Next three games:

V Slingers W for NZ

V Dragons 50/50

V Tigers L NZ

Chances are, Breakers will come away with atleast 1 win.

Let's hope for the best.

that just goes to show that we are not that far of the mark, the 8 is very achievable over the next 2-3 weeks.

No, that just goes to show how much the top 8 rewards mediocrity...

spot on DB5!

Lets just call it getting out of the bottom 4 . You call it the top 8 , i call it a few wins above the Pete Doherty .
C'mon and i know it has been done before but the final 8 system is a farce . In fact it is the worst scheme of rewarding below average performance in any form of so called professional anything .

Sorry to be pedantic DB5 but it doesn't reward mediocrity.

You see mediocrity comes from the word Median, which of course according to the Oxford dictionary means "in the middle or exactly half way".

To make the top 8 you don't have to be in the middle, you can be even worse than that.

You only need to finish in the third quartile and you can still qualify for the finals.

Now thats an achievment.

BTW - i will lay a fifty on the fact that the underpants you are wearing are actually pura satin not pure silk . Oh but to live in the land of eternal sunshine and contentmnent .

contentment , apologies got a little excvited.

BTW - You are a Tool

DB5, if top 8 = mediocrity with a ticket to the finals, then lets accept it and say thank you very much.

final 8 is there for money making nothing more nothing less

If it is all about Money Making, why not then have a top 6 but get rid of the stupid 1 game quarter final games and make it best of 3.
It would give at least the same amount of games there currently is during the finals so no money would be lost.
As much as a final 8 will certainly aid the sixers playoff chances this year, I dont think teams should be rewarded for losing more games than they win.

Too many finals games = less meaning for each one. Want a crowd, want money, have less finals not 5, have 3, have less teams in the finals.

Next year if it is 13 then top 6 would be good.

I hate having to depend on other teams to win and lose to make finals

Agreed AK - bit of a desperate scenario. I would still hope that they can win enough from here to do more than make up the numbers.

oh yeah.. your right db5, but still i dont see how a mediocre team can beat the kings on their home floor.

well, it's not the Sixers who played unbelievably well, it's the Kings who played just plain crap.

Watching them against the Razorbacks, Sydney was just lacklusture.

There was never a sledge there against the Sixers, just the whole system..
I personally would like to see my team make the finals with a winning percentage...

Nick...anything can happen for a team on their day..Are you saying the Boomers played their best team??

We won, on a good night for us and a bad night for them..
And only just beat them as well..We are mediocre at the moment, hopefully that changes for the rest of the season.

Alright, i went a bit over the top, but we still played much better than we have all season. There were good signs. There were 7 players in double figures, im just saying it's an improvemnet.

For sure mate, hopefully we can keep it up now, get a bit of momentum..

DB5, the win against the Kings in Sydney was a thrasing when you consider the norm to be that Adelaide would get thrashed by 30-40 points in that situation.

WTF? They took the Kings to overtime when they last met? In no sense can you consider a two point win a "thrashing"!