NEWS Milford primed for 6 of the best next to Croft

[broncsgoat]

Not the point.

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If you look for excuses as to why something isn’t as it should be, you are always going to find them.

when people stop spreading fake news I’ll be able to ‘have a spell’ from defending him.

 

[Kyall]

Bennett didn't really care too much on the players weights as long as there playing alright. It seems seibold is the opposite definitely wanting them slim, fit and ready.

 

[Culhwch]

Bennett didn't really care too much on the players weights as long as there playing alright. It seems seibold is the opposite definitely wanting them slim, fit and ready.

He also seemed to have a pretty loose definition of 'playing alright'.

But I'm super psyched to see just what this fit young Milf pulls off this year.

 

[Bongo]

Definitely looking as fit as he has been since 2015. I know he has had injuries etc. But I do find it funny that he got progressively fatter / worse under Wayne Bennett. His best year was 2015 / early parts of 16. Most of our players are looking as fit / strong as ever this preseason so starting to believe what Seibold said about the team being out of condition in 2019 when he arrived.

Pressure is on in 2020 with the squad looking fit. Hopefully the best 17 is picked, and they can stay on the park without injuries.

I think the shoulder injury before last season set him back a fair way. Hopefully he hits the ground running from round 1

 

[McHunt]

Anthony Milford says he is primed to return to the No.6 jersey after a preseason underlined by extra work on his fitness and the introduction of new halfback Brodie Croft.

This right here is make or break for Seibold. Barring injury, this is the guy who either takes us to the Grand Final or the guy who sinks the ship.

It might be a hazy memory for most of us but there's a Milford in there that's worth a million dollars. If his name isn't being put forward around Origin time, I think it might be the start of the end for Seibold.

 

[Morkel]

Bennett didn't really care too much on the players weights as long as there playing alright. It seems seibold is the opposite definitely wanting them slim, fit and ready.

... regardless of how they play?

 

[something]

There's a Milford there that has the potential to be a mainstay in the Kangaroos... DCE, Keary, Munster, Hunt... i reckon that Milf's ceiling is higher than all four of those players, just needs to apply himself

 

[winslow_wong]

Are they still training with the rap music or whatever it was thumping along in the background?

Tones and I most likely

 

[lynx000]

Tones and I most likely

Slim Dusty?

 

[007]

Slim Dusty?

Didn't Clint Eastwood take all the records down to Sydney?

 

[winslow_wong]

Slim Dusty?

That’s how I’d describe the broncos trophy cabinet for the last 13 years.

 

[Xzei]

Ladies doing there bit,going back to back for the first time since the 92 93 Broncos.

That’s how I’d describe the broncos trophy cabinet for the last 13 years.

 

[Kooly87]

This right here is make or break for Seibold. Barring injury, this is the guy who either takes us to the Grand Final or the guy who sinks the ship.

It might be a hazy memory for most of us but there's a Milford in there that's worth a million dollars. If his name isn't being put forward around Origin time, I think it might be the start of the end for Seibold.

I agree that it's make or break for our season and also that it's make or break for Milford's future as a Broncos, but I can't say I agree that it's make or break for Seibold.

Seibold inherited Milford and he inherited his salary too. He is obviously backing him to go back to 5/8 and dominate for us, but honestly, what choice does he really have in this regard? We were hardly flush with options at 5/8 and no one could really argue that Milford was good value at Fullback for the best part of a million dollars a season.

Truthfully, we have no idea what Seibold really thinks about Milford or what he believes his real value to be. We won't likely know that until it's time for him to seriously negotiate his next deal.

If Milford bombs 2020, I think it's going to be hard to pin his failings on Seibold. Seibold didn't buy him, and he hasn't attempted to re-sign him yet. In Milford, he's playing the cards he's been dealt, at least for now. The club went out and got Milford a proper Halfback to play alongside now, so I think the opposite is true, and that if Croft does his job properly, it should really fall to Milford to excel with some more freedom and show the club he's worth what he gets paid and also worth a new deal.

In my opinion, make or break for Seibold with regards to Milford will be what happens after this season and whether he wants to re-sign Milford or look for a replacement and how that replacement delivers for the club or not. Cutting Milford for a dud replacement would be pretty terminal, as would re-signing him only to see Milford's returns continue to diminsh with time. It's a huge call either way for the club and the new Coach.

 

[McHunt]

I agree that it's make or break for our season and also that it's make or break for Milford's future as a Broncos, but I can't say I agree that it's make or break for Seibold.

Seibold inherited Milford and he inherited his salary too. He is obviously backing him to go back to 5/8 and dominate for us, but honestly, what choice does he really have in this regard? We were hardly flush with options at 5/8 and no one could really argue that Milford was good value at Fullback for the best part of a million dollars a season.

