Everybody’s an expert in March but by the time finals roll around, fans and of pundits are left to pick up the pieces of their poor predictions.
But for every concession, there’s plenty of people more than happy to remind the world of the prediction they tipped correctly.
The conveyor belt of hot topics in rugby league creates a never-ending conversation, which ignites plenty of forecasts and as the year unfolds those are proven to be fact or fallacy.