In most struggling clubs, it's officials who desperately try to shut down leaks from disgruntled players whingeing to the media. But they are doing things the exact opposite way down in Canberra at the moment - the players are filthy that an official is bad-mouthing them to the press. Last week, Raiders hooker Josh Hodgson was fuming that the reasons behind his dropping were aired on TV 24 hours before he was told he was axed. Then yesterday, this from former Raider John Bateman to The Sydney Morning Herald's Michael Chammas: "I don't understand how you're told to keep things internally but the next minute you've got [journalists] chatting about it within 24 hours of what's been said at the club. "You ask yourself, 'Who is leaking that stuff out? Who is mates with who?' You question it, don't you? "Player-wise, you all trust each other. I never thought it was the players. I trusted the players. I trusted them like my own mates." After five straight losses, the Raiders aren't a happy camp and players and officials are looking at each other with suspicion - and that can only lead to disaster.
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