Titans vs Dragons Prediction: St George outside backs to decide the battle of the zeroes

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Titans vs Dragons Odds

How do you show great conviction in a team who have lost every game so far this season? The answer is that you don’t.

Betfred have the Titans as only marginal favourites for this one at 5/6, with the Dragons a 21/20 shot. The draw, at 16/1, looks appealing.

The handicap market says it all, with St George offered only 1.5 points as an advantage. They’re 10/11 against that backdrop, with the hosts still 5/6.

Team News

Despite their poor start, it’s a settled Titans line-up that Josh Hannay sends out for this one.

Jayden Campbell makes it in the halves having left the field early against the Cowboys when he was clothes-lined by Tom Chester as the Gold Coast broke late on.

Jaylan De Groot, Oliver Pascoe and Jett Liu are added to the initial squad as reserves but there’s no expectation that any of the trio will make the final 19.

Rugby League Odds

Toby and Ryan Couchman are both out for the Dragons. Must be a twin thing.

The former is out due to concussion, while Ryan is suspended.

Elsewhere, Hamish Stewart moves to lock as Blake Lawrie comes into the front row. Shane Flangan has called up Hame Sele to the bench, while Mat Feagai drops out having been an unused squad member last week at Parramatta.

Dragons by 1-12 @ 12/5

I was absolutely blown away by the Titans’ first-half effort against the Dolphins a couple of weeks ago. And when they went up 14-0 early in the second stanza it looked like they might just be the real deal.

They weren’t, of course. They shipped three tries in 20 minutes to lose that game and then added a 30-16 defeat at the Cowboys to that opening day half-century reverse to the Sharks.

This is their first appearance on home territory, but it will take more than a relocation to get them some points if most of their displays to date are anything to go by.

The Dragons haven’t been an awful lot better, but they have at least looked that bit more potent with ball in hand.

And that ought to be just enough to get St George over the line, so I’m taking the one-to-two-score margin at 12/5.