The Forecast - Round 7

If we lose this one we're in big trouble. Even if they were at full strength, we should still be looking to beat the Raiders quite easily. Luckily for us, we're facing the prospect of a halves combination with a total age close to Robbie Kearns's, who haven't played first-grade this year. Coupled with the fact that the Storm are victory-starved, have good players coming back from injury and since 2003 have been the Green Machine's no.1 tormentors, all should point to a big W-I-N.

The above, though, is all kinda logical and you don't need me to tell you that the NRL comp this year has been loopy lala, so logic is somewhat pointless. Hopefully we'll hold the ball, not slip over and score lots of tries. And hopefully the Raiders will do likewise, but score less tries, because it'll be good for our confidence to win a hard game. So, the Forecast is a big storm to hit Canberra by at least 16.

And Robbo's back!!