I will not be surprised if the Warriors beat the Broncos in NZ,

I am more confident that we can beat the Broncos now. That game more or less played out as I expected, except the Roosters half Smith kept making dumb mistakes, including the intercept he threw for Cobbo. Broncos made enough errors to even it up.

I thought that the Fins were pretty impressive both in attack and defence. Penrith much improved Cleay's kicking at the start of the game was 10/10. Not prepared to write the Panthers off yet, but a loss to the Roosters will be close to terminal. For the Roosters against the Broncos, I think...

Yeah the Dogs exceeded the cap in 2002, but if people look at the official squad it was fairly ordinary. We had a lot of locally developed talent coming though. I went and watched the Flegg side around 2000 a relatively unknown guy called Thurston was playing. Believe it or not, there was a lot...

Yes I thought about the Panthers after I posted, not writing them off. Bunnies I'll judge after we play them. Not underestimating Bennett he can make a lot of difference. I was bullish on Manly, but recent injuries have dented my enthusiasm. Paseka is a big loss, not sure when he is coming...

I can remember Dogs teams stretching back to 1973. This is definitely the best drilled team I've seen, not the most talented. The most talented was 2002-2004. 1880-1996 a mixture of fitness, teamwork, skill and desire with enough talent, but not this drilled. 2002-2004 mostly talent and...

Best to enjoy it while it lasts. Last season and the start of this season definitely a step forward. But Storm and Broncos are probably the favourites, Sharks, Raiders and Warriors look good to me. A few other teams could surprise, still early days, but I don't expect us to collapse in a...

If you told me at the start of the year. Hughes wouldn't play any of the first 5 games. Kiraz would only play 1, Kiks and Burto would only play 2. I wouldn’t have expected 5 out of 5. I did expect our depth to be better this season First 10 rounds are some of the harder to win games...

Leo Thompson was excellent for them, 72 minutes straight, great stats and plenty of impact. Knights had a bit more fight than last season. Overall 20-0 is a great score especially the 0.

Curran had to do a lot of defence. Better suited to the middle these days

Good to get a win, but plenty to work on. Attack was better against the Sharks, but we had a target on Nicho. Lots of errors in that game 14 by us 16 from them. We burned the captain's challenge far too early.

We probably need to aim more attack at their halves and in the middle. Went wide a bit too much.

We are just not quite executing well enough in attack. A the ref is helping them a bit, .

Willo playing fullback in reserve grade, good move for lots of reasons,

I recon that we always get more upsets on a Saturday. Teams are mostly evenly matched. I'm giving the Tiger-pies an outside shot, stranger things have happened. I recon that the Fins probably win it from here. A side chasing their first win is desperate enough to defend a 16-0 lead most of...

Still a player there, but too many lapses in his game.

Bloody Dragqueens are hopeless. A win in round 5 against the bottom team was all that they were required to do.

Opened a bottle of 2001 red wine. Cork was good but still a 5050. Turned out to be excellent, is that an omen?

I was about 65% confident against the Sharks, and I am only 60% confident for this game. If Kiraz plays and we dial up the intensity from minute 1, I am not sure that the Knights can handle it. Most NRL games are close enough that a side being off 5% can cost them. If we are off 5% the...

If we do that I would have Willo on the bench instead of Moz for the reasons I listed. If that happens Moz will be unlucky he deserves a shot. Montoya ahead of Wilson is simply because Montoya is a big body who can make yards. That is what I am expecting from Kiraz, back to his tackle...