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Message: [QUOTE="M.B.88, post: 2911958, member: 8473"] I think we are the real smokie for the season. If you pit us player for player against any other team I'd say we have them matched if not better. Storm will not win this year now that the band has been broken up. Slater is also running duct taped together and at any point the wheels could fall straight off again, which only leaves Smith remaining. I think they'll compete like usual, but top 4 and a week 2 bow out from them in the finals Roosters. They gained Cronk but will his QLD influence on them be enough to turn the tides over there? It's clear from the outside that they have entrenched culture problems. Tedesco is a huge gain, but again, he's quite injury prone. They also have a history of finals implosion. Latrell will have a big year but he's a very immature fella. Cowboys. Will struggle bringing their big guns back into the fray and maintaining last year's momentum. They were very rusty in their testimonial game (albeit the conditions) and didn't look like the same calibre side. Eels. I feel they can be a pretty genuine threat but Hayne is the big red flag. He corrodes rosters, coaches and cultures but for some reason, being back at Parra, not being the it guy, not being on huge coin anymore, he may push past that and just be a solid player again. I think Norman is just far too arrogant to let his team fall by the wayside because of someone like Hayne. If it isn't us playing the roosters in the gf, it'll be a GF rematch. But if we fall short, and the NRL do influence the results through whatever means to give Thurston his GF fairytale game, a little part of me would really enjoy the narrative around Parra getting it over them in shocking golden point win from behind and doing a complete homage and flip to the Parramatta GF that's always joked about with Hindy. [/QUOTE]

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