blake ferguson returned for his first match since before the second state of origin game as canberra aimed to bounce back from a 64-point thrashing from melbourne 21 year old boyd cordner was named co-captain for sydney roosters the youngest leader in eastern suburbs team since wally o'connell in the mid-1940s against the run of play a gift for the intercepted roosters james maloney nobody in front of him broker coming across won't get there and the roosters are gifted the first points off the gate the raiders reply came from branching away from structured play to ad-lib attack ferguson trying to do a hail mary over his head without looking and then on the inside he does some step he gets away from two gives it to edwards he goes james maloney went to the skies and daniel tupo was aware of his teammates following through some spectacular aerial work the roosters slipped further ahead after daniel mortimer went to mitchell pierce between macron and earl his 14th try of the year hope for the raiders right before the break josh papali's excellent offload the trigger point for ferguson to show his strength ferguson steps away from there's the magic that's what he can do at half time sydney rooster 16 canberra 10. soon after the resumption the roosters made the most well he got them the repeat set he should get the try and he does anthony milford's pace the platform for canberra to fight back and pops the ball for ferguson he's got earl on his outside cutting back on the inside he pops it over the top campisi was caught in the eye by teammate david shillington oh thumb right in the right eye of terry camp easy the camera skipper was forced to sit out the last quarter hour so was rival captain cordner an eventful couple of minutes here forget about lacking match fitness ferguson slipped back into the nrl as if he hadn't missed a beat the right to the left to have it go over there as well and he got there there is no stopping him only the special players can do those sorts of things jared kroger made it a six-point game in the last five minutes but the raiders couldn't bridge the gap full-time sydney roosters 28 canberra 22 charles christian nrl.com