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Out of the Qld teams Titans seem the worst option to me. They've got a thousand halves coming through the juniors and already have Foran there as a senior half to get them around the field, so Benny turning up starts to become a road block for the juniors coming through. They're not really a...
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RUMOURS [STATUS]

LIVE
Riccio: Broncos sign Jaiyden Hunt on two year deal.
@1910 : Josh Rogers development deal extended/renewed.
Badel: Walsh to be offered an upgraded, extended contract (2027+) with substantial pay rise.
Badel: Mam to be offered an upgraded, extended contract (2027+) with substantial pay rise.
Badel, Read: Reynolds WILL sign a 1 year extension to 2025 at season end.
Read, Dobbo: Oates to Newcastle unless Broncos raise offer. [BUSTED. Oates says will take pay cut.]

DEAD
Badel: Madden offered a 2 year extension to 2026. [CONFIRMED]
Badel, Meyn: Reynolds seeking an extension until 2025. [CONFIRMED]
Badel, Read, Meyn: Ikin has applied to quit Broncos and head up QRL. Made final four candidates. [GONE]
Carayannis, Read: Fletcher Baker to sign for 2024/2025. [CONFIRMED]
@007 : Haas deal good as done. Heard it in a cafe. [EXPIRED]
@007 : Ben Hunt on market for 2 year minimum contract @ $800K per year. Trust me. [CONFIRMED]
@007 : Ben Hunt wants to join Roosters, but Dragons are blocking him joining a Sydney club. [BUSTED]
Badel, etc: Ben Hunt asked to join Broncos immediately, then Titans next season. [CONFIRMED, BUT REFUSED BY DRAGONS]
Badel: club has opened talks with Haas. [CONFIRMED BY AGENT]
Dobbo: Arthars, Mariner and Haas to extend. [FIRST 2 CORRECT. 3RD EXPIRED]
@McHunt : Walker is unhappy at the Roosters. Made up. [CONFIRMED]
@1910 : Quai Ward to Bulldogs immediately. [GONE]

PLAYER ROSTER FOR 2023 AND BEYOND: 28/30 FILLED
PLAYER202320242025
Adam ReynoldsHalf20232024
Billy WaltersHooker, half20232024
Blake MozerHooker202320242025
Brendan PiakuraSecond row20232024
Corey JensenProp202320242025
Corey OatesWing2023POPO
Cory PaixHooker, half202320242025
Deine MarinerCentre, wing20232024Until 2027
Delouise HoeterCentre, wing20232024
Ethan Quai-WardCentre, wingBulldogs
Ezra MamHalf20232024
Fletcher BakerProp, Second Row20242025
Herbie FarnworthCentre, wing2023Sea World
Jesse ArtharsCentre, wing, Fullback20232024Until 2026
Jock MaddenHalf20232024
Jordan RikiSecond row20232024
Jordan PereiraWing2023
Keenan PalasiaSecond row2023Titans
Kobe HetheringtonLock202320242025
Kotoni StaggsCentre202320242025
Kurt CapewellSecond row20232024
Logan BaylissProp2023
Marty TaupauProp, second row, lock20232024
Patrick CarriganProp, lock20232024Until 2028
Payne HaasProp20232024Until 2026
Reece WalshFullback202320242025
Selwyn CobboWing, centre, fullback202320242025
Thomas FleglerProp2023Sea World
Tristan SailorFullback, half202320242025
Xavier WillisonProp202320242025

DEVELOPMENT
Brendan Frei: second row
Josh Rogers: half [Renewed]
Tristan Sailor: fullback, halves
Tyson Smoothy: hooker

OFF CONTRACT 2024
Jordan Pereira
Logan Bayliss
Tyson Smoothy


STOCKS

Front Row
Carrigan, Flegler, Haas, Willison, Jensen, Bayliss, Palasia, Taupau

Second Row
Piakura, Riki, Capewell, Frei, Palasia, Taupau

Lock
Carrigan, Hetherington, Flegler, Taupau

Hooker
Mozer, Paix, Walters, Smoothy

Half
Reynolds, Mam, Walters, Paix, Madden, Rogers, Sailor

Fullback
Cobbo, Walsh, Arthars, Sailor

Centre
Farnworth, Staggs, Hoeter, Mariner, Arthars, Cobbo, Capewell

Wing
Cobbo, Oates, Arthars, Hoeter, Farnworth, Pereira


ETHNO MAP

QLD (19)
Billy Walters, Blake Mozer, Brendan Piakura, Brendan Frei, Corey Jensen, Corey Oates, Cory Paix, Ezra Mam, Josh Rogers, Keenan Palasia, Kobe Hetherington, Kurt Capewell, Logan Bayliss, Patrick Carrigan, Reece Walsh, Selwyn Cobbo, Tristan Sailor, Thomas Flegler, Tyson Smoothy

NZ (7)
Deine Mariner, Brendan Piakura, Jesse Arthars, Jordan Riki, Jordan Pereira, Marty Taupau, Xavier Willison

NSW (3)
Adam Reynolds, Jock Madden, Kotoni Staggs, Payne Haas

Indigenous (5)
Ezra Mam, Jordan Riki, Kotoni Staggs, Reece Walsh, Selwyn Cobbo

Tonga (2)
Delouise Hoeter, Kotoni Staggs

Samoa (5)
Keenan Palasia, Jesse Arthars, Jordan Pereira, Payne Haas, Marty Taupau

Cook Islands (2)
Brendan Piakura, Xavier Willison

England (1)
Herbie Farnworth
 
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McHunt said:
This is the off season. We're talking about getting our roster ready for next season. How the **** did this bunch of useless ***** put us in a position where Billy fucking Walters is our answer at dummy half? I mean, really who is responsible for this woeful situation that you are asking us to accept because it's just the way it goes? Does Billy fucking Walters father have any say in any of this?
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Why does this make you so angry? Chill, dude.
 
