The Melbourne Storm is a good football team, in fact they are a great football team and their success is an interesting story. They don’t have a star studded team they just have a perfect blend of rugged no nonsense forwards, some big mobile backs and a few key play makers that are world class. Billy Slater, Cameron Smith and Greg Inglis are the guys that add the brilliance to the machine but make no mistake their importance certainly comes after the ‘team’ in general.

A long regular season has finally come to an end and now only eight teams remain in the race for the ultimate prize. There have been some very good teams miss out this year with teams like South Sydney, the West Tigers and the Penrith Panthers all probably deserving of finals football. Like most years there are some teams starting to show wear and tear and others starting to show Premiership form.