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They put one over Penrith too.
Salery cap... Once a team wins the NRL all their players immediately become more valuable and they often lose a lot of them. Also, even if they don't, with the evenness of the comp at the moment a team needs a lot of luck with injuries to go their way if they want to win, and it's usually pretty hard to retain that good luck streak for 2 seasons straight, as has just been seen by Benji's season ending injury.Originally posted by St Helens RLFC@May 22 2006, 07:54 PM
Why is it that the champions struggle the season after they won the league?
Yeah...I mean....look at who Souths have beaten this year....whoever saw that coming!!!!!Originally posted by dobrien7@Jul 2 2006, 09:45 PM
Is a strange phenomenom that though isn't it, 7 years - 7 different champs. Suppose that's ideal though, no one team dominating and making it boring and predictable *cough* Auckland Ranfurly Shield, Crusaders Super 12/14 *cough*
Makes for great viewing when any team on their day can beat any other
Souths beating the Broncos when they were still on top of the table was a faily big deal aye... The same thing almost happened in the S14 though, when the Force almost beat the Crusaders. But yeah, the NRL is a bit more varied than a lot of competitions, the top 8 this year is a testiment to that, with at least half of the teams not even being there last year.Originally posted by Gay-Guy+Jul 2 2006, 09:01 PM--><!--QuoteBegin-dobrien7Yeah...I mean....look at who Souths have beaten this year....whoever saw that coming!!!!! [/b]@Jul 2 2006, 09:45 PM
Is a strange phenomenom that though isn't it, 7 years - 7 different champs. Suppose that's ideal though, no one team dominating and making it boring and predictable *cough* Auckland Ranfurly Shield, Crusaders Super 12/14 *cough*
Makes for great viewing when any team on their day can beat any other
hmmmm....could be good....Warriors need countr attacking FB rather than safe ones...wait....Ivan Cleary was safe and he was the best we ever had!!!!Originally posted by dobrien7@Jul 6 2006, 08:15 AM
Worriers have picked up a possibly handy replacement for Brent Webb - the counter attacking Wade McKinnon from the Eels...