Published: August 27, 2018
The bottom eight are playing with stability and confidence while the top eight – with notable exceptions – are limping on
Outside of unlikely and ultimately doomed fairy-tale finishes by Wests Tigers and Canberra Raiders, the NRL’s top eight has been set for the last month. It’s been that sort of year: haves and have-nots, goodies and baddies, yin and yang. It’s largely been cut and dried: the best eight and the next eight.
Yet in the last four rounds, as contenders jockey, fret and, yes, choke, the competition has been turned on its head. The lesser sides are playing with freedom and for fun. Tipping winners has been like Plucka Duck.
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