Newcastle's Determination to Preserve NRL Finals Streak Defies All Odds

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Why Newcastle is ready to once again go to hell and back to keep its NRL finals run alive

Less than week after going to hell and back and balancing on the raggedy edge separating an epic, club-defining victory from a soul-crushing defeat, Newcastle will have to saddle up and do it all again.

The Knights' 30-28 extra-time victory over the Raiders on Sunday was less of a football match and more of a life experience. It was the kind of thing that doesn't have winners, just survivors.

If the Novocastrians had cruised to the easy victory many suspected would be coming their way, they'd likely be even money to beat the Warriors on Saturday night, if not favourites.

But now, battered and bruised and missing a couple of stars, it is Newcastle's turn to dig deep and defy the odds.

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