What do you call a cow with two legs?

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but, on Sunday I was watching the Manly Vs Tigers game while doing the ironing and I was left wondering how the hell did the Tigers make it into the top eight. Each time Manly got the ball within range of the Tigers line they scored, only once did they sucessfully manage to defend their own line. Is that the defence of a top eight side - clearly not. So how is it that the Tigers and the roosters have both managed to get top four ladder spots with for and against records that barely break even (or zero in fact for the tigers).

The answer to this mystery resolved itself when I heard about the Roosters playing Brisbane. You might think that with the draw the way it has two sides where strong sides play each otehr twice during the year once at home once away then they play the weak sides once. So in theory the maximum amount of time it should take to play teams in the stronger\weaker side of the draw at their home ground is two year... Makes sense doesn't it.

But thats not the case at all - thanks to the roosters game I managed to find out that not only do the weaker teams get an advantage of not having to play the stronger sides twice that the draw is structured to allow those weaker sides to play the stronger sides at their home grounds. This week the roosters played the broncos at Brisbane, when was the last time they played there - 2005 - five years ago.

So basically its no wonder teams like the roosters and the tigers are in the eight without having outscored their oppostion, while souths struggle to make headway.

A : Lean Beef