Forward Pack power rankings 2019

[I Bleed Maroon]

Post your best 3 and worst 3

1. Cowboys - If Matt Scott can overcome his age and play with some energy, they're still the best pack in the comp. The addition of Josh McGuire helps in a big way.
2. Rabbitohs - The Burgi may have feet for hands but they still know how to chew up metres. Bench has a lot to prove however.
3. Broncos - Very young but a bottomless pit of potential. If Seibold can milk some leadership out of Gillett and Glenn, they will be hard to stop once on a roll.

Disqualified: Sombreros

14. Gold Coast - Short of Ryan James and Jai Arrow, they really haven't got much going on up front. Jarrod Wallace barely deserves to even be Origin standard and Proctor went to shit the moment he left the WWE.
15. Cronulla - Mr. Grub in the number 8 is carrying the whole mob. Sharon is a very expensive benchwarmer and Gallen is too busy masquerading as a bad half to cover up the fact he's 2 years past his used by date.
16. Parramatta - Packed to the brim with Journeyman quality at best forwards who would have a hard time making the bench at pretty much every other club. Are gonna get steamrolled, even by the two packs above them.

 

[THE CHAMP]

Pretty accurate but still god bait.

 

[mozza91]

Best: Knights
Worst: Everyone else

 

[grouch]

lol Broncos

Top 3 Cowboys, Souths and probably Dragons or Roosters.

Bulldogs and Raiders must be in the bottom 3 surely. Weren't special last year and have significantly weakened since

 

[gerg]

Probably deserves it's very own thread but seriously who can stop the Broncos juggernaut? Best young pack in the comp, best young backs and the best young coach. Throw in the soft schedule and the Sutton's (best young referees in the business) guiding them through. Let's just handover the next 3 premiership trophies now and focus on 2022.

 

[SBD82]

Post your best 3 and worst 3

1. Cowboys - If Matt Scott can overcome his age and play with some energy, they're still the best pack in the comp. The addition of Josh McGuire helps in a big way.
2. Rabbitohs - The Burgi may have feet for hands but they still know how to chew up metres. Bench has a lot to prove however.
3. Broncos - Very young but a bottomless pit of potential. If Seibold can milk some leadership out of Gillett and Glenn, they will be hard to stop once on a roll.

Disqualified: Sombreros

14. Gold Coast - Short of Ryan James and Jai Arrow, they really haven't got much going on up front. Jarrod Wallace barely deserves to even be Origin standard and Proctor went to shit the moment he left the WWE.
15. Cronulla - Mr. Grub in the number 8 is carrying the whole mob. Sharon is a very expensive benchwarmer and Gallen is too busy masquerading as a bad half to cover up the fact he's 2 years past his used by date.
16. Parramatta - Packed to the brim with Journeyman quality at best forwards who would have a hard time making the bench at pretty much every other club. Are gonna get steamrolled, even by the two packs above them.

Will the Broncos pack have recovered from what the Dragons pack did to them in September?

 

[Valheru]

16 - roosters

Just don't have what it takes to compete in the middle

 

[TheFrog]

Post your best 3 and worst 3

No idea. Its a long off season.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Will the Broncos pack have recovered from what the Dragons pack did to them in September?

Korbin Sims IS a Dragon now. He took the whole "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" thing a little too literally.

 

[SBD82]

Korbin Sims IS a Dragon now. He took the whole "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" thing a little too literally.

Yeah. People respond differently to traumatic experiences.

Korbin seems to have developed Stockholm syndrome. PTSD for the rest of the pack?

 

[mozza91]

Tariq definitely got the top bunk that night.

 

[Hutty1986]

Tariq definitely got the top bunk that night.

Tariq should have a statue outside Suncorp

 

[This Year?]

Top 3:the 3 teams I like*
Bottom 3: the 3 teams I hate*

NB* All these teams will beat my team when it counts

 

[gerg]

Tariq should have a statue outside Suncorp

The statue should go inside the stadium, he really had his way with the best young side in the comp that night.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Top 3 -
Cowboys
Storm
Rabbitohs

Bottom 3 -
Eels
Raiders
Broncos

 

[Hutty1986]

Bottom 3
I Bleed Maroon
Jason Smith
I Bleed Maroon

 

[Timbo]

People ranking the Raiders bottom three are kidding.

For starters, losing Boyd and Paulo is a blessing. They were garbage last year, played low minutes and ate a ton of our cap. We’ve got an all-test back row in Tapine, Whitehead and Bateman, Papalli is moving to prop - where he has played for Queensland and Australia - and there’s young front row talent in Guler and Sutton. Add in bench workhorses like Soliola, Havili and Lui and I’m not altogether unhappy with our pack.

Our halves, on the other hand, are why we are specials for the bottom 4.

 

[Tommy Smith]

1. Dragons
2. Cowboys
3. Broncos

14 - Bulldogs
15 - Eels
16 - Roosters. The critics were right with their harsh comments all throughout 2018. Very soft in the middle, no impact off the bench, and JWH is well past his best.

 

[Captain Apollo]

16 - Roosters. The critics were right with their harsh comments all throughout 2018. Very soft in the middle, no impact off the bench, and JWH is well past his best.

 

[Tommy Smith]

People ranking the Raiders bottom three are kidding.

For starters, losing Boyd and Paulo is a blessing. They were garbage last year, played low minutes and ate a ton of our cap. We’ve got an all-test back row in Tapine, Whitehead and Bateman, Papalli is moving to prop - where he has played for Queensland and Australia - and there’s young front row talent in Guler and Sutton. Add in bench workhorses like Soliola, Havili and Lui and I’m not altogether unhappy with our pack.

Our halves, on the other hand, are why we are specials for the bottom 4.

Agreed. The Raiders are my surprise forward pack to excel in 2019.

Bateman and Sutton will go great (British forwards tend to kill it in the NRL; the backs not so much...)

Both are massive upgrades on Fat Albert & Krang (seriously tell me that Shannon Boyd isn't his doppelganger)



I also rate Tapine very highly. He'd receive huge praise if he played for a powerhouse like the Eels.

Also if we're including hookers then Josh Hodgson is further ahead of the 3rd best hooker in the comp than Cam Smith is ahead of Hodgson. A top 10 player in the NRL for mine and he'd be lauded as such if he too played for a powerhouse like the Tigers.

The issue for the Raiders is the lack of depth in the forwards.

And on the whole, as you said, the 6 & 7 (and 1) are a worse trio than Waleed Aly, Carrie Bickmore and Peter Helliar.