{"id":1926,"date":"2022-04-07T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:17:03","slug":"finals-footy-has-already-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/2022\/04\/07\/finals-footy-has-already-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Finals Footy Has Already Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every weekend is a footy-fest but this weekend more so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, is the annual Beer Footy & Food Festival @ Henson Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is traditionally the biggest home game for the Newtown Jets and they take on Wests Magpies for the Tommy Raudonikis Cup<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are beer tents from local brewers across Sydney as well as food trucks serving some of the finest food you will find at any football game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more at https:\/\/www.beerfootyfood.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s hope this doesn’t get washed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Then Sunday, our attention turns to the Dragons v Rooster in the NRLW grand final in Redcliffe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Roosters do the impossible and defeat the Broncos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in its four year history, there will be no Broncos premiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top of the table leaders, the Dragons, will start as red hot favourites against a Roosters team that lost more games than they won. The Roosters, however, come off a 22-16 victory against three times Premiers the Broncos after trailing 16-0 in as many minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kick-off is Sunday @ 1:30pm from Moreton Daily Stadium and will be televised on Fox Sports and Channel 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battle Of The Spoon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I know it is only Round 5, but the battle at the bottom of the ladder is already looking interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have clear cut spoon favourites Wests Tigers anchored at the bottom having lost all games this season (and the last three to end 2021). Above them on 2 points are the Dragons, Bulldogs and Rabbitohs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coaches are feeling the pressure and are making changes to their line-up which I don\u2019t think is to the teams\u2019 benefit. Their jobs are results based and I can see they are starting to clutch at straws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bulldogs have taken a leaf out of Broncos coach Kevin Walters 2021 play book and will have their 3rd<\/sup> different halves paring in five matches. The Dogs were towelled up by the Storm 44 \u2013 0 last week and face the undefeated Premiers this week. Lots of pressure will be on reinstated half Kyle Flanagan after being on the outer for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dragons have also been tinkering. After all the talk about Dragons young guns, Tyrell Sloan and Talatau Amone, both were dropped last week. The Dragons play the Rabbitohs and I don\u2019t see their fortunes changing this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough has been said about the Wests Tigers and their last minute loss to the Titans. They have the Sharks, Eels and Rabbitohs. They will be 0-7 before they face the Dragons in Round 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tipsters, Wests Tigers and Bulldogs are both paying $7 to win this week. Here is choice for this week\u2019s standout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good luck to your team and with your tipping this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have our first GF of the year in the NRLW.
\nIt\u2019s Beer Footy & Food Festival time at Henson Park.
\nAnd what\u2019s happening at the bottom of the ladder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robs-rant","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}