Sea Eagles vs Raiders – Round 13, 2017

Brookvale has traditionally been a happy home for the Sea Eagles over the past decade, however, this season, it had been quite the opposite.

They’ll look to overturn their 1-5 record against a Raiders side looking to build on two successive wins in recent weeks.

While not overly convincing last week, they did enough to get over the line against the Roosters and will welcome back Josh Papalii from Origin duty this week.

Their edge combination of Joey Leilua and Jordan Rapana is getting stronger from week to week and will need to be strong this week against Jorge Taufua and Dylan Walker.

Manly have a big opportunity to take another step up the ladder this week and will do so on the back of Daly Cherry-Evans and Jake Trbojevic once again. The latter, in particular, has starred in 2017 and the Sea Eagles will need him to continue that form in the second half of the season as they push for a top-four berth.

The bookies have this one split right down the middle, but we’ll back the Raiders to steal one away from home in a high-scoring affair.

Raiders by 4.