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.
4. Gold Coast Titans: A horror start ... and finish
It took the Titans until Round eight to record their first win of the season. A bye in Round two helped keep them off zero points, but we all knew.
A couple of wins here and then kept attention off them but it wasn't until a 66-6 win in Round 16 that the Titans season really started.
Five wins in six games had even the doubters slowly raising their eyebrows as this most unlikely of mid to late season runs.
Then they lost five games in a row.
Start terribly, finish terribly. Surely not the pre-season plan Des Hasler was working on.
Hasler needs to spend the off-season nailing down his preferred spine and ready them for a fast start. Playing catch up is a risky business.
