Our experts check out the teams for NRL round 15 and offer their tips
PAUL Kent is the outright leader this week after picking six of the eight round 14 fixtures. It’s still close at the top and with only four matches this week the competition is wide open.
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PAUL Kent is the outright leader this week after picking six of the eight round 14 fixtures.
It’s still close at the top and with only four matches this week the competition is wide open.
Follow Phil Rothfield, Dean Ritchie, Rebecca Wilson, Paul Crawley, Barry Toohey, Christian Nicolussi, David Riccio, Nick Walshaw, James Phelps and Paul Kent throughout the season for advice and tips.
Have they got it right for round two or are some of them way off the mark?
ROUND 15 FIXTURES: Rabbitohs v Eels, Dragons v Storm, Warriors v Roosters, Titans v Sea Eagles.
Paul Kent's top tips:
Score so far: 73
No brainer: Warriors against an out of sorts Roosters.
Upset: Melbourne, without their stars, somehow still classify as an upset with the oddsmakers.
Coin toss: Hardest game to pick is Souths-Parra and trying to determine which version of each team will turn up.
David Riccio's top tips:
Score so far: 71
No brainer: Warriors. The Roosters are a shell of their former selves.
Upset: Eels. They shouldn't win this. Not with so much distraction and uncertainty surrounding the club. But Souths are missing GI and Adam Reynolds, which might just be enough to get Parra home.
Coin toss: Dragons. On paper, given Melbourne's Origin omissions, Saints should win. But Dragons fans will remember how lucky they were to beat an equally decimated Cowboys side ahead of Origin I.
Paul Crawley's top tips:
Score so far: 70
No brainer: Eels over Rabbitohs.
Upset: Storm without Origin stars.
Coin toss: Warriors v Roosters a tough call.
Barry Toohey's top tips:
Score so far: 70
No brainer: Is there one? On form, the Warriors should beat the Roosters but stranger things have happened.
Upset: I give the Eagles some hope with a couple of players back against the Titans without Greg Bird.
Coin toss: The Storm won't have Cameron Smith and Cooper Cronk but they will still worry the life out of the Dragons.
Nick Walshaw's top tips:
Score so far: 70
No brainer: Parramatta over a struggling Bunnies outfit.
Upset: Yep, you will be trying to find a good NRL outsider to back this weekend. None. Stick with the ponies.
Coin toss: Dragons/Storm.
James Phelps's top tips:
Score so far: 69
No brainer: The Warriors to roll on against the Roosters.
Upset: Not even sure what an upset is this round.
Coin toss: It's very hard to separate the Dragons and the Baby Storm. St George in a tight one.
Dean Ritchie's top tips:
Score so far: 69
No brainer: Warriors with plenty of momentum should run rings around the Roosters in NZ.
Upset: According to the bookmakers, the Storm are underdogs.
Coin toss: Titans to edge a Manly side that will bounce back from last week's meltdown.
Rebecca Wilson's top tips:
Score so far: 65
No brainer: Storm.
Upset: Rabbitohs.
Coin toss: Titans.
Phil Rothfield's top tips:
Score so far: 62
No brainer: Titans to knock off the Sea Eagles at home.
Upset: I'm tipping the Warriors but the Roosters will surely show a big improvement on last week.
Coin toss: Nothing between the Rabbitohs and the Eels on recent form.
Christian Nicolussi's top tips:
Score so far: 58
No brainer: There's no standout game. The Storm would come closest, especially with Cameron Munster in the form he is in.
Upset: Take the Sea Eagles to bounce back on the holiday strip. The return of Taupau and Lyon (and no DCE) is a bonus.
Coin toss: All of them. The return of SKD to the Chooks will be a huge bonus against a Warriors side who always lose when expected to win.
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