'10 | R8 | Sat | Cowboys 6-34 Storm | DFS

[Timmah]

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1. Shannon Gallant 2. Michael Bani 3. Will Tupou 4. Willie Tonga 5. Ashley Graham 6. Grant Rovelli 7. Johnathon Thurston
8. Matt Scott 9. Anthony Watts 10. James Tamou 11. Scott Bolton 12. Willie Mason 13. Steve Rapira​

Interchange: 14. Clint Amos 15. Steve Southern 16. Leeson Ah Mau 17. Antonio Kaufusi​

1. Billy Slater 2. Matt Duffie 3. Willie Isa 4. Greg Inglis 5. Anthony Quinn 6. Brett Finch 7. Cooper Cronk
8. Bryan Norrie 9. Cam Smith (c) 10. Jeff Lima 11. Adam Blair 12. Ryan Hoffman 13. Todd Lowrie​

Interchange: 14. Ryan Hinchcliffe 15. Kevin Proctor 16. Ryan Tandy 17. Jesse Bromwich
Reserves: 18. Hep Cahill​

Referees
Gavin Badger & Gerard Sutton
Sideline Officials: David Abood & Luke Phillips; Video Referee: Phil Cooley​

Toyota Cup Round 8
Cowboys v Storm @ DFS, Sat 5:15pm​

QRL Intrust Super Cup Round 2 (Postponed Match)
Mackay (NQL) v Easts (BRI) @ Mackay Jnrs, Sat 5:00pm​

NSW Cup Round 8
Auckland v Melbourne (MEL) @ Mt Smart #2, Sat 1:00pm​

 

[kia ora storm]

Storm to take the two points.....


Whoops...no points.

 

[Noa]

Cowboys to cop a pasting. Storm in a belligerent, attacking mood plus Greg Inglis can only lead to bad things.

Sione Kite to make his Storm debut this week ?

 

[Charlie124]

Cows by legal means.

 

[Nemesis]

Can the Melbourne Scam do it again? You betcha... 5 years of cheating and proud of it. Scam by 24...

 

[Jason Maher]

Melbourne will flog Thurst... er... the Cowboys.

 

[to_ddeath]

Cheaters 64
Cowdung 6

The only annoying thing is who the Southern scum will swap around this week. Best to bet on "players not quoted" for a first try scorer. That is, if we're still allowed to bet on an illegal team.


T.

 

[Charlie124]

COWBOYS:

Shannon Gallant, Michael Bani, Will Tupou, Willie Tonga, Ash Graham, Grant Rovelli, Jonathon Thurston, Matt Scott, Anthony Watts, James Tamou, Scott Bolton, Willie Mason, Steve Rapira. Reserves: Clint Amos, Steve Southern, Leeson Ah Mau, Antonio Kaufusi.

http://www.cowboys.com.au/default.aspx?s=team

 

[Knights_Premiers]

Storm should take this easy, by 18. However, if the Cowboys play their best football they could spring an upset. They are going badly but not the worst team around at the moment so it could well happen.

 

[bing-bong]

cowboys need to step it up real hard to beat the storm
storm is still guna be out there trying to prove a point to the crowd that they are a good team
plus storm will be fired up to play some good football.

 

[Timmah]

Teams, officials:

North Queensland Cowboys v Melbourne Storm
Saturday 1 May 2010, 7:30pm AEST - Dairy Farmers Stadium
Referees: Gavin Badger & Gerard Sutton; Sideline Officials: David Abood & Luke Phillips; Video Referee: Phil Cooley

Cowboys: 1. Shannon Gallant 2. Michael Bani 3. Will Tupou 4. Willie Tonga 5. Ashley Graham 6. Grant Rovelli 7. Johnathon Thurston 8. Matt Scott 9. Anthony Watts 10. James Tamou 11. Scott Bolton 12. Willie Mason 13. Steve Rapira
Interchange: 14. Clint Amos 15. Steve Southern 16. Leeson Ah Mau 17. Antonio Kaufusi
Storm: 1. Billy Slater 2. Matt Duffie 3. Willie Isa 4. Greg Inglis 5. Anthony Quinn 6. Brett Finch 7. Cooper Cronk 8. Bryan Norrie 9. Cam Smith (c) 10. Jeff Lima 11. Adam Blair 12. Ryan Hoffman 13. Todd Lowrie
Interchange: 14. Ryan Hinchcliffe 15. Kevin Proctor 16. Ryan Tandy 17. Jesse Bromwich; Reserves: 18. Hep Cahill

LU's exclusive teams article for Round 8 here: http://www.leagueunlimited.com/article.php?newsid=19185

 

[The Pain Game]

The Cowboys are just too structured to beat good teams. They can't score until there is pressure (perhaps on the scoreboard) to break out of that structure, and by then they have a combination of individual brilliance and the luck of a tired opponent (particularly on a hot Townsville night). Unfortunately they leave themselves with too much work to do, so not even this has worked a lot. It is hard to explain because the team was more a 60 minute team last year, but just finish better this year.

I fancy the crowd will give the Storm hell, and they better not get complacent after last week. Cowboys - only because I am a Cowboys fans!

 

[Whoosh]

The poor old Cowboys might cop it against the Storm. Melbourne by 22.

 

[The Pain Game]

Well, I hope not... after all, they have nothing to play for, and we sure can do with some points!

 

[Shorty]

Last week was a knee jerk, when the dust settles potentially snapping a hamstring scoring a try doesn't amount for much when it means little.
Cows by 6.

 

[The Pain Game]

I hope you are right, but I have had a mixture of optimism and pessimism this season. Players like Tonga, Bolton, Tamou and Mason have all stepped up. At times, even Ashley Graham has been good, and Payne and JT have looked good when fully fit. If they all had that form with our team last year, we would be higher up the ladder by a mile.

Although Matt Scott has come on a bit since overcoming ankle problems, players like Webb, Rovelli, Southern, Kafusi, Manukafoa, John Williams, Ty Williams and Michael Bani are still a worry. Webb was great last week, but then got injured (always happens when he plays well).

 

[Chook Herron]

Storm by about 700,000

 

[natheel]

will be interesting to see if storm can pull it up again like last week after another whole week and it really setting into their minds, but also with rep spots up for grabs this will be probably a good game, storm by 8

 

[aussies1st]

Going with the Storm although Cowboys with Thurston in his second game back could use the home advantage better than last week.

 

[Butters]

Melbourne 22-6