2022 NRL Round 8 Preview: Our Selections & Staking Plan
April 29, 2022
We’re back in round 8 where we have 7 selections in what looks to be a tricky round. We’ve got this week’s tips all ready to go for subscribers but if you haven’t joined yet you can get this week’s tips for FREE by joining now.
2022 Season Premium Tipping Results:
- Â Â 22 wins from 39 tips
- Â Â +8.6 Units Of Profit
- Â Â $860 Profit Based On $100 Units
- Â Â 56.4% Strike Rate
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GOLD COAST TITANS VS PENRITH PANTHERS –Â FRIDAY APRIL 29, 6:00PM, CBUS SUPER STADIUM
The Titans will need to produce a stunning form turnaround if they hope to end the Panthers’ unbeaten start to the season.
Coach Justin Holbrook has reshuffled his backline again. David Fifita’s centre experiment lasted just a week with Phillip Sami returning on the wing.
An assignment against Penrith couldn’t come at a worse time. The Panthers’ hunger and ruthlessness is incredible, going 7-0 with six wins by 14-plus points.
The Raiders put up a fight last Sunday but the Panthers ran away with it 36-6, with Nathan Cleary brilliant and Stephen Crichton grabbing three tries. Ivan Cleary has named the same 17 this week.
Penrith has won seven of its last eight against Gold Coast, including a 48-12 Magic Round drubbing in the teams’ sole 2021 clash, Cleary scored a hat-trick in a 28-point haul, while Charlie Staines notched a double.
- Â 3 units Panthers -18.5 @ $2.00 BET NOW
SOUTH SYDNEY RABBITOHS VS MANLY SEA EAGLES –Â FRIDAY APRIL 29, 7:55PM, CENTRAL COAST STADIUM
With both sides coming off losses there’s plenty of added spice in a contest that always brings out the best in the Rabbitohs and Sea Eagles.
It was a clunky performance overall from Souths in a 23-22 loss to the Tigers, with Cody Walker needing to take responsibility for the team’s direction alongside a young halfback and fullback.
A second-half rally saved Manly from a massive psychological blow at Cronulla last Thursday, but there will still be scars from the first-half massacre in a 34-22 defeat that ended a handy four-match winning streak.
The Rabbitohs prevailed 26-12 at Brookvale in Round 2 last year and swamped the Sea Eagles 36-16 in the prelim final.
- Â 2 units Sea Eagles +4.5 @ $2.00 BET NOW
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NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS VS CANBERRA RAIDERS –Â SATURDAY APRIL 30, 3:00PM, MORETON DAILY STADIUM
The Warriors and Raiders ran into the NRL’s two benchmark teams in round seven and came away with demoralising defeats by 60 and 30 points respectively.
Canberra is on a four-match slide, culminating in a 36-6 loss at Penrith in which the Raiders competed for 55 minutes.
The Raiders are among the weaker attacking sides this season and are averaging just 13.4 points. Elliott Whitehead is a key inclusion this week.
The Raiders have won five of their last six against the Warriors away from Canberra. Last season the Warriors overturned a 21-point deficit to edge the empty-bench Raiders 34-31 at GIO Stadium but the Green Machine returned the favour in Mackay, winning 28-16 with two tries in the last two minutes.
- Â 1 unit Raiders -2 @ $2.00 BET NOW
CANTERBURY BULLDOGS VS SYDNEY ROOSTERS –Â SATURDAY APRIL 30, 5:30PM, ACCOR STADIUM
The last-placed Bulldogs host a Roosters team that will no doubt be stinging after their hard-fought Anzac Day loss to the Dragons.
The Roosters are on an eight-match winning streak against the Bulldogs, though five of those were decided by eight points or less.
Last season’s sole encounter saw the Roosters graft out a 22-16 win after the Bulldogs had lost to Manly by 66 points a week earlier.
- Â 1 unit Bulldogs +12.5 @ $2.00 BET NOW
PARRAMATTA EELS VS NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS –Â SATURDAY APRIL 30, 7:05PM, TIO STADIUM
Arguably the match of the round pits two top-five teams against each other in the top end as the Eels make their annual pilgrimage to Darwin.
The Eels responded to their shock Easter Monday loss to the Tigers by routing the Knights 39-2 in Newcastle.
The Cowboys put away the Titans 30-4 for a 4-3 record. Fill-in fullback Scott Drinkwater is now borderline undroppable, Tom Dearden continues to shine and the Cowboys’ batch of talented, aggressive young back-rowers are complementing the resurgent likes of Jason Taumalolo.
Todd Payten’s side has conceded the second-least points in the NRL – but it’s worth noting the softness of their draw, playing just one other current Top 8 team so far (a 28-4 loss to the Roosters).
Parramatta beat North Queensland 32-16 in the teams’ only 2021 clash, on the Gold Coast in Round 23. But the Cowboys have won four of their last seven against the Eels in Sydney.
- Â 1 unit Eels -9.5 @ $2.00 BET NOW
NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS VS MELBOURNE STORM –Â SUNDAY MAY 1, 2:00PM, MCDONALD JONES STADIUM
Newcastle and Melbourne clash for the 45th time on Sunday and if recent results are anything to go by, the Knights won’t want to show up with the same attitude they did on home turf last week.
The wheels have fallen off at Newcastle, demolished 39-2 at home by Parramatta last Sunday with some of the weakest goal-line defence you’ll ever see one of the hallmarks.
The Storm are on a 10-match winning streak against the Knights and the smallest winning margin in the teams’ last eight encounters was 10 points, while the Storm obliterated the Knights 48-4 at Robina last season – a record in the club’s rivalry for highest score and biggest margin.
- Â 3 units Storm -19.5 @ $2.00 BET NOW
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ST GEORGE-ILLAWARRA DRAGONS VS WESTS TIGERS –Â SUNDAY MAY 1, 4:05PM, WIN STADIUM
Back-to-back wins for both the Dragons and Wests Tigers the past fortnight sets up a mouth watering clash at WIN Stadium on Sunday to conclude round eight.
The Tigers have stolen consecutive wins over the Eels and Rabbitohs with last-minute field goals, Luke Brooks coming up with the winning play in the latter after earlier scoring a crucial runaway try.
Wests Tigers have won the last four battles of the joint ventures by an average margin of 15.5 points.
Last season the Tigers prevailed 16-8 in Wollongong and powered to a 34-18 victory at Western Sydney Stadium four weeks later.
- Â 1 unit Tigers +4 @ $1.90Â BET NOW
Our  Staking Plan
- Â 3 units Panthers -18.5 @ $2.00
- Â 2 units Sea Eagles +4.5 @ $2.00
- Â 1 unit Raiders -2 @ $2.00
- Â 1 unit Bulldogs +12.5 @ $2.00
- Â 1 unit Eels -9.5 @ $2.00
- Â Â 3 units Storm -19.5 @ $2.00
- Â 1 unit Wests Tigers +4 @ $1.90
- Â Â BET With TopSport
Total = 12 units
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