With the home and away season winding towards a conclusion, opportunities for teams to break into the eight are rapidly declining.
For some clubs, fantasies of playing finals this season were dashed long ago, but for others, the dream is still alive - albeit fleetingly.
Each team outside the eight is far from the finished product. They all require an injection of talent in at least one major position on the field.
Whilst contemplating these gaps, we found ourselves pondering a hypothetical question โ if each club outside the eight could select one legend to help boost their finals chances, who would they choose?
After scouring the stats, team sheets and possibilities, these were the champions we thought would make the best additions.
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Terry Lamb
Canterbury currently sit flat last and look devoid of energy as well as talent.
Their high profile five-eight Kieran Foran is in desperate need for an insertion of talent beside him.
To help avoid further blues for the blue and whites, we suggest that the club's brass pick up the phone, call the lab and get them to genetically construct another Terry Lamb.
Across 262 games for the Dogs, Lamb was as consistent as death and taxes, winning a record total of 18 Dally M awards and skippering the Pups to premiership glory in 1995.
No doubt irate about his club's current state, if the Dog's could add Terry Lamb at his zenith to their contemporary roster, then there would be no need to clear room for the 2020 spoon.
Put simply, the man bled for Canterbury, and he'd do it all again.
