A new year has arrived, and NRL clubs will be back from their Christmas breaks to ramp up pre-season training in the next week.

The final run to the season often brings with it heightened intensity and discussion as fans ready themselves for the new campaign.

This year could on another level altogether with the season opening in Las Vegas a week ahead of schedule.

Expectations are a funny thing though. Every year, there are teams who will go well beyond what they were expected to do, and others who fall a long way short of where they were supposed to be.

But what exactly are those expectations for all 17 NRL teams in 2024?

Here is what your team needs to do to earn a pass in 2024.

3. Roosters: Preliminary finals

The Roosters are a better side, both on paper and in the potential stakes, than what they were able to ultimately serve up during the 2023 campaign.

While you wouldn't go as far as to call 2023 a failure for the Roosters, it so nearly was. The club looked as if they were going to be in danger of missing the top eight for a chunk of the season before a late surge of form pushed them into the finals.

They were bundled out by the Panthers in Week 2 of those finals, but it was the turnaround in form of the likes of Brandon Smith, James Tedesco and a halves combination that barely played together during the middle third of the season which will paint the picture for a better 2024.

The club welcome Spencer Leniu and Dominic Young, two players who should thrive under Trent Robinson's coaching, and realistically, anything short of a preliminary final is going to be a failure.

You'd actually expect that, internally, they want and will be expecting better than that.