POST GAME [Round 7, 2026] - Broncos vs Tigers

Lockysillegitimatechild said:
Just on the media.

Its actually refreshing to see that non-broncos fans are starting tk see the bs we cop in the media and call them out on it as well. Its been going on for years but it has gotten so ridiculous lately that on fb, instagram and Twitter broncos haters get shouted down with their bs. A few tigers fans going on about the forward passes are getting hammered in replies. I mean honestly, how the **** could you say tigers didnt get the game handed to them with 6 agains. There was a passage at the start of the game they had THREE consecutively, making it a 10 or 11 tackle set lol.

I made the mistake of listening to triple m for about 5 mins before. They talked up the tigers more than us hahaha CONEHEAD downplayed our injuries " 5 or 6 short term" (funny, someone misses a week when kevvy coaches and its an excuse for an entire shit season haha), and ZERO mention of madge and what a bloody unbelievable coaching performance it was. It deadset was an unbelievable coaching performance!


We have that team with kevvie as coach and we would have had 50 put on us, we got smashed regularly with less injuries in 2024. The media hate it, but the whole bs narrative that "kevvie got us to a gf as well" is getting shown up to be absolute horse shit even more so. Their whole excuse was "injuries" in 2024 despite 2022 being a shocking collapse as well. Now what do they say? We had more out then we ever did with kevvie as coach lol, got hammered by the ref, had in game injuries, tigers the form team of the comp, and they had the home crowd. What possible excuse now gordie?
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Imagine if riff were without: Cleary (and Cogger), Yeo, Edwards, Kenny (and whoever the hell their backup 9 is), Leota. Reckon the tune would be different in the media if they were losing?
 
Also confirmed that Staggs’ foot injury is plantar fasciitis - I know this sounds weird to say but that’s definitely best case scenario. When you hear “foot ligament” there’s plenty of options that could see him out several weeks and potentially need surgery. Plantar fasciitis he would often be just a week to week proposition
 
Big Del said:
Barnett was outstanding yesterday .
Super fit and desperate to win . I was impressed .

Jensen running into the defence at 80% is starting to worry me recently .
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I’m excited to have Barnett, he’s a great pick up. I’m more worried about Jensen too but he might also be carrying something.

Xman is our marquee though moving forward. He’s got a decade of leading our pack.

I’m just worried that if Jensen isn’t injury related but more age, I don’t think our next gen is close enough to being ready yet and probably won’t be for 2-3 years. Can Jensen last long?

He probably needs to as with two new clubs entering, it’s going to be hard to find guys like him more and more.
 
Watched the game this morning. Tigpies very first hit up was off a massive forward pass. Voss just sucked a huge lungfull of air and said nothing.

Shiba is struggling, and it's only injuries that's keeping him there. Hopefully he plays through this shit patch and comes good.

The X-man is owed a few beers by the boys he put in a mighty shift as did Mr. reliable Jensen.

This constant 6 agains against us at the beginning of games to drain the petrol from our tank is becoming so predictable it's not funny.

Madge and Reyno would have departed from Campbelltown with huge smiles of satisfaction. Josh Rodgers should mark that down in his diary as a superb effort and if they're tossing up between keeping Arthurs or Shiba the jury must surely be favouring Jesse at the mo.
 
Angry Leave Me Alone GIF

Lads on the team bus leaving shit town
 
Fitzy said:
The point is that he had a good enough pass to play NRL when he was 17, it’s nothing new. He showed last night he was years off first grade. Yet there are people doing team lists for him to be in the side next week or saying he is better than Mozer.

I let people go nuts with there Bukowski is better than Mozer rants 95% of the time, despite not even remotely agreeing with it. This is not some I told you so moment this is a can we have an actual discussion about what happened conversation. He will be 21 before seasons end.


I saw more concerns than positives and what I’m saying is that really should be the point of discussion here rather than people jizzing themselves over his pass that could have given a 90 year old man who hasn’t gotten his **** up in 3 decades a stiffy when he was 17. Which has already been well established on here.

He hasn’t really been progressing in q-cup this season (albeit early and Wynnum dreadful), his coach at stages hasn’t had faith in him in reserve grade as well. A nearly 21 year old hooker shouldn’t look that out of his depth in defence and thrown around like a bean bag if he gets caught with the ball. That unfortunately doesn’t come down to nerves. The dropped ball and a couple of twitchy movements off the line, yeah nerves, and I am not remotely concerned or judging his game based off of those things.

Luckily for Cameron he will know that he has stuff to address, and he can now go work on it. But you don’t make up that much of a deficiency in a couple weeks and honestly not in a couple months either. He was a long way off the level required in defence unfortunately. But better for him to know that now, cause that is not as glaringly as obvious a thing in reserve grade at all. Back end of next year start of 28 is really where I see him being at a level to re-introduce to first grade with some opportunities. He has got the taste now, it’s time to go back to work and get to a level that’s required in these areas. And a part of that development is for him simply just filling out and gaining size, 100%.

Madge has shown he doesn’t give two shits about how good your pass is if you cannot get the defence right. Paix is our number one hooker right now. He doesn’t have a running game and his ruck ID and pass is worse than probably all our hookers. Cory’s work rate and defence though is the best in our hooking stocks (Walters is up there as well but probably can’t do it for 80 like Paixy).

You look at hookers that got there opportunities young and or similar ages the last few years. Mozer, De Silva, Pattie, Beni Ioleu, about a year older when he debuted which changes things but even Ryley Smith. Do I think Bukowski compares to them despite playing more reserve grade and having potentially more skills than all of them when getting there chance? I don’t unfortunately and that’s a glaring truth he has to face and go and work and focus on some things. Theres not many hookers at this age getting first grade and there are very few capable of being the complete package. This is by no means a suggestion Bukowski is off track or is a bust. But relative to the blokes that have gotten there goes at his age he’s a bit off the pace.

I think Cam is in a similar position to Coby at the minute. Coby lives off his kicking game in the same way that Cam lives off his passing game. Better than a lot of blokes in first grade at those two things but there games beyond that aren’t up to it. I do believe that Cam has far more dimensions to his game than Coby did in fairness but they both do have one skill that is far and away better than anything else they offer at this point. These are both skills that create a lot of value for teams but that can’t just be it.

But this also becomes two fold in that if the poor bloke had to go out and put one or two more efforts like that in over the next few weeks the lot of you would be off him. I think we need to be a bit more realistic with him is all I’m saying. It may come off as critical but I’m not here to sugar coat. We all know his upside. No point pretending there wasn’t a lot of downside on show tonight and a lot to work on.
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I think people saying he looked good last night is not the same as saying they want him to be in the team full time. if you ask who most of the people want in the team and they would say Mozer.

But there was a lot to like about the kid last night so let’s not take that away from him.
 
Sproj said:
I’m excited to have Barnett, he’s a great pick up. I’m more worried about Jensen too but he might also be carrying something.

Xman is our marquee though moving forward. He’s got a decade of leading our pack.

I’m just worried that if Jensen isn’t injury related but more age, I don’t think our next gen is close enough to being ready yet and probably won’t be for 2-3 years. Can Jensen last long?

He probably needs to as with two new clubs entering, it’s going to be hard to find guys like him more and more.
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Disagree. Our club took Shiba from a plodder to Australian selection. We're the premiers, with a young team generally and an open premiership window. We are most certainly a destination a lot of players would love to be at. Would you rather live with your family in the SE corner of QLD or in Perth? Or - heaven forbid - a freaking gated community in Port Moresby?? It's not even close. I think we'll do okay.

We simply must lock up X-man long term, he is immense. Barnett I think will be good for us. Jensen does seem to have periods like this, ever since he got here - whether he's battling through something or it's just form related I don't know, but he has certainly been down a bit on what we usually expect from him lately. He's only just gone 32yo at the start of the year but might be starting to slow down.
 
LittleDavey said:
He's only just gone 32yo at the start of the year but might be starting to slow down.
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This is what frightens me about Barnett. We've just lost one of our great up and coming backs that we stole off Melbourne for a guy who could be a couple of years off the glue factory. Blows my mind.
 
If you're concerned about Barnett, watch some of his runs yesterday.

Xavier and him together should be great, Talty can hopefully give us more of what he is already doing from the bench for a few more years (only 27), and youd imagine Jensen might slowly start to see less mins.
 
mrslong said:
if you ask who most of the people want in the team and they would say Mozer.
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Why ?
When he played he got bumped off in two tackles , then went high again and got his mouth busted .
What does he do that makes him such a prospect ?
I didn`t see anything with the ball that made me say Hmmm , and he can`t tackle .
 
It’s just pure bad luck that Mozer is getting injured more often than not. IF he ends up playing in the 17 for 4-6 weeks consecutively, he could turn out extraordinary. He may not have runs on the board but for mine, when he’s serving the footy, the rhythm and flow of passes are beautiful to watch. He needs to stay healthy and tackle hard that’s all.
 
Skathen said:
This is what frightens me about Barnett. We've just lost one of our great up and coming backs that we stole off Melbourne for a guy who could be a couple of years off the glue factory. Blows my mind.
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You cant think like that though if your agree we are in a premiership window.

Hass HAD to be replaced. There are not many better than Barnett available on the market right now.

A depth backline player is not the type of arrow you want in your bow..
 
Battler said:
Imagine if riff were without: Cleary (and Cogger), Yeo, Edwards, Kenny (and whoever the hell their backup 9 is), Leota. Reckon the tune would be different in the media if they were losing?
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We already know the answer to this based on all the sympathy to rabbits and Wayne received the last 2 years
 
Tristan1990 said:
Also confirmed that Staggs’ foot injury is plantar fasciitis - I know this sounds weird to say but that’s definitely best case scenario. When you hear “foot ligament” there’s plenty of options that could see him out several weeks and potentially need surgery. Plantar fasciitis he would often be just a week to week proposition
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That's the same as Riki has isn't it?

Is the injury a pain tolerance one?
 
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