Canberra provided a flashback to their heyday in front of dozens of club legends on Saturday night as they flogged a hapless Wests Tigers 60-6.
Winger Jordan Rapana scored a career-best four tries and hooker Josh Hodgson starred in the NRL routing at GIO Stadium, which was the Tigers' sixth straight loss and by far the biggest of the season.
Rapana came close to equalling the Raiders' record of five in a match, held since 1990 by Mal Meninga, who was among 100-plus past players in the stands for a reunion.
They would have been impressed by the club's sixth biggest win in their history and a stunning turnaround from their dismal performances against Parramatta and Cronulla.
Coach Ricky Stuart called on his forwards to "man up" this week and that they did, with Paul Vaughan (one try, 18 runs for 172m), Josh Papalii (167m from 15 runs) and Shannon Boyd (one try, 13 runs, 142m) leading the way.
Rapana and Joey Leilua (two tries) were again a lethal combination on the right edge and were named joint man-of-the-match winners, while Hodgson had four try assists.
"We did tonight what we didn't do last week," Stuart said.
"Things went our way but we won't be getting too far ahead of ourselves. We were good, but we need to be consistent.
"We've got a very good squad that's developing and we're getting better year by year. We've just got to keep working hard on our mental capacity."
Stuart boldly dropped veteran Frank-Paul Nuuausala from the team on game day, handing Clay Priest a debut off the bench.
He said more big names would've gone after last week's loss to the Sharks if it weren't for injury.
"I was probably a little bit soft in some of my decisions when we were going ok at the start of the year - a couple of blokes needed to get a rattle up then," admitted Stuart.
"I see that a mistake of my own now. I should've done it then - not after a 40-point loss."
The Raiders haven't scored as many points in a game since in 2008 when they beat Penrith 74-12.
It was an entirely different story for the Tigers who had not lost six games in a row since 2014, putting coach Jason Taylor under immense pressure.
"It's a really poor showing from us," he said.
"It was a game we were completely outplayed physically and it starts and ends there.
"We couldn't get ourselves up mentally for this challenge. The opposition are a big, strong team, they were up for it on the back of some big losses and we couldn't go with them."
Question marks remain next to Dene Halatau (thumb), Kevin Naiqama (concussion) and Tim Grant (knee/hamstring) ahead of Thursday's clash with South Sydney, while the Raiders' Joe Tapine (ankle) should be clear to play Penrith next Saturday in Bathurst.
