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I've gotta have the GF as number 1... drought breaking game, Reece was elite and can no longer be questioned by the Sydney folk. Bhunt redemption, Arey wins a ring, Payne gets his ring... so much redemption for the 2023 GF... and they had to do it the hard way with game management from the ref that could've killed us.
Canberra would be second for me... Bhunt field goal I was literally out of my seat.
Penrith prelim 3rd... was at the game, the vibes the whole day and week just felt like we were going to win. We didn't play our best that game, but the image of Cleary in panic mode running back to the 40m and the panthers not being able to organise themselves to even put themselves in a position to win will live in my head for a long time.
Can't think for the rest, but storm rd 27 likely in there as well.
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The games were all that good that I could easily change my order to yours tomorrow and change it to another order the next day lol
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Yeah there was some great games this season bookending the terrible middle. I think we would all have them changing order on any given day, so for me today it is:
5. Round 1 - Broncos v Roosters
Footy was back and boy did we hit the ground running. Absolutely came out of the blocks on fire. Surreal seeing Bunt back in our jersey, Shiba proving almost everyone who understandably doubted wrong, Haas a man on a mission and some of the best tries of the season.
4. Round 27 - Broncos v Storm
In many ways this was a bit of redemption for the game a couple weeks earlier where we were getting on top and then lost three players in almost the one play and that was it, game over. Something clicked in the players, the coach, the fans and suddenly everyone Broncos related seemed to just go, screw it, we're not taking this anymore and boom, the giant that was already awakening had a coffee and fully woke up. Thus the season of redemption was suddenly in full swing.
3. Grand Final - Broncos v Storm
While it was a great result, and this will be controversial, it just didn't feel like a great game, even though it was tight. Reece Walsh went the stuff of folklore and what a privilege to witness it but overall, I don't know, the game just felt like it missed something and I can't quite put my finger on it. I'm talking in isolation to the gravity of everything around it and that really is the reason it is here in the list. In terms of games, I don't think it was top five, it just felt...off, like the Storm didn't even believe they could win it. Maybe I'm just weird. But man, what a result and what a ride. Maybe if we didn't have the two previous finals, I would feel different. But the reality is, we had already beaten the two better teams in previous weeks and this result just seemed to be obvious, even if it was hard work to get there.
Now you know what the top two games will be but not the order. So before we get there, honourable mentions to both Bulldogs games and the Rabbitohs rout. If there was a sixth spot though, it would go to the Sharks comeback. That is the game I think the side really started to believe.
Now on to the top two...
2. Finals Week 1 - Broncos v Raiders
Look, the fullness of time will rightly rank this game one of the best of all time and the best of season 2025 overall and I'm not arguing that but there is something about number 1 that elevates it for me. But that's next, this ranks number 2 for all the obvious reasons. 94 minutes of high octane footy, the twists, the turns and we lost it...three times...before we didn't. Walsh went next level after the brain snap and just refused to lose. Then Bunt of all people popping up to seal it, just wow. This game should have been the grand final and if it was, it would make number 1...easily.
So why then, is it not number 1? Well...
1. Preliminary Final - Broncos v Panthers
They see to be the best, you have to beat the best and boy did we do that in the post-season. The only three quality teams in the entire comp and we went through them all. This game was not as good as the one that made number 2...but it got way closer than it had any right to. So what makes it number 1? Well plain and simply, we beat Penrith, at their best, in a super high stakes game. This result meant nothing was going to stop us the week after because we had already done here what no one else had been able to do for FIVE years. The quality of the game was phenomenal and we made the legendary team suddenly look frazzled and tired, this has rarely been seen in half a decade. The only other time this happened was us in '23 and we saw what happened there. We were coming home with a wet sail and that last play from Walsh and Mariner was poetic because a week later, these two would be best on ground again. And my goodness, that crowd, never heard anything like it. The Cauldron became a cauldron in just about every sense of the word. That place was rocking like never before, not even in origin and Penrith were clearly rattled. It gave our boys a second wind too. Then, like Bunt in FW1, Walsh and Carrigan in the GF, finally Reynolds and Haas had their moments here. That moment when Reynolds' conversion went over, man the feels. Then suddenly, when the final siren went, we'd knocked off the 4 time premiers...just wow.
