It should be a comfortable win on paper but we have to manage a schedule of five games over the next two weeks or so. We hardly set the world on fire for most of the game on Saturday, either.
Even if a couple of players could probably be rotated out, we should still be favourites.
If we don’t win this I think we are in emergency board meeting territory for sure, where more serious things like a points target by end of Jan for example might come into play for him to retain his job.
I don’t remember there being much edge to most of the Sydney-Newcastle games. Sydney just plain suck more often than not when going up there to play. I remember us even losing in the Arnie era when we were up a player for most of the game.