We will win our remaining three games IMO and reckon if we have longy back and manage to keep key players fit in the next three games we will go on to win it!! Positive thinking yes i know but it beats been totally negative like the majority of people on here................................ C'mon you U'LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAA

We've got some big game players that's for sure. Berro, O'Meley, and Fitz have all played origin and I believe have all won the Aussie GF (not 100% sure though). Yak has played in 4 NRL grand finals and has also won the premiership. Then we have Yeamo, Calders (not sure if he'll be back), Longy, Horney, Radders and Dowes who have all competed in at least a CC final and a GF and we've also got Tickle, Houghton, Briscoe and Manu who played in the Wembley CC final.

I personally don't think we'll get to OT and win however I think we'll put up a much better fight of it than most people are predicting.

Not as testing???

Where, in all probablility, will the 6th placed team visit the week after beating the 7th placed team?

it's going to be difficult no one can say it's not, but we all know how good we can be at full strength, the team know how big a deal the playoffs are players like fitzy, ogre, berro and longy won't need telling what needs doing in these kinda games

After the last 2 years I'm glad we're discussing it.

Nor will Berro...Yeamo...Horney...Briscoe...Radders.......All well seasoned experienced players!

So you're saying the level of difficulty in winning a play-off game is the same now as it was under the 6 team format?

The big picture is we have to beat whoever we eventually get and I believe we could beat any of the other teams on our day and with a bit of luck it could and hopefully will happen.
Every game will be like a cup final to everyone. So it doesn't matter who finishes in what position we still have to beat them.. anything can happen..

Not sure our defence is strong enough to beat teams like leeds,wigan + warrington but glad were in the playoffs after 2 shocking years

couldn't name everyone of our big game players

think all our lads will show well but the experienced heads in the camp will keep the lads in check.

Wasnt the Cheerleaders thread opened by this time last year?

It is, in theory, easier to win your first game when finishing 6th.
However, you said that the play offs now are "not as testing" when infact they clearly are given that the 6th placed team then have to go to the team that finished 3rd and then the team that finished 1st in order to reach the Grand Final.

Apologies, what I meant was that it's easier to claim a play-off win now than under the old format.
It's also easier to win a play-off game if you finish 5th. Previously you had to go to the 4th placed team and win, as we did in 2005 at Warrington vs Andrew Johns etc. Now if you finish 5th you get a home tie. So that makes it easier to win a play-off under the new system, wouldn't you say?
4th is easier too as you get 2 bites of the cherry, a right only earned by the top 2 previously, and you get to play a team finishing 5th at best, whereas before you had to play the 5th placed team. I think the current format disadvantages the top teams and think the team that finishes top should only need to win a GF eliminator to reach the final.

I think we have 1 big performance in us come the play-offs. Unfortunately I think we will need 2 to make it to OT. Making the final eliminator game would be a big achievement IMO.

Or, alternatively, you realised that you were wrong so decided to change what you "meant".

What a wonderful thread this is all positive posts whoopeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Even if that were the case, which it isn't, as a woman I'd never admit it anyway.

If the side can reclaim the defensive form from the beginning of the season then that would be a big factor . Longy and Horne back is a must for us to really trouble the big 4.

True.
Our defence was outstanding 1st few weeks, so we know it can be done. we have still done some good defending in most games so consistency needs to be addressed and I'm hopeful it will be done

Its our sliding defence thats the problem

In that it doesn't.

I'm not happy about us being in the play-offs, unless we can have a commemorative cheerleader thread to mark the occasion!

I'm expecting big things this year BONES, literally!!!

I hope we win it and support the team 100%. I just cannot see it though. I hope I am wrong utterly. I see us finsihing 4th, getting smashed at wigan, picking up injuries. We may then scrape through the next match, may do, but that will be the best we can achieve. After last season that will do for me. All I ever want is effort, and I still don't think we have it 100% of the time yet, but certainly we are an improvement on that score. It's our attack and gameplan that concerns me, and Agar's apparant lack of tactical sense and bizarre (or non existant) interchanges.

It's in the making.

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