Gold Coast Titans vs Newcastle Knights Tips, Odds and Teams – NRL 2018 Round 11

Saturday’s NRL 2018 Round 11 match is between Gold Coast Titans and Newcastle Knights. The opening kick is set to commence at 15:00 local time with the game to be played at Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Coast. The home team Gold Coast Titans are the favourites for the match. View our preview and teams for the game between Gold Coast Titans and Newcastle Knights.

When: 15:00 | Saturday 19/05/2018

Where: Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Coast

Preview:

When you sign at a club for massive coin and you come up with fresh air in every sense of the word, people quickly form opinions.

Bryce Cartwright has been front and centre of this for weeks now.

I personally don’t know where to start.

His defence has come under scrutiny and how poor it has been but in the most respectful way, his defence has always been his Achilles heel.

Known for his flair over his ability to get down and dirty.

The inexperienced Knights would have loved to have Mitch Pearce with them last week and if they did have him, I don’t think they would have lost the game.

In terms of creating, they certainly did that but were just unable to convert due to not having a steady hand.

The upside for them this week is the team they’re playing is in the same boat.

KEY BATTLE: Ash Taylor v Brock Lamb

Taylor looks to have himself a long-time partner in AJ Brimson who for his first game, I thought was very good.

The challenge now is to back it up.

For the Knights, the combo of Watson and Lamb was proven to have a lot of upside again with three line breaks between them.

The Verdict

I like Newcastle and the exciting footy they’re playing.

Going down in back-to-back narrow defeats might just be enough motivation to get home.

The Knights have a 5-2 (71.4 percent) O/U record in games played in May since 2016.

Unibet Odds:

Gold Coast at $2.02

Newcastle at $1.81

Odds:

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Tip: Gold Coast Titans at $1.75

Value Tip: First Try Scorer: Anthony Don at $10.00

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Teams:

Gold Coast Titans:

1 Michael Gordon, 2 Anthony Don, 3 Dale Copley, 4 Brenko Lee, 5 Phillip Sami, 6 AJ Brimson, 7 Ashley Taylor, 8 Jarrod Wallace, 9 Nathan Peats, 10 Ryan James (c), 11 Kevin Proctor, 12 Keegan Hipgrave, 13 Jai Arrow

Interchange: 14 Mitch Rein, 15 Max King, 16 Jack Stockwell, 17 Moeaki Fotuaika

Reserves: 18 Bryce Cartwright, 19 Konrad Hurrell, 20 Kane Elgey, 21 Morgan Boyle.

Newcastle Knights:

1 Kalyn Ponga, 2 Ken Sio, 3 Sione Mata’utia, 4 Nathan Ross, 5 Shaun Kenny-Dowall, 6 Connor Watson, 7 Brock Lamb, 8 Herman Ese’ese, 9 Slade Griffin, 10 Josh King, 11 Lachlan Fitzgibbon, 12 Mitchell Barnett, 13 Aidan Guerra (c)

Interchange: 14 Danny Levi, 15 Chris Heighington, 16 Jacob Saifiti, 17 Daniel Saifiti

Reserves: 18 Jamie Buhrer (c), 19 Jacob Lillyman, 20 Jack Cogger, 21 Cory Denniss.

NRL News:

Queensland forward Jarrod Wallace has re-committed his future to the Gold Coast, signing on until the end of the 2022 NRL campaign on Monday.

The prop had entertained the idea of moving south, visiting Newcastle to tour the Knights’ facility last week, before he agreed to exercise his contract option for 2019 and accept the offer to remain at the club for a further three years beyond that.

The deal to keep the 26-year-old Wallace on the Gold Coast is reportedly worth more than $500,000 a season.

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