Welcome to 2024!
With the new year comes new opportunities. A chance to better oneself and aim for the stars.
By now we've all made our new year's resolutions. Whether it be the old chessnuts like losing weight, chasing that dream job, asking that pretty girl out, or shooting for immortality, we've all now set ours.
So too will each and every NRL club.
Not in any real capacity of course, but let's have some fun and look at what your NRL side's new year's resolution should be!
Please take these as the tongue in cheek comment that they are. I've tried to be serious, where possible, but there's still two months until the NRL season kicks off, so let's have a laugh together.
10. Newcastle Knights - Silence the critics
2023 was a fluke for the Knights. An incredible run of form saw them capture an unlikely finals appearance.
That is a statement each and every Newcastle player, and fan has plastered on their wall. They seem to thrive on proving everyone wrong.
Ponga's Dally M run carried his side to the second week of the finals. Truthfully they were far from a one man side but when that one man wins the game's highest individual award, it's natural to assume he played a big part.
Newcastle players were quick to point to negative comments made in the media. It seemed to fuel them. Whatever works.
They'll be aiming to do it again in 2024, albeit with a higher level of expectation.
