Thoughts on the biggest PL overachievers/underachievers in 2024?

Who is likely to move up the table and fall down the PL table in 2025?

Will Epping FC survive the drop in 2025?

Are St Pats gone for 2025? If so, do North Ryde stay up or do HFC get promoted?

All great questions, but there's one that you're missing and that is, by how many goals will Putney win the 2025 GF? 

North Ryde have to be underachievers this year. I thought they actually tried to play good football and just lacked killer instinct in the final third. Perhaps they were to naive to try and play that way and should be more direct, especially on the cow paddock that is Magdala

EEW also underachieved after a blistering start to the year. To not even make the top 4 after making it to the final of the Gilmore as well as being tied with Rovers at the midway point of the year is a capitulation. Was this due to injury or fatigue, or did teams work them out? An inquest at Boronia needed

WPH ressies also have to go down as underachievers. Losing the premiership by not winning a single game in the last 4 matches is not the way to go out. Were they being carried by players dropping down from Firsts each week prior to the end of the year, and were hampered by their first graders being locked into first grade towards the end? Or did their legs run out of steam?

Also, what happened to St Pats, from Grand Finalists to relegation fodder in the next season. Were they lucky last year or unlucky this time around? At least we won't need to play on that crap field at Meadowbank against them if they do leave...

Overachievers-

This year definitely Putney imo. Even though they ended up where they probably deserved to be they were far higher on the table for a lot of the season than most thought. I feel as though once each team played them once they were figured out pretty quickly.

Bit of a hot take but I also think WRR overachieved a little bit (Don't come for me forum trolls!) I don't for a second don't think they aren't a dominant team or didn't completely deserve the titles becuase I do. But in terms of "expectation vs reality" you have to admit noone, possibly even Rovers themselves, would not have expected to nab the double double this season. It's not like they were anywhere close to double double territory in previous seasons so imo they overachieved but deservedly so.

Underachievers-

Were 100% EEW. Seemingly there or there abouts until the latter half of the season then completely disappeared. 8 games without a win to finish the season is pretty poor by their standards. Also West Penno. Having won silverwear in pretty much every season since 2019 to come away with nothing this season in far below what they would have expected this season.

Pats are on the chopping block for 2025 (that's even if they can field a squad) poor showing compared to the previous year. Any decent player in the squad is surely looking to abandon a sinking ship, particularly with so many Ryde-based teams in this comp tempting players away.

I think the remainder of the table (Barring EEW and Normo being lower than usual) are probably where they belonged this season. Dragons would be a top 4 team consistently if they could find a way not to draw 50 games each season. They turn 3 of those draws into wins and they're fighting for the title in firsts so expect them to possibly challenge next season if they can string some results together.

I think Epping FC will struggle to survive the drop next season but barely. They didn't encounter much resistance this season having lost chances to play North Ryde, Putney and Ravens who were all traditionally their hardest matches. I think they'll struggle with the jump in quality considering they were 23nd fiddle to North Ryde and North Ryde got spanked this year. Only saving grace is their ressies side is good as well so if they keep their squad as is and pick up a few glory-hunters then depth won't be an issue like it was for both NR and PUT this year. Hard to compete when your ressies are getting dusted each week.

Personally, after seeing HFC and their crowd in the GF lastr weekend I kinda want to see them come up as well. Good atmosphere but a question as to whether they can keep their behaviour in check, we don't want another Ryde Saints in the league.

Overachievers probably were west ryde as a whole. Agree with the above comment not undeserved at all but wouldn't have thought a double double was anywhere on the horizon although I did suspect their firsts would come 1st at the start of the year. I didn't think their ressies would win, thought one of the penno teams were more likely to come first and do a double in ressies.

penno first grade massive over achievers compared to previous seasons. That was their best season since their 2017 winning season and with definitely worse of a team.

underachievers probably normo compared to last season and Epping Eastwood faded away hard.

ressies probably had no underachievers, maybe penno themselves who I expected to come first but they still came 3rd 

Overachievers probably were west ryde as a whole. Agree with the above comment not undeserved at all but wouldn't have thought a double double was anywhere on the horizon although I did suspect their firsts would come 1st at the start of the year. I didn't think their ressies would win, thought one of the penno teams were more likely to come first and do a double in ressies.

penno first grade massive over achievers compared to previous seasons. That was their best season since their 2017 winning season and with definitely worse of a team.

underachievers probably normo compared to last season and Epping Eastwood faded away hard.

ressies probably had no underachievers, maybe penno themselves who I expected to come first but they still came 3rd 

Overachievers probably were west ryde as a whole. Agree with the above comment not undeserved at all but wouldn't have thought a double double was anywhere on the horizon although I did suspect their firsts would come 1st at the start of the year. I didn't think their ressies would win, thought one of the penno teams were more likely to come first and do a double in ressies.

penno first grade massive over achievers compared to previous seasons. That was their best season since their 2017 winning season and with definitely worse of a team.

underachievers probably normo compared to last season and Epping Eastwood faded away hard.

ressies probably had no underachievers, maybe penno themselves who I expected to come first but they still came 3rd 

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>Overachievers probably were west ryde as a whole. Agree with the above comment not undeserved at all but wouldn't have thought a double double was anywhere on the horizon although I did suspect their firsts would come 1st at the start of the year. I didn't think their ressies would win, thought one of the penno teams were more likely to come first and do a double in ressies.

>penno first grade massive over achievers compared to previous seasons. That was their best season since their 2017 winning season and with definitely worse of a team.

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>underachievers probably normo compared to last season and Epping Eastwood faded away hard.

>ressies probably had no underachievers, maybe penno themselves who I expected to come first but they still came 3rd 

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so you thought a team that missed finals last year in first grade was going to win it and a team that won the comp last year in ressies was not going to win it?

think youre a bit mixed up there