With 2021 entering the final week of it's first month, the wheat has started to become separated from the chaff.
Whether your side is unbeaten or unbackable, each of the NRL's 16 teams still have quandaries to ponder as the road to September begins to narrow.
Once again, here are the big questions facing every team as they enter a blockbuster Easter Round of Rugby League.
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Is their season shot if they lose this week?
Although I have almost certainly gone far too early with this query, Cronulla's upcoming fixtures look daunting.
Currently sitting 1-2 entering their clash against the calamitous Cowboys, should John Morris' wounded Sharks fail to square their season's ledger, they could come apart at the seams.
The Sharks v Cowboys match, scheduled for the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, has been relocated to Netstrata Jubilee Stadium due to the COVID situation in South-east Queensland.#UpUp
— Cronulla Sharks (@Cronulla_Sharks) March 31, 2021
Across the months of April and May, the boys in the black, white and blue are set to face five of last season's finalists within the space of eight weeks. Contests against the Dragons and Dogs should be winnable, but those against the Roosters, Knights, Storm, Panthers, Rabbitohs and Titans are another kettle of fish altogether.
Some may suggest that my track record of predictions has been woeful and that it never pays to stare too far into the future, but should the Cows topple Cronulla this Saturday, the latter could conceivably be sitting at 3-8 by the half way point of the season.
Of course, we can't put a line through the Shire's side bottles it this long weekend, it does set a dangerous precedent.
