The Canberra Raiders NRL team will help celebrate the club's first ever NRLW home match this Saturday, by wearing the same playing kit as the club NRLW team in their round 22 match against the Newcastle Knights.
It’s also an opportune way to help celebrate Women in League round this weekend, with the club making the NRLW team the focus of this year's Women in League celebrations.
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The Raiders will wear the same green jersey, blue playing shorts and socks as the NRLW team, with the NRL teams usual sponsors in place.
In what will be a further special touch for the match, the centre chest of each jersey on the NRL teams kit will have the corresponding NRLW player's name on it from the club's round 1 NRLW match against the Sharks.
Each jersey will be signed by the NRL Player who wears the jersey and the NRLW player who is featured on the jersey and auctioned through www.allbids.com.au/raiders to raise money for the Raiders Foundation. The jerseys will not be available for retail, so bidding is sure to be frantic to help collect a piece of Raiders history.
Raiders CEO Don Furner said it was just another way the club was getting ready to celebrate the historic home match at GIO Stadium Canberra.
“After what has been a long journey it’s wonderful that our NRLW team will have the opportunity to play their first home match at GIO Stadium Canberra this Saturday,” Furner said. “The NRL team wearing the same kit as the NRLW team is just another great way to support and welcome our newest team to our home city and ground and we are encouraging everyone to get to GIO Stadium Canberra on Saturday to be part of history.”
