NRL FINALS 2010|=| NRL Preliminary Finals 2010 Preview
1st Preliminary FinalFriday 24/9 @ Suncorp Stadium:
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2nd Preliminary FinalSaturday 25/9 @ ANZ Stadium:
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Four Teams Left...We are halfway through the 2010 NRL Finals Series and only four teams remain in the hunt for the Premiership. Last weekend's Elimination Finals saw the Canberra Raiders & Penrith Panthers fall by the wayside as the Wests Tigers & Sydney Roosters both backed up from their 100minute epic to advance live on another week.
Waiting for them in the Preliminary Finals are the St.George-Illawarra Dragons & Gold Coast Titans.
The Dragons may have actually preferred to have played last week as they had hit some form in recent matches but the Titans would have welcomed the break with their plethora of injuries to key players.
These two games should have bumper crowds in Brisbane and in Sydney but the stands will be filled with very nervous fan bases. The feelings of confidence, nervousness, fear and expectation will be raging through the minds of every supporter whose team is playing this weekend because in another 80 minutes either a...
Grand Final berth or another long off-season of pain awaits.
|=| See below for our Previews, Podcasts & Videos for the Preliminary Finals in Week Three.
Full Elimination Finals Results September 17-18:
Full Qualifying Finals Results September 10-12:Titans 28 def. Warriors 16, Roosters 19 def. Tigers 15, Raiders 24 def. Panthers 22 & Dragons 28 def. Sea Eagles 0.
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This Episode 44 - The Preliminary Finals Preview Thursday Sept 23
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Who Plays Who In Week Three of the 2010 NRL Finals?
|=| PRELIMINARY SEMI FINALS - September 24 & 25.
GOLD COAST TITANS v SYDNEY ROOSTERS
On Friday Night September 24 - Suncorp Stadium hosts the 1st Preliminary Final. The Titans have been sitting at home twiddling their thumbs since the opening night of the Finals when they beat the Warriors 28-16 and thanks to other results received a week off and a home Preliminary Finals berth. The Roosters have been slightly busier - they came back from the dead to beat the Tigers 19-15 in extra time in Week 1 and then over-ran the Panthers 34-12 in Week 2 to get into this Grand Final qualifier.
ST.GEORGE-ILLAWARRA DRAGONS v WESTS TIGERS
On Saturday Night September 25 - ANZ Stadium will host the 2nd Preliminary Final. The Dragons crushed Manly in Week 1 with an emphatic 28-0 scoreline to get a week off, while the Tigers had to recover from a 19-15 extra-time loss to the Roosters in Week 1 and travel to Canberra to beat the Raiders 26-24 in Week 2 to make it to within one game of the Grand Final.
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WEEK 2: 
RAIDERS & PANTHERS
Canberra stormed home with 9 wins in 10 games (including 6 straight) before losing their home semi final with the Tigers. The Raiders missed a golden opportunity to win a competition when they didn't really have a great season but were beaten by a better team... and even if they had snuck through the season ending knee injury to Terry Campese killed that dream with 24 minutes left. The Panthers went from equal title favourites with the Dragons about 6 weeks before the Finals to also-rans after injury and poor form ruined their end of season push. Losing key players to injury in the 1st & 2nd week of the Finals saw them go 0-2 at the most important time of the year.
RAIDERS & PANTHERS
WEEK 1: 
WARRIORS & SEA EAGLES
WARRIORS & SEA EAGLES
One team had a year that exceeded expectations, the other struggled to live up to their premiership contenders tag... in the end neither could muster a victory when it really mattered.
For More of this Article click the link below... Team News & Our Predictions.