5. Round 1 - Broncos v Roosters
Footy was back and boy did we hit the ground running. Absolutely came out of the blocks on fire. Surreal seeing Bunt back in our jersey, Shiba proving almost everyone who understandably doubted wrong, Haas a man on a mission and some of the best tries of the season.
4. Round 27 - Broncos v Storm
In many ways this was a bit of redemption for the game a couple weeks earlier where we were getting on top and then lost three players in almost the one play and that was it, game over. Something clicked in the players, the coach, the fans and suddenly everyone Broncos related seemed to just go, screw it, we're not taking this anymore and boom, the giant that was already awakening had a coffee and fully woke up. Thus the season of redemption was suddenly in full swing.
3. Grand Final - Broncos v Storm
While it was a great result, and this will be controversial, it just didn't feel like a great game, even though it was tight. Reece Walsh went the stuff of folklore and what a privilege to witness it but overall, I don't know, the game just felt like it missed something and I can't quite put my finger on it. I'm talking in isolation to the gravity of everything around it and that really is the reason it is here in the list. In terms of games, I don't think it was top five, it just felt...off, like the Storm didn't even believe they could win it. Maybe I'm just weird. But man, what a result and what a ride. Maybe if we didn't have the two previous finals, I would feel different. But the reality is, we had already beaten the two better teams in previous weeks and this result just seemed to be obvious, even if it was hard work to get there.
Now you know what the top two games will be but not the order. So before we get there, honourable mentions to both Bulldogs games and the Rabbitohs rout. If there was a sixth spot though, it would go to the Sharks comeback. That is the game I think the side really started to believe.
Now on to the top two...
2. Finals Week 1 - Broncos v Raiders
Look, the fullness of time will rightly rank this game one of the best of all time and the best of season 2025 overall and I'm not arguing that but there is something about number 1 that elevates it for me. But that's next, this ranks number 2 for all the obvious reasons. 94 minutes of high octane footy, the twists, the turns and we lost it...three times...before we didn't. Walsh went next level after the brain snap and just refused to lose. Then Bunt of all people popping up to seal it, just wow. This game should have been the grand final and if it was, it would make number 1...easily.
So why then, is it not number 1? Well...
1. Preliminary Final - Broncos v Panthers
They see to be the best, you have to beat the best and boy did we do that in the post-season. The only three quality teams in the entire comp and we went through them all. This game was not as good as the one that made number 2...but it got way closer than it had any right to. So what makes it number 1? Well plain and simply, we beat Penrith, at their best, in a super high stakes game. This result meant nothing was going to stop us the week after because we had already done here what no one else had been able to do for FIVE years. The quality of the game was phenomenal and we made the legendary team suddenly look frazzled and tired, this has rarely been seen in half a decade. The only other time this happened was us in '23 and we saw what happened there. We were coming home with a wet sail and that last play from Walsh and Mariner was poetic because a week later, these two would be best on ground again. And my goodness, that crowd, never heard anything like it. The Cauldron became a cauldron in just about every sense of the word. That place was rocking like never before, not even in origin and Penrith were clearly rattled. It gave our boys a second wind too. Then, like Bunt in FW1, Walsh and Carrigan in the GF, finally Reynolds and Haas had their moments here. That moment when Reynolds' conversion went over, man the feels. Then suddenly, when the final siren went, we'd knocked off the 4 time premiers...just wow.
broncos4life
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What a weird dude, why as a Knights fan would you care this much about us winning? I can get it if he's a Cowboys or Dolphins etc. but this is odd.
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Because every single fan base enjoys watching us lose more than watching their own team win. We broke them a few weeks ago.
Hoshsie
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Have you met knights fans, theyre absolute low life wankers, just talking shit online when they are on their coke breaks, there was a knights fan a few years ago that got outed for being a pedophile on a forum
DarrellLockyer
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Wait- both knees?
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There were that many knee issues across the league I could be remembering wrong, but wasn't he nursing...something with one of his knees? It could have been a case of being off the field with an ACL anyway, might as well get this fixed as well.
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It does look like that.
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Bill explains this one on Inside Ball today - they had to take the patella tendon from his right knee because they’ve already used the other one last time.
