Since their last premiership in 1994 it has been that way for Canberra so often that becoming a living chaos theory feels like their natural habitat. To be a Raiders fan you must have an abiding sense of tragedy which sustains you through temporary periods of joy.
The Hull man become one of the best dummy halves of recent times after he arrived in Canberra, helping drive the team to their first preliminary final in two decades through his virtuosos 2016 season. Down that road they went, with Hodgson eventually leading the way as co-captain, and that's where they found Nicoll-Klokstad. He signed mere weeks before the 2019 season began and had never played an NRL game at fullback, coming from the Warriors with no guarantees.
Are we that far removed from the day a half-blind Joey Leilua flicked that pass to John Bateman for Canberra to beat Melbourne on the road in the finals? Time passes. Heroes get old. People say goodbye. One day the last new song you liked will have come out a long time ago and nobody but you will play it anymore.
The Raiders still have plenty of guys who were there in 2019 - including Josh Papalii and Jack Wighton, two of the club's best ever players - and there's still a lot of talent in Canberra. They might well make the finals this year and that would really be something, but they are back in the same old pit of madness whence they came.
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