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Teams evolve and regress over the course of a season and year to year. It's not just about who you play but at what point in the season you play them.

If Raiders go on a run of form and make Top 4 will we get credit for beating them twice? It's funny, the reason they arn't Top 8 right now is cause we beat them twice ourselves! Otherwise they would be on the same points as the Panthers and folks would be saying Sharks can't beat the top teams

It's not our fault half the teams in the comp are a joke and that the bulk of form of teams in Top 8 is all over the shop
 
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Teams evolve and regress over the course of a season and year to year. It's not just about who you play but at what point in the season you play them.

If Raiders go on a run of form and make Top 4 will we get credit for beating them twice? It's funny, the reason they arn't Top 8 right now is cause we beat them twice ourselves! Otherwise they would be on the same points as the Panthers and folks would be saying Sharks can't beat the top teams

It's not our fault half the teams in the comp are a joke and that the bulk of form of teams in Top 8 is all over the shop
This top 8 thing is infuriating. Stick to a narrative

I hope we come out of the next 5 games with a respectable win tally and having shut people up.

We don’t need to win them all but the games need to be close and competitive.

And to be half way through the comp at rd 13/14 with only a few losses would be great for our top 4 chances.
 

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Sam Hughes fined 3k for pushing kasey badger.

Didn't know about the incident until I just saw the headline but think a fine is fair, Ref getting in the way is frustrating but you can't touch them regardless. (Unless your Tricky about to be steamrolled by Kikau)

Fairly innocuous touch from video so certainly doesn't deserve a suspension.
 

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This top 8 thing is infuriating. Stick to a narrative

I hope we come out of the next 5 games with a respectable win tally and having shut people up.

We don’t need to win them all but the games need to be close and competitive.

And to be half way through the comp at rd 13/14 with only a few losses would be great for our top 4 chances.
We could win out next 5 and the narrative would be we haven't won a final in a long time.
 

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Games, the week after a team plays the Sharks:

Round 2: Warriors 26 - Storm 30 (Try on full time to win)
Round 3: Bulldogs 32 - Titans 0
Round 4: Tigers 17 - Eels 16
Round 5: Raiders 41 - Eels 8
Round 6: N/a (Sharks bye round 5)
Round 7: N/a (Rabbits bye)
Round 8: Cowboys 20 - Penrith 26
Round 9: Raiders 26 - Manly 24

Not bad for a team that only plays easy beats!

Also, load up on the Dragons next week.
 
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People need to pop a chill pill stop worrying about the haven’t beaten much narrative. We lose the next 5 in a row their narrative is spot on. Win 3 from 5 will be very juicy.
But until we hit September and roll a couple it will hang over us, and deservedly so unfortunately we have under achieved once we have gotten into post season games.
 

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Sam Hughes fined 3k for pushing kasey badger.

Didn't know about the incident until I just saw the headline but think a fine is fair, Ref getting in the way is frustrating but you can't touch them regardless. (Unless your Tricky about to be steamrolled by Kikau)

Fairly innocuous touch from video so certainly doesn't deserve a suspension.

She gets in the way and he touches her trying to avoid her. I'll go all bunker on this. Where's the intent?
I honestly find this ridiculous. A warning would have been sufficient.
 

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Geez calling Johns an analyst is a stretch , can't stand him when he commentates SOO , fortunately all the games shown here are from Fox .
Didn't mind her when she was presenting , and good on her for just accepting it and getting on with life , says more about him than her that he's so immature as to just blank her .
 
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