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:
4. NRL and NRLW draws will never be perfect
"Team X has a soft draw", "team Y has more home games than team Z", "what do you mean we have to play Penrith twice?"
We heard it all within five minutes of the NRL and NRLW draws being released in November.
Until the competitions reach a point where every side plays every side twice, one home and one away, with the same amount of free-to-air TV games, the draw will never be perfect.
Just a quick spoiler, that set of circumstances will never happen!
It is what is is. The one thing I can guarantee is no one on the inside conspired to make your team's 2024 season difficult.
