LISTEN | Running It Straight - Which teams will emerge from the NRL semi-finals?

This weekend, the NRL enters the thick of the business end of the season with two blockbuster semi-finals to determine who'll advance to the preliminaries.

On Friday, the Cronulla Sharks host the North Queensland Cowboys, before the Manly Sea Eagles face the Sydney Roosters at Allianz Stadium on Saturday.

On this week's episode of Running It Straight, co-hosts Sam Hewat and Anthony Gelling dive into the detail to review the past weekend of finals action, before analysing what we can expect to see in the upcoming semi-finals.

Coming off the bench to add some weighty impact to those discussions are Mark Bryant, who played for the Sea Eagles in their 2008 Grand Final triumph against the Melbourne Storm, and Cowboys great Matt Bowen, who played 270 games for North Queensland.

Listen to the full podcast below: