Round 26 could reflect on round 25's excitement and unpredictability in NRL's recent season.
If round 26 could talk, it would turn to round 25 and say: "That's not a knife, that's a knife."
There was a tiny sliver of a moment on Monday morning when the NRL's penultimate round might have actually been about The Greatest Game Of All, building on the Miracle in Mudgee towards a finals series befitting one of the least predictable seasons in recent memory.
Then the week snuck up on us with all the nonchalance of a charismatic bushman, who took one glance at the past few months of flashpoints and histrionics and knew he could up the ante.