Lord Eagleton
Bencher
My bold predictions for 2014 season as race to the finals hots up
WITH the Origin series done and dusted, the fallout of another brutal campaign will seep into the club arena as we strap ourselves in for a frenetic finish to the NRL premiership. The next eight weeks will help separate the contenders from the pretenders.
With my crystal ball firmly in hand, here’s a few predictions as 13 teams jostle for eight finals berths.
Manly will win the premiership, the Warriors are the dark horse, the Broncos need to be mentally tougher and the Cowboys, incredibly, face an uphill battle making the playoffs.
From my experience, an Origin campaign has a marked influence on the players returning to their respective clubs.
MANLY: At the start of the year I liked Souths for the title, but Manly are now the team to beat. They are idiosyncratic of their coach Geoff Toovey: tough, determined and uncompromising. The huge advantage they have over other sides is their strike on both sides of the field. Most teams build their shape around a chief playmaker, but Manly have two trumps in Daly Cherry-Evans and Kieran Foran. It’s hard to see who can stop them.
*He is just saying what we already know duh. Our two halves cannot be beat. With them we are the best. Pretty safe bit of journalism but its always nice to see people recognising us. Or not. Perhaps its better to have Souths built up as favourites, then we smash them in the semi again lol
WITH the Origin series done and dusted, the fallout of another brutal campaign will seep into the club arena as we strap ourselves in for a frenetic finish to the NRL premiership. The next eight weeks will help separate the contenders from the pretenders.
With my crystal ball firmly in hand, here’s a few predictions as 13 teams jostle for eight finals berths.
Manly will win the premiership, the Warriors are the dark horse, the Broncos need to be mentally tougher and the Cowboys, incredibly, face an uphill battle making the playoffs.
From my experience, an Origin campaign has a marked influence on the players returning to their respective clubs.
MANLY: At the start of the year I liked Souths for the title, but Manly are now the team to beat. They are idiosyncratic of their coach Geoff Toovey: tough, determined and uncompromising. The huge advantage they have over other sides is their strike on both sides of the field. Most teams build their shape around a chief playmaker, but Manly have two trumps in Daly Cherry-Evans and Kieran Foran. It’s hard to see who can stop them.
*He is just saying what we already know duh. Our two halves cannot be beat. With them we are the best. Pretty safe bit of journalism but its always nice to see people recognising us. Or not. Perhaps its better to have Souths built up as favourites, then we smash them in the semi again lol