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Through the looking glass: Our 1-17 NRL predictions for 2025

March 1, 2025

Through the looking glass: Our 1-17 NRL predictions for 2025

With the NRL season just around the corner — or even already started, with Round Zero in Las Vegas in the books — we’ve run the ruler over how we see the 2025 season playing out.

There’s no doubt some teams will surprise us through this next NRL campaign, it feels like there’s some clear title contenders (like Storm, Broncos, and four-time defending champions the Panthers) and some clear cellar dwellars facing extraordinarily big battles to avoid the spoon; the Rabbitohs, Eels, Titans, and Warriors among them.

Here’s how we see it playing out for all 17 NRL teams:

  1. Melbourne Storm — Out and out comp faves
  2. Penrith Panthers — Five a real possibility
  3. Cronulla Sharks — Fonua-Blake turns title hopes real
  4. Brisbane Broncos — Taskmaster Madge to put star talents back on track
  5. Canterbury Bulldogs — Coming soon…
  6. Manly Sea Eagles — Coming soon…
  7. North Queensland Cowboys — Coming soon…
  8. St George Illawarra Dragons — Coming soon…
  9. Sydney Roosters — Exit rush leaves Bondi facing barren year
  10. Newcastle Knights — Who can help Ponga?
  11. Wests Tigers — The Jarome Luai era officially begins
  12. Redcliffe Dolphins — The Bennett curse looms
  13. Canberra Raiders — Green, and not just the club colours
  14. Gold Coast Titans — Hasler’s hefty halves headache
  15. Parramatta Eels — Coming soon…
  16. New Zealand Warriors — Life after Shaun Johnson, Tohu Harris
  17. South Sydney Rabbitohs — Bennett’s big return derailed by injured stars

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