NEWS Boyd Urged to Consider Early Retirement

[the_next]

They were both great calls too. Neither have done anything of note since leaving.

Couple of sin bins..

 

[Jedhead]

I'm a Bronco through and through. Have been since 1989.

It shits me to tears that the captain of our great club has become the laughing stock of not only our great game, it's bleeding over into other codes now.

I've made my views on Darius pretty clear as have a great many others. If he is still in the team come 2020 I will seriously consider boycotting the club until such times as they get serious about winning a comp.

 

[Wolfie]

She also said they were "focussing on the important things" ie not football for which he's being paid $900K a season.

I don't see the issue with that. Everyone's family should be the most important thing. Wouldn't even be an issue if the name Boyd wasn't involved. Pretty sure I can recall both Lexie and Lodge saying they need to look after their families.

 

[tommy]

Pressure may be mounting on Darius Boyd to retire but the Brisbane skipper says he is “oblivious” to critics ahead of his NRL team’s finals tilt. Which is probably for the best.
Boyd has been slammed this year after what some experts feel is an ill-fated shift from fullback to five-eighth for the Broncos in 2019.

There is even a campaign for 314-gamer Boyd to end his reported $800,000-a-year deal two seasons early in 2019 to free up salary cap money to re-sign the likes of young guns David Fifita and Kotoni Staggs.

But Boyd, 32, reckons he is going nowhere - and perhaps thankfully, hearing nothing.

Boyd even admitted when Brisbane coach Anthony Seibold took a stand and told cynics to “back off” barely two weeks ago it was the first he had heard of the criticism.

Seibold made the unprecedented call to defend his skipper after Boyd made just two metres from one run in a scrappy round 21 win over North Queensland. “I don’t really hear it to be honest. I heard Seibs stuck up for me the other week but I didn’t realise there was a problem until that happened,” he told AAP. “Sometimes friends or family might hear something but I generally don’t hear or see it (criticism).

“I don’t read anything on social media. I am really oblivious to a lot of it to be honest.” Boyd said he learned not to listen to the haters thanks to lessons learned from his time at Newcastle where he cut short his stint back in 2014 and visited a mental health facility that turned around his career.

He said he was now solely focused on keeping eighth-placed Brisbane on track for a finals berth ahead of Friday night’s must-win clash against Parramatta at Suncorp Stadium.

“I used to do the opposite six years ago and look at social media when I was going through some struggles with mental health,” Boyd said. “I was reading everything which is the worst thing that you can do. “I learned that it is only a game. And I learned I just have to please my teammates, myself and my coach - that’s all I can do.” Despite the flack he has copped for his switch to pivot, Boyd had no problem with seeing out his lucrative Broncos contract in that position. “If that is what Seibs wants me to do next year it will be beneficial to get a pre-season there and hone the skills that five-eighths need,” he said. “I haven’t necessarily gotten better and better each week this year at it but I get more confident each week in that role.

“But I am making sure I am doing my job in the team whether that is calling plays, talking with the spine, making sure we run the team and making sure I am defending really well - that is all that matters to me.”

 

[broncos4life]

If you’re going to blame Boyd on Wayne, what are your thoughts on the freak forward pack he assembled?

It’s fantastic, doesn’t make Boyd’s 4 year deal any less shit. Things don’t have to be all great or all shit you know?

 

[broncsgoat]

It’s fantastic, doesn’t make Boyd’s 4 year deal any less shit. Things don’t have to be all great or all shit you know?

On the balance though, he left a strong side with massive upside. There's a reason he wanted to extend here and its because of these freaks, for lack of a better term, we've got coming through.

 

[broncos4life]

Pointless

 

[Allo]

I made the mistake of reading her post’s comments .. goodness me. Social media truly is a cancer on civilisation

 

[broncsgoat]

Removed

 

[mrslong]

I don't see the issue with that. Everyone's family should be the most important thing. Wouldn't even be an issue if the name Boyd wasn't involved. Pretty sure I can recall both Lexie and Lodge saying they need to look after their families.

To a degree yes, but if my husband and I told our clients that we can't fulfill our contractual obligations because we are concentrating on our (obviously) more important family, they'd laugh us out of town and find another person to do business with.

Managing your work/life balance is absolutely up to you in your personal day to day life.

 

[Wolfie]

To a degree yes, but if my husband and I told our clients that we can't fulfill our contractual obligations because we are concentrating on our (obviously) more important family, they'd laugh us out of town and find another person to do business with.

Managing your work/life balance is absolutely up to you in your personal day to day life.

But just because he is playing badly that doesn't mean he isn't doing what he is contractually obliged to do. He is out of form and not the player he was, he isnt breaking his contract .

 

[tommy]

On the balance though, he left a strong side with massive upside. There's a reason he wanted to extend here and its because of these freaks, for lack of a better term, we've got coming through.

And there's also a reason he didn't get that extension.

 

[john1420]

It's time to let it go

It's not accurate, not funny, not original, not clever. In a La La land.

Seriously, what the bloody hell are you on about?

That makes no sense whatsoever, which leads me to conclude that you are simply quoting my own words in some bizarre and infantile attempt to burn me

That in turn leads me to conclude that you are, at most, 12 years old

 

[broncsgoat]

And there's also a reason he didn't get that extension.

Because he's old?

 

[Xzei]

tbh that is probably part of the reason

 

[pagey]

This place lol

 

[Maddy1to9]

Removed

 

[tommy]

Because he's old?

Maybe a tiny part. But I doubt his age would have been a factor if we had looked like winning anything for the past few years.