Storm warning: can't split 'em, but tipping smiling assassin to break deadlock
Evenly-matched teams coached by mad people and mates - this is gonna be good.
Good Magic Round Match-of-the-Day Morning all!
Crackerjack day here in Brisvegas, and looking forward to a schooner and a steak at the Lord Alfred on Caxton St prior to the big one, Raiders and Storm, rightfully the match-of-the-day after curtain raisers between Bulldogs and Titans, Broncos and Panthers.
Should be a belter.
They’re missing and will miss Harry Grant, he is a beaut. But there are still many hard men and weapons in purple who’ll scrap at every play like berserkers, as their coach Craig Bellamy demands.
Our man Ricky Stuart has plenty of this, call it mongrel, too, and whoever’s trained our people in the off-season and beyond has them fitter than so many green trout. They look better, harder and go for longer than Raiders teams of recent years, and other teams in this National Rugby League.
Some cracking match-ups: Savelio Tamale vs Xavier Coates. Cameron Munster vs Ethan Strange. The very excellent Jahrome Hughes vs Kaeo Weekes, good luck son, reckon there’s a bomb or two comin.
Nothing much in the forwards, outside Grant, though I like our mobile middles over theirs. Like our bench, just, also.
Want a tip? Half-time draw. And then Golden Point. And the dearly end-of-season-departed Jamal Fogarty to win the crap shoot, and win the game 23-22 with a droppie, up The Milk!
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In other news, there’s a signed copy of The Milk and a year-long subscription to this electronic journal for anyone with a ticket into the games today, the author didn’t get one, a long boring story, unlike the Milk which is grouse, talk to me via this medium or email.
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