TheDaBoss
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With the 16 NRL clubs having entered their preliminary squads for the 2019
season, fans are already making their predictions about where each club will
finish in the Telstra Premiership.
Pre-season trials are still a few months away, but with more than 100,000 votes entered in the
NRL.com polls, the early predictions are for another title for the Roosters and another wooden
spoon for Parramatta.
There is less predictability in the middle of the pack, with the Roosters' rivals South Sydney the
second-most favoured side, ahead of 2018 grand finalists Melbourne, with the Panthers, Dragons
and Sharks rounding out the top six.
The fans are tipping Newcastle to continue the improvement from last season and sneak into the
finals for the first time since 2013, ahead of the Cowboys and Wests Tigers.
North Queensland are the big movers of the week following the signing of Josh McGuire from
Brisbane, with their vote for winning the premiership jumping by 5% and support for them
finishing somewhere in the top eight rising by 9%.
According to the fans, the Warriors, Raiders and Sea Eagles will land outside the top eight, with
the Titans and Bulldogs sitting above the 16th-placed Eels.
NRL.com has been running fan polls for all 16 clubs, asking readers whether they expect each
club to finish 2019 as premiers, as a top-eight side, just outside the playoffs or near the bottom of
the ladder.
Using a formula of two points for every vote a club gets to win the premiership, one point for top
eight, -1 for just missing the finals and -2 for bottom of the ladder, here are the rankings for the 16
clubs.
While votes for all teams err on the optimistic side, analysing the results of all 16 clubs gives us the following rankings.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/11/22/fans-predictions-where-each-club-will-finish-in-2019/
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season, fans are already making their predictions about where each club will
finish in the Telstra Premiership.
Pre-season trials are still a few months away, but with more than 100,000 votes entered in the
NRL.com polls, the early predictions are for another title for the Roosters and another wooden
spoon for Parramatta.
There is less predictability in the middle of the pack, with the Roosters' rivals South Sydney the
second-most favoured side, ahead of 2018 grand finalists Melbourne, with the Panthers, Dragons
and Sharks rounding out the top six.
The fans are tipping Newcastle to continue the improvement from last season and sneak into the
finals for the first time since 2013, ahead of the Cowboys and Wests Tigers.
North Queensland are the big movers of the week following the signing of Josh McGuire from
Brisbane, with their vote for winning the premiership jumping by 5% and support for them
finishing somewhere in the top eight rising by 9%.
According to the fans, the Warriors, Raiders and Sea Eagles will land outside the top eight, with
the Titans and Bulldogs sitting above the 16th-placed Eels.
NRL.com has been running fan polls for all 16 clubs, asking readers whether they expect each
club to finish 2019 as premiers, as a top-eight side, just outside the playoffs or near the bottom of
the ladder.
Using a formula of two points for every vote a club gets to win the premiership, one point for top
eight, -1 for just missing the finals and -2 for bottom of the ladder, here are the rankings for the 16
clubs.
While votes for all teams err on the optimistic side, analysing the results of all 16 clubs gives us the following rankings.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/11/22/fans-predictions-where-each-club-will-finish-in-2019/
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