Canberra Raiders 12
Canberra's miserable NRL season reached new depths as Wests Tigers inflicted a 49-12 thrashing at Canberra Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The Raiders slumped to their seventh consecutive loss, only one game short of the club record set more than 25 years ago.
The rampant Tigers were powered by a dominant kicking game from Benji Marshall and Robert Lui.
Canberra opened the scoring in the tenth minute with a controversial try to Josh Dugan.
But then Marshall and Lui caught the Raiders' defence out of position time and again as the Tigers responded with four unanswered tries before half-time.
Fullback Wade McKinnon scored a double with Marshall and Matt Utai also adding their names to the scoresheet, the Raiders not helping themselves as they continued to commit elementary errors, including repeated dropped balls and forward passes.
A second-half try to Dugan gave Canberra faint hope, but this was extinguished when Robbie Farah put Tigers second-rower Liam Fulton under the posts in the 61st minute.
Chris Heighington, Andrew Fifita, and Simon Dwyer iced the victory with late tries to blow out the margin.
For the Tigers, it was a welcome victory after successive losses, and came on the back of Friday night's news that coach Tim Sheens had re-signed with the club for a further three years.
Wests Tigers 49 (W McKinnon 2 S Dwyer A Fifita L Fulton C Heighington B Marshall M Utai tries B Marshall 7 T Moltzen goals B Marshall field goal) bt Canberra 12 (J Dugan 2 tries J Croker 2 goals) at Canberra Stadium. Referee: Gerard Sutton, Ashley Klein. Crowd: 13,425.
- AAP
