The weak comp argument doesn't even make sense. By what metric are you determining that it was weak? In any case, unless you're the Storm, there aren't asterisks next to premiership years on the basis of a weak comp.
Fancy downplaying your first win in nearly 20 years because it was a weak comp. lolllllll
A year is often called soft when it's a one horse race.
Tell me who could have won last year?
Storm, solid form at 17 wins and 7 losses. Only just edged out the Panthers themselves in their last game of 2025 together.
Penrith, absolutely, they came into the finals looking quite hot to go 5 in a row. It took a herculean to the wire effort to fight past them.
Raiders, minor premiers, destroyed pretty much everyone all year going 19 and 5.
Dogs, won most of the year then fell over in the finals. Probably the "softest" of the top 8.
Bottom half of the 8 + the Phins who probably deserved to be there too were very competitive.
The year saw tonnes of come from behind wins, not just from us either.
If Moses had been fit, I would have actually been bloody worried about them being in the 8 towards the end too, they were just so far behind when he was out injured for it not to impact finals.
It would be next to impossible to argue 2025 wasn't a competitive year.
