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

JayPee said:
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.
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Yes I can see how Gee misses it while looking right at it.

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Let's see the charge sheet today. Radley with 3 reports plus the Carrigan incident which should be #4, bloke should be sitting down for months at this point. There needs to be an explanation how he stayed on the field because that is completely without precedent (how unusual for teams v Broncos, I know).
 
So proud of the team, geez we have some resilience this year - which is remarkable considering just a couple of years ago these blokes would fold like a deckchair the moment they faced any adversity at all. Mental toughness has long been a weakness at this club so to have it turned around to where we are probably THE most resilient in the entire comp.......Donuts and Madge, take a ****ing bow. That's the most pleasing thing this year.

If we have a fair run without serious injury, it's us and 'Riff again in '26. Despite being on the receiving end of a whistlefest every damn game. But we need to start getting guys back and keep them back to have a shot.

This year could be the year someone wins it from outside the 4, and by someone I mean us.
 
LittleDavey said:
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Yes I can see how Gee misses it while looking right at it.

Anyway. Fox says:
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Let's see the charge sheet today. Radley with 3 reports plus the Carrigan incident which should be #4, bloke should be sitting down for months at this point. There needs to be an explanation how he stayed on the field because that is completely without precedent (how unusual for teams v Broncos, I know).
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This is the most pointless thing ever. Do you know how quick these things happen? I can assure you he doesnt get to play it in slow motion or have replays. Chris Butler on the other hand gets to look at it in slow mo and replayed.
 
JayPee said:
This is the most pointless thing ever. Do you know how quick these things happen? I can assure you he doesnt get to play it in slow motion or have replays. Chris Butler on the other hand gets to look at it in slow mo and replayed.
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Yes it's pointless because it's done and dusted. But quite a few of us here saw it in real time, at the time, but the bloke in the middle and touchies didn't. That happens, I'll cop it but I'm still salty. Patty should probably have stayed down but our guys don't do the milking shit much (to our own detriment at times).

We both definitely agree the bunker missed the trick though. Fox showed multiple replays of it throughout the game and still crickets. It's not good enough. He'd better be charged for it today, deadset.
 
The non-call to bin Radley was Gee’s to make which is why he stayed on the field. On field refs are usually too cowardly to make calls like that in tight contests because they know they’ll be torn apart by the media.

Staggs’ binning was a bunker call.
 
Harry said:
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.
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Two wrongs don`t make a right .
You can write a wall of text to justify . It`s still a dog shot .

I can`t condone . Up there with eye gouging and squirrel gripping . Cowardly and weak as FCK .

The way I see rugby league
Hit a guy with a legit shot and hurt him . No problem . Hold him down with help and hit him in the back of the head . Big problem .
 
I wish Piakura wasn’t an injury merchant. Xavier was a force of nature through the middle in the 2nd half - it could’ve been a different story with him in the middle in the 1st.

The rorters forwards were playing like it was an origin/ gf in the first half. I’ve never seen Collins, who is the most overrated plodder to play the game, run that hard ever.
 
Big Del said:
Two wrongs don`t make a right .
You can write a wall of text to justify . It`s still a dog shot .

I can`t condone . Up there with eye gouging and squirrel gripping . Cowardly and weak as FCK .

The way I see rugby league
Hit a guy with a legit shot and hurt him . No problem . Hold him down with help and hit him in the back of the head . Big problem .
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I would agree with this - if the game had some sort of consistency with it would be great though.
 
We were always going to struggle in the middle against the Roosters big aggressive pack. We were missing both starting props and 1 of our 2RF. No team in the comp could hold up in the middle with those outs, so given the circumstances I think we did remarkably well. All the commentary today is about the dominant first half, yeah well, with those outs and getting reamed by the bloke in the middle we weren't even allowed to play footy until well into the second half.

Roosters will be crowing about the win but in the back of their minds, they'll know how depleted we were and that we still could/should have got them. They will know they're off the pace despite being pumped up by the media.

I still can't get over the fact they were perfectly onside for the entire game according to Gee. Not a single, solitary offside infringement. Again, for what the 4th or 5th time this year? Simply incredible how every team who plays us are absolute ****ing angels. And again, we had slower play the balls yet were the team being constantly infringed. I am so, so over that abomination of a rule.
 
nopatience101 said:
Madge is gonna rip Annesley a new arsehole.
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What gives you this impression? Just curious if ive missed something, as this wasn't the first game this season we got hammered and I dont think anything has been said?
 
Duffy needs an extension, every club will have eyes on him. He's doing some great things for a guy without that much experience, that goal kicking last night was elite too, some of those kicks weren't easy, particularly when we had to be going up by 6.

Pezet is a halfback too and it's not lost on me the ability he has, he's been playing 6 this season so it's hard to make any judgements on him. Duffy is going really well, we don't lose anything when he comes onto the field. He's a big body for a half too, with a run threat.
 
BroncosFever said:
Duffy needs an extension, every club will have eyes on him. He's doing some great things for a guy without that much experience, that goal kicking last night was elite too, some of those kicks weren't easy, particularly when we had to be going up by 6.

Pezet is a halfback too and it's not lost on me the ability he has, he's been playing 6 this season so it's hard to make any judgements on him. Duffy is going really well, we don't lose anything when he comes onto the field. He's a big body for a half too, with a run threat.
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How did the Cows let him go??? Born and raised in Townsville smh. You can bet your bottom dollar that there'd already be articles written about the Broncos if we let someone with that sort of talent walk, and it's not like he left the club on ridiculous cash to start somewhere else. He already has a better general play kicking game than Dearden btw
 
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