2014 Broncos Season

[rhino]

He should be used as a bench back rower..learn his trade over time by slowly extending his mins. IMO

 

[Foordy]

He should be used as a bench back rower..learn his trade over time by slowly extending his mins. IMO

He won't get a bench back row spot, he may have a chance to be used in the backs though. So if needed he should play there for the
experience.

Back row is not like the halves. It wont hurt his development by playing in the backs.

 

[jarro65]

We've got plenty of backrow options so no need for the kid to get smashed there so early in his career.

I'd love to see him develop into a classic ballplaying centre like Gene Miles.

 

[Broncoman]

Oates has tons of potential and he would be best suited in the centres when the team is at full-strength. He has the speed and strength to be a damaging centre while Yoh Yeh and Hoffman will be on the wings.

 

[Big Pete]

According to Chris Garry on Twitter, French Prop Sebastien Martins has earned an extended stay with the Broncos squad.

 

[Splinter]

According to Chris Garry on Twitter, French Prop Sebastien Martins has earned an extended stay with the Broncos squad.

Probably cover for Kennedy if he has a problem

 

[Broncoman]

Does anyone rate Martin Kennedy? I personally find him to be a bit of a media myth. There are plenty of other front-rowers I would take ahead of him, from memory he ran riot over a depleted Tigers outfit missing about 4 players and because he is a Queenslander he got pumped up as being a damaging beast and future Origin player. I don't think he is a bad player I just don't think he is as good as what some of the media and fans seem to say.

 

[Alec]

Does anyone rate Martin Kennedy? I personally find him to be a bit of a media myth. There are plenty of other front-rowers I would take ahead of him, from memory he ran riot over a depleted Tigers outfit missing about 4 players and because he is a Queenslander he got pumped up as being a damaging beast and future Origin player. I don't think he is a bad player I just don't think he is as good as what some of the media and fans seem to say.

I've been more vocal about him than pretty much anyone else on here, I think. I find him to be a decent player, but not Origin standard like many others tend to think. I think we are paying pretty big overs for him. He was really promising until that big injury in 2010 or 11 though, maybe he can still get back to that.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Perhaps this is a clue why the Broncs were getting run down in the back end of games last season and they need to be better this season -

This is Dunamis Lui comparing Manly to Brisbane:

"It is so good down here. I feel great. This is the best I have felt (fitness-wise)," Lui said.


"The training here is different and it suits me better


"We have longer days where we are going from around 9am to 3pm where as at the Broncos it was just the morning.


"This is a great opportunity.


"I want to earn a starting spot and prove myself."

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/ma...hed-his-contract/story-fndv31ch-1226803506690

 

[Sproj]

Not now we've been Corvoed!

 

[Cult]

Perhaps this is a clue why the Broncs were getting run down in the back end of games last season and they need to be better this season -

This is Dunamis Lui comparing Manly to Brisbane:


Manly recruit Dunamis Lui says he was heartbroken when Broncos slashed his contract | News.com.au

Just sounds like another bitter ex-Bronco.

 

[Alec]

Just sounds like another bitter ex-Bronco.

Maybe, but it also paints what looks like a pretty unimpressive picture of what training was like in the last couple of years.

 

[Allo]

Lui's problem wasn't fitness. It's that he's a shit footballer who did absolutely nothing on the field. At least you knew when Sanderson was there from the dropped balls

 

[Splinter]

Lui might surprise.
the last couple of games for us last year, he was our most damaging runner but his defence needs a lot of work

 

[Unbreakable]

Lui's problem wasn't fitness. It's that he's a shit footballer who did absolutely nothing on the field.

That's a bit harsh.. he was close to our best prop when he was fit towards the back end of the season, he's had a lot of injury / fitness problems over the last couple of years, wouldn't surprise me at all if he has a break out year in Manly.

 

[bb_gun]

Didn't Te'o also have a little dig at the Broncos training sessions after he left?

I'm sure most players say similar things when they join a new club but maybe there is some truth to it, especially considering our form over the last couple of seasons. Here's to hoping that Corvo will completely turn things around in that department.

 

[Brent81]

Just saw a couple of photos of Sebastien Martins.......wow looks to a freaking unit!

 

[Alec]

Didn't Te'o also have a little dig at the Broncos training sessions after he left?

I'm sure most players say similar things when they join a new club but maybe there is some truth to it, especially considering our form over the last couple of seasons. Here's to hoping that Corvo will completely turn things around in that department.

It was obvious to pretty much everyone on here how unfit and unprepared the players have been for the last 2 or so years. I mean I imagine that's why we got a new conditioning coach too. There was obviously truth to it.