Thoughts on Dogs Roosters game

• Defence is not the strong point of either team
• Jim Dymock may need a while to turn around the Dogs
• Ben Barba scored an exciting length of the field try
• Ben Barba does not like high kicks
• Brian Smith is the perfect coach for this situation at the Roosters (bringing a team at its knees back to respectability)
• Once a team is designated 'still a mathematical chance', that team has no chance of making it to the semi-finals
• It's been a long, long time since the Bulldogs missed the semis two years in a row. Chalk that up for this year