We will lose by 50

[Geo]

I love it…so many mocks on the Invincible Wickey's Waiders..

Keep em coming....

 

[larrycorowa]

We will bounce back….tough game though. If Moses and co don't step up they will start knocking zeros off their potential contracts. Bigger bench will help.

 

[innsaneink]

Not confident… We should be paying $4+ h2h

 

[strrretch]

If the team has any balls here's the chance for payback for last years pathetic effort. Any team is floggable on any given week in this comp.

 

[westTAHger]

c'mon everyone, we all the know the final score will be :bulb: :
wests tigers **25**
raiders **18**
sure they played crap :blush: , it's now up to them to turn it around. 😛ray:

 

[supercoach]

Take your Weststigers glasses off and but your bookmakers glasses on and there is only one possible result and it will not be pretty
The form Guide reads

last run..failed to impress and showed very little ability
last time run on this track….finished 60 lengths behind the winner
last time they met....finished 50 lengths behind the winner

Once again a step up in class and very hard to see them even in the straight with the winner..save your money for a better contest (might not be in 2017)

 

[TrueTiger]

Take your Weststigers glasses off and but your bookmakers glasses on and there is only one possible result and it will not be pretty
The form Guide reads

last run..failed to impress and showed very little ability
last time run on this track….finished 60 lengths behind the winner
last time they met....finished 50 lengths behind the winner

Once again a step up in class and very hard to see them even in the straight with the winner..save your money for a better contest (might not be in 2017)

I love to have a punt on a long shot at times,and this week I will have something on the WTs….
If Brooks can find the vision out there to place his kicks deep and keep the Raiders on the back foot would be a start toward winning,if he takes the smart options on the last and runs the ball more when the opportunity is there,then the side may just get in the groove to play their backsides off..Brooks and Moses must finally step up and play like two great playmakers they are hyped up to be,if not then I don't care to much about the team this year because we will not be NRL finals contenders with what we have atm...

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Everything points to us copping a thundercocking, but you can never 100% write a team off. I'll certainly tip Canberra in the tipping comps but we're a special for at least one upset a year.

 

[magpiecol]

This place is full of snowflakes!

Only round 3 for God's sake. Not worth losing sleep over.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

This place is full of snowflakes!

Only round 3 for God's sake. Not worth losing sleep over.

First time I've heard someone call people snowflakes for being realistic.

Pray tell have you ever commented to offer an opinion or insight, or do you only ever pop up to take pot shots from the peanut gallery?

 

[Flippedy]

So, who is going to be as silly as I was last year and waste hundreds of dollars on tickets, hotel, petrol money to see your team get beaten by 50?

I work Sunday mornings but if I can get it done by midday I'm a chance of making it from the city to Bruce stadium in time for kickoff. I'll see how I'm feeling Sunday morning and whether my wife's keen for a road trip. If it's a sunny day it'll be fun.

Cosimo, Jonathan save yourselves the heartache (and the money spent) guys and stay home!!! Even if we play close to our best I still don't think we can match it with Canberra. They have our number and they know how to roll right through us.

If anyone is thinking our toilet paper defence is going to be miraculously stronger in just one week then they're deluded!

 

[Flippedy]

This place is full of snowflakes!

Only round 3 for God's sake. Not worth losing sleep over.

First time I've heard someone call people snowflakes for being realistic.

Pray tell have you ever commented to offer an opinion or insight, or do you only ever pop up to take pot shots from the peanut gallery?

Where's that 'like' button when you need it? :neutral_face:

 

[TrueTiger]

So, who is going to be as silly as I was last year and waste hundreds of dollars on tickets, hotel, petrol money to see your team get beaten by 50?

I work Sunday mornings but if I can get it done by midday I'm a chance of making it from the city to Bruce stadium in time for kickoff. I'll see how I'm feeling Sunday morning and whether my wife's keen for a road trip. If it's a sunny day it'll be fun.

Cosimo, Jonathan save yourselves the heartache (and the money spent) guys and stay home!!! Even if we play close to our best I still don't think we can match it with Canberra. They have our number and they know how to roll right through us.

If anyone is thinking our toilet paper defence is going to be miraculously stronger in just one week then they're deluded!

