With week three of the 2018 pre-season underway the Raiders can provide an up to date pre-season training squad to give members and fans a look at who’s in the NRL squad for the 2018 pre-season.

The 2018 NRL season will be the first season of the new salary cap structure, which sees the NRL squad expand from a top 25 to a top 30, plus the introduction of a further six development players allowing them to further their career to train with the NRL Squad.



As per the new salary cap, clubs are allowed to have players contracted with the club outside of these 36 players.

Please note the squad is subject to change.

Top 30 Squad – New Additions

The Raiders have announced the signings of Sam Williams (Wakefield Trinity), Charlie Gubb (New Zealand Warriors) and Brad Abbey (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs) and have added 2017 NYC Star Jack Murchie to their fulltime squad.

Development Players

As part of the new squad structure the Raiders are allowed to have six fulltime development players. The confirmed development players are:

Cooper Bambling

Kalani Going

Corey Horsburgh

Sebastian Kris

Train and Trial Players

During the pre-season the Raiders are giving a number of players the opportunity to train and/or trial with the team to try and secure a place in the top 30 or the clubs six development players for 2018. These players are:

Jarrett Boland

Bill Cullen

Emre Guler

Zac Masters

Fabian Paletua-Kiri

Mikaele Ravalawa

Paul Roache

Josh Saunders

World Cup Players

With the Rugby League World Cup concluding on December 2, these players representing their nations will return for pre-season training in January.

Kurt Baptiste

Josh Hodgson

Joey Leilua

Kato Ottio

Junior Paulo

Josh Papalii

Jordan Rapana

Mikaele Ravalawa

Joe Tapine

Elliott Whitehead



2018 Raiders Pre-Season Squad



Brad Abbey

Blake Austin

Cooper Bambling

Kurt Baptiste

Luke Bateman

Jarrett Boland

Shannon Boyd

Erin Clark

Adam Clydsdale

Nick Cotric

Jarrod Croker

Bill Cullen

Kalani Going

Charlie Gubb

Emre Guler

Josh Hodgson

Corey Horsburgh

Royce Hunt

Liam Knight

Sebastian Kris

Joey Leilua

Dunamis Lui

Makahesi Makatoa

Zac Masters

Jack Murchie

Michael Oldfield

Kato Ottio

Fabian Paletua-Kiri

Josh Papalii

Junior Paulo

Jordan Rapana

Mikaele Ravalawa

Paul Roache

Josh Saunders

Aidan Sezer

Sia Soliola

Joe Tapine

Elliott Whitehead

Jack Wighton

Sam Williams



