Week 1 of the NRL finals have come and gone, and it means two more sides have joined the bottom nine who missed on knockout action altogether, now likely en route to Bali.
It might be easy, and obvious to focus on the sides remaining in the competition, but today we're looking to the nine forgotten sides who didn't feature in Week 1 of the finals.
More specifically what went wrong for each of the nine sides now out of contention.
Below is where each team wrong.
8. The Dolphins: Jekyll and Hyde
We are two years in and I still don't know what to expect from the Dolphins. Half to half, let alone week to week.
The game against the Sharks is the perfect example.
They opened the game by scoring four straight tries. It looked like a 50 point win. They then conceded the next four and looked set to lose the game.
Only some brilliant from the Hammer put them back in front and proved the winner in the end.
In the final three weeks of the regular season the Dolphins lost 48-6, won 40-6 and lost 14-6.
The gap between the Dolphins best and their worst proved too large to bank enough wins. If they found one more win, they play Finals. They were close.
