PRE-GAME [Round 18, 2023] Broncos vs Dolphins

[Foordy]

I’m never hiding. You probably don’t even go to any games.

season member ... been a season member for 10 years

 

[Morepudding]

As a saver I did a couple bets in broncos to miss top 4 and to miss top 8. Hopefully those are losing bets but at least if I’m disappointed by my teams result I receive a financial benefit to numb the pain.

 

[Morepudding]

season member ... been a season member for 10 years

Unfortunately every year since my maiden membership has been a let down.

 

[Dolphin]

Dear Broncos HQ, greetings from Dolphins Pod forum. We, like our team are a small organisation with a lot of room for aggressive expansion.

Good luck tonight. Are we going to fade out of finals contention or is your crew going to collapse again? The only thing that is certain, we could really do with a high quality centre and big, aggressive prop.

Dolphins by 16
MoM: JMK
First try: Niu

 

[Morepudding]

Dear Broncos HQ, greetings from Dolphins Pod forum. We, like our team are a small organisation with a lot of room for aggressive expansion.

Good luck tonight. Are we going to fade out of finals contention or is your crew going to collapse again? The only thing that is certain, we could really do with a high quality centre and big, aggressive prop.

Dolphins by 16
MoM: JMK
First try: Niu

If you took the time to read the forum, you’d see that you’re more than welcome to have them both. Enjoy paying overs.

 

[Dolphin]

If you took the time to read the forum, you’d see that you’re more than welcome to have them both. Enjoy paying overs.

The beauty of having multiple players, playing above their pay grade is the ability to poach for overs. Who else can you recommend for us? No thanks to Billy Walters. JMK is going make a fool of him tonight.

 

[IceWorks]

First game at the Gabba. Wonder what the pitch is like?

 

[IceWorks]

If you took the time to read the forum, you’d see that you’re more than welcome to have them both. Enjoy paying overs.

Whatever the result, after the game has finished, you will still have the Milf.

 

[Santa]

The beauty of having multiple players, playing above their pay grade is the ability to poach for overs. Who else can you recommend for us? No thanks to Billy Walters. JMK is going make a fool of him tonight.

JMK is overrated. Walters is by far the better 9.

 

[lynx000]

I’m a disaster in general but a menace over there haha

Love your work over there, I thought it must be you given the Avatar.

 

[Super Freak]

Got my parking sorted.

Found someone that hires out their driveway for people wanting somewhere to park, $8.45 and just a few minutes walk to the ground.

Pretty good deal.

 

[McHunt]

The beauty of having multiple players, playing above their pay grade is the ability to poach for overs. Who else can you recommend for us? No thanks to Billy Walters. JMK is going make a fool of him tonight.

Dear Broncos HQ, greetings from Dolphins Pod forum. We, like our team are a small organisation with a lot of room for aggressive expansion.

Good luck tonight. Are we going to fade out of finals contention or is your crew going to collapse again? The only thing that is certain, we could really do with a high quality centre and big, aggressive prop.

Dolphins by 16
MoM: JMK
First try: Niu

There are mixed feelings about both these players, but I think it's fair to say we're mostly on the same page when it comes to assuming they were asking more than they're worth. And given the club wanted to keep them, the Dolphins must be paying massive overs.

Farnworth has considerable talent and carries more than his share of workload, but scuppers backline movements in favour of turning back into the ruck. He almost never passes to the left or attempts to set up his winger. All teams know his formula, so he poses little threat and is normally wrapped up pretty quickly. Occasionally, he gets a sneaky offload away, generally to one of the halves, and this is where he's most dangerous. He was the biggest fan favourite for the last few years but has flushed most of that goodwill away with his unwillingness to share the ball with Oates.

Flegler is our most aggressive forward, but has been plagued by sloppy defensive techniques and blood rushes that cost the team more than his value on the field. His selection for QLD somewhat overstates his worth. He was probably QLD's most fringe selection. We might miss him more than Farnworth, but only because he's only now starting to get his head together and we don't really have a ready replacement at his experience level.

 

[McHunt]

I get the feeling the dolphins will treat this as their GF, but I'm not sure we will treat it as much more than a Saturday night game....

I think it's more like our GF. The way Kevvie went on in last week's press conference, and the spectre of last season's debacle, we need this one to reset. I don't see Sailor in for Walsh as a massive disadvantage, especially with the rest of our backs and spine at full strength (give or take Paix). More of an opportunity to demonstrate we're not reliant on Walsh. Losing Flegler is no big deal (hello 2024), but both Riki and Capewell being out is cause for concern.

All said, I think if we can't win this one, without a bunch of weird refereeing mishaps and disallowed tries, we probably can't consider ourselves genuine semi finalists, let alone premiers.

 

[Dolphin]

There are mixed feelings about both these players, but I think it's fair to say we're mostly on the same page when it comes to assuming they were asking more than they're worth. And given the club wanted to keep them, the Dolphins must be paying massive overs.

Farnworth has considerable talent and carries more than his share of workload, but scuppers backline movements in favour of turning back into the ruck. He almost never passes to the left or attempts to set up his winger. All teams know his formula, so he poses little threat and is normally wrapped up pretty quickly. Occasionally, he gets a sneaky offload away, generally to one of the halves, and this is where he's most dangerous. He was the biggest fan favourite for the last few years but has flushed most of that goodwill away with his unwillingness to share the ball with Oates.

Flegler is our most aggressive forward, but has been plagued by sloppy defensive techniques and blood rushes that cost the team more than his value on the field. His selection for QLD somewhat overstates his worth. He was probably QLD's most fringe selection. We might miss him more than Farnworth, but only because he's only now starting to get his head together and we don't really have a ready replacement at his experience level.

You would know better than me but from what I've seen, Herbie is possibly the best centre in the competition and Flegler is underrated. After Haas, if there was any player we could have poached, it would have been Herbie 2nd and Flegler 3rd.

And we still might get Haas for 2025. If that happens, I fear @Nashy won't talk to us anymore.

 

[McHunt]

You would know better than me but from what I've seen, Herbie is possibly the best centre in the competition and Flegler is underrated. After Haas, if there was any player we could have poached, it would have been Herbie 2nd and Flegler 3rd.

Herbie wouldn't make the QLD team in front of Hammer or Holmes. He might stand more of a chance on the wing, but he doesn't want to play there.

 

[Mick_Hancock]

All for a womens world cup. Its pathetic when you look at it how we as the major tenants of the ground are locked out

Here is a question though…. Why can’t they have the Women’s World Cup at the Gabba?! Instead of fucking with the NRL teams schedule and fans, how about the 2000 people that go and watch that shit, do it Kayo stadium? Leichhardt Oval?

 

[Super Freak]

We were lucky to pull the win out earlier in the year, I think they could pull our pants down today.

I think it was more of a case of them being lucky to be within a try to win it with 10 to go. We dropped a lot of ball and if we didn't do that, I don't think they're even in it with 10 to go.

 

[broncos4life]

You would know better than me but from what I've seen, Herbie is possibly the best centre in the competition and Flegler is underrated. After Haas, if there was any player we could have poached, it would have been Herbie 2nd and Flegler 3rd.

And we still might get Haas for 2025. If that happens, I fear @Nashy won't talk to us anymore.

Honestly I'm not interested in the rest of your bait and dribble but Herbie possibly the best centre in the competition? Are you his mum? Lovely to have you on the forum Ms Farnworth!

At his best he would struggle to make the top 10 of centres in the NRL and on current form it is debatable if he should be in the team.

Oh man that is too much, we will probably lose tonight as I have already said in this thread and if that happens at least I have this post to read again to give me a chuckle on the bus ride home.