Canberra play out the match and win by four, FULLTIME and they're outright first now! Dragons fought hard but it's all over.
Canberra penalty and David Klemmer on report with a swinging arm - and is given his marching orders for "ten minutes" as a result.
Time off with 70 seconds left. Dragons challenge a knock on call off a high contest. It's unsuccessful. Canberra scrum feed on their own 10m.
Time off 1:57 remaining. Su'A is down after a heavy tackle. No Bunker intervention. Play on tackl two just short of halfway
Canberra with an error on the Dragons 20m. Handover. Gotta be this set for the visitors.
Tense final exchanges as we near the fulltime siren. Canberra holding on but the Dragons have all he running.
Flanno converts his own try. FOUR points in it, five to go.
Flanno fires the Dragons to another four pointer! Gets on the end of a grubber near the posts.
Flanagan converts to reduce the margin to ten.
Sloan with the runaway! A superb kick to the right edge finds the speedy winger who runs the 40m remaining to score the Dragons' third.
Fogarty misses this one.
Weekes has a hat trick after making an excellent break, even evading referee Gerry Sutton to break Dragons hearts and score.
Flanno converts to narrow the gap to twelve.
After a shocking bounce nearly saw him concede a try in the first half, Jaydn Su'A gets the bounce this time after it eludes several Raiders off a grubber to be pounced on by the Dragons' second rower. Game on?
This one is fast getting away from the Dragons as the ladder-leading Raiders just surge on. Fogarty converts.
Smithies scores after a bat-back from a high kick contest the Dragons mess up.
Fogarty adds the extras for a twelve-point advantage.
Weekes has another and the Raiders are off to a fast start!
Second half begins. Dragons first use.
The Raiders NEARLY get a third on the break - down that same right side - but the kick ahead is missed by Weekes and trickles into touch. HT with a six-point advantage to Canberra.
Fogarty bangs it over from out wide to give the Raiders a six-point lead at the break.
The Dragons look to make some enterprising play down the left edge... but a stray foot missing a soccer-kick along the ground goes wrong and Kaeo Weeks picks it up on his own 30m and runs the length to score the Raiders' second!
The Dragons pick up back to back penalties, the second in front of the sticks so Flanno remedies his missed conversion to level proceedings.
Flanagan misses the extras.
A couple of tackles in, the boys in red shift right again and Sloan slides over untouched out wide.
Canberra looked to have recorded their second try but the chasers on a long high kick that bounced cruelly for the Dragons were offside. Penalty Dragons.
Sione Finau goes close but his last step sees him tackled. Handover.
Dragons holding firm since the Raiders try, but are struggling to make metres coming out of their own end.
Fogarty converts the Savage try from out wide.
Air Savage scores in the corner as the Raiders exploit some scrambling edge defence.
St George Illawarra look to have scored out wide through Tyrell Sloan but the last pass is forward. Raiders scrum on their own 10m.
Canberra with another chance repelled, and now this time as they emerge from their own half it's a penalty for a dangerous tackle. Big chance for them to have some footy in a usable position.
Solid Dragons defence up against what really has been some disjointed Canberra attack repels another raid and now the visitors work their way out from their own 20m.
Canberra dominating the attack in the early stages, and getting repeat stabs at the line due to six agains as well.
GAME ON. Let's go - Saturday men's NRL underway from the capital. Gerry Sutton in his white kit gets us underway.
TEAM NEWS: Raiders 1-17; RFM and Sele out for the Dragons with Molo to start back row, Lawrie and Fifita joining the bench.
The Red V is nowhere to be seen tonight with the visitors wearing their mostly-red throwback Steelers jersey tonight. They are out on the park with the Raiders awaiting the Viking Clap and sounding of the horn to get out onto GIO Stadium, which has a good crowd in attendance.
Big one for both sides in the capital today. St George Illawarra need a win to stay in the hunt for a top eight spot while the Raiders can go outright first on the ladder with a win - but could drop to second if they lose and Melbourne win later tonight.
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Gerard Sutton
Touch Judges: David Munro, Michael Wise
Video Referee: Ashley Klein
CANBERRA RAIDERS (28)
Tries: Xavier Savage, Kaeo Weekes (3), Morgan Smithies
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Jamal Fogarty (4/5)
Penalty Goals:
ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA DRAGONS (24)
Tries: Tyrell Sloan (2), Kyle Flanagan, Jaydn Su'A
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Kyle Flanagan (3/4)
Penalty Goals: Kyle Flanagan (1/1)