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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3407001, member: 1899"] Teams have been updated for the truncated round. We're into my least favourite part of the season, the Origin period. The great equaliser where form goes completely out the window. Every so often you get to see some of the young up and comers step up and make a name for themselves but on the whole it's the most unfair part of the 'competition'. Case in point Panthers-Bulldogs which should be a game where the Panthers load up on their F/A but instead they're barely favourites going into the game. You'd have to think as long as the replacement players do their job they should be OK but if they pull a Tyrone May and go completely awol it seems set up for Burton and JAC to step up. If I'm the Bulldogs, I'd be using this game to breathe a false sense of security into the team. If they're the team that beats Penrith at home and breaks their streak it's something they can pride themselves on. Especially individual players and you can use these small victories to help create bigger victories later on. It starts with this, ends with an improved second half in the competition and then you've got a new coach and Mahoney coming in the next year. Suddenly you realise you can actually play football again and you're not second guessing yourselves all the time. Manly-Warriors should be fun for our trio, if the triangle is to continue, Manly has to beat the Warriors. [/QUOTE]

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