Broncos Player Movement and Rumours 2020

[Kooly87]

I agree with the concept of the club keeping strong tabs on Ponga; may be a blessing in disguise that we have let Knights take this gamble early on for him, if he inst the franchise player they thought he was then we have dodged a bullet...

Having said that...

Broncos "should" start looking at long term franchise potential players now, its worked very well in the past when we chased and attracted these types of players like Kev Walters, Lazarus, Tallis...not coincidentally they are associated with the most sustained period of success in the clubs history.

I say we need to adapt this long term lenses again because if done right it can accelerate the championship window for us. A bit of addition by subtraction if you will. We are at St George levels of overflowing with forward talent and quite frankly some of that needs to be moved on to allow us space under the cap to achieve better balance

What im "not" saying is that Ponga is the answer, he might be when he reaches his peak but...he represents exactly the type of franchise changing talent the club needs to be seriously looking at going forward..

My 2 cents...

If you only buy players once they have reached their peak, then you always pay absolute peak money. In a salary cap setting like the NRL, you really need to be squeezing more than the cap limit's worth of talent, into the cap limit, and they only way to do that practically and without cheating is to buy guys for less money than they're actually worth, which of course requires the club to speculate and occasionally take calculated risks.

People can baulk at Ponga at $1.125 million a season right now because he isn't at his absolute peak, but if that's the kind of offer he can attract already just based on his potential, then picking him up in a few years time at his absolute peak is going probably to cost a number that is truly astronomical and probably out of reach for all but his incumbent club at the time. It's the reason why no one was ever able to buy Smith or JT etc. Even Cronk was out of reach until he was ready to wind his career up and needed to move interstate.

If people are adverse to the club taking risks I can accept that, but you need to then accept that we probably aren't going to pick up the next Locky or the next JT unless we find and develop them ourselves, or we only pay an absolute premium for them once they've already made it as an elite level star, which is an expensive and unsustainable way to run a footy club that's limited by the salary cap.

 

[Unbreakable]

Hooper reporting on NRL 360 that Ofahengaue has been shopped around, but doesn't want to leave Brisbane.

 

[the_next]

Hooper reporting on NRL 360 that Ofahengaue has been shopped around, but doesn't want to leave Brisbane.

Wouldn’t be the worst news re Ofa.
Ikin saying we should let TPJ leave and all of a sudden Crawley (wayne’s bestest ever mate) thinks that TPJ is a great player and would look great in a souffs jersey. Never heard of him praise him so hard.
More confirmation that the nsw media is an absolute joke.

 

[theshed]

We have so much talent in our forwards that Offa’s 500k isn’t justifiable. Not saying wether or not he deserves the money but that he isn’t worth that amount to us. Couldn’t they have torn up his contract after his last mishap? It would’ve been unfair but the roosters would’ve done it.

 

[pagey]

Why the **** would we shop offa with our forward depth so depleted?

 

[Unbreakable]

Why the **** would we shop offa with our forward depth so depleted?

Based on the context, I think he meant over the off-season is when we were shopping him, prior to the Lodge / Glenn injuries.

 

[Thelmus]

Yeah considering what he brings to the table as a forward, I'd be holding onto him, at least until bullymore comes of age. I guess there might be a forward they have an eye on but who?

 

[pagey]

Based on the context, I think he meant over the off-season is when we were shopping him, prior to the Lodge / Glenn injuries.

Ah ok , thanks.

 

[jarro65]

Wouldn’t be the worst news re Ofa.
Ikin saying we should let TPJ leave and all of a sudden Crawley (wayne’s bestest ever mate) thinks that TPJ is a great player and would look great in a souffs jersey. Never heard of him praise him so hard.
More confirmation that the nsw media is an absolute joke.

Tonights episode of NSWRL360 was the line in the sand for me.

