POST GAME [Round 9, 2026] - Broncos vs Roosters

[Big Del]

Attacking the head of a defenceless player on the ground doesn`t buy you respect .
That`s up there with eye gouging and squirrel gripping . Grub work .

If you can`t hurt them with a legit tackle , you missed your chance . Coming down with an elbow to the spine is dangerous and grubby .

 

[McHunt]

Get up you ****ing sooks. This thread makes Broncos fans look like the pissweak whinging ***** every other club thinks we are.

 

[Elbows]

First half was diabolical. We looked dangerous but just couldn’t quite nail it.

Then pushed passes and turned it over on our 40 at least 3 times.

We needed patience and some love to play the game up the other end.

Proud we redeemed ourselves and gave us a chance to pull it out of the fire.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Staggs is a bloody idiot though.

 

[Big Del]

ok ‘bro’

Antiques roadshow is on channel 9 right now, maybe that’s a bit more your speed

Hold a man down with the help of a team mate .
Then elbow him to the back of the head after the tackle is finished .

And it`s all OK ? Your definitely trippin .

 

[_wwong]

Staggs is a bloody idiot though.

This was probably the first game I’ve seen in a while where he was physically dominated and couldn’t get the upper hand on that edge.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

I would like to understand the referees review and preview process. Is it a group thing? Do they have individual tip sheets? Like the old days against players, but for teams.
It seems obvious that they are going into games with the pre-conceived notion that Broncos are ruck and off-side serial offenders and must be jumped on.
I’ve heard a lot of commentary from “experts” about the teams shortcomings but they have rarely been criticised for their total lack of discipline.
The trouble with set restarts is that each individual restart doesn’t look wrong in isolation, but that other identical situations are let go.
I think I saw somewhere that the Chooks had a quicker average play the ball speed - how is that so?

 

[Waynesaurus]

Staggs is a bloody idiot though.

Pats attempted offload prior to that was equally as stupid.

 

[JayPee]

Talty’s wasn’t even a hip drop, the replays showed the force was toward the ground.

The issue with Radley was that he then got penalised again very next tackle for a high shot, maybe two. That’s always been a sinbin.

They both looked like textbook "hip drops" to me. Swung off their feet onto the back legs of a player. He swings off his feet onto the back of his legs and radley did the same shit and his body was the part that lands on the back of his legs. I don't get it.

Finally saw a replay of the radley tackle on carrigan this morning. I could understand maybe how Gee misses it because of unusual that technique and quick it was but Chris Butler needs to be sacked. Thats worse than the lot of them. Will be interesting to see all the charges this morning.

 

[FACTHUNT]

Pats attempted offload prior to that was equally as stupid.

Patty owned it totally in the press conference which was nice

 

[JayPee]

Was just replying regarding Robbo's comments, who said if Tedesco stayed down or went off it would have been a bin. Our player did go off injured, and that one wasn't a bin, so to walk into the presser and claim thats why Talty wasnt binned is ridiculous.

Its Trent Robinson. He is lowkey the biggest whinger in the league. In a loaded field.

 

[Harry]

Hold a man down with the help of a team mate .
Then elbow him to the back of the head after the tackle is finished .

And it`s all OK ? Your definitely trippin .

And if that's the interpretation then that's fine. I think its pathetically soft for a game like rugby league, but if you want to draw the line in the sand and say it's not ok then I have no problem with that.

But then it has to be not ok for ALL players and every time it happens.

You can't have Latrell do that and the commentators praise him for being fired up and leading his team passionately and there's no penalty and then when Staggs does it, it's a game-changing penalty, he's criticised in the media for costing his side the game and branded as grubby and he will likely be suspended for at least a week.

Same with the one-handed bat back. Is it a stupid, unnecessary rule? Yes. But everyone can live with it if it's just applied consistently.

Games aren't being decided by players, they're decided by referees who are selectively applying rules / drastically changing interpretations to manufacture completely discretionary outcomes on the fly with no transparency or accountability or consistency.

It's like a lucky dip each week. Might aswell spin the roulette wheel to see if your team will win this week. And maybe that's the whole point, they've turned the NRL into a gambling / entertainment product instead of a sport. There's no point watching anymore until V'Landys leaves.

 

[Brocko]

I would like to understand the referees review and preview process. Is it a group thing? Do they have individual tip sheets? Like the old days against players, but for teams.
It seems obvious that they are going into games with the pre-conceived notion that Broncos are ruck and off-side serial offenders and must be jumped on.
I’ve heard a lot of commentary from “experts” about the teams shortcomings but they have rarely been criticised for their total lack of discipline.
The trouble with set restarts is that each individual restart doesn’t look wrong in isolation, but that other identical situations are let go.
I think I saw somewhere that the Chooks had a quicker average play the ball speed - how is that so?

