'I love Canberra': Papalii hopes for new Raiders deal

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Josh Papalii says he wants to stay at Canberra in 2026, admitting his previous talk of leaving had come from no longer feeling good enough for the Raiders' NRL side.

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00:00when i was speaking to the media back in you know a few months ago i just wasn't in a good place

00:05my footy probably wasn't up to scratch at that that minute and i felt like

00:10you know jerseys you you gotta earn them yeah and i felt like i wasn't earning

00:18my jersey at that time and i felt like i'm earning my jersey at the moment

00:22you know i'm keeping my spot i'm in the team and i'm adding value

00:25um you know i feel like that's um it's best that's best value you can have as it was when

00:34you're contributing to a team not only off the field but uh off the field you know i've

00:40missed a lot of time in the younger players uh you know away from footy and that's just what i

00:45love to do towards the end of last year we'll bring some good footy um then i felt like we just built

00:52off the back of that um obviously into an army camp uh that was tough um and i still just brought

00:58the boys together to be honest and then vegas went to vegas traveled together um we usually travel well

01:04um you know there's a good mix of the the younger boys the older boys and

01:09i feel like um you know the raiders have just got it right this year

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