Dave K. wrote:
Apart from the top 3 and maybe Wakey, I think every side in the league could say that about injuries, unfortunately part and parcel of the game and ten team with the least about of key injuries seems to do well (Like we did in 2016).
I think looking at the game, it's a point gained, but really to try and finish in the top 8, you needed both.
Massive game on a week Friday, probably your biggest game of the season as lose and that you out of the race for the top 8.
8th has been teetering between long shot and unrealistic for a good long while now. 6 points behind Hudds with only 5 to be played, but if we did beat them in our next game up it’d keep our very, very slim hopes alive. Even a win today would have left us needing 3 more wins than them, so to the extent that it matters a draw is as good as a win - their points difference is poor.
More realistic, if also much less valuable, would be grabbing 9th/10th - and the draw today doesn’t help very much with that.
We’ll be in the middle 8s almost certainly, but if we can build on this over the next five SL rounds, we can go in with a bit of belief.