We sit in 3rd. If the top four finishes as is, it means we face our eternal hammers, the Storm in week 1 of the finals. I can't bare another caning from those pr*cks. The wood they have on us will demoralise the team. I'd rather we finish 4th and face the untried Panthers in Week 1 despite them being the best team currently in the comp.
Our record in the last 10 games against the Panthers is par with 5 wins a piece. With the Storm its 3/10 of which 2 of those wins were when they had all their origin players out and the win a couple weeks back when they had 6-7 key players out to injury and suspension. To add to that, we have lost badly to them when we were supposed to put up a decent fight.
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I reckon we can beat Melbourne. Penrith would be a tough game in the finals, but we beat them earlier this year - this week could be more telling though. I'm actually more worried about meeting Souths, which is a possibility if we lose week 1 of the finals.
In the end, we need to get everything aligned over the next three weeks to fire in the semis.
i think we match up well against Penrith so I like our chances especially in pressure where few of their players have experience
I think we'll come 4th, which means we'll play Penirth in round 1 of the semis.