NRL Odds: Work To Do For Dragons Pack
January 6th, 2015 by TJ DilferThe big men are the engine room of an NRL side, and they need to be able to put a side on the front foot if the men in the wide channels are going to capitalise. It might not be the aspect of the game that makes the highlights reel most often, but you know as well as we do that if a franchise’s forward pack can’t get one over the opposition, the NRL odds for each game and for the season are going to reflect that.
So there will have been some concern – and will still be some concern, especially amongst fans – at the way the 2014 season went for the St George Illawarra pack. There was no shortage of criticism coming their way over the course of the season, and they definitely struggled to impose themselves. According to Dragons captain Ben Creagh, a lot of that criticism was ‘warranted’, but he was keen to point out a noticeable improvement over the course: ‘there was a fair bit of criticism directed to the forwards earlier in the year. A lot of it was warranted. Opposition forward packs were putting it over us. So that’s fair enough. In the second half of the season I thought we turned it around. I thought in the forward battles between the two sides we held our own.’
It’s fair to point out that Creagh himself had a big season at prop for the Dragons, and he’ll no doubt be looking to lead by example in the 2015 campagin. With some extra bulk added to the Dragons pack, too, they might be able to turn things around in that department, and that would mean that they’re more competitive throughout the season. A look at the NRL odds will tell you that they’re at odds of $3.50 to make the finals in 2015, and that will surely be their first ambition…
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