Well Flip,you can call me deluded and crazy if you like,however,Iam willing to make the call now regarding our game against the Raiders…..WTs 24 Raiders 14...
I'm basing my prediction on the facts of last week..let me expand..
1.the Simona drama addressed to the playing group on the morning of a big home game..mentally unsettled them...
2.32 degree heat will make playing to your best extremely hard so early in the season...I was there and it was bloody hot...
3.the errors that were absolutely simple,like losing the ball over the line,not scoring because of a forward pass,Brooks rifling a pass at Idris that hard and fast close to him,Superman wouldn't have held it..

So these few summations have me thinking ,if the team can be in a good frame of mind and go into the game with clear gameplans and stick to them,they may produce something special that may make them a bit of a force for the season,if your a good team and in a good frame of mind winning becomes that little bit easier without the excess baggage.....?

 

[jirskyr]

Its not impossible. Remember last year when the raiders put 60 on us. Everyone was predicting souths to steamroll over us the next week, but we got one over them.
Its the type of game we win.

I'll say it right now, it's impossible. We won't get to within 30 points of the Raiders on Sunday, they'll have a training run against us.

What odds willow? Nothing is impossible!

Sharkies got Cowboys two years ago at around $12, then almost got Roosters a week later at $10.

 

[Flippedy]

So, who is going to be as silly as I was last year and waste hundreds of dollars on tickets, hotel, petrol money to see your team get beaten by 50?

I work Sunday mornings but if I can get it done by midday I'm a chance of making it from the city to Bruce stadium in time for kickoff. I'll see how I'm feeling Sunday morning and whether my wife's keen for a road trip. If it's a sunny day it'll be fun.

Cosimo, Jonathan save yourselves the heartache (and the money spent) guys and stay home!!! Even if we play close to our best I still don't think we can match it with Canberra. They have our number and they know how to roll right through us.

If anyone is thinking our toilet paper defence is going to be miraculously stronger in just one week then they're deluded!

Well Flip,you can call me deluded and crazy if you like,however,Iam willing to make the call now regarding our game against the Raiders…..WTs 24 Raiders 14...
I'm basing my prediction on the facts of last week..let me expand..
1.the Simona drama addressed to the playing group on the morning of a big home game..mentally unsettled them...
2.32 degree heat will make playing to your best extremely hard so early in the season...I was there and it was bloody hot...
3.the errors that were absolutely simple,like losing the ball over the line,not scoring because of a forward pass,Brooks rifling a pass at Idris that hard and fast close to him,Superman wouldn't have held it..

So these few summations have me thinking ,if the team can be in a good frame of mind and go into the game with clear gameplans and stick to them,they may produce something special that may make them a bit of a force for the season,if your a good team and in a good frame of mind winning becomes that little bit easier without the excess baggage.....?

I already knew you were crazy and deluded before this post, TT - you actually think you're gonna win the tipping comp! :laughing:

If I may respond to your 3 points - 1\. Penrith had their own unsettling week leading into the match coming off the back of a terrible loss to St George and the whole Cartwright incident blowing up in the media. 2\. Ahh…Penrith played in the exact same heat :unamused: Point 3\. I will grant you, we did seem to have a lot of bad luck and missed opportunities that could've turned the game around completely had we been able to hold onto the ball over the line, but don't underestimate Penrith's defence as being a major reason why we failed to convert our opportunities into points - they were up and in on us from the start of the game and their goal line defence was desperate, unlike ours.

In the end, Penrith basically rolled us up the middle, got good field position and virtually strolled though our non-existent defence out wide at will - and unless there has been some sort of defensive miracle take place at Concord this week, I'm expecting Canberra to do the exact same thing. You can't play what you haven't got.

 

[happy_tiger]

Always hard to win in Canberra much less when the home team have lost two on the trot but I wouldn't write us off just yet. Leaving aside the Penrith teams undeniable good form against us it's hard to imagine the Simona fiasco and the garbage that appeared in newspapers just before the Penrith game would not have had some kind of adverse effect on our teams attitude last weekend. Simply disgusting how the Telegraph and its talentless drones are exploiting a very sad situation to sell their crap publications. Does anyone think these creeps give a damn about Tim's well being running these articles?

Remember Tim did the interview

He could have set it up for a Monday or Bye week …...

Probably proves how desperate he was for cash .....

 

[Guest]

Its not impossible. Remember last year when the raiders put 60 on us. Everyone was predicting souths to steamroll over us the next week, but we got one over them.
Its the type of game we win.

I'll say it right now, it's impossible. We won't get to within 30 points of the Raiders on Sunday, they'll have a training run against us.

