For the first time in 10 years and 6 weeks, the Canberra Raiders failed to score a try in a game, during the 48-2 defeat to the Melbourne Storm at AAMI Park, bringing an end to the Raiders’ First Grade record 252 game streak of scoring at least one try.

The Raiders lost 32-2 against South Sydney in Round 16 of 2013, then started the streak the next week with a 26-18 win against the Cowboys, who held the consecutive try-scoring record before the Raiders, with the Cowboys scoring a try in 221 consecutive games between 2012 and 2020, then the Raiders broke the record last year (After breaking their own club record at 220), and became the first team to get to 250 consecutive games scoring a try.

So that now means the current longest active streak of games scoring a try is held by, of all teams, St George-Illawarra at 85 games (Last going tryless in Round 4 of 2020), despite going through as many coaches in that time, that also means that Sunday afternoon marks the first time the Raiders haven’t scored a try during Ricky Stuart’s tenure, which began in 2014….

HOWEVER, thanks to that penalty goal in the 5th minute, the Raiders do still have the longest active scoring streak in the game, now at 266 games without a shutout (Currently 9th all-time), the Green Machine last being shutout in Round 2 of 2013 against the Gold Coast Titans, which is also the longest streak for games entirely within the NRL era of First Grade rugby league.

To put it into historical context, that’s only the second-longest scoring streak in the Raiders’ history, given they went 361 games without a shutout between 1987 and 2002, but even that gets dwarfed by the all-time record held by the North Sydney Bears, who went 27 years (1943 to 1970) without a scoreless game, a streak that lasted 488 games.

Now, given teams currently play 24 games in a season without finals, the Raiders would need to survive another 9 full seasons, plus change, to even have a crack at breaking that record.