Overall I'd say that the 2023 NRL season was a huge success.

We had an all time great Grand Final, we may have seen the greatest era in the game's history, a multitude of future stars emerging and the introduction of a brand new club.

I'd also like to think that we learned a few things a long the way.

10 things to be exact!

Below are those very ten things that we learned in 2023:

8. No lead is safe

I can hear Brisbane fans cringing as they know what is coming. The attacking prowess and momentum swings in 2023 are such that points can flow en mass at any time.

2023 proved that no lead is safe, even in the biggest games of the season.

The most famous example of this was of course capped off by Nathan Cleary's Grand Final winning solo try.

At 24-8, this game was over and the Broncos name was being engraved on the trophy, only for the mother of all comebacks to be completed by the Panthers.

The Sharks had the Warriors dead to rights in Round five, only to lose. Canberra fans can never, ever feel a lead is safe until that final whistle has been blown.