It’s a time when NRL campaigns are made or broken. But who are the best and worst at finishing off the regular season?
In the NRL world, this is the time of year when everyone’s a bit on edge, where the promised land and the finals are somewhere on the horizon but still a little too far away to get excited.
So, which team is actually the best at finishing the regular season with a flurry after being spat out of the Origin period? It’s no fluke the Roosters and Storm, arguably the two most dominant teams of the NRL era, are so good at making their runs at the right time. “You look at a world title fight, the hype, the build-up, the adrenalin, everything … and when they finish that fight they go on holidays for two months,” says Hayden Knowles, helping Robinson at the Roosters this year and former head of high performance with NSW and Penrith.
Among the worst performing teams after Origin across the last decade are ones devoid of NSW or Queensland regulars. Think the Titans , Dragons and, perhaps most surprisingly, the Warriors .It’s a tricky balancing act, and the reason Manly coach Anthony Seibold hasn’t hesitated giving his Origin captains, Daly Cherry-Evans and Jake Trbojevic, six days off during the Sea Eagles’ bye this week.
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