We would have loved to have witnessed the bake served to the West Tigers' playing group from coach Cleary after their demoralising loss to the Raiders in Round 15.
By all reports it was one of the best you will ever see, with Ivan Cleary’s spittle projecting many metres to find the back wall of the Campbelltown Stadium sheds.
Suspect this vitriol continued through to the Tuesday video session and beyond, and will be telling this week.
This column is always in favour of a match profile where the home team suffered a demoralising loss and the visitor is coming in off the back of a win with their tail well up, and the West Tigers v Titans presents exactly that.
No doubting the excellent football Gold Coast played against the Dogs at Belmore prior to the Origin break, where the celebration would have been long and hard, being their first win on the road in a long time.
Wins in this style often breed complacency however and there is a huge chance their woeful road form returns here at Leichhardt Oval.
The mug money for Gold Coast is all that is holding up this market for now and when liquidity presents on the exchange and the corporate bookies increase limits closer to kick off, the professional money will be active, crushing the Tigers' price head-to-head and at the line.
Betting already shows a strong lean towards the West Tigers -5.5 line which has been backed into $1.80. Expect that to be backed even further with a handicap move likely to go off at 6.5 or bigger.
A home Leichhardt crowd simply won’t accept defeat here and if the playing group don’t react, the social media trolls could have a few of them looking up the number for Lifeline.
Bet now, before the line moves!
NRL Betting Tip: West Tigers to cover the -5.5 line @ $1.80
Jun 28, 2018 01:18 PM
NRL Betting Tip: West Tigers to cover the -5.5 line @ $1.80