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McHunt said:
I don't get your point. Which part of what I said did you disagree with?

Croft, Dearden and Milford were clearly all in the elite class.

Croft: Captain Junior Kangaroos, ESL Man of Steel.
Dearden: State of Origin winning halfback, Peter Sterling Medalist.
Milford: highest paid Bronco of all time.

Billy was struggling to get an NRL game but wanted to quit his Tigers contract and come to Brisbane to play 6 under his old man.

Is the issue whether Kevvie planned to pair his son with Adam Reynolds as the first choice 6 by clearing out all the competition? Neither of us know that for certain, but it looks that way.
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I'm really sorry, but this really is a horrible attempt at justification. Neither of those three players you mention could possibly have been considered elite, at least at the time that we were discussing:

The Storm put up very little resistance to letting Croft go, in fact any resistance would have been purely to make us pay more that we had to. He did very little in the Broncos jersey and I don't know of anyone who was concerned when he left us early. Captaining the Junior Kangaroos and winning the Man Of Steel puts him amongst fellow elite such as Ben Jones, Mitch Cornish, Michael Lichaa, Jackson Hastings, Rangi Chase, and Zac Hardaker. Esteemed.

Dearden demanded, and was given, an opportunity to prove himself as a starting half, and utterly bombed. He'd shown glimpses of spark during a few short cameos, and had of course performed well in the lower grades. but when handed the reins he broke every Broncos' fans hearts. It wasn't just a consequence of the Broncos being poor either, it became a meme how many games the Cowboys lost in a row when he joined them. He might be showing some of his potential now, but he gave no reasons to retain him at the time he demanded a shot, and was too impatient to develop further and wait until he was ready to get a crack starting in the halves. It was pretty well known at the time that the Broncos wanted to wait another year before giving him a proper crack, something that they will hopefully stay strong on when it comes to Mozer (and that there is your hint on why Walters has been retained in the short term).

And Milford? 2015, yep, first half of 2016, sure. He was elite. He was given a $1 million ** contract based on previous form, and due to the fact that the Storm supposedly showed interest and made the Broncos bid high. He declined rapidly, on the back of showing zero motivation, an unwillingness to learn or develop, and a lack of self discipline that saw an "elite" sportsperson refuse to give up cigarettes or other unhealthy habits that would absolutely limit his ability to perform. The Broncos were correct to not offer him a new contract, a decision vindicated by his similarly heartless displays for the Knights.

For someone to claim that any of those three were "elite", or even "above average" at the time they left the Broncos, is either a judgement clouded with crippling bias, or a disingenuous argument attempted to drum up outrage. They were absolute plodders in the case of Croft, and deadset liabilities in the cases of Dearden and Milford. How anyone can possibly be convinced of the ridiculous notion that these three were victims of an agenda to remove any obstacles to Billy Fucking Walters becoming a regular member of the Broncos 17 is a sad indictment on the supposed intelligence inherent in humans.
 
Morkel said:
I'm really sorry, but this really is a horrible attempt at justification. Neither of those three players you mention could possibly have been considered elite, at least at the time that we were discussing:

The Storm put up very little resistance to letting Croft go, in fact any resistance would have been purely to make us pay more that we had to. He did very little in the Broncos jersey and I don't know of anyone who was concerned when he left us early. Captaining the Junior Kangaroos and winning the Man Of Steel puts him amongst fellow elite such as Ben Jones, Mitch Cornish, Michael Lichaa, Jackson Hastings, Rangi Chase, and Zac Hardaker. Esteemed.

Dearden demanded, and was given, an opportunity to prove himself as a starting half, and utterly bombed. He'd shown glimpses of spark during a few short cameos, and had of course performed well in the lower grades. but when handed the reins he broke every Broncos' fans hearts. It wasn't just a consequence of the Broncos being poor either, it became a meme how many games the Cowboys lost in a row when he joined them. He might be showing some of his potential now, but he gave no reasons to retain him at the time he demanded a shot, and was too impatient to develop further and wait until he was ready to get a crack starting in the halves. It was pretty well known at the time that the Broncos wanted to wait another year before giving him a proper crack, something that they will hopefully stay strong on when it comes to Mozer (and that there is your hint on why Walters has been retained in the short term).

And Milford? 2015, yep, first half of 2016, sure. He was elite. He was given a $1 million ** contract based on previous form, and due to the fact that the Storm supposedly showed interest and made the Broncos bid high. He declined rapidly, on the back of showing zero motivation, an unwillingness to learn or develop, and a lack of self discipline that saw an "elite" sportsperson refuse to give up cigarettes or other unhealthy habits that would absolutely limit his ability to perform. The Broncos were correct to not offer him a new contract, a decision vindicated by his similarly heartless displays for the Knights.

For someone to claim that any of those three were "elite", or even "above average" at the time they left the Broncos, is either a judgement clouded with crippling bias, or a disingenuous argument attempted to drum up outrage. They were absolute plodders in the case of Croft, and deadset liabilities in the cases of Dearden and Milford. How anyone can