Reflecting on the 2025 NRL Season

[mtd#2]

Who gives Api a spell?

Api can't play 80 minutes week in week out

Agreed.
Especially if we have aspirations of finals
24 X 80 minute games plus finals, he'll be cooked

 

[Tucker]

For mine, season 2025 was a year where most weekends any team could win. The top 4 were not hugely dominant.
Despite that, we still lost 15 games out of 24 starts.
3rd or 4th worst attack (depending on Parra tomorrow), and 4th worst defence.
Another miserable failure of a year.

 

[crazycat]

Agreed.
Especially if we have aspirations of finals
24 X 80 minute games plus finals, he'll be cooked

Yea, but flip it...

He is playing 80 minutes with us. I vastly prefer Api as an 80 minute player slowing to 60 then a 40 minute player ramping up. I don't know if Bird, Hope or Mason will be taking up the slack...

Lets hope Benji changes his bench rotation. He is burning our forward bench and hooker.

 

[orange&black]

Melbourne game was an outlier and hurt our For and Against.
We were unable to win a few games that we could or should have, which was disappointing.
We were definitely a better side this season than the past 4-5 years but we lacked consistency snd sustained effort.
Our D is still weak and our A in the red zone looks disorganised.
We need some hard tough middles to improve our go forward and contact.

 

[innsaneink]

Penrith gave us 3 months start and still finish 7 spots ahead of us

Lol

 

[Telltails]

Better than last year but still a way to go.

 

[Merlot]

better than another spanking with the spoon , green shoots prevail

 

[Tim Sheens]

Hopefully blokes like Hope Sukkar and Murray aren't with cooee of the NRL squad

Yeah, Sukkar being young is the only hope among them improving to be of first grade standard.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Agreed.
Especially if we have aspirations of finals
24 X 80 minute games plus finals, he'll be cooked

Sadly, he is already at the medium/well done point and the club just extended him to now be here another three years. Silly decision.