QUALIFYING FINAL - Storm vs Rabbitohs

[steaming stormer]

You realise plenty will turn up tonight and buy tickets. Not everyone prebooks.

Definitely some, but finals walk ups are not generally big. Also... the person I know was high in Consumer business, has a solid understanding of crowd behaviour at Storm games. I'd like to see 17 still, but it would appear the internal thoughts now are closer to 15.

I really hope it's wrong, don't get me wrong, and we'll just have to make sure it gets loud!

[storminghome]

Well done to the NRL for stuffing up our crowd numbers tonite. Give yourself an uppercut

[blazza18]

There wasn't too much the NRL could do with the scheduling for this week because of short turnarounds and a venue already being booked for Saturday. They screwed themselves months ago by having Brisbane play on a Sunday and not having foresight in predicting Souths being good.

[mystormboys]

I am hearing a crowd of 20,000

[storminghome]

We haven’t had the bounce of the ball or that extra bit of luck over the past month. If it turns for us then I can see us going through unbeaten to another Premiership.

[RobbieRoss]

Such a critical game, obviously. Your entire season virtually comes down to this. You work hard all year to put yourself in a position to win a top 2 spot. You don't want to squander that opportinity.

Win, get a week off and then enjoy a Home Prelim. Saloon passage to the GF.
Lose, you have to play an elimination Semi and then play away in a Prelim. Tough road to a GF win.

Side point - It's a great finals system (infinitely better than the McIntyre System) and rightly rewards those that finish higher in the home/away season. But of course if you don't capitalise on the advantage you have earned, it was all for nothing...

I agree on all counts. Crucial crucial game. I am experiencing an unhealthy level of pre-game jitters. The assuredness of last year has gone. This one feels like a coin-toss.

I love this finals system . The AFL and NRL both had McIntyre, and both discarded it. Am I right that one year we finished top , got beaten by the 8th team ( Warriors? ) then had to play week 2 away ? Two bites of the cherry at home is much better for top 2.

[Ice]

I'm not doubting your source for a second SS and sure it was around the mark numbers wise that he said but I still think we'll get the 17k-18k+ numbers.

Anyway as long as we win I couldn't care if it was two and a dog!

[yourhero]

Kas and Brandon in. Great selections IMO

[yourhero]

Final line-up;

1. Billy Slater
2. Suliasi Vunivalu
3. Cheyse Blair
4. Curtis Scott
5. Josh Addo-Carr
6. Cameron Munster
19. Brodie Croft
8. Jesse Bromwich
9. Cameron Smith ©
10. Tim Glasby
11. Felise Kaufusi
12. Joe Stimson
13. Dale Finucane

14. Brandon Smith
15. Christian Welch
17. Kenny Bromwich
20. Sam Kasiano

[Daeman]

Hoff out, didn't see that coming.

[Deadpool]

I'm liking the look of the team. Besides Chambers and NAS, our strongest possible lineup

[blazza18]

Good on Bellamy for making the tough call of not naming a bad player.

[yourhero]

Also glad that Brodie got the nod. We need a halfback.

[yourhero]

How good is the Storm team promo on Fox Sports! They’ve been running it for a week or so no. Love it.

[blazza18]

This is probably the lowest my expectations have been on the team since 2014.