As the new year is upon us it means that we are getting ever so close to kicking off the 2018 NRL season with much to be anticipated.
So if you aren’t already, here are 10 reasons to be excited about the 2018 NRL season. As always don’t forget to leave your opinions below.
Battle of the Spoon
Now from looking at the place teams do want to finish to the place they don’t, that place is last. This season the team that will finish last isn’t as predictable as previous years with the Knights and Tigers both looking on the up but there are some strong candidates.
One of whom are the Gold Coast Titans, although making decent signings in areas that do need tweaking and new coach Garth Brennan who many say is a very good coach the Titans still to many will struggle in 2018 as they will still need to learn to gel together a problem they have had a lot in recent years as they are a side with such good talent but talent that don’t seem to play well together and unless the Titans can build a healthy club culture and learn to gel more as a unit they may have the wooden spoon looming in 2018.
Another team is the New Zealand Warriors who also has talent that doesn’t seem to gel. The past few years fans have predicted that the Warriors would finally do well and even push for a top 4 spot with them failing every year and it seems the fans have given up on the Warriors with them in the mix to be 2018 wooden spooners.
Although these two sides seem to be front-runners for the spoon teams such as the Raiders, Rabbitohs and in reality even the generally consistent Bulldogs will need to play better in 2018 if they don’t want to be candidates for the spoon in 2018.
