This weekend's NRL semi-finals highlight disparities between powerful clubs and underdogs in rugby league.
This weekend's NRL semi-finals - Canberra hosting Cronulla on the Saturday and Canterbury and Penrith a day later - is rugby league's great case study of the haves and have-nots.
Between them, the Bulldogs and Panthers boast truckloads of juniors, star power, premierships, and poker machines to make all of the above happen.
Those genuine NRL powerhouses have worked for and earned everything they have.