What odds willow? Nothing is impossible!

Sharkies got Cowboys two years ago at around $12, then almost got Roosters a week later at $10.

We won't get close to the Raiders, we don't have the defensive game to stop Canberra in the middle and with hard running outside backs like Leilua, Rapana and Wighton who generally put them on the front foot…nup, we're on a hiding to nothing this weekend.

 

[everett8]

Canberra love playing us as their big pack can steam roll us.

If we could not beat them at home last year in the game that would have seen us playing semi finals then can't see anything but a huge defeat.

We will play them back into form.

Another shocker from Moses and Brooks would see their market value to move South.

 

[TrueTiger]

I work Sunday mornings but if I can get it done by midday I'm a chance of making it from the city to Bruce stadium in time for kickoff. I'll see how I'm feeling Sunday morning and whether my wife's keen for a road trip. If it's a sunny day it'll be fun.

Cosimo, Jonathan save yourselves the heartache (and the money spent) guys and stay home!!! Even if we play close to our best I still don't think we can match it with Canberra. They have our number and they know how to roll right through us.

If anyone is thinking our toilet paper defence is going to be miraculously stronger in just one week then they're deluded!

Well Flip,you can call me deluded and crazy if you like,however,Iam willing to make the call now regarding our game against the Raiders…..WTs 24 Raiders 14...
I'm basing my prediction on the facts of last week..let me expand..
1.the Simona drama addressed to the playing group on the morning of a big home game..mentally unsettled them...
2.32 degree heat will make playing to your best extremely hard so early in the season...I was there and it was bloody hot...
3.the errors that were absolutely simple,like losing the ball over the line,not scoring because of a forward pass,Brooks rifling a pass at Idris that hard and fast close to him,Superman wouldn't have held it..

So these few summations have me thinking ,if the team can be in a good frame of mind and go into the game with clear gameplans and stick to them,they may produce something special that may make them a bit of a force for the season,if your a good team and in a good frame of mind winning becomes that little bit easier without the excess baggage.....?

I already knew you were crazy and deluded before this post, TT - you actually think you're gonna win the tipping comp! :laughing:

If I may respond to your 3 points - 1\. Penrith had their own unsettling week leading into the match coming off the back of a terrible loss to St George and the whole Cartwright incident blowing up in the media. 2\. Ahh…Penrith played in the exact same heat :unamused: Point 3\. I will grant you, we did seem to have a lot of bad luck and missed opportunities that could've turned the game around completely had we been able to hold onto the ball over the line, but don't underestimate Penrith's defence as being a major reason why we failed to convert our opportunities into points - they were up and in on us from the start of the game and their goal line defence was desperate, unlike ours.

In the end, Penrith basically rolled us up the middle, got good field position and virtually strolled though our non-existent defence out wide at will - and unless there has been some sort of defensive miracle take place at Concord this week, I'm expecting Canberra to do the exact same thing. You can't play what you haven't got.

Thanks for the kind words Flip…..in response ....WTs players were informed about everything Simona was accused of the morning of a big home game...that would have affected them somewhat...Penrith adapted better to the weather conditions than what we did,and it told after 20 mins...
If Brooks plays a smarter role this week,including last tackle options,kicking to the corners and keeping the Raiders on the back foot,running the ball at good opportunities and generally leading the team around the park with Moses,then maybe Teddy and others will follow suit,they just need good opportunity and Brooks must provide that with Moses..the team also has to lift immensely on handling errors and simple mistakes that the unders 10 s would do eg,dropping the ball over the line and forward passing...and most of all they all must produce the heart to have a deadset go to show us they are NRL players...

 

[barra]

Negativity aside

I think our best way to win this game is to run them raggered. We obviously can't compete in the forwards. So a lot of 2nd phase, unstructured footy is probably needed and a heavy flow of possession

If we get them fatigued unleash Teddy, Moses, Nofo and co to do their thing

Cronulla aren't exactly a big team like us either but used this game plan and it worked to their advantage

All in all, I'll be happy if we are atleast competitive in defeat

Add to that a high completion rate and excellent kicking game - and kick chase.

So many 'ifs' for us to be competitive… while the only one for them is 'if' they play to their usual form!

I usually go to watch this game but I am still mentally scarred from the last two times we played at Canberra - neither time did we look like we thought we could win or cared enough to put in 100%.

Will likely give it a swerve this time.