With the cows horrendous performance last night and a bunch of 'season ending' injuries popping up it looks like we've hit that point of the year where teams are putting a line through it and focussing on next year... so we could start seeing some floggings over the remaining 8 weeks as players start planning their Bali trips in September.
I'd put a line through everyone from dargons down, which is them, cows, knights, tigers, eels, rabbits and titans.
That leaves 10 teams competing for the top 8 and probably phins, manly, rorters and sharks competing for 7 & 8.
Out of them I'd say sharks are most likely... they're on 9 wins with a game to come and as per usual they've got a soft as **** draw incoming... I'd say they make it and then get instantly bundled out in week 1.
Rorters have a pretty tough draw coming up... so they might struggle... except they now have Walker back so they could go on a run.
Dolphins have been beating up on shit teams, but their run home includes wahs away, rorters (4pt game), broncos, manly at Brookie (4pt game), titans and raiders in the last round (will probably rest everyone). They need to find at least 3 more wins out of that, but have some 4pt games against other top 8 contenders... finals are well and truly in their hands.
Manly have to find 4 more wins out of storm away, dogs away, rorters home, raiders away, tigers away, dolphins home, dargons away, wahs home. There looks to be at least 4 winnable games, but the next month looks rough and could completely **** their confidence.
I'd say sharks get one of the spots and then it's a shoot out between dolphins and rorters for the last spot.