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The Narrative - update ©

SharkShocked

Bench
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Won't matter until they can beat Penrith at full strength or go close to beating them.

Just do as the team says they do, ignore the outside noise.

End of the day, even if you beat Penrith by 20 in a regular season game - if you can't do it in the last 4 weeks, it matters not.

Same as 2016 - just finish top 4 and win week 1 to set yourself up with the best possible chance for success in the last 2 weeks.
 

Weaponhead

Coach
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We are 6-1 vs top 8 sides.
You and your facts are not welcome. It the narrative...... Don't expect professional media to do any actual research. That involves work. Parroting is much easier.

Watching the Raider's coverage is instructive. Close win and it's all 'Ricky's courageous Raiders...' Sharks murder them twice....'Sharks still can't beat any good sides.'
 

Weaponhead

Coach
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Means nothing until we win a semi final, and if we dont they will be right.
Steps forward are part of the journey to being a contender. Beating top 8 teams consistently is a step forward. Winning semi finals is another step forward.

Progress is rarely linear but this club and team is making progress. The fact that media types aren't seeing it doesn't matter.

The Sharks are in a position where they can build to peak for finals to give themselves best shot at doing damage in the big games.
 
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By the end of the regular rounds we’ll be 1 in 4 teams that can win it.

9 teams will have failed to qualify for the finals and 4 will have lost a legitimate chance to go all the way.

At present the Panthers remain our biggest hurdle for the prize. But there’s a long way to go in this marathon.
 
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By the end of the regular rounds we’ll be 1 in 4 teams that can win it.

9 teams will have failed to qualify for the finals and 4 will have lost a legitimate chance to go all the way.

At present the Panthers remain our biggest hurdle for the prize. But there’s a long way to go in this marathon.
Panthers is who no one wants to play.
The only time in finals if you play to play them is the GF
Mentally it takes so much to get up for playing them, if you beat them to qualify for GF, I think you will be drained.
Eagles losing to them yesterday hurt everyone.
They sit 3rd with there gun players to come back.
They are beatable, but you have to bring your AAA game and for the full 80
 

Frenzy.

Post Whore
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I'm cautious about using stats like this but will still do it to run my agenda, just like the HTI do.

The stats above are just as much about how bad teams the Sharks get benchmarked against are actually going. Dolphins, because of Bennett awe, Raiders because of Ricky rhetoric and the Broncos because, well, because they are the Broncos are way overhyped.

To take it further I'll put who the teams who have played 7 matches against top 8 teams in next

Sharks have beaten - Storm away, Roosters away (our home game but at Suncorp), Raiders home & away, Broncos away, Dargons at home.
Broncos have beaten - Dolphins home and Raiders home.
Roosters have beaten - Broncos home & away, Raiders away and Dargons away.

Keep the damn narrative going. It's us against them. That's how I like it to be.
 
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Now if today dogs beat Eels, the Dargons drops out of the 8.
Our stats remain the same.

Roosters would go played 7 won 3.
Bulldogs would be won 1 lost 4
 

Ozzi_78

First Grade
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Column B is labelled vs top 4. Surely we haven’t played 7 too 4 teams or is that at the time of playing ?
I thought same thing but I’d say at time of playing as cows and raiders were in the 4 from memory
 

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