Canberra Raiders hopeful of Canberra Stadium NRL games

Raiders chief executive Don Furner said they were initially working towards playing in Sydney for the first month of an NRL resumption.

But Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said games could be played in Queensland when round three kicks off, opening the door for the Raiders to play at Canberra Stadium - given ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has already said that would be OK in front of empty stands.

Furner has provided the ACT government with all the protocols the NRL and their biosecurity expert have developed for game day.

He will continue to work all parties towards getting games back at Canberra Stadium.

The NRL will release their revamped 20-round draw in the next week or two.

Furner has provided ACT chief health officer Kerryn Coleman with their protocols for training and she was looking through them over the weekend, with a decision on whether they can train in the ACT potentially on Monday.

"Initially if there isn't allowances the NRL spoke to us about the first month might be [played] in Sydney only and we bus up there and then we pick up the home games towards the end of the year," Furner said.

"But who knows we could be [playing there]. At the end of the day we're still in the hands of the ACT government as the landlords of the stadium and we've been corresponding with the stadium management and letting them know our position.

"I would see us certainly playing games there in July, it might not be June, but it's all still very fluid.

"I sent them all the information I was getting from the NRL and their expert on biosecurity protocols. If the stadium's got more questions down the track I'll go through that with them.

"If they were ready in June that'd be great and if the NRL will allow it that'd be great too. But if we have to play some away games to start with so be it. Either way we're comfortable."

Furner was confident the players would present for training on Tuesday after there were reports of an NRL player revolt last week due to pay and the planned biosecurity measures.

They were initially meant to return to training on Monday, but that got pushed back a day with an information brought in in its place.

"Yeah I am [confident]. We've been Zooming and informing the players with everything we know," Furner said.

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"I'm sure they trust us to put in the protocols that we have to and the reasons we're doing this is so we can get the competition started.

"For us to start the competition we have to abide by these protocols. You can't have one without the other."