It's the Lime Green Wall Ricky Stuart's built. That's the difference between then and now.
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The difference between a 2016 Green Machine that looked to win in a shoot up against the 2019 model that backs their defence and is happy to get into the grind.
Both Canberra Raiders co-captains agreed, defence was what set this year apart from the last time they were in an NRL preliminary final.
They'll look to build that Great Wall of Canberra again when they host the South Sydney Rabbitohs in front of a sold-out Canberra Stadium on Friday night.
It's not just the Raiders' mindset that's changed, the numbers have as well to back that up.
Three years ago they conceded 18.07 points and 3.4 tries per game.
But this season they've trimmed that back to 15.36 points and 2.6 tries on average.
While the difference doesn't add up to much, it makes a massive difference when the game's on the line.
Their record in close games, which was once their Achilles heel, has improved markedly in 2019.
"We're a different team ... everything we've done this year has been completely different to everything we've done in the past," Jarrod Croker said.
"There hasn't been any looking back on the past, which is something that's advantaged us.
"We've always spoken about this season how we've been winning games off the back of our defence and we're a defensive side and a grinding side.
"I've never stood here before and spoken about that in the last 10 years."
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They've also become a lot more rigid defensively at the back end of games.
Last year, they were one of the best teams in the NRL after 60 minutes.
Unfortunately, they were one of the worst over the final 20.
Now that quarter of the game is defensively one of their best.
They've conceded just 13 tries all season - while scoring 22 - with only their opening 20 minutes more miserly (12).
"[In] 2016 we were just outscoring teams. We weren't relying heavily on our defence - try and blow teams away and hope they couldn't come back," Josh Hodgson said.
"This year we've just been happy to grind out a win.
"At times in games this year we probably could've tried to force the pass to try and go two and three scores in front, but we're just happy to turn it over in the corner and just really stay in that grind.
"That's been the difference this year. It helped so much having that kind of mindset."
Croker expected the Raiders to run out 1-17 against the Rabbitohs.
Stuart swung a couple of surprise changes for their qualifying final win over the Melbourne Storm two weeks ago.
He brought Emre Guler into the squad for Ryan Sutton, and started Josh Papalii on the bench.
Croker expected Papalii to start against Souths, especially with the chance to take on Sam Burgess and his brothers.
"It worked well, but I don't think you'll be able to hold Papa back this week, especially with the Burgess boys there," he said.
"I don't know, but I'd say he'd want to start and be amongst it all from the get go."
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Friday: Canberra Raiders v South Sydney at Canberra Stadium, 7.50pm.
Raiders squad: 1. Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, 2. Nick Cotric, 3. Jarrod Croker (c), 4. Joey Leilua, 5. Jordan Rapana, 6. Jack Wighton, 7. Aidan Sezer, 8. Josh Papalii, 9. Josh Hodgson (c), 10. Sia Soliola, 11. John Bateman, 12. Elliott Whitehead, 13. Joe Tapine. Interchange: 14. Bailey Simonsson, 15. Emre Guler, 16. Corey Horsburgh, 17. Dunamis Lui. Reserves: 18. Sam Williams, 19. Ryan Sutton, 20. Siliva Havili, 21. Sebastian Kris.
Rabbitohs squad: 1. Adam Doueihi, 2. Alex Johnston, 3. James Roberts, 4. Dane Gagai, 5. Campbell Graham, 6. Cody Walker, 7. Adam Reynolds, 8. Thomas Burgess, 9. Damien Cook, 10. Liam Knight, 11. John Sutton, 12. Sam Burgess (c), 13. Cameron Murray. Interchange: 14. George Burgess, 15. Junior Tatola, 16. Ethan Lowe, 17. Mark Nicholls. Reserves: 18. Jaydn Su'A, 19. Corey Allan, 20. Dean Britt, 21. Mawene Hiroti.