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Sunday 13th September
4:05pm
Sunshine Coast Stadium, Sunshine Coast

2nd vs 14th.

A mismatch on paper, but there is never an easy win in the NRL.

Last three meetings;
Rd 25 2019 Win - Storm 24 - Cowboys 16
Rd 5 2019 Win - Storm 18 - Cowboys 12
Round 12 2018 Win - Storm 7 - Cowboys 6
TOTAL - Storm 49 - Cowboys 34

Form Guide (Last 5 Games)
Storm
W - Storm 22 - Rabbitohs 16
W - Storm 30 - Sea Eagles 6
L - Storm 0 - Eels 14
W - Storm 24 - Roosters 6
W - Storm 41 - Bulldogs 10
4 Wins & 1 Loss - 117 - 52
23.4 points per game For
10.4 points per game Against

Cowboys
W - Cowboys 23 - Dragons 22
L - Cowboys 12 - Sharks 28
L - Cowboys 0 - Knights 12
L - Cowboys 30 - Rabbitohs 31
L - Cowboys 10 - Titans 30
1 Win & 4 Losses - 75 - 123
15 points per game For
24.6 points per game Against

Love the stats.

Just hope the boys are switched on early, there's been a few games this season where its taken 15-20 to get into it. We can't afford that in finals.

Christian Welch has pleaded No Contest to the Dangerous Contact charge and will miss a week.

This means he has no carry-over points as we head into the last couple of games before Finals. A strategic move and probably the right call from a risk perspective.

Yeah, probably a smart move - he looked like he could've done with a week off anyway after getting pretty banged up.

Yeah agree with that too, re Welch. A week off might help him freshen up a bit before finals too.

And stop the cut on his head from opening up every week .

Very smart move. I did not even know could do that. I thought he would have to go through the charade of fighting the charge. This saves everyone’s time.

We've been way smarter with how we've dealt with charges this season imo.

No Contest is the same result as fighting the charge and losing.

For Jesse's case earlier this year, we appeared to have a solid case and challenging was the right call (despite incompetence of the overall system).

I think in this case for Welch, I assume the club feels lucky to just have received a Dangerous Contact charge and won't fight that. If he was a reasonable chance of getting off, you would fight it because the result is the same. Very likely that it is just not worth the time/cost/resources in this case.

blazza18 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:43 pm We've been way smarter with how we've dealt with charges this season imo.

I agree.

I’m getting the feeling we could have a debut this week Aaron Pene

or maybe I’m reading too much into videos and photos lately ...who knows

If we're going to give him a chance it'll be in the next week or two so maybe

Storm took the no contest to reduce the number of HIAs this week.

Welch wad involved in both Jesse and Darryn's HIAs.

Team List Tuesday! Keen to see the list this week and each week as we head towards Finals to see who may be coming back from injury.

I assume Leutele gets named in the 21 this week (and may jag a bench spot). Hoping Tui isn't far away either.