Featured Tip from Mike Wilson

Pick Details

Sport / league:: NRL
Event / fixture:: Storm vs. Broncos
Event date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 at 7:45 PM
Market:: Line/Handicap
Tip:: Storm -8.0 @ 1.88 (Sportsbet)
Tip Result:: Win

There is plenty to play for when the Storm meet the Broncos this Friday with the Melbourne side aiming for a possible, all important top 4 place on the ladder which gives teams a guaranteed second chance if they lose in week 1 of the finals.
For the Broncos, it’s simply a matter of playing for a place in the top 8 altogether. They currently sit in 8th position but on equal points are the Warriors and Eels who trail the Broncos on for and against differential.
The Broncos could lose this match and still qualify for the finals or conversely win, and get bumped out of the 8 on for and against.
The Broncos have been playing good footy in recent weeks at home but unfortunately for them this all important match is played on the road in Melbourne a long way from home. They will need to overcome their mental demons which seem to haunt them on the road to an extent if they are to even get close to the Storm who have been slowly but surely building on their form week by week as they work their way towards the finals series.
I’ll be tipping the Storm here based on the harder, more intense brand of footy they have been playing compared to the Broncos. The Broncos have scored a lot of their points from free wielding backline movements run by the likes of Hunt, Barba and Hodges, with all three quite often involved in the one movement. However this time they will run into some solid outside Storm defence made up by Waqa, Koroibete, Fohnua and QLD representative Will Chambers who knows Justin Hodges’ type of play a lot better than most having played alongside him in State of Origin.
If the going gets tough, the Storm will endure the grind for longer and be able to pull away towards the end and I have confidence they will cover the 7.5 line (Sportsbet @ $1.88) by some margin.

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