captainskin
Reserve Grader
Article after article I read, Brisbane players and coach are talking themselves up all the time. There is the usual 'Manly is playing some good footy' rhetoric, but Brisbane are going into this game with their fat lady already to sing.
Either, they know something that the rest of us don't know, or they are just being super positive to the media after five losses, or they genuinely believe it is win or die so they may as well go in talking up the outcome before it happens.
One team will be disappointed after a Friday night loss and another will be so distraught and bitter that if they happen to lose they won't be able to pick themselves back up even if they do make the eight.
Either, they know something that the rest of us don't know, or they are just being super positive to the media after five losses, or they genuinely believe it is win or die so they may as well go in talking up the outcome before it happens.
One team will be disappointed after a Friday night loss and another will be so distraught and bitter that if they happen to lose they won't be able to pick themselves back up even if they do make the eight.