General Your 2025 team

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If we’re working out Blueys round the bye warps the result. We need to judge on 6 games played for consistency with Blueys season?

I have us:

Raiders W 60/40
Manly 50/50 we struggle with their size
Rooster L
Tigers W
Storm L
Bye
Broncos 40/60 we struggle with their speed

How we go against the other mid table top 8 contenders will determine where we’re at. Lose to all them and it’s a Bluey season. Wins against top 4 Roosters or Storm and it sets us up for a great season.

3 wins plus the bye I think is par.

yeah I agree with that summation. All I was trying to say is that with the way our draw is made up and the unpredictable nature of the first 6-12 rounds in terms of results and form, a start that has us with 2 wins and a bye from the first 7 rounds would likely have us mid table and isn't the end to our season. The biggest factor for me that will determine our season is the style of play and how we are defending in those first 5-6 rounds. I can see us coming home strong at the back end of the season if we get a good run of limited injuries to key players and AW gets the selections and bench use right. If he tries to get the team to play robotically and conservatively then we are in trouble. I think there should have been some key learnings taken out of the Panthers/Dolphins/Cowboys run of wins mid season this year, both in team make up and the style of play.