Hockey Fan's NRL Finals Week 1 Predictions + Tipping Recap

[@JackH2254]

It’s crazy how much you know about the league and it’s players already after only watching for one season, respect!! Let’s go Manly 🦅🦅🦅

[@HannibalLekta-qg2ip]

Ryan Papenhuyzen & Tom Trbojevic are back for the Storm & Sea Eagles are back respectively while Roosters are missing Dom Young, Victor Radley & Nat Butcher, meanwhile Bulldogs have Burton, Xerri & Kiraz back but Addo-Carr has stood himself down for off field indiscretions & most of the other sides are pretty much the same with a couple of changes....I'm still picking a Storm, Panthers final but yeah the NRL can be so unpredictable as we've seen in the past

[@melissawoltmann1442]

I’ve tipped the same. “… off ice issues…. Off field “… lol😅 love it. Commonality 🙌

[@podgypig4316]

huge, keen as

[@nardthe]

G'day mate. I reckon the Storm are mos def favourites, but don't sleep on the Cowboys and Manly. Panthers should be competitive and should make the final, but they are looking tired and vulnerable. It just depends which side of the draw in the end for Panthers and who they play. Storm - Cowboys - Manly premiers in the most open race in recent history

[@grantisshananaa4906]

Yeah, Roosters are going into this game 1-20 vs Storm and Panthers. And are 0-10 vs Panthers. Considering it's in Penrith, Roosters are going to need some luck and some ref calls to go their way. Easiest way to know who's at risk each week in the finals, the bottom two losers of each week get eliminated. IE, if 7 and 8 beat 5 and 6 they're out. Then they play the losers of the two top 4 games. Then the two losers, are out. then you have your semifinals, Boom, the grand final. Looking forward to the stream mate!

[@nardthe]

top 4 is Upper Bracket. 5-8 Lower bracket of the finalists

[@RyanSmithers2015]

I think we usually at this point call it the bottom four

[@bigsmudge406]

So the winner of the second week moves to the other side of the finals draw which stops teams that played in week one playing again in week three. If you look at the nrl 2024 wiki page theres a finals draw section that shows the movement

[@TheGeneral92]

I think Sharks can beat Storm, they already beat them down their without Hynes. Storm record of 19 wins and 5 losses is a bit of false form when you consider some of their close wins, who they were against and some of their losses were bad losses, so yeah I might be on my own here but I think Storm are pretenders of sorts, would not suprise me if they fail to even make the grand final.

[@NREEditz]

Top 4 Is qualifying finals and under 5th to 8th Is elimination finals