Blake Ferguson is back for Raiders after sobering stint with the Mounties Troubled Canberra centre Blake Ferguson. CANBERRA centre Blake Ferguson has been reinstated and will line up today against St George Illawarra. Less than a fortnight after being stood down from all club duties over his Bacardi Breezer antics with sacked fullback Josh Dugan, Canberra coach David Furner has recalled the troubled centre. Listed to spend a second weekend playing in the NSW Cup for Mounties, Ferguson won a reprieve last Friday when Raiders officials put Edrick Lee on the bus for Sydney instead of the suspended centre. A mid-week meeting with the Raiders' senior playing group, including David Shillington, Brett White, Josh McCrone and Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, was the catalyst for Ferguson's re-instatement. In the same week when Matthew Johns questioned the culture at the Raiders, Ferguson being granted a saloon passage back into the NRL after one week off is guaranteed to create debate. Shillington said Ferguson had been told in no uncertain terms that his actions from here on would speak louder than words. The whole senior playing group spoke to him this week. We were obviously consulted about Fergo as well, but we decided we wanted to keep persisting with him," Shillington said. We know he's got a few mistakes in him, but he has shown us plenty of times that he does want to be a part of the team by training hard and playing well. Obviously that was the difference there that made us want to keep persisting with him (as opposed to Dugan). He played Mounties last week and that was his call. He wanted to be out there with the boys to try to turn it around. When we spoke to him this week, he spoke to us about having some time off the drink, making amends for what he's done and earning our trust back. That's what we wanted to hear and we talked about his actions speaking louder than words and he understands that. Raiders management argue the cases of Dugan and Ferguson are vastly different, with the sacked fullback drinking while injured, not showing up to training and flipping the bird on Instagram. Ferguson was drinking but he was not injured and was on time for training the following day.