Not so much a prediction but some things I'm interested to see:
1. How will Paps return from his injury at the storm. That bloke is lethal but his injury was horrible and whispers around suggest he might not be the same after it. Have heard very little on his recovery. But wow a fully fit spine of paps, grant, munster and Hughes is so unbelievably good.
2. Injuries and luck play a huge role in your season. And i feel like the panthers have had a pretty clean run the last 3 seasons. Not denying their deapth but surely they're due to cop a bad injury toll at some stage?
3. The cows. Last year many had them pencilled in as bottom 4 with an un proven Dearden and a bog average Townsend. Suddenly people are singing their praises as contenders. Part of me cant help but feel that much like our 2015 run, the cows success was off the back of some rare form from a number of players. Guys like Nanai, taulagi, Holmes, Drinkwater and even robson. Guys who are quality players but do they have it in them to play to that level year in year out and keep the cows in the top 4?
4. D.Fifita. i remain baffled at the lack of accountability or even criticism towards anyone at the tits for his contract. If Brisbane sign a guy for 1.25 mil a year and he sits on the bench we are the headline of the NRL. But it seems because Meninga coached QLD throguh our dynasty he's incapble of making mistkaes and its ok he wasted 1.25 mil of the titans money on D.Fifita.
5. Broncos. I feel like we are a rubber band at the moment with all this potential waiting to he realised. If the likes of Cobbo, Mam, Walsh and Staggs play to the best of their ability we can be so exciting. On the same token if we have a few tough games and confidence is down, this could turn into another train wreck of a season. I'm hopefull we learn alot from the highs of our mid season run and the lows of our end of year failure.
