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What about "Shithouse Stadium That We Have"?

With Ricky's permission, I'm suggesting we whack his post-match comments from last night onto number plates, or at the very least the green Canberra Raiders ones.

While we've tried all manner of ways to project our city positively onto the national stage, maybe it's time for a bit of tongue-in-cheek?

Maybe we'll shame the feds into sending a bit of cash this way, given governments of both stripes have funded stadiums just about everywhere else. Federal Labor might rescue its territory counterparts who've had this albatross around their necks for a couple of decades now.

To be honest, I didn't earn my badge of honour sitting in the bucketing rain last night, but kudos to those who did.

They saw a gripping match, which unfortunately didn't fall our way, but they also endured spectacularly bad conditions.

I forwarded to reporter Melanie Dinjaski some vision a friend had sent me of cascading water coming off a worryingly soggy section of stadium........

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