Truthfully, we have no idea what Seibold really thinks about Milford or what he believes his real value to be. We won't likely know that until it's time for him to seriously negotiate his next deal.

If Milford bombs 2020, I think it's going to be hard to pin his failings on Seibold. Seibold didn't buy him, and he hasn't attempted to re-sign him yet. In Milford, he's playing the cards he's been dealt, at least for now. The club went out and got Milford a proper Halfback to play alongside now, so I think the opposite is true, and that if Croft does his job properly, it should really fall to Milford to excel with some more freedom and show the club he's worth what he gets paid and also worth a new deal.

In my opinion, make or break for Seibold with regards to Milford will be what happens after this season and whether he wants to re-sign Milford or look for a replacement and how that replacement delivers for the club or not. Cutting Milford for a dud replacement would be pretty terminal, as would re-signing him only to see Milford's returns continue to diminsh with time. It's a huge call either way for the club and the new Coach.

If the sporting world were that fair and logical I'd agree with you, but you know it doesn't work that way. It's run on emotion. If he can't create what looks like a team out of this many gifted individuals he's not the coach we thought we were buying. The Courier Mail will tar him up and run him out of town on a pole.

If he can't get the spine to click before he faces Bennett again, he's toast. That's my call.

 

[Kooly87]

If the sporting world were that fair and logical I'd agree with you, but you know it doesn't work that way. It's run on emotion. If he can't create what looks like a team out of this many gifted individuals he's not the coach we thought we were buying. The Courier Mail will tar him up and run him out of town on a pole.

If he can't get the spine to click before he faces Bennett again, he's toast. That's my call.

I don't see him getting sacked this year. We'd probably have to miss the 8 by quite some distance with no mitigating circumstances for it to even be close.

I think 3 years in is the point I'd be making a call like that, and I think realistically the guys who made the call to sign him are just as invested in his success and tied to that result now too and they are all still at the club, so they should be fairly keen to see him given enough time to get the side he wants and make it succeed.

If we don't look like a realistic Premiership contender by 2021 Grand Final Day, I'd say that he'll have his work cut out seeing out the rest of his deal.

 

[jarro65]

Personally i think there.is more pressure on Milford to perform than there is on Seibold.

 

[broncsgoat]

I agree that it's make or break for our season and also that it's make or break for Milford's future as a Broncos, but I can't say I agree that it's make or break for Seibold.

Seibold inherited Milford and he inherited his salary too. He is obviously backing him to go back to 5/8 and dominate for us, but honestly, what choice does he really have in this regard? We were hardly flush with options at 5/8 and no one could really argue that Milford was good value at Fullback for the best part of a million dollars a season.

Truthfully, we have no idea what Seibold really thinks about Milford or what he believes his real value to be. We won't likely know that until it's time for him to seriously negotiate his next deal.

If Milford bombs 2020, I think it's going to be hard to pin his failings on Seibold. Seibold didn't buy him, and he hasn't attempted to re-sign him yet. In Milford, he's playing the cards he's been dealt, at least for now. The club went out and got Milford a proper Halfback to play alongside now, so I think the opposite is true, and that if Croft does his job properly, it should really fall to Milford to excel with some more freedom and show the club he's worth what he gets paid and also worth a new deal.

In my opinion, make or break for Seibold with regards to Milford will be what happens after this season and whether he wants to re-sign Milford or look for a replacement and how that replacement delivers for the club or not. Cutting Milford for a dud replacement would be pretty terminal, as would re-signing him only to see Milford's returns continue to diminsh with time. It's a huge call either way for the club and the new Coach.

None of this is incorrect however it’s not like it was a surprise that Milf was here and on what money. seibs didn’t turn up first day and say oh what the **** I didn’t know Anthony Milford was my 5/8 and we’re paying him a million a season.

 

[Kooly87]

None of this is incorrect however it’s not like it was a surprise that Milf was here and on what money. seibs didn’t turn up first day and say oh what the **** I didn’t know Anthony Milford was my 5/8 and we’re paying him a million a season.

Of course he knew. Doesn't mean he could do anything about it though. It's far easier at the start of 2019 to try and work with him than to try and offload him given his contract at that point was probably well beyond what anyone else would pick up.

I'm not bagging Milford, so no need to jump in and rush to defend him here. I'm simply saying we have no real idea how keen Seibold his on him and we won't know that until it comes time to renew his current deal. I also don't think Milford's upcoming season will determine Seibold's job security, as Milford was not his choice and his being here is not really in the Coach's control, he was also realistically already on a bit of a downward trend before Seibold came along.

If Seibold cuts him and he goes on to kill it elsewhere and his replacement doesn't, then thats a different story. Also a different story if he re-signs Milford and we continue to get diminishing returns out of him going forward. That's the point at which their futures will be tied together, not before.