Who's your wooden spoon pick for 2025

[Crush]

Tigers

 

[Slippery Morris]

It's a very tough call but if I had to pick I am leaning towards Dolphins. The Wayne Bennet curse to continue. When he leaves a club they seem to go terrible the following years. Dolphins have the cattle but Christian Wolfe may struggle in his first season as an NRL coach. He will end up being a good coach in the end as he was in England but next season will be a huge learning curve for him. If Parra lose Moses early in the season for a long period I would go them as my second tip for the spoon but only if Moses is out. Parra will rely heavily on him next season like the do others bit no Gutho next season.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

It's a very tough call but if I had to pick I am leaning towards Dolphins. The Wayne Bennet curse to continue. When he leaves a club they seem to go terrible the following years. Dolphins have the cattle but Christian Wolfe may struggle in his first season as an NRL coach. He will end up being a good coach in the end as he was in England but next season will be a huge learning curve for him. If Parra lose Moses early in the season for a long period I would go them as my second tip for the spoon but only if Moses is out. Parra will rely heavily on him next season like the do others bit no Gutho next season.

With the Eels coaching staff next year, I’d be looking for a complete change up in attack to inside ball for an inside ball and then a kick dead on the 5th.

 

[Old Timer]

Last year we were predicted for the spoon and obviously for many and varied reasons we didn't get that but more of that in a minute.

This year some pundits are again predicting us for the spoon so how will we rate our season if we did win it or in fact even when we don't?

Looking at 2024

Did we finish as high as we did due to Sua, Suli, Liddle & Lomax improving under S F?
or
Did we finish as low as we did under S F due to Hunt's obvious inefficiencies, Sloan not progressing nearly far enough, Rava having a completely forgettable season, Cake being cake and the team being highly disorganized / leaderless (for the want of words) as highlighted by S F's podcast with James Graham?

Looking at 2025
Will we finish as high as we do due to Gutho, Holmes, Cooke & Illias providing experience and the things Hunt could not ?
or
Will we finish as low as we do because we have under-whelming halves, an inefficient and under-powered forward pack & poor depth in key positions ?

What praise and what scrutiny should be applied to the coach, his team and the playing group and should that be based upon us judging our final result off the initial media expectation?

I don't believe we will get the spoon but should we be disappointed if we don't get into the eight after all we have a coach coming into his 2nd year and we either have a better squad or we don't so people need to get their heads around that and make a decision as to where we finish based upon that and not the media expectations.

If our squad is better then is anything below 9th a failure and somewhat akin to winning our own spoon?

 

[chiefy1]

I know some of the betting markets have us down as least favoured for the Grand Final win in 2025. So I'm wondering what peoples thoughts were as to next years wooden spooners? Early days but I reckon Parramatta have a real chance for the following reasons:
1. Rookie fullback
2. Rookie hooker
3. Rookie coach
4. Got rid of their best performing forward (RCG)
5. Got rid of their best performing back (Gutho)
6. Got rid of their top try scorer (Sivo)
7. Don't have a centre of excellence yet.

I'm interested to hear other peoples opinions.

The Eels centre of excellence will be ready by April 2025 cuz.

 

[Gareth67]

Broncos are a certainty , now that the games No.1 halfback has returned .

 

[Crush]

Last year we were predicted for the spoon and obviously for many and varied reasons we didn't get that but more of that in a minute.

This year some pundits are again predicting us for the spoon so how will we rate our season if we did win it or in fact even when we don't?

Looking at 2024

Did we finish as high as we did due to Sua, Suli, Liddle & Lomax improving under S F?
or
Did we finish as low as we did under S F due to Hunt's obvious inefficiencies, Sloan not progressing nearly far enough, Rava having a completely forgettable season, Cake being cake and the team being highly disorganized / leaderless (for the want of words) as highlighted by S F's podcast with James Graham?

Looking at 2025
Will we finish as high as we do due to Gutho, Holmes, Cooke & Illias providing experience and the things Hunt could not ?
or
Will we finish as low as we do because we have under-whelming halves, an inefficient and under-powered forward pack & poor depth in key positions ?

What praise and what scrutiny should be applied to the coach, his team and the playing group and should that be based upon us judging our final result off the initial media expectation?

I don't believe we will get the spoon but should we be disappointed if we don't get into the eight after all we have a coach coming into his 2nd year and we either have a better squad or we don't so people need to get their heads around that and make a decision as to where we finish based upon that and not the media expectations.

If our squad is better then is anything below 9th a failure and somewhat akin to winning our own spoon?

We should be aiming for top 8 in 2025, anything less than that will be disappointing.
Is finishing below 9th akin to winning our own wooden spoon? No. A wooden spoon is coming dead last, not finishing in the bottom 8.
Who will win the spoon? Nobody has a clue, everyone is just having a total stab in the dark, any team bar Penrith, Storm, Sharks, Rorters, Broncos could win the spoon next year.

 

[JohnnoMcJohnno]

We should be aiming for top 8 in 2025, anything less than that will be disappointing.
Is finishing below 9th akin to winning our own wooden spoon? No. A wooden spoon is coming dead last, not finishing in the bottom 8.
Who will win the spoon? Nobody has a clue, everyone is just having a total stab in the dark, any team bar Penrith, Storm, Sharks, Rorters, Broncos could win the spoon next year.

I reckon you're wrong there. I reckon both Broncos and Roosters are in with a chance. Roosters because they have lost Sualii, Keary, JWH, and Manu, plus the injuries to Smith and Walker. Broncos because they have appointed a former wooden spoon winning coach and a former Dragons player not known for enhancing team harmony. Other teams may deserve Favouritism but those two sides are not without hope.

 

[Crush]

I reckon you're wrong there. I reckon both Broncos and Roosters are in with a chance. Roosters because they have lost Sualii, Keary, JWH, and Manu, plus the injuries to Smith and Walker. Broncos because they have appointed a former wooden spoon winning coach and a former Dragons player not known for enhancing team harmony. Other teams may deserve Favouritism but those two sides are not without hope.

OK, I’ll accept that, imagine Broncos got the spoon with Bunt playing in the halves, what I wouldn’t give!

 

[Gardenia]

Titans

 

[Jubilee]

I reckon you're wrong there. I reckon both Broncos and Roosters are in with a chance. Roosters because they have lost Sualii, Keary, JWH, and Manu, plus the injuries to Smith and Walker. Broncos because they have appointed a former wooden spoon winning coach and a former Dragons player not known for enhancing team harmony. Other teams may deserve Favouritism but those two sides are not without hope.

Hunt is not Mam.

 

[Gold_Coast Dragon]

Parra

 

[Tuddy]

Tigers

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

the eels are moses away from trash city. so theres that

 

[Crush]

Tigers have no coach

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

well thats a thing as well

still. the have to be better with luai and may etc

 

[Gomarchin]

Hope they win the spoon: Dogs

Wooden Spoon 2025: Raiders

 

[Divine]

A Broncos spoon with an early exit for Madge & Bunt would be pretty funny but sadly unlikely. Other than that anywhere Barrett goes!

 

[Belta]

Hard to pick this far out however last place is likely to be one of these 4 :

Souths, Parra, Warriors or Gold Coast….

 

[Crush]

Hard to pick this far out however last place is likely to be one of these 4 :

Souths, Parra, Warriors or Gold Coast….

Souths? With Wayne? That would be interesting