Do you think he can do it without Smith and Cronk though? We've seen plenty of examples of Storm players leaving Melbourne never to reach those heights again.
We still will have to be 100% committed to each other and treat the Raiders completely seriously. With the upsets this week, anything is possible in a game.
The Raiders didn't even play brilliantly well, they still made some poor mistakes and turned over possession at times. The Tigers were a rabble like last week.
Rapana is up there but I personally would have Mansour and Radradra ahead of him. Oates ahead maybe and then Rapana then Holmes (maybe).
Top 5 winger but this is of course my opinion
The Milford V Austin matchup will be very interesting next week. Austin has been much better than Milford (from what I've seen of the Raiders) and Milford will be going out with something to prove.
I'm feeling confident about winning this game. We were very unlucky to lose to NQL and Storm whilst I'm not convinced by the Raiders atm. We will need to step up in the forwards after last Friday though as the Raiders can just steamroll opponents.
You are so right. Thurston and Smith can say and do anything to referees and they wouldn't care. I still remember when Thurston accused the NRL of match fixing a few years ago and they apologised to him.
I just think referees are just in awe or to scared to punish them.