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TOP FOUR BOTTOM FOUR 2020

Illusion

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1 Flanno 2 Brown 3 Mary 4 Price 5 Hook ..... Don't tell Benny 😭 ........ Jokes aside I think we will finish just outside the 8 .......
 

Slippery Morris

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Top 4
Panthers (If Panthers lose World Club Challenge I tip them to win the comp again)
Broncos (too good a team but with Fleggler and Farnworth they will not be as good as 2023 but still much better than most sides)
Roosters ( You cannot keep them down too long. Robbo will have them firing)
Storm (Munster will be on fire in 2024, this guy does not have 2 quiet season in a row)

Bottom 4
Dragons (although they will be better than 2023)
Dogs (Way too many newbies, takes time to gel but under a bad coach will take even longer)
Tigers (like Saints, better than 2023 but not quite to finals material)
Dolphins (Depth will be their issue and they have an aging pack)

Surprise packet - I think Gold Coast will be a top 8 side this year. Hasler will have the boys playing to their potential as they have some really good players the Titans.
 
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Top 4:

Smug should stagger into a grand final, but at times they will seem to be like a drunk who somehow managed to get home on the right bus.

Brisbane will continue to maintain the rage and work hard to recapture the gf that was rightfully theirs. Beautiful post game comments from a shell shocked Kevvie. He said something like it’s all done and let’s take our two heads and move on. Kevvie completes me.

Warriors have another good year in them. Flanno could do well by examining how their coach turned a pigs ear into a silk purse this season. Superb effort, despite trying to sell a dud to SGI. The poor kid couldn’t lift his toothbrush.

Newcastle will continue to impress but I’d be happy to see Pongo move on as he’s not worth the 3 or 4 factory players he scammed out of them.

Bottom 4

Forget what you’ve read, the raiders are in for a bad year. Aging marquee and unhappy recruitment. The good news for Ricky fans is that he’ll be back in a few years.

South’s in a death spiral, maybe not bottom 4 but Cook looks slower than Prince Andrew’s mind these days, halves combined are suspect and Latrell is useless. Special privileges for coaches favourites will destroy player unity. The treachery Wighton showed to Ricky, was inspiring.

Tigers. As a paid up club member, all I can say is that we don’t have a coach. I think we should miss the spoon but in spite of Benji rather than because of him. 5 wins would be a improvement, ffs.

North Queensland/Eels.

A race to be bottom for both clubs. To be fair on the Eels, the good players that have left have turned into rubbish. Moses to enjoy a 2 or 3 season holiday now that he has reamed them.

The Cowboys lost the plot last year, everyone died in the arse. When the 60 year old Granville is in your first team, you’ve got issues. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a great player. Maybe he will re-sign until 2030? No one will notice.
 
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Bumping some prediction threads as it always makes good reading when no finals to watch.

Seems like a timely reminder that despite the last two games, this team has finished higher or about where most thought.
 
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Bumping some prediction threads as it always makes good reading when no finals to watch.

Seems like a timely reminder that despite the last two games, this team has finished higher or about where most thought.
Much much higher.

I cottoned on in March/ early April that the grubby rug that had been suffocating your club for awhile was developing a few holes.

Flanno is coach of the year easily. We would kill for a coach like him.

You weren’t rated to win any games by the experts, maybe against us, but that’s as high as it got.

And this is just the start for you too!

At this rate, everything else equal, top 4 looks imminent for you in a season or two.
 
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Much much higher.

I cottoned on in March/ early April that the grubby rug that had been suffocating your club for awhile was developing a few holes.

Flanno is coach of the year easily.

You weren’t rated to win any games by the experts, maybe against us, but that’s as high as it got.

And this is just the start for you too!
You were spot on regarding Souths mate.
 
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Amazing how many on here had Dogs in bottom 4.

First bagging their recruitment and then death-riding them all year.
Their ability to sign players is really what separates them from us.
 

Slippery Morris

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What separate's them from us is the unlimited cap they have.
They surprised quite a few not only us Dragons supporters. I have many Dogs fans who did not expect finals footy in 2024. They expected improvement but not that much.

The Dogs season in 2023 ended diabolical with all this off field dramas on players wanting out or being pushed out. That also contributed to why so many had doubts. I think there was turnover of 20+ players which is unheard of these days of salary cap. The culture from the outside looked toxic and a huge credit to the Dogs for sorting it out so quickly. Ciraldo (or is it Gus) showed that he can coach as looking at last year, if they had a similar one he would have been on the outer for sure.

If Saints had a player taking the club to court it would be all over the pages and a constant reminder throughout the season or seasons we had with JDB court case, yet the dogs manage the media so well that they can have news such as that swept under the carpet? Does anyone know the latest? Exactly. They now have a player that is not playing finals because of a failed drug test. The same guy that was involved in an assault charge during the Koori Cup which again was swept under the carpet. The guy that lied about the drug test also said he was not the cause of the scuffle.
 

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