Raiders vs Sea Eagles NRL Round 6 betting predictions

Raiders vs Sea Eagles NRL betting preview

How spoilt must NRL fans feel this weekend with a heavyweight clash on a Saturday night followed up by a Sunday afternoon thriller between these two great clubs?

The Canberra Raiders ground their way back into form with a gritty 14-6 win over a committed Tigers team, while the Manly Sea Eagles fell behind 18-0 to a Brisbane team everyone was expecting to lose by 30.

Make of that what you will. Both teams are coming off a win last start, but they came in extremely contrasting fashion.

Canberra may start this game as the favourites at $1.60, but the Sea Eagles have won five of the last six clashes between the two and look tempting at the $2.35 price.

In that span the average margin has been 4.6 points, so the line of 4.5 feels absolutely bang on.

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Only one of those six clashes ended with a margin of 13 points or more, so the $3 for Canberra at Bet365 and $3.75 for Manly at Sportsbet in the 1-12 points market seem like fair prices either way.

Raiders star Jack Wighton was first tryscorer once and wrongfully denied a second time in their 2019 clashes, while he has notched his team’s first in three of their five games this year.

Wighton was a key figure in the win over Wests and looks a good thing at $3.60 in the anytime tryscorer betting at BetOnline.

This is just Manly’s third match at Campbelltown Stadium since 1997 and their first there since 2013, which means most of the current Sea Eagles squad besides Daly Cherry-Evans have never played at the ground.

As such, the boys from the Northern Beaches could be in for a bit of a shock once the sun sets and the temperature plummets in the second half of the game.

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