Recent content by subsbligh

Yep the score line was irrelevant - the Panthers were always going to get a chance to return serve and the Broncos fatigue couldn’t repel.

Deadset, White or someone from head office needs to tell the group to shake hands and walk off the field and not fraternise in front of the cameras. The corporate dollars, the big membership base and fat pay packets for Instagram jockeys and their wives are all at risk - no one wants to pay...

I don't get how or why Broncos management would hire a coach and then not let him make selection decisions that are plainly obvious. A loss last night (whilst bad for our season) would have been the nail in the coffin for 2019 and maybe some wholesale changes.

Legend - on and off the field

Milford's weight is not the problem. It's his mindset. He does not have game management skills, a kicking game or the ability to take control during clutch moments. And that is largely due to being an excellent player in a no-expectation environment (Raiders and 2015), to being the chosen one...

Love it. Seems the theme of pre-season posts hasn't changed much either.

Haven't posted for a while, but the numbness of the off-season has brought me back. BHQ - offseason team thread, the joys.

Smith by a mile. In positive and negative ways. Lockyer is my favourite player of all time. BUT Lockyer came to a club with a burgeoning roster of the best players in the game, in rugby league heartland. Smith has literally built a successful rugby league franchise and pioneered an entirely...

Huge huge win. Knocking Cowboys out of the finals (first time we aren't on the receiving end) for what, 4 years? Big defensive effort. Will give us a shot in the arm of confidence going into the finals

Or he plays in the centres

Grog

Good players. In a generation without Thurston, would be playing for their third grand final in a row this year. But lowest common denominator is they can't beat the Cowboys. What's the point then?

Milford 2015 made Reed look like a superstar. Imagine what a player with talent and size can do. Defensively.. expect a fair bit of traffic in the direction (Milford Moga Oates). Good luck to him. Smells a bit too much like a Whitchurch Round 1 good off season reward selection for mine.

Only for how the mind coach has planned avoiding the origin slump this year. His sojourn to UK during that period and the complete collapse took 6 weeks to recover from and ultimately fucked our top 4 chances. We could well be 0-5 to start the season. But it would be ok to be dark horses...

Meh. We can justify or craft the view of the world from that trial any which way. When we score the tries, it's obvious the skills and talent is there. But it's like Bennett tries to jam that into a fixed structure and it ruins their individual abilities. I also really like Dimitriou showing...