2016 Wk 3 Prelim - Storm 14-12 Raiders @ AAMI Park

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NRL 2016 - Preliminary Finals
Melbourne Storm v Canberra Raiders
AAMI Park, Melbourne (TICKETS)
Saturday 24 September 2016

Gates Open 6:30pm / NRL 7:40pm

1. Cameron Munster 2. Suliasi Vunivalu 3. Will Chambers 4. Cheyse Blair 5. Marika Koroibete 6. Blake Green 7. Cooper Cronk 8. Jesse Bromwich 9. Cameron Smith 10. Jordan McLean 11. Kevin Proctor 12. Tohu Harris 13. Dale Finucane
Interchange: 14. Kenneath Bromwich 15. Tim Glasby 16. Christian Welch 17. Ben Hampton 20. Matt White 21. Felise Kaufusi

1. Jack Wighton 2. Edrick Lee 3. Jarrod Croker 4. Joseph Leilua 5. Jordan Rapana 6. Blake Austin 7. Aidan Sezer 8. Junior Paulo 9. Josh Hodgson 10. Shannon Boyd 11. Josh Papalii 12. Elliot Whitehead 13. Iosia Soliola
Interchange: 14. Kurt Baptiste 15. Luke Bateman 16. Paul Vaughan 17. Joseph Tapine

Referees: Matt Cecchin, Alan Shortall
Sideline Officials: Michael Wise, Jeff Younis
Video Referees: Bernard Sutton, Ben Galea, Ashley Klein

ISC QLD
Sunshine Coast play Redcliffe for a spot in the ISC Grand Final, 2:30pm Sun 18 Sep

ISP NSW
Mounties play Wests Tigers for a spot in the ISP NSW Grand Final, 3:15pm Sun 18 Sep

Head to Head
Overall 37 - Storm 26 Raiders 11
At AAMI 5 - Storm 2 Raiders 3
Finals 2 - Storm 2 Raiders 0
Last 5 - Storm 3 Raiders 2

Last Meeting
2016 Round 23 - Raiders 22 Storm 8 at GIO Stadium

Biggest winning margins
2013 - Storm 68 Raiders 4 at GIO Stadium (64 points)
2012 - Raiders 40 Storm 12 at AAMI Park (28 points)​

 

[BWNB]

Melbourne by 20.

 

[0neye]

GREEN MACHINE BY 80

 

[PenrithPanther45]

I would love to see the Raiders go through but unless Hodgson has a ripper I can't see them matching Melbourne. Storm 38-16.

 

[dogz08]

raiders will struggle to score 2 tries in this game sadly

 

[forby]

All depends on who the refs decide is the more protected! It will either be a free for all, or a penalty a thon!
Will be interesting to see if the 50-50 calls are even or all one way!

 

[Grapple]

Canberra really need to be quicker around the ruck when defending against Melbourne. They were too slow last night and could've given away way more penalties. Melbourne will surely exploit that at home with their experience, and in doing so control the tempo to build too much pressure. Other than that, I think if Canberra can cut down the errors and defend like they did last time against Melb, they're in for a chance.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Very tough job ahead, but I think having beaten them not long ago should give the Raiders a bit of confidence.

 

[Spade]

7 / 8 teams in the two codes are Top 4 sides haha, Western Bulldogs only ones that got there without making the 4.

 

[Spade]

raiders will struggle to score 2 tries in this game sadly

It was 22-8 Raiders way not so long ago

 

[ed-grimley]

I don't want Melbourne to win but I don't want Ricky to either - hopefully the Raiders can get up in this game and lose to the Sharks the following week.

 

[nick87]

Last start we gave it to the storm big time
The raiders won't be going in there scared. Storm will be deserved favourites and we're going to have to play excellent footy to win, but we've got nothing to lose and no expectations to win

I'm confident we can win

 

[soc123_au]

Raiders will need to be at their best for this one. hopefuly Smith & Cronk cop a dose of the clap. Best of luck Green Machine.

 

[Spot On]

Should be a wrestle-a-thon. Great viewing.

 

[The Undertaker]

Hopefully the game will be officiated by the refs from the Cows/ Broncs game.
They seemed pretty fair.
If its those two f**king muppets from last night it'll be anyones guess and definitely one team will get the rub of the green.
I'll be barracking for the Raiders.

 

[Bobby DIGital]

If we defend like we did against them a few weeks ago, we'll win.

We obliterated their forward pack last time and manhandled their Nadrukuesque wingers. They had zero answers.

 

[matrightyeh]

melb easy should smash them

 

[AlwaysGreen]

We won't beat the storm if we shift into stupidity mode. The storm are too ruthless to allow that.

Interestingly one of the few games we haven't gone stupid is against the storm.

But that was at home.

 

[kia ora storm]

Storm by 10...big home crowd, no viking clap thing either.

Storm fire up in the last 20 of every game and this is where the Raiders fall down.

 

[The_Shield]

Storm will remember their last match and want to make amends for it. It'll be close for most of it but the Storm will put it to bed with about 10-15 to go