By Matt Findlay Northern Suburbs’ Shute Shield campaign so far feels all too familiar, with consecutive losses following an impressive opening month, there’s almost a sense of deja vu about their start to 2019. You wouldn’t go as far as saying the side’s in a slump, but their back-to-back losses in the last fortnight continue what seems to have become an early or mid-season trend for the Shoremen. Veteran five-eighth Angus Sinclair’s certainly feeling that, he’s seen it before - “we have had similar periods the last few seasons” were his exact words this week - in every year since returning from his well-publicised battle with chronic fatigue syndrome in 2016. Last year was their best start to a season since, but even then after running through the opening eight rounds without a loss, Norths then dropped three of their next four games. They have always largely recovered though, not missing a finals series since Sinclair’s return, winning the premiership