Friday second NRL Round 13 match is between Manly Sea Eagles and Canterbury Bulldogs with the opening kick to commence at 19:45 local time. The game is to be played at Brookvale Oval which see’s home team Manly Sea Eagles hold favouritism in the market. View our NRL live scores, odds and results for the game between Manly Sea Eagles and Canterbury Bulldogs.
Where and when : 19:45 | Friday 06/06/2014 @ Brookvale Oval
Odds Comparison:
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| Manly Sea Eagles | 1.70 | 1.70 | 1.73 | 1.70 | 1.70 | 1.75 |
| Canterbury Bulldogs | 2.20 | 2.20 | 2.15 | 2.20 | 2.20 | 2.10 |
All odds are subject to change. Odds listed are correct at the time of the latest update.
Preview :
SEA EAGLES
The Sea Eagles suffered their biggest loss of the season when defeated 30 – 10 by the Broncos last Sunday at Suncorp.
The Sea Eagles welcomed back both Kieran Foran and Jamie Lyon from injury but were without half-back Daley Cherry-Evans and Forward Anthony Watmough who both succumbed to injuries sustained in the Game I of the State Of Origin.
The Sea Eagles were on the back foot early and after only sixteen minutes, found themselves behind 14 nil and under pressure to produce points from the start, highlighted Cherry-Evans absence.
Cherry-Evans and Watmough, have been named in the side for this week’s clash.
Only a last minute field goal against the struggling Newcastle has prevented the Sea Eagles from losing their last three matches.
It was this time last year that the Sea Eagles find themselves in a mid-season slump, where from six games, they won one.
They’ve only loss consecutive matches once since then and will be keen to remedy last week’s performance back at home against the current competition leaders.
BULLDOGS
The Bulldogs produced a spirited performance minus their Origin stars when facing the Roosters in round 11 despite the score-line reading 32 – 12 against them.
At half-time, the Bulldogs who were without regular halves pairing (Hodkinson and Reynolds) along with strike centre Josh Morris, were within two points of their opponents (8 – 10) and it was only three tries to the Roosters inside of the last fifteen minutes, that blew the score-line out.
It was their first loss since Penrith defeated them in Round 3 but with the bye last week, and back to a full roster for this game, the Bulldogs will be looking to jump straight back into the winner’s stall.
The Origin victory will be an enormous boost to the Canterbury halves who will be unfazed at Brookvale after facing the wrath of a Queensland crowd.
It could be the catalyst for both players to take their respective games to a higher level again and with the Canterbury already in good form and leading the comp, that spells danger to opposing sides.
HEAD TO HEAD
Manly has lost three of their last four matches against the Bulldogs and both games that were played at Brookvale during that time by margins of eight, and two points.
Only one of the last five matches has been decided by a margin of greater than ten points and from the same five matches, only once has the total match score exceeded 32 points.
With Manly stinging from their loss and with Canterbury only scoring more than 21 points once in their last seven games (against the struggling Dragons), there’s no reason to think that this won’t be another game to follow the recent pattern.
CANTERBURY 1 – 12
Teams:
Sea Eagles: Brett Stewart, Jorge Taufua, Jamie Lyon, Steve Matai, Peta Hiku, Kieran Foran, Daly Cherry-Evans, Josh Starling, Matt Ballin, Brenton Lawrence, Anthony Watmough, Justin Horo, Jamie Buhrer. Interchange: Jesse Sene-Lefao, Dunamis Lui, Tom Symonds, Jason King, Jack Littlejohn
Bulldogs: Sam Perrett, Mitch Brown, Chase Stanley, Timoteo Lafai, Krisnan Inu, Josh Reynolds, Trent Hodkinson, Aiden Tolman, Michael Ennis, James Graham, Josh Jackson, Tony Williams, Greg Eastwood. Interchange: Dale Finucane, Tim Browne, David Klemmer, Sam Kasiano
News :
Canberra coach Ricky Stuart has vowed not to take his foot off the recruitment accelerator despite James Tedesco joining a growing list of NRL stars to spurn the club’s lucrative advances.
The Wests Tigers’ fullback on Wednesday reneged on three-year-deal worth around $600,000 a season with the Raiders, just days before the round-13 deadline, to remain with his mates at the joint venture.
It follows the decision of Melbourne’s Kevin Proctor to stay at the Storm, Josh Mansour remaining at Penrith, Canterbury skipper Michael Ennis leaning towards Cronulla, and Anthony Milford confirming he’s off to Brisbane.
However, Stuart said the “disappointing recruitment results” would not alter the club’s commitment to developing a successful NRL team in the future.
“We will continue to push forward with an aggressive recruitment program that’s aimed at bringing deserved success to a great football club,” Stuart said in a statement.
In what could be construed as a veiled parting swipe at one or more players who rejected the Raiders, Stuart said they were only after people who “shared our vision and who will have pride in our jersey”.
“These disappointments have only added to our resolve to achieve our goals,” he said.
Stuart said when he joined the Raiders, he identified the need to recruit players in key positions to strengthen the playing roster.
“Despite the recent disappointments of losing players whom we had identified to fulfil these roles, I want to assure, in particular, our members and fans, stakeholders and the Canberra community that we will continue to push forward,” he said.
“I am fortunate to have such a strong and supportive board and management, an extremely talented and experienced coaching and high performance team and a wonderful group of players who want to be successful.”
Canberra great Alan Tongue said the spate of turned down offers would hurt the club’s reputation in the short term.
But he said they’d bounce back as long as they kept the faith in their juniors and remained focused on their next recruitment drive.
Tongue added the round-13 contract deadline needed to be scrapped – even though it enabled the Raiders to keep Josh Papalii last year.
“It’s not a great look for the game,” he said.
Fellow Canberra great Gary Belcher said it was the publicity surrounding the Mansour and Tedesco signings, triggered by an airport sighting, that most hurt the Raiders.
“There’s other clubs doing the same thing without the fanfare,” he said.
“By announcing (Tedesco’s) signing a week out, they were trying to help attract other players, but it hasn’t worked.
“That’s just the nature of the beast.”