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.
3. Parramatta Eels: Let themselves down too often
The Eels started the season at 2-1. They beat the Dogs and Manly with their loss coming at the hands of Penrith.
They proved they had the talent to return to Finals.
Then they lost. Then they lost. Then they won. They then they lost ... and lost and lost and lost. You can see where I'm going with this.
The fact it took a huge effort on the final day of the season just to avoid finishing last says everything about the Eels 2024.
Brad Arthur was sacked, they lost their star youngster to the Panthers. Nothing went right in 2024.
I'm not saying it was all self inflicted but a lot of their issues certainly were.
