2019 R13 Fri - Wests Tigers 0-28 Raiders @ Bankwest

[League Unlimited News]

NRL 2019 - Round 13
Wests Tigers v Canberra Raiders
Bankwest Stadium, Parramatta (TICKETS)
Friday 7 June 2019

Gates 5:30pm / NSWRL Womens (WT v Cabra) 5:45pm / NRL 7:55pm

1. Moses Mbye 2. Robert Jennings 3. Paul Momirovski 4. Esan Marsters 5. Corey Thompson 6. Benji Marshall 7. Luke Brooks 8. Ben Matulino 9. Robbie Farah 10. Alex Twal 11. Ryan Matterson 12. Chris McQueen 13. Matt Eisenhuth
Interchange: 14. Jacob Liddle 15. Thomas Mikaele 16. Josh Aloiai 17. Michael Chee-Kam 18. David Nofoaluma 19. Elijah Taylor 20. Chris Lawrence 21. Mahe Fonua

1. Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad 2. Bailey Simonsson 3. Jarrod Croker 4. Nick Cotric 5. Jordan Rapana 6. Jack Wighton 7. Sam Williams 8. Josh Papalii 9. Siliva Havili 10. Dunamis Lui 11. John Bateman 12. Elliott Whitehead 13. Joseph Tapine
Interchange: 14. Tom Starling 15. Emre Guler 16. Iosia Soliola 17. Ryan Sutton 18. Aidan Sezer 19. Royce Hunt 20. Michael Oldfield 21. Sebastian Kris

Referees: Matt Cecchin, Adam Cassidy
Sideline Officials: Liam Kennedy, Nick Morel
Video Referees: Jared Maxwell, Beau Scott

Feeder club info
Wests Tigers: Western Suburbs Magpies (NSWRL: Canterbury Cup), Wests Tigers (NSWRL: Jersey Flegg Cup U20s)
Raiders: Mounties (NSWRL: Canterbury Cup), Canberra Raiders (NSWRL: Jersey Flegg Cup U20s)
Match information for all competitions via https://leagueunlimited.com/quick-links​​​​

 

[Vic Mackey]

The Raiders had owned us for the past 3 years, however Benji is their kryptonite and swung it back to us late last year. Depends who backs up for the raiders imo. If Papalli plays big minutes Wednesday Sticky might rest him, BJ out is huge as he always carves us up. Id say probably Raiders but they seem to bring out 05 Benji everytime he plays them.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

No chance. Should let the origin blokes rest. We would lose with a full strength team against Bunji.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Canberra by 10

 

[shear_joy9]

Raiders can barely field a team.

Horsburgh now injured and Hudson young to be suspended for a while. Up the creek if Papalii or wighton get injured

 

[gerg]

Not even the number 1 coach in the game can overcome the number 1 five eight in the game. Benji by knock out in the first

 

[The unknown]

Raiders won't be at full strength so if we can't win this we may aswell just give up

First time visiting the new stadium aswell, pretty keen

 

[footy75]

Tigers

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Not sure if this shiny new stadium has sheds, but if it does we'll be hurtin in them.

Tigers by 4.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

The lincoln withers shield

 

[BadnMean]

Tod Payten Cup

 

[This Year?]

There is no way the Tigers are going to lose against Canberra unless Benji doesn't play. This will be the sort of game that makes rugby league fun again.

 

[JB04]

Tigs getting far too much love for my liking. This doesn’t bode well for us

 

[GongPanther]

Hard to pick, so I went for the Tigers with less disruptions, and C/berra play like diarrhoea away from home.

 

[The Vaulting Violinist]

Tigers by 12 leichhardt lesbians

 

[Tommy Smith]

The Tigers to win the Jarrod Croker Memorial Missed Penalty Goal Cup.

And yikes looking at who the Raiders have out; on top of the injury tolls at other clubs, too, has there ever been a collective injury toll like this one across the NRL?

Most teams will be fielding their reserve grade sides soon. Which still makes them better than the Bulldogs, but only by two tries.

 

[BadnMean]

Yeah we are literally playing whoever is left standing. Your two young forwards Horsburg (elbow fracture) & Young (dumb eye gouge) managed to put themselves out of this game too.

I think Ricky will just be wandering around Bondi looking for any Englishman who isn't too badly sunburnt yet to come have a game.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Yeah we are literally playing whoever is left standing. Your two young forwards Horsburg (elbow fracture) & Young (dumb eye gouge) managed to put themselves out of this game too.

I think Ricky will just be wandering around Bondi looking for any Englishman who isn't too badly sunburnt yet to come have a game.

Excuse my ignorance, but it appears the Raiders are missing a grand total of 2 of their starting 13?

 

[The Rosco]

Excuse my ignorance, but it appears the Raiders are missing a grand total of 2 of their starting 13?

Yep.
All of Canberra's players are household names.
They even have Mike Oldfield lining up off the bench !!!
Tubular bells. What a classic. Cones are sort of, kind of tubular . . . amazing how well the 2 went together.
The first album recorded on the Virgin label. V2001, IIRC.
They also have a bloke named Emre. Counting down to Albert's post about something something blah blah Turkish Kerem Bulut neck tatts. Gozleme.

 

[BadnMean]

Excuse my ignorance, but it appears the Raiders are missing a grand total of 2 of their starting 13?

I was more talking about last week when we didn't have our Origin players & I didn't know Rapana was back at that stage.

But Joey Leilua is missing, Hodgson is missing & Horsburg- who had done so well he'd actually leapfrogged Sutton into the starting side. So missing 3 starters, not 4. And a young benchy.

So I'm not offering excuses- it's about as near to full strength as half the NRL clubs will field at any point at this stage of the season. May the best team win & may the Power of Bateman be string enough to overcome the Curse of Bunji.