NRL Season Thread

Wow, my Tigers did not show up 2H. Ah well, thank you Sportsbet for refunding if your team scores 18 points or more and losses. I will count this as a loss on my total for the year but I got a refund back because of Sportsbet Round 1 & 2 refunds.

2-1 for the Week. +1.86 units

Monday Night Football: Sharks vs Titans: Titans H2H - $2.05

Well after speaking with Snake today about this game, he has convinced me to take the Titans + I have big wraps on them doing very well this season with their team. Sharks have new coach, no Carney, no Robson, No Lewis and its a tough ask given the HB role to Holdsworth who has not played in the NRL for 3-4 years. The line opened up at -4 Sharks at the start of the week, not its down to -1 Sharks so I will follow this line and take Titans for the win S/U. I also saw the total's line move form 38- 39.5 which IMO means that the books are possibly thinking of a high scoring game. Why increase the totals line and decrease the ATS line? I think we see something like 24-18 Titans win.

Every man and his dog is on the Titans. The line has been doing nothing but dropping since the news of Carney, Ryan etc etc are all out.

This game as Ace would say has AIDS all over it.

Thanks Snake, I also noticed that you had a very good weekend as well. Congrats mate.

Any leans for Round Two? Im really liking Raiders +6 vs Knights in Newcastle. The Knights have been hit massively by injuries and the Raiders. The only thing that scares me is the Raiders record at Marathon stadium

Brisbane Broncos vs NQ Cowboys: Cowboys -2 @ $1.92

Yes the Broncos won last weekend against the Dogs and their defense was excellent but the Dogs don't have much firepower with only Reynolds/Hodkinson. Now they face Thurston/Lui. Both forward packs match up well but I think this game is going to be won in the halves and outside backs. The Broncos have a lot of inexperienced players and the Cowboys have a great back line. Also, I really like how Kostjasyn played last week for the Cowboys. I really like the Cowboys bench as well with T Sims, Kostjasyn, Bolton, Hall and A Sims. I just think JT will rule the roast in this game and the Broncos defense might be exposed to a much better firepower than they had last week with the Dogs.

Prediction: 24-12 Cowboys.

Season: 4-6 (not the start I was looking for).

Round 3

Broncos vs Roosters: Broncos +6

Will take a home dog with a line like this. Yes the Roosters smashed the Eels last week but that was a bounce back game after their poor effort against the Rabbits the week before. The Broncos forward is big and strong and so are the Roosters. The young guns of the Broncos have been doing very well. These teams only met once last year and the Roosters won 8-0 in Sydney. I think this game is going to be brutal and low scoring and will take the extra points for the home dog.