Honestly - who knows? NZ are the best placed club to do so given the experienced gained from yesterday and their boom crop of juniors. Their GF halves are so young too. Parra also have recent GF experience, and a coach with probably the best potential to get them to win one since Monie.
NQ and Gold Coast can get close soo too. Canberra need to show they can convert their occasional finals appearance into occasional prelim finals wins first. Like Cronulla, they need to pack a bigger punch with recruitment and retention. Souffs - who knows. No club has worked harder to get absolutely nowhere.
I feel a change in the mix of the clubs most likely though. I think Melbourne, Saints, Wests, Easts and Brisbane are a long way off their next premierships. I think this Manly squad might have one more left in them.
Brisbane, Manly, Melbourne, Saints and sometimes Wests, Easts and Parra have been the major players in the last 5 years. 5 years before that, take out Parra, Manly and Melbourne from that list and add Canterbury, NQ and NZ. The next 5 years? I reckon it's most likely to be Manly, NZ, Penrith, Gold Coast and maybe Parra, and Brisbane.
But really, who knows?
