The 2026 season's March games will showcase clubs positioning themselves for a legitimate title shot.
You can't win a competition in March but you can go a long way towards giving yourself a legitimate title shot by bouncing out of the blocks.
From the opening weekend in Las Vegas where the Bulldogs, Dragons, Knights and Cowboys get a chance to show their wares, all the way to the Raiders-Sharks blockbuster to finish Round 4, the first month of action in the 2026 premiership will tell us plenty.
After four rounds of the 2025 season it was the Bulldogs sitting pretty at 4-0, laying the perfect platform for a campaign that would see them finish third after the regular season.