The current Cowboys team lost 6/7 before heading into the finals.
And now they've beaten two teams who played simply atrocious with appalling completion rates everyone is talking them up like they're the '94 Raiders.
Hilarious.
I don't doubt that it'll be a tough game, and I admire the Cowboys guts and determination; but it'll be won or lost on our terms.
Our best accounts for the JT-less Cowboys best every time.
Cordner is our best player and we still beat them without him. And without our 1 & 9. Add those in and I reckon it equates to more value than Fensom lol
You need to look further into those 6/7 games though. It wasn't the exact team either, several players have only just come back in the last couple of weeks.
The Cowboys were up for a lot of those games and would have won some of them if it weren't for several injuries gained during three or four of them. If I remember correctly, in at least three of those games the Cowboys had one player on the bench for the whole second half. They also had second rowers at centre and Linnett on the wing and got absolutely owned down that side in multiple games when backs got injured early.
They still played well and competed but ran out of energy at the end of the game. Every team would struggle win games with one player left on the bench for more than half a game, let alone for 3-4 games in a row.
The remaining players had to make up for it by playing longer minutes at a greater intensity. The Cowboys have effectively been in finals mode for two months now in terms of intensity and desperation.
The people looking at our team now and only seeing Scott and JT missing and dismissing the injury crisis (which is still dumb when one is the best player in the world and the other is one of the best forwards) either have a narrow view or haven't been paying attention to what has happened to the Cowboys during games in the last couple of months.
