Parra have played some of the most attractive, and worst footy this year. Losing to us and Tigers was diabolical and cost them a deserved top 2 finish.
Yes the Eels are an arch enemy, but the ballhog Cleary and all those precious cocky Panthers grate on me. I don't like the vanilla way they play football, I can see Barrett's fingerprints in their pedestrian 1 trick pony attack all over them. I can't stand to watch them.
The Eels were not in the Cowboys game, and a repeat of their collapse as they did against the Cowboys in an earlier game in Darwin looked on the cards. Going up to Townsville in that humidity and toughing out that win was monumental.
Meanwhile the Panthers have 1 gameplan, ballhog gets protection, kicks floating bombs, which opponents either drop or let bounce, their D wrestles and forces errors and then in the Souths game, they score multiple tries by grubber kicks to the ingoal. Boring.
I like Lane, Dylan Brown and Papalii to break it open with running and offloads, Moses to be dynamic in the game of his life.
Eels will win and need I say I will be happy, making some money on them.
Eels, Eels