Featured Tip from Mike Wilson

Pick Details

Sport / league:: NRL
Event / fixture:: Rabbitohs vs. Storm
Event date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 at 7:45 PM
Market:: Line/Handicap
Tip:: Storm +1.5 @ 1.94 (Sportsbet)
Tip Result:: Loss

The finals are here!
I don’t know about you but I’m feeling like a kid at Christmas thanks to the look of the games on offer this weekend.
First up is the Rabbitohs hosting the reigning premiers the Storm at ANZ Stadium and the men from South Sydney are well aware that they haven’t beaten the Storm in over 3 years. The 3 losses include 2 losses this year and 1 loss in last years’ first week of finals. In fact in the Storm’s 16 year history the Rabbitohs have only beaten them 3 times.
The Rabbitohs have all the talent in the world but it’s up to them to get all positions working in sync in order to be the force that saw them fire their way to 2nd on the ladder. When they are on their game they are hard to stop but last week the Roosters showed us how to exploit the Rabbitohs defence up the middle of the field and there is no question that Storm Coach Craig Bellamy would have picked up on this.
Whatever plan Bellamy and his leading men come up with I’m sure it will be the right one. The Storm have really come on strong since the State of Origin period passed us by and the big difference has been the improvement of the fringe players both in the forwards and the backs. Just look at the likes of winger Sisa Waqa and forwards Kevin Proctor and Tohu Harris who are all twice the men they were in Round 1.
Some of you might argue that the Storm finished the season with sub-par performances in Rounds 25 and 26 against the Sea Eagles and Titans respectively but the fact is that neither game was one they desperately needed to win and I don’t believe their efforts were at 100% for either contest.
My money is on the Storm to cause a so called upset and I’ll be adding the +1.5 line for a touch of field goal protection.

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