The Versing of The Storms and Raider next week

[Quigs]

If we are going to win the comp we will have to beat the remaining top sides and also learn to beat 'bad word jinxes"

We can do it I know we can.

 

[Card Shark]

Raiders & Storm bashing each other up.

Raiders very early, Storm & now another Raiders try.

Hodgson will be having a week or 2 off for a grapple.

 

[carcharias]

Raiders & Storm bashing each other up.

Raiders very early, Storm & now another Raiders try.

Hodgson will be having a week or 2 off for a grapple.

Yeah good it looked bad
Win tonight
Then lose a couple without him
Perfect

 

[Card Shark]

Grubbiest game in ages.

Chicken wings, grapples & shoulder charges.

No surprise Melbourne are involved.

 

[Stake Removed]

Blind eye shown when Melbourne involved

 

[Marchad]

Canberra are playing good rugby league at the moment. They are big and fast.

 

[Stake Removed]

So Melbourne win in Golden point last week, and get touched up this week there form not much different to ours, its getting the team to peak in finals.

Get feeling Raiders have now peaked to early

 

[Card Shark]

Peaking too early??

That was us about a month ago V Penrith.

 

[carcharias]

Bad luck dragons
It was all for nothing
Ha

 

[2012....Sharks Year]

Peaking too early??

That was us about a month ago V Penrith.

I apparently peaked too early last night according to the missus!

 

[millersnose]

So Melbourne win in Golden point last week, and get touched up this week there form not much different to ours, its getting the team to peak in finals.

Get feeling Raiders have now peaked to early

Aaaaargh

The stoopid
It burns

 

[Generalzod]

Grubbiest game in ages.

Chicken wings, grapples & shoulder charges.

No surprise Melbourne are involved.

I think match review committee will be looking at the replay again tonite...,Who thought the Storm took it easy last night?

 

[legend]

Not me. We gave it to them for 80 minutes.

 

[Generalzod]

For Sticky this week could be Raiders season, Austin rotar cuff injury last night doe he risk him going for top 4, or rest him possibly miss top 4.

The benefit in being in top 2 with room to move.

The loss last night dosent worry me, more concern in 2017 without Ennis it showed Brown not dummy half he is a runner & McIlwrick not a FG hooker, if Ennis had missed game vs Knights we would have won and we wouldnt have noticed the issue at dummy half

Blake Austin.

The Raiders five-eighth looked to aggravate a leg injury when involved in the opening try of the game just 48 seconds in.

He opted to remain on the field despite Kurt Baptiste sitting on the bench, but was limited for the entire 80 minutes.

Aidan Sezer shouldered almost all the kicking duties, although Austin did get his hands on the ball more late in the game.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...s/news-story/2891c430929b3e563332186774675dec

 

[millersnose]

Not me. We gave it to them for 80 minutes.

Very convincing display
That was a premiership winning performance by the raiders

 

[Snoop Shark]

Some of the best on line defence I have seen all year by the Raiders. They look to be a great team no doubt about it, but a very young team when it comes to semi final football

 

[Feki is bae]

Raiders are very dangerous with the likes of Austin and BJ and Rapana. Storm are yesterday's team and their boring neck grappling style will not work in the playoffs for mine.

 

[Card Shark]

I'd be more interested to see if their forward pass tactics work.

 

[Stake Removed]

Raiders are very dangerous with the likes of Austin and BJ and Rapana. Storm are yesterday's team and their boring neck grappling style will not work in the playoffs for mine.

Raiders also have a few players who can throw in some shockers, most of them not tested in finals or origin, experience will catch them out

 

[Special K]

The Raiders had great line speed and bashed the Storm. I haven't seen that speed since we did that to the Cowboys.

Ennis had an interesting point on being the hunters vs hunted. Said along the lines of the boys need to get the feeling back quickly. Raiders have it currently... Ennis has such a cool head. The way he broke down the Maloney, Townsend, Ennis combo around round 2 or 3 was fantastic and totally put me at ease when they didn't look good together. He would be a great coach.