Raiders 目的（とする） for perfect NRL start
Canberra coach Ricky Stuart is 用心深い of the 脅し Newcastle 提起する／ポーズをとるs to his perfect NRL start, which would be the best in 15 years if the Raiders 勝利，勝つ on Sunday.
Not since 2005 have the Raiders won their first four games, while the Knights are also undefeated to start the season after last week's 劇の draw with Penrith.
A 堅い showing against the Panthers under adversity showed Stuart the Knights have developed a new fortitude under coach Adam O'Brien.
"You can see that they're playing for each other, which is a good 調印する and it's going to be a very 堅い game," Stuart said on Friday.
The 首相の職 favourites are fresh off a big 勝利，勝つ over Melbourne and are 始める，決める to host the Knights at Campbelltown Stadium for their first "home" game of the 再開するd season.
To get there, the Raiders will 飛行機で行く from Canberra to Bankstown on a 借り切る／憲章d 計画（する） and take a bus from the airport to the stadium, followed by a bus home after the game.
It's a travel 決まりきった仕事 the Raiders will have to 耐える until at least 一連の会議、交渉／完成する nine.
"We've just got to get on with it each week and do what we かもしれない can to make it as comfortable as possible," Stuart said.
Coming off a bruising draw with the Panthers the Knights' big men are 推定する／予想するd to 支援する up after playing 大規模な minutes last Sunday while 星／主役にする fullback Kalyn Ponga will 再結合させる the 味方する after serving a 中断.
New 調印 Andrew McCullough will play his first game in Knights colours since joining from Brisbane.
Halfback Mitchell Pearce needs to pass all of the concussion 議定書s to be （疑いを）晴らすd to play after 継続している いっそう少なく than five minutes against the Panthers with a 激しい knock.
Should Pearce be given the green light, Stuart knows what to 推定する／予想する from the 明言する／公表する of Origin 星／主役にする.
"I've had a lot to do with Mitch. He's a good bloke but he's also a very good football player," Stuart said.
"He 決起大会／結集させるs a team around him.
"He would very much be en joying this period at the moment when they're winning games of football because it gets you on a high and he'll be certainly on a high ready to play this week.
"He's 十分な of energy Mitch. He likes to lay the team on his 支援する and be the leader and he's very good at that, when he's on the 前線 foot and playing at you, he's a very 支配的な half."
*STATS THAT MATTER*
* Besides 2005, the Raiders have started at 4-0 on two other occasions, 1995 and 2003, making the 決勝戦 on both occasions.
* The Knights have gone undefeated through four matches in six seasons, going 4-0 in 1995, 1998, 2002 and 2015, while in 1991 they started with two 勝利，勝つs and two draws and in 1992 they had three 勝利，勝つs and a draw.
* The Raiders have 譲歩するd 正確に／まさに six points in all three games this season and 含むing last year's 決勝戦, have not 譲歩するd over 14 points in their past six games. The Raiders' 18 points 譲歩するd is their fewest through the first three games in club history.
