Game Day!
NRL Finals Wk2 is upon us, with good weather forecast for Sydney today (top of 23 mostly sunny), and not so good for Melbourne tomorrow (top of 21 few showers developing & chance of thunderstorms during evening).
Manly Warringah have all other finals teams right where we want 'em:
- The Knights will take the Storm out this week which will be fantastic to see, then thier bubble will burst in Wk3 as the Roosters show them how it's done.
- The Sharks' unreliable form will haunt them tonight when they lose to the Sea Eagles rebounding from a mistake-riddled loss last week.
- The Rabbitohs & Roosters squads will be kickin' back this week with no games to play, sinkin' schooners at various pubs, pumpin' fippos through the pokies, lazing around at the beach with little care for thier next games.
- $BW will still be too good for his opponents in Wk3 @ the SFS on the Sat night, but he'll choke in the GF.
- The Rabbitohs will finally be turned to stew by the Sea Eagles @ Stadium Australia on the Fri night, as the Bunnies will be expecting either: Sharks who need 7 tackles to score, or Manly who just can't score.. They're in for a shock.
- Then in the Grand Final the Roosters' horse will fade, having been flogged too early, whilst the mighty Sea Eagles will come home strongly for the 2013 championship cup!
Naa, all remaining teams have a good shot, especially the Rabbits & Roosters - both deserved favourites with this very helpful week off, it'll be very tough for any other teams to prevent that Grand Final match-up.
The smart tips this week are Manly & Storm, but both thier opponents will turn up and pull out some surprising good plays I reckon.
There could be some pretty wild momentum swings and interesting bounces of the ball as the kicks in play will be a fair part of both games, Manly & the Storm both need to turn it on well and not underestimate who they are facing.
Should be some great footy, surely much better-officiated than in other recent games!
Would love to be there again for the Manly game this week (was grat atmosphere @ SFS last Sat night!), but simply cannot on this Fri night.
Go Sea Eagles & Knights this week!
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NRL 2013 TAB Sportsbet odds
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NRL Futures TAB Sportsbet odds 2013 Premiership Winner, for a $1.00 bet:
(@ 18 Jan / 28 Mar / 17 Apr / 13 Aug / 03 Sep / 09 Sep / 10 Sep / 20 Sep)
Storm - $5.50 / $4 / $3.50 / $3.50 / $3.50 / $3.50 / $4 / $5
Bulldogs - $6 / $7 / $15 / $9 / $15 / $17 / $15 / NA
Sea Eagles - $8 / $11 / $6 / $5 / $4.50 / $4.25 / $4.50 / $6
Rabbitohs - $8 / $5.50 / $5.50 / $5 / $3.25 / $3.75 / $3.75 / $3.25
Sharks - $9 / $15 / $34 / $34 / $34 / $34 / $21 / $17
Cowboys - $13 / $11 / $17 / $101 / $26 / $26 / $23 / NA
Knights - $15 / $11 / $13 / $41 / $51 / $51 / $41 / $15
Roosters - $15 / $11 / $7 / $3.50 / $4.50 / $4 / $3.75 / $3
Broncos - $17 / $21 / $15 / $81 / NA
Tigers - $17 / $26 / $101 / NA
Raiders - $26 / $26 / $17 / $81 / NA
Eels - $26 / $51 / $101 / NA
Warriors - $26 / $81 / $151 / $41 / $151 / NA
Dragons - $34 / $101 / $41 / NA
Titans - $51 / $34 / $34 / $151 / $501 / NA
Panthers - $67 / $67 / $251 / $501 / NA
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The Sportsbet top 8 @ mid Jan turned out to be the top 8 @ the end of the Home v Away season after round 26.
Will update this list every now and then.
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