

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