Regular powerhouses have continued to dominate and some sides have struggled, while there was a fierce battle for the minor premiership and the top four.

As well as that, a host of new players came into the competition and put their names up in lights.

With finals have begun, the coming weeks will see Australian Community Media journalists from across the Central West take a look at each side they are knocked out of the running.

We'll look at the good, the bad, the sometimes funny, and even a little bit of the ugly. All while analysing what has happened and what is to come.

We continue the series with the side that finished in fifth place, the Dubbo Kangaroos.

BLOWES CLOTHING CUP EXIT SURVEYS: Orange City

MATT FINDLAY (Central Western Daily): Disappointing and disjointed. A far better side than their results suggest, but they never seemed to truly click and I'm at a bit of a loss to put my finger on why.

NICK GUTHRIE (Daily Liberal): A let down. So close in so many games but now nothing to show for it. Quite simply, the Roos should have been playing finals.

ANYA WHITELAW (Western Advocate): Frustration. Potential gone unfulfilled.

BEN RODIN (Cowra Guardian): Like an A-Grade student sleeping through the first half of their exam and scrambling to get all their work done in the second half.

FINDLAY: I don't think anyone would say Roos' season met or bettered expectations. I thought they'd push for the top two this year.

GUTHRIE: A lot worse. I wasn't quite as high on the Roos coming into this year as some others, but I thought finishing comfortably in third was a very attainable goal. Yes, they had some injuries this year but so did everyone else. A disappointing season.

WHITELAW: At the start of the season I'd probably have tipped Roos to make the finals - the second year working with Beau Robinson as director of coaching, enough talent with the likes of Shaun McHugh, Tim Beach and Mark Baldwin, the desire to make amends for missing the top four last year. So I'd have to say worse than I thought.

RODIN: Given the star power they have at their best, I think you could say the Roos were underwhelming on the field, and lacked consistency too often.

FINDLAY: Performance wise as a group, there probably wasn't a lot. As individuals however, there's a few and the unearthing of potentially the Blowes Clothing Cup's most potent back-row is the biggest, for me. With Mark Baldwin, Shaun McHugh and Will Archer they have some serious firepower there. I just wish they'd kept McHugh in the second-row and left Ben Knaggs on the side, it would've provided a more balance pack for mine.

GUTHRIE: Honestly, it's pretty hard to find one. Before the final round Roos skipper Shaun McHugh said he could count on one hand the amount of performances his side could be proud of in 2019. That sums it up. However, watching a back-row containing McHugh, Mark Baldwin, Will Archer, and Ben Knaggs terrorise opponents at times was great to watch. Just a shame they won't get to do it in the finals.

WHITELAW: Probably when they won three games in a row in the middle of the season - though the 57-17 win over Orange City in round 13 was a standout in terms of the performance of Roos' forward pack.

RODIN: In a disappointing year on-field, the fact that several of their players, including Shaun McHugh and Mark Baldwin, featured in rep footy is testament to the club's ability to attract strong on-field talent.

FINDLAY: I'm being very general, but just the fact they didn't make the finals. They didn't meet their own expectations and we won't be driving the knife in any harder, they'll be their harshest critics in terms of not reaching their potential.

GUTHRIE: Look at McHugh's comments again about the amount of performances to be proud of. That's all you need to know. The Roos didn't reach their own expectations this season and the most disappointing thing is no-one really knows why. There's class all over the field, a great mix of experience and youth, experience and highly-credentialed coaches. It's more of a mystery than a Poriot novel.

WHITELAW: I'd say that final round loss to Forbes. It cost them a spot in the final and place fifth for the second consecutive year. The other thing would have been hearing about players missing training - that's where the foundations of success are build.

RODIN: The inability to get all of their key personnel on the park together for elongated period, whether due to injury, availability or representative duties, will surely be the factor that Kangaroos fans are asking questions about going into next year.

FINDLAY: Tim Beach and Will Archer, both of whom made me look completely out of my depth at times during 2019. Beach did so by wrong-footing me and then breezing past me with a massive grin on his face, while Archer ran straight over the top of me at Endeavour Oval one afternoon. They're both Central West quality players, the former deservedly representing the Blue Bulls this year too. I'd have liked to see what Beach could do from the centres though, rather than staying on the wing all year. Ben Knaggs too, as I said above.

GUTHRIE: Will Archer is the obvious one, joining the side this year and quickly establishing himself as one of the best forwards in the competition. Central West representatives Tim Beach, Baldwin, and McHugh were also standouts. But the development of younger players Ben Knaggs and Luke Ryan was massive this season. Knaggs captained colts last year and this season didn't look out of place alongside representative-level forwards. Ryan had been in and out of the side at fullback before this year and started the season in 15 but finished it at five-eighth, with his kicking games in particular outstanding in the final weeks.

WHITELAW: Given I only watched the Roos' two games against Bathurst Bulldogs, there was only limited eye-catching. Naturally Tim Beach impressed in the first of the games I watched - he scored two tries that day for a beaten side as his speed and footwork found gaps in one of the best defensive units in the competition. Easy to see why he earned Central West honours. Halfback Hamish Gordon was the other one to impress - he always makes good yards and gives spark to the Roos' attack.

FINDLAY: Honestly, I'm not really sure, everything suggested they'd have a big year and it just didn't pan out that way. The one thing I'd identify is mixing up their attacking systems a bit though. At times Roos' pack was predictable and their backs played too deep, with good line-speed that becomes easy to defend.

GUTHRIE: It's hard to say. Maybe some more definitive moves in coaching structure and line ups. Beau Robinson, Vince Gordon, and Simon Petelo all spent time working closely with the side on game day and maybe too many views make things mixed up. It's tough though, because they're all experienced mentors. The lineup chopped and changed so much as well, a lot of the time out of necessity, but a 'pick and stick' style might help that continuity which lacked so much this year.

WHITELAW: They need to find more consistency. In the matches I saw against Bulldogs - the team which set the standard in the regular home and away season - the Roos did enjoy periods of momentum. But it's about maintaining that level of effort and intensity for longer than 20 minutes at a time. If you can't do that against the good sides, you will be punished. Yes, having been hit hard by injuries and unavailability hurt the Roos in a bid to find that consistency this season, but from at least what I've seen they do have potential to rank better than fifth.

RODIN: Beau Robinson's spoken about his blueprint, so either the Kangaroos double down and recommit to yield the rewards that their director of coaching believes is coming, or they take stock of the past two season's results and adjust that plan.