I will never watch that garbage again.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Ikin, enough said.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

His latest suspension was utter bullshit to be frank, but my criticisms of Joe O lie entirely in his playing ability and his price tag. Among our current flock, he is a bench forward/injury coverage at best, and that is not a 500k role. His agent has clearly been using his brief stint with the Maroons as leverage, but to be honest he was lucky to be in that 17 at all. Does the fact that McC is an Origin player somehow make him a better player? I don't think so. Probably should have just sacked him straight up after the latest drinking incident if you were really that keen on getting rid of him.

 

[Big Pete]

The dynamic of the show changed when they started inviting journalists on the show as regulars. Before there was an even balance with Ikin representing the players and Kent representing the media. It wasn't a perfect show by any means, but it usually covered all the news from the weekend and fall-out from team list Tuesday and previewed the upcoming round.

Now it's just about journalists getting on their pulpits and preaching their agendas over and over again. Maybe if it was the only show of it's type on FoxSports it would be fine, but between 360, the Big League Wrap, Controversy Corner and all the Pre and Post show analysis they beat their viewers over the head with the same agendas over and over again.

I didn't mind Paul Crawley when he was on the Sunday Footy Show because they would just have him and David Riccio report the news. They didn't have time to bombard the audience with their opinions, they just canvassed the story which allowed the stars of the show, two sometimes three former Australian captains and one of the greatest halfbacks to ever live Peter Sterling discuss the issue.

 

[Unbreakable]

The dynamic of the show changed when they started inviting journalists on the show as regular. Before there was an even balance with Ikin representing the players and Kent representing the media. It wasn't a perfect show by any means, but it usually covered all the news from the weekend and fall-out from team list Tuesday and previewed the upcoming round.

Now it's just about journalists getting on their pulpits and preaching their agendas over and over again. Maybe if it was the only show of it's type on FoxSports it would be fine, but between 360, the Big League Wrap, Controversy Corner and all the Pre and Post show analysis they beat their viewers over the head with the same agendas over and over again.

I didn't mind Paul Crawley when he was on the Sunday Footy Show because they would just have him and David Riccio report the news. They didn't have time to bombard the audience with their opinions, they just canvassed the story which allowed the stars of the show, two sometimes three former Australian captains and one of the greatest halfbacks to ever live Peter Sterling discuss the issue.

The only "journo" they get on that I don't despise is Brent Read, he seems to be level headed and will report news and mail without it sounding like he's trying to create controversy or push an agenda to sell papers.

The rest are absolute hacks.

 

[Harry Sack]

The dynamic of the show changed when they started inviting journalists on the show as regular. Before there was an even balance with Ikin representing the players and Kent representing the media. It wasn't a perfect show by any means, but it usually covered all the news from the weekend and fall-out from team list Tuesday and previewed the upcoming round.

Now it's just about journalists getting on their pulpits and preaching their agendas over and over again. Maybe if it was the only show of it's type on FoxSports it would be fine, but between 360, the Big League Wrap, Controversy Corner and all the Pre and Post show analysis they beat their viewers over the head with the same agendas over and over again.

I didn't mind Paul Crawley when he was on the Sunday Footy Show because they would just have him and David Riccio report the news. They didn't have time to bombard the audience with their opinions, they just canvassed the story which allowed the stars of the show, two sometimes three former Australian captains and one of the greatest halfbacks to ever live Peter Sterling discuss the issue.

Nailed it. In the past, I never missed it. Recorded it most nights if I knew I wouldn't be home. Watched it a couple of times last year and once so far this year.

 

[Allo]

It’s indicative of the news culture and life in general. 24/7 coverage, every thing pushed to your device, ‘Outrage’ to generate headlines, opinions framed as fact, throwing enough shit that you can brag once finally something sticks. All to get clicks to pay for advertising.

 

[the_next]

The warriors apparently want to loan one of our young guns? Anyone got access to the CM article?
@McHunt ?

 

[Alec]

The warriors apparently want to loan one of our young guns? Anyone got access to the CM article?
@McHunt ?

It was Tesi Niu according to another thread. Apparently we refused.

 

[broncsgoat]

The warriors apparently want to loan one of our young guns? Anyone got access to the CM article?
@McHunt ?

Niu.

We told them to gtfo