PRE-GAME [Round 20, 2026] - Broncos vs Panthers

[Sproj]

I think if you factor in byes etc it’s already 9 wins and Broncs are on 5. I could be wrong.

 

[1910]

Walters playing hooker today.

 

[1910]

Billy off at HT.

 

[Dexter]

Injured or for Panthers next week?

 

[1910]

Injured or for Panthers next week?

Broncos told Souths 40 minutes only.

 

[Scorchie]

Watched 2025 GF today to cheer myself up at this hell of a season. I'm as down about it as I was in 2020 - its truly that bad.

Anyway, we'll win this and the next one to give us false hope before a late August collapse.

 

[The Muffin Man]

Even if we won our last 8 which we wont. I still dont think we would make 8th the way things are going.

 

[Krampus]

It's all worth it.
For our finals run and grand final win last year.

 

[BroncsFan]

Even if we won our last 8 which we wont. I still dont think we would make 8th the way things are going.

We'd be 13-11 in that situation which is typically good enough to be in the 8... regardless of for and against

12-12 is usually when for and against comes into it.

11-13 qualified a couple years back, but rarely ever happens

 

[Morkel]

It's all worth it it.
For our finals run and grand final win last year.

Yeah this. Would you take a decade of empty top-4 finishes like the Sharks, or a premiership followed by the worst injury crisis ever?

 

[Sproj]

Yeah this. Would you take a decade of empty top-4 finishes like the Sharks, or a premiership followed by the worst injury crisis ever?

Can I choose option C - 5 GFs in a row, 4 premierships, a PF and runaway favouritism in the next year with a system pumping out talent after talent?

 

[Morkel]

Can I choose option C - 5 GFs in a row, 4 premierships, a PF and runaway favouritism in the next year with a system pumping out talent after talent?

You'll have to jump shit to enjoy that. Unless there is a promising young NSW half out there that the NSWRL want to promote as the next Immortal and the Broncos sign them, it ain't happening.

In saying that, Madge doesn't have a kid that plays hooker, does he? Imagine if the NRL had the opportunity to fluff up the career of a 2nd generation NSW hooker to try to wipe the bitter taste of Cameron Smith out of their mouths.

 

[Swordfish]

Can I choose option C - 5 GFs in a row, 4 premierships, a PF and runaway favouritism in the next year with a system pumping out talent after talent?

In that case, you would also must have a discreet contract with a peptides manufacturer.

 

[Big Del]

In that case, you would also must have a discreet contract with a peptides manufacturer.

Does the peptide manufacturer continue supplying if you leave the club ? What about when you retire ? Is there support for the mental and physical damage done by unregulated substances?
What manner of NDA stops players who are let go by the club or are frustrated with with their opportunities from becoming whistle blowers . Also friends / family and partners are all keeping the secrets ? That's a lot of people all keeping secrets.
I don't believe that is the case . Or is even possible with social media allowing anyone with a FB or Twitter acc to be an investigative reporter.

 

[Morkel]

Does the peptide manufacturer continue supplying if you leave the club ? What about when you retire ? Is there support for the mental and physical damage done by unregulated substances?
What manner of NDA stops players who are let go by the club or are frustrated with with their opportunities from becoming whistle blowers . Also friends / family and partners are all keeping the secrets ? That's a lot of people all keeping secrets.
I don't believe that is the case . Or is even possible with social media allowing anyone with a FB or Twitter acc to be an investigative reporter.

Again, not a whisper from any of the ex Sharks players who were confirmed to have been on their program. Except for the family of Jon Mannah, whose concerns were quietly dismissed.

It's also entire possible that, like the Sharks players, the Panthers players have no idea if they are partaking in anything dodgy. They just take their tablets or let the medics rub those ointments on them and drink those concoctions like every player at every club does.

 

[Swordfish]

Does the peptide manufacturer continue supplying if you leave the club ? What about when you retire ? Is there support for the mental and physical damage done by unregulated substances?
What manner of NDA stops players who are let go by the club or are frustrated with with their opportunities from becoming whistle blowers . Also friends / family and partners are all keeping the secrets ? That's a lot of people all keeping secrets.
I don't believe that is the case . Or is even possible with social media allowing anyone with a FB or Twitter acc to be an investigative reporter.

Bruhh…….. come on

Who knows, similar to Sharks, there may be scoops out there which NSWRL and their dumb media crook heads are protecting their “protected species” from by suppressing EVERYTHING?

There could be ’n’ number of variants or there could be none( I for one, doubt).

With our final bye this week, we’re kicking stones anyways and I’ve my keyboard warrior mask on.

 

[Brocko]

They also could have just found something that is currently legal, so there is nothing to blow the whistle on.

 

[Battler]

Can I choose option C - 5 GFs in a row, 4 premierships, a PF and runaway favouritism in the next year with a system pumping out talent after talent?

They'll be back in the cellar soon enough when parasites like the rorters plunder their jr base. Daddy Ivan retiring and Nate probably not far behind now that the media have a Joey Johns-esque origin narrative for him out of this year's series.