2022 W1 EF Sat - Melbourne 20-28 Canberra @ AAMI

[Glen]

Saw some good whining in the press today from Don Furner and Sticky about the scheduling and short turnaround. Imagine scraping into 8th position and expecting the NRL to do you favours with the schedule. Especially when the Storm ended up having a tough game and the Raiders ended up in a training run against the Tigers where they had an opportunity to rest players.

Storm by 16

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/5de9bb12e4c3efab6cc31fc226c2534a

 

[skeepe]

The narrative all week will be how the raiders have won their last 4 in Melbourne. That is totally irrelevant for this game though. Storm still have a lot to offer in this competition IMO and will win comfortably setting up a mouth watering clash the following week against penrith/parra

Why is winning 4 in a row irrelevant? Because it’s a final? So was one of the 4 in a row.

No other away team has won 4 games total down there. We’ve won 7. We know how to win in Melbourne. We got dis.

 

[soc123_au]

I’m on the Raiders wagon for this one. Preferably by a field goal in the final seconds. I want the Raiders copping shit calls all game for the Skeepe goodness, but still getting it done.

 

[Valheru]

Why is winning 4 in a row irrelevant? Because it’s a final? So was one of the 4 in a row.

No other away team has won 4 games total down there. We’ve won 7. We know how to win in Melbourne. We got dis.

It's irrelevant because those 4 games have absolutely no bearing on this one.

 

[Valheru]

8 v 5 is a side that has just scraped into the finals against a team that has just missed out on the top 4.

Storm have got a bit too much brain power for us unfortunately.

To your point, team 5 has a 9-1 record in this fixture since it re-started in 2012 which is better than teams 1, 2 and 6

 

[moffla]

I've learned not to be at all confident against Raiders at AAMI Park. No result here would surprise me!

 

[Vic Mackey]

Surprised so many think the Storm are certanties, I have this as 50/50. Way to beat the Storm ever since Bellamys been there has always been through ab lib play, Raiders do this better then anyone, even they don't know what they're doing most of the time. Ill tip Storm by 1 but zero confidence.

 

[edabomb]

Which Raiders player will the Storm attempt to take out with an "errant" firework this time? My money is on Tapine.

 

[GongPanther]

Well what do you know, Asofa-Solomona is playing. I thought he was destined for the judiciary.

 

[Someone2]

Raiders by 2

 

[Captain Apollo]

 

[Bobby DIGital]

We will win and put an end to the Storms long-term reign of terror over the NRL.

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

By far the weakest match by miles out of the four finals this weekend.

The other three will be epic. This will be a yawnfest.

 

[GongPanther]

By far the weakest match by miles out of the four finals this weekend.

The other three will be epic. This will be a yawnfest.

Not with young skeepe in here giving his succinct on the fly views of the ref performance.

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

Not with young skeepe in here giving his succinct on the fly views of the ref performance.

That will be the only highlight.

 

[BadnMean]

I've learned not to be at all confident against Raiders at AAMI Park. No result here would surprise me!

I don't think either team/set of fans is really confident on this one.

Raiders have the slight wood on Melbourne in Melbourne compared to anyone else.

But we are scarred by 2020 when we got coached, run & executed right off the park in the opening 20.

 

[BadnMean]

Which Raiders player will the Storm attempt to take out with an "errant" firework this time? My money is on Tapine.

Bellamy manning the torpedoes as we speak.

 

[mozza91]

Raiders by 4. Atkins MOTM

 

[skeepe]

Wait, we got Grant Atkins?

f**k.

f**k!

f**kKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still remember that Raiders vs Storm game in Canberra where he put Bailey Simonsson in the bin for absolutely nothing, then penalised us out of the game with wrong decision after wrong decision. It’s the angriest I’ve ever been about a referee’s performance and the origin of my hatred for the pube-collecting merkin.

f**k you NRL. The well of refereeing talent must be well and truly dry if they’re forced to roll out this talentless, arrogant f**kwit with no feel for the game for a finals match.

 

[Valheru]

Wait, we got Grant Atkins?

f**k.

f**k!

f**kKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still remember that Raiders vs Storm game in Canberra where he put Bailey Simonsson in the bin for absolutely nothing, then penalised us out of the game with wrong decision after wrong decision. It’s the angriest I’ve ever been about a referee’s performance and the origin of my hatred for the pube-collecting merkin.

f**k you NRL. The well of refereeing talent must be well and truly dry if they’re forced to roll out this talentless, arrogant f**kwit with no feel for the game for a finals match.

Genuinely interested as to which ref you would have in there if given the choice?