Looking Ahead

[woodgers]

To Melbourne next Saturday.

You don't wish injuries on anyone however it looks as if Billy Slater is injured and won't play against us. Imagine what he would have done to our defence at the moment.

Also, people love to watch him so I suppose a few people who would have come to the game may not bother now.

I will take any advantage we can get at the moment though.

 

[DJ Raida]

We need anything we can get seeing as storm are our bogey team : /

 

[Purtell The Turtle]

To Melbourne next Saturday.

You don't wish injuries on anyone however it looks as if Billy Slater is injured and won't play against us. Imagine what he would have done to our defence at the moment.

Also, people love to watch him so I suppose a few people who would have come to the game may not bother now.

I will take any advantage we can get at the moment though.

The more I watch Billy Slater, the more I see he is no fullback. He's got nothing but exceptional speed. Whilst with the Raiders defence outwide looking like a 32 year old with a comb-over, he may cause problems, just pepper him with high balls and you will come up trumps.

 

[thickos]

Melbourne looked pretty bloody diabolical last night against a team they historically do well against. Call me a nut-job optimist but a win today and a win next week and we leapfrog them.

Surely, SURELY if they bring that form to Bruce they will get done. But we are talking about the Raiders here....

 

[ball boy]

but they will come back firing against us like most teams have this year

 

[SOULS 04]

I HATE THE STORM!!!!!

sorry juts wanted to get that out

GOOOO RAIDERS!!!!!!

 

[aussies1st]

a postive for next week is it is at home. Our home ground is slowly becoming the fortress it was a few years ago.

 

[Earl]

First I've heard that about Billy Slater. Is there a link?

 

[SOULS 04]

whats our home record this year?

 

[DJ Raida]

at home were 7 and 2 away were 3 and 8

 

[SOULS 04]

yeh 7 and 2 really isnt too bad at all
hopefully we win the rest of our home games
leave us in pretty good stead
esp if we beat the rorters

 

[aussies1st]

Anything is possible even though we are playing so crap that we should be playing for the wooden spoon.

 

[Earl]

Still havn't read or heard this rumour about Slater

 

[greeneyed]

I suggest this thread be renamed to "Looking ahead to next season".

 

[Bay56]

I suggest this thread be renamed to "Looking ahead to next season".

Very true greeneyed .... sad but nonetheless true.

 

[RaidersMalt]

Still havn't read or heard this rumour about Slater

I was watching Fox sports news yesterday afternoon and they showed an interview with Bellamy after the game on Friday. He basically said that Slater has a groin injury, which he has had for some time. He said Slater hasn't trained for a month and after the game on Friday he was in a lot of pain.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Is Graham back this week?

 

[SOULS 04]

yeh good question
anyone know?

 

[Earl]

Billy Slater has Oestio Pubis (sp?) but its a very strange type of injury healling wise.

He will more than likely require surgery at the end of the year (ruling him out of the tri-series) but should be right to play out the season if he manages it correctly.

 

[Anonymous]

Billy Slater has Oestio Pubis (sp?) but its a very strange type of injury healling wise.

He will more than likely require surgery at the end of the year (ruling him out of the tri-series) but should be right to play out the season if he manages it correctly

D'oh.