The March Premiers

[Kiwi Eagle]

Souths looked good, and i think are deserving of the praise many are giving them. That said, wrong time of the year to be firing at your best and while they played well they still didn't look like an 80 minute team, and on many occasions especially on the right side didn't look to know their combinations and positioning all that well, they were getting in each others way. Roosters lost themselves that game with penalities. barring major injury problems i'm pretty sure souths will be thereabouts this year again, so it's hardly a huge surprise many are rating them.

This is the point entirely. In my memory only exceptions have dominated early and been there at the end. I remember numerous seasons wher Nth Qld were utterly unbeatable early on, but crashed as usual.

Hasn't really been the case recently though

2007 and 8 us and Melbourne lead the field from start to finish and made the GFs

2010 Dragons were the class act from day 1 and last year Melbourne had a huge run early again