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NRL Predicitions

Posted by: Peter Psaltis | 9 February, 2010 - 4:07 PM

Well here we go again. Here are my fearless predictions for the 2010 NRL season.

TOP 8

Parramatta
Bulldogs
Brisbane
Gold Coast
Dragons
Melbourne
North Queensland
Souths

GRAND FINAL

Flip a coin and don’t let anyone tell you that you are wrong. It’s going to be a close season. I think we could be seeing a Parramatta – Bulldogs decider. Brisbane, the Dragons and Gold Coast are the biggest dangers. But you can’t write off anyone!!!!!!!

BUY OF THE YEAR

This is a tough one because a lot of clubs have seemingly bought well for the 2010 season. Dave Taylor and Sam Burgess look the goods for Souths. But for mine Justin Poore’s signature is a massive one for the Eels. Along with Shane Shackleton he will provide much needed depth to the Parramatta pack.

WOODEN SPOON

Another hard one in what is shaping up to be a closely fought out competition. I can see the wooden spoon ‘winner’ still winning up to 9 or 10 games. I think the Warriors may struggle in 2010

STATE OF ORIGIN

Queensland 2 – 1 for 5 series wins in a row

Enjoy the 2010 season. It’s going to be a great one.

Feel free to leave a comment and don’t forget to include your own predictions……….

Blog comments

Hi Peter,I wonder how Dean Ritchie and Anthony Whatmough
feel today about the"old"
N0.6 who Captains The Maroons.
The scarey thing for The Blues is that J.T.had a
quiet game by his standards.
The Blues were beaten BEFORE
they took the field.Fancy
two of their top players missing the Team Bus...
Don't NSW Management staff
count heads like we did in school.
I actually thought they had
a better team than in Game one.I thought they would give US a run for our money...
but all they wanted to do
was fight.Luke O'Donnell
only getting 3wks for THAT tackle was a disgrace and
then him coming out and
saying that"dog"shots
were put on him...What a joke!
I'm not sure where The Blues
go from here..but you can
bet on one thing,ther'll
be NO atmosphere at ANZ in
3wks time...If the Capt,
of NSW had to beg for fans
to come to the FIRST Game
of a NEW series,how are
they going to get Blues
supportersd to come to a Dead
Rubber when their team has lost 5 in a Row.ABLHED

cherie alexander Friday 18 June, 2010 - 11:40 AM
Peter I agree with you,but
may I just add something.
J.T.is super competitive and wants to win,and so he should.He had every right to
be upset with the match officals...
It's his own reaction to his
fellow Cowboy players,that makes me cringe.He berates
them in a horrible way.
The place for that is in
the dressingroom.Not out
on the field of play in front
of all and sundry.
Nobody's perfect.Not even
the best player in the comp.

cherie alexander Monday 31 May, 2010 - 3:43 PM
This was the team,according
to the press and Choc Whatmough that was going to
bash and beat us.Darren is
supposed to be too old,too
slow and playing on for one year too many.We were missing one of our gun
players because of injury.
They had home ground,home crowd advantage,and the mud
and the slush and the rain..
and we STILL won!!
The score,in the end,flattered The Blues...
If The Blues don't change
the positions of some of their players it's lookin'
like...Five In A Row!!
Bring it on!!

cherie alexander Thursday 27 May, 2010 - 4:30 PM
So Dean Ritchie thinks
Darren will be out played
by Ben Creagh and Anthony
Watmough thinks Darren is
getting old and is trying to
protect his back by speaking
out about The Blues"over
the top"mehtods...they
have a right to their opinion,
but let's see who's too old
and too slow on Wed.night..
Me thinks it won't be The
Maroons N0.6

cherie alexander Friday 21 May, 2010 - 3:23 PM
Gus Goulds'solution for
letting Melbourne play for
points this season is last
man on/first man off until
they are back under the cap.
Given that they are close to
$1million over,for this season,that's
a lot of players they would
have to shed...an eight or
nie man side would take the field...they'd deserve the two points if they could win under thosse circumstances.

Well done The Broncos.That's
showing what team work can do.

Cherie Monday 10 May, 2010 - 1:22 PM
Well,Well,Well...The Storm
caught cheating...BIGTIME!
The N.R.L.took the soft
option of stripping them
of their points and not
allowing them to add points,
even if they win...because
they've would still be fielding the players that
they cheated to keep.But
in taking the soft option this means that The Storm
can STILL have an impact on
this years Final Series...
they can keep a team out of the eight or the four or from
winning The Minor Premiership
because of points or for and against.

The harder and better option
would have been to take
the eight points off them,
then double that thus making
them -16,then tell them"You
can have the 2pts,if you win,but you must off load,or
standown the players you
have used to cheat the
salary cap by $750,000 this
season alone.In other words you can't field your top
four,gun players..."

Lets see how many games they
win when the playing field is even.

This makes me sick to my stomach,and don't think for
one moment that the fallout
is finished yet...

More to come.And if Brian
Waldron told me something
was black I know 100% that
it was white...so when he tells a Sydney newspaper
that one player,who left
The Storm,for another club,
got $200,000,under the
table,from that other club..
I believe him NOT!!

Cherie Friday 23 April, 2010 - 2:32 PM