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:

2. South Sydney don't need to be going well for Rugby League to go well

There's an old saying "Rugby League is going well when Souths go well".

Well, I'm here to tell you that the game doesn't need Souths to be playing Finals to be amazing.

Of course this is just an old saying but the Bunnies didn't even make the eight, yet I'd argue this Finals series was right up there with anything we've seen recently.

The idea behind it is solid; Souths have a huge fan base and are famous etc etc.

That said, other than Souths fans, did anybody miss them in mid to late September?