This is my thing too and which I also said earlier. Of all the ones we got done for and keep getting pinged for each week, im sure there is someone not 10m or a hand on the ball etc.

But imo you can find that in 90% of tackles if you really wanted, so game situation/scenarios then come in to play, and some are ignored, which leads to the wtf moments where it feels like we are being destroyed by the whistle. It also doesn't help when like last night, one team gets all theirs on tackle 1 and 2 and the other team gets theirs on tackle 4 and 5. This is something not recorded or tracked anywhere..

Momentum kicks in, everything we do looks like an attempt to slow them down, everything they do is at rapid pace. Try slowing them down at all, and even though its still a fast play the ball in terms of average for the game, it looks slow because the team without momentum is hanging on for dear life. So you get set restarted over and over.

So we end up being the team that gave away majority of the set restarts, AND the team with the slower play the ball, which is pretty shit.

 

[Waynesaurus]

Patty owned it totally in the press conference which was nice

Those two moments killed the comeback, the boys were coming home strong, really disappointing from two of the more experienced and senior guys in the team.

 

[Harry]

This is my thing too and which I also said earlier. Of all the ones we got done for and keep getting pinged for each week, im sure there is someone not 10m or a hand on the ball etc.

But imo you can find that in 90% of tackles if you really wanted, so game situation/scenarios then come in to play, and some are ignored, which leads to the wtf moments where it feels like we are being destroyed by the whistle.

Momentum kicks in, everything we do looks like an attempt to slow them down, everything they do is at rapid pace. Try slowing them down at all, and even though its still a fast play the ball in terms of average for the game, it looks slow because the team without momentum is hanging on for dear life.

So we end up being the team that gave away majority of the set restarts, AND the team with the slower play the ball, which is pretty shit.

You're overthinking it.

The team who whinges and milks gets all the penalties and calls. Once they get gifted momentum and start rolling, its even easier to milk and so they get more until they have a 10-20 point lead.

Then, the referee either realises or is instructed that the penalty count is lopsided and the game is turning into a blowout and suddenly the penalties stop and / or start going to the losing team, who magically starts a ferocious comeback.

Then either the team coming from behind has so much momentum that they go on with it and its a miraculous comeback, or once the game is close again the ref reverts to awarding penalties to the team who is milking the most.

Almost every game follows this pattern.

The refs are not applying rules, they are just trying to manufacture outcomes based on what they think or feel or are instructed to do. Player stays down hurt after a tackle? Oh then it must be a dangerous tackle and penalty... Regardless of whether the tackle is legal or not, they're just trying to create whatever outcome they think is right given the circumstances.

 

[Elbows]

According to ChatGPT Adam Gee doesn’t hate the Broncos nor do a their statistics to back it up.

Lord Vlandor has taken over AI

 

[Swordfish]

Trent Robinson is a complete muppet.

A French speaking muppet who thinks he knows it all. If not for dubious game management by refs in their last 3-4 games, the rumour that uncle Nick is looking to ship him out in favour of Ivan Cleary has this flog looking out for another job.

 

[Broncones]

You're overthinking it.

The team who whinges and milks gets all the penalties and calls. Once they get gifted momentum and start rolling, its even easier to milk and so they get more until they have a 10-20 point lead.

Then, the referee either realises or is instructed that the penalty count is lopsided and the game is turning into a blowout and suddenly the penalties stop and / or start going to the losing team, who magically starts a ferocious comeback.

Then either the team coming from behind has so much momentum that they go on with it and its a miraculous comeback, or once the game is close again the ref reverts to awarding penalties to the team who is milking the most.

Almost every game follows this pattern.

The refs are not applying rules, they are just trying to manufacture outcomes based on what they think or feel or are instructed to do. Player stays down hurt after a tackle? Oh then it must be a dangerous tackle and penalty... Regardless of whether the tackle is legal or not, they're just trying to create whatever outcome they think is right given the circumstances.

It's going to turn into soccer now that when a slight indication of an illegal movement the player will roll around and cry to award a penalty. Its just gone too far now and unfortunately won't be brought back to the way it used to be played. I'm even fine with making things complicated and have multiple angles and rewinds to every part of the game if it means it is reffed fairly but it just isn't. They will look through certain things with a fine tooth comb and rule things with a technicality but then other things they just leave completely.