What Is A Successful Season?

[Red Baron]

How do you judge success in the NRL?

 

[XV-1]

No team is ever going to win the premiership every year.
But, if you can make the top 4 each year - you are in with a very good chance of making / winning the GF

 

[Waz13]

Good question, how do you measure success? Playing finals at the moment feels like a successful season. However at the start of this season if we said we’d scrape into the 8 and lose week 1, we’d probably say that was a failure.

 

[sharx]

Obviously winning the premiership is the ultimate success
However top 4 and at least playing the game before the GF is a pretty good year

Luck with injuries and referee decisions are vital at that point

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Top 4 spot is a great success

 

[davohan123]

To me a successful season improving on the previous on.

We failed badly this year.

 

[maxta]

A successful season

 

[Rosko]

I know what it ain’t.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

It’s one that is not unsuccessful. That’s successful.

 

[Disco]

Its all depend on the year and the situation of the club.

This year succesful for mine would have been top 4. Though as soon as Tom went down succesful would have been top 8 with at least a solid showing in the finals.

We were not successful this year 😂😂

 

[Frogz]

Regular Top 4 appearances with peace and harmony amongst everyone.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Regular Top 4 appearances with peace and harmony amongst everyone.

The first step - ScoPen sells up and moves on. And if TonMes is his Yes Man, Magilla Jr can hop on his bike too.

I hope TonMes proves me wrong.

 

[Budgie]

We were Top 4 last year and always felt like we'd fail when it came to a really great team.
So ... Premiership or bust!

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

Next year: 10th.

 

[MadMarcus]

I think success is to be genuine premiership contenders. We haven’t been that since 2013.

 

[Spartan Eagle]

Success is measured on and off the field. This season has been a failure on all fronts.

 

[ManlyTragic]

…. Not getting the spoon!

Just sayin’

 

[StuBoot]

Interesting question to ponder.
16 teams, 8 teams make the "finals".
Every team's target is the top 8 = 50%
Really only half that realistically think top 4 = 25%
History says a top 4 finish gives you the best shot a GF - this year the final 4 finished 1, 3, 4, 7 with two of those, 1 & 7 being last years Grand Finalists.

So really, it all starts wth making the finals as the base.

Broncos should be mightily pissed off even though their improvement this year, they delivered plenty of hope and were certain finalists this year until...

The Storm probably look back on their season as being unsuccessful in finishing 5th but there's more than a few pundits that think they overachieved this year.

Did the Sharks overachieve?
Is anything less than 2nd next year a failure?

The comp is so tight now that the difference from week to week can be vast.
We've seen with most of the top teams that losing or getting back just one key player can make a huge difference to the performance of their respective teams.

The answer is a pineapple.🤔

 

[Woodsie]

Success .. is exceeding expectations ...

 

[Tragic Eagle]

Success is improvement. We showed zero improvement this year. And I don’t just mean results. Our structures were woeful and we played really dumb footy far too often.