Wests Tigers
0
Match Complete
Raiders
28
| 75 |  | J. Croker | ||
| 73 |  | A. Sezer | ||
| 64 | | J. Croker | ||
| 39 | | J. Croker | ||
| 39 | | J. Bateman | ||
| 36 | | J. Croker | ||
| 35 | | J. Rapana | ||
| 4 | | J. Croker | ||
| 3 | | B. Simonsson |
| 0 | Tries | 5 | ||
| 0 | Conversions | 4 | ||
| 0 | Penalty Goals | 0 | ||
| 0 | Field Goals | 0 |
Round 13 of the NRL season continues this Friday evening, with the Wests Tigers hosting the Canberra Raiders in their first home game at Bankwest Stadium. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match, starting from 7:55pm AEST.
After consecutive losses to the Storm and Rabbitohs, the West Tigers welcomed the bye last weekend and the chance to re-group ahead of the run in to the finals. A further loss to the Canberra Raiders may seem them start to lose touch with the top eight.
State of Origin hasn’t hit the Tigers that hard, with only Moses Mbye backing up from Wednesday night.
Mbye has been named at fullback and will play as long as he recovers well from Origin. Corey Thompson moves to the wing and David Nofoaluma drops out of the 17.
Chris Lawrence has been named in the No.20 jersey and it wouldn’t surprise to see him run out at Bankwest Stadium.
So far, so good for the Raiders this Origin period, with a tight win over the Bulldogs last Saturday night, without a host of their star players.
After losses against the Roosters, Rabbits and the Cowboys, the Raiders were desperate for a win and Ricky Stuart would have been happy how his under-strength team held off the fast-finishing Bulldogs.
The cavalry returns this weekend, with Jack Wighton, Nick Cotric and Josh Papalii all named to back up from Origin. Jordan Rapana also makes his return from injury after missing 3 games.
Corey Horsburgh drops out with injury with Emre Guler replacing the suspended Hudson Young on the bench.
Prediction
The Tigers were two-point winners against the Raiders the last time the two sides played in the later stages of the 2018 season, but prior to that, the Raiders had won the previous four games by blow out scores.
While I do expect this game to be tighter than that, with Josh Hodgson’s absence a factor, I feel the Raiders just have more points in them than the Tigers do.
Canberra Raiders by 8.
When: 7:55pm AEST
Where: Bankwest Stadium
TV: Nine, Fox League
Online: NRL Live, Foxtel app or Foxtel now
Betting: Wests Tigers: $1.90; Canberra Raiders: $1.90
Wests Tigers
1. Moses Mbye 2. Robert Jennings 3. Paul Momirovski 4. Esan Marsters 5. Corey Thompson 6. Benji Marshall 7. Luke Brooks 8. Ben Matulino 9. Robbie Farah 10. Alex Twal 11. Ryan Matterson 12. Chris McQueen 13. Matt Eisenhuth
Interchange: 14. Jacob Liddle 15. Thomas Mikaele 16. Josh Aloiai 17. Michael Chee-Kam
Canberra Raiders
1. Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad 2. Bailey Simonsson 3. Jarrod Croker 4. Nick Cotric 5. Jordan Rapana 6. Jack Wighton 7. Sam Williams 8. Josh Papalii 9. Siliva Havili 10. Dunamis Lui 11. John Bateman 12. Elliott Whitehead 13. Joseph Tapine
Interchange: 14. Tom Starling 15. Emre Guler 16. Iosia Soliola 17. Ryan Sutton
Farmer Geddon
Guest
Was wondering that. Never saw it this week at all. Hopefully the away teams rule this weekend.
Richard POWELL
Roar Rookie
Where is the expert tips page? Seems to have been taken down. Interested to see Crowd tips.
Arthur Faulks
Guest
Lived in Helena Street, Lilyfield from 1970 and again l changed channel after down 0_10. What a load of rubbish. Having followed from then and now living in Yanchep, Western Australia the team commitment is non commit. If we could go back to Leichhardt Oval as historically great.
Sean Andrew Ticehurst
Guest
Funny I am a Tigers supporter but don't really watch this m anymore. At the end of the day we can't win the premiership with what we have got so not interested in watching a team play mediocre football again.
David Holden
Roar Guru
Hope you enjoyed the call and hope you have great long weekend. I will be back on Sunday night with coverage of the men's singles final at the French Open. Good night
David Holden
Roar Guru
The Tigers are dangerously close to sliding out of contention this year and need to get their season back on track against the Cowboys in Townsville next weekend
Paul
Guest
Woeful. Tigers played like it was a training run, if only there were divisions, because the should be relegated. Only a couple of players deserve credit and as always Corey Thompson and one other is David Nofaluma.
David Holden
Roar Guru
The Raiders will climb to 4th on the ladder, with their for and against just better than Newcastle. They take on the Sharks next Thursday in Canberra where we understand Shaun Johnson will make his return for the Sharks
David Holden
Roar Guru
FT The Raiders have proved way too good for the Tigers tonight with a 28-0 win. The halves pairing of Wighton and Sezer came out on top, with the Raiders pack dominating as the game went on. Sezer's intercept try was fitting at the end. The Tigers tried hard but didn't have the class to challenge the Raiders defence, which was brilliant in patches tonight. Ricky will be really happy that the Tigers were kept to nil Tigers 0 Raiders 28
David Holden
Roar Guru
80' 30 seconds left on the clock and the Raiders will close this out. Croker takes the last tackle and the Raiders have been too good tonight. FULL TIME Tigers 0 Raiders 28
Dutski
Roar Guru
Yup. Brain fade from the refs there.
Cugel
Roar Rookie
That's a new one to me, Raiders out on the full on the first tackle is a turnover?
Dutski
Roar Guru
How was that a handover to the Tigers. Surely if Sezer played at it and it’s out on the full it’s a scrum with a Tigers feed?
David Holden
Roar Guru
79' Tigers go right, Nofoaluma gets into some space but he is hit by a wave of Raiders players and has no chance Tigers 0 Raiders 28
David Holden
Roar Guru
79' Play has stopped with Mikaele being treated. He's good to go Tigers 0 Raiders 28
David Holden
Roar Guru
77' Marsters makes a half break. Brooks goes left and throw the dummy. Mbye's kick is played at by Sezer and the Tigers have a repeat set Tigers 0 Raiders 28
David Holden
Roar Guru
76' Lui brings it back from the kickoff. Wighton clears early and has just missed out on a 40/20 Tigers 0 Raiders 28
75
Doc79
Roar Rookie
Intercepted like secrets by a Chinese telco.
David Holden
Roar Guru
75' CONVERSION RAIDERS Croker's conversion is good Tigers 0 Raiders 28