Santa
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Back on top! What end of year slide?
Culhwch
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It's a long season. Even the best teams are going have dips in form. Important thing is to win more of these games than we lose. We'll get through it and start killing it again.
007
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I am so torn. This squad deadset has the ability to win the comp. Backing it up and contintuing with consistency is where i get worried.
Sproj
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We have some injuries in the forwards and going in to the season, that forward depth was always the issue. take any wins at the moment until we get the second rowers back.
ivanhungryjak
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I‘ll be happy with scrappy wins while we’re down on troops - finish in the top four, use the two byes to nurse niggles and get everyone back for a run to the GF. Sounds simple…
007
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I'm predicting we drop a game against the cowboys. To win minor prem we will need to beat Storm in the final round. (assuming Panthers knock off the Storm in rd23)
Santa
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Santa
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Great win, and back on top!
That win will help our for and against too.
That win will help our for and against too.
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I have us guaranteed 8th place even if we lose every game left.
Come at me if you're hard enough.
Come at me if you're hard enough.
Super Freak
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Using the auto-fill feature on the ladder predictor, we're winning every game from now on and finishing on 2nd with 44 points.
Santa
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Man it's good to be playing finals again! Feels like it's been a while lol
Santa
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I'm hoping Penrith lose a couple so we can finish first (maybe against Melbourne or the Cowboys).
I'm assuming Melbourne will finish 3rd, and I don't want to play them 1st week of the finals.
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Raiders, Warriors and Rabbits will be well in the fight for a top 4 spot as well... Warriors and Rabbits have an extremely soft run into the finals and can't see them losing many on the run home.
Storm, Sharks and Raiders have tougher runs with games against other top 4/8 contenders.
We currently have a 2 game lead on Raiders and Storm, but a 3 game lead on Warriors, Souths and Sharks... based on that I'd say Sharks are possibly the least likely to get a top 4 spot.
Sharks have tough games against Warriors (away), Panthers (away), Souths (away), Cows (away) and Raiders (home)... that's a tough run for them heading into the finals to make up 3 wins on us. Even though our run home is also tough.
Raiders have games against warriors (away), storm (away), broncos (home) and sharks (away)... their game against us could decide it.
Storm have parra (home), panthers (away), raiders (home) and us in the last round... again that last round against us could be a decider on top 4 position
Warriors and Souths have an extremely soft run into the finals... warriors only playing sharks and raiders currently in the top 8, and souths only playing broncos and sharks in the top 8.
We need sharks to upset warriors and souths in those games to give us some breathing room... our game against souths will also be a big decider on whether we get top 4.
We've got games against souths, raiders and storm... we knock them off we're basically guaranteed top 4... so it's all in our own hands as to whether we finish top 2/4 or fall down the ladder.
Super Freak
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For mine finishing top 2 is important.
Finishing top 2 guarantees us two home finals.
Finishing top 2 guarantees us two home finals.
Santa
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Would be happy with it finishing like the following. But yea, a lot of the top 8 team play each other in the last few rounds so it could go either way.
Will be backing the Dolphins this arvo.
BroncsFan
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Panthers are taking a bit of a gamble resting all their origin players against dolphins in Redcliffe.
If Cleary misses as well then that's a lot of players missing against a normally resilient team that is getting a few players back.
If Marshall-King was playing today then dolphins would be a good shout... will come down to whether the penrith machine can knock another one off with their second string team (pending whether the chin plays).
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