James Parsons

You know, you had it last year, you get nervous, are we going to see the same?

You felt like there was a little bit of separation, then bang, upsets galore.

And, you know, you still, you'd say,

I think the Canes is still an upset.

The expectation is that they were red hot and they'd win.

Going down to a drop goal and Wallace the Teddy try, it was beautiful.

You think about the Seekenson try as well.

What we've seen from the Canes is they've either played behind the advantage line and brought defenders out or when they've gone hard, they've gone hard and not looked for the offload.

And there was just moments in the game where they went away from that blueprint, and if there's one side you just cannot afford to do that against, it is the Chiefs, because they will take any opportunity put on their lap.

Like, that was an amazing try.

I'm not saying that error cost the game, because to score that try was ridiculous.

But that's what the Chiefs are capable of doing.

And you just feel they're building this little war chest of quiet confidence.

You know, they're not over the top.

You know, everyone's still probably thinking the Canes deserve to win, as we do as well.

And, you know, they just sit there in at third and slowly climbing that lower.

He wasn't even in the team a few weeks ago.

Is there an element where early notice is probably more helpful for the survival of the team in terms of having that clarity now almost gives that ability or I suppose the narrative can be spread wider publicly to maybe create opportunities for them to continue?

Unfortunately, in professional sport, if you look at the ones that have been successful, like you just mentioned there, Melbourne Storm, they won it second year.

The Las Vegas Knights, they were in the Stanley Cup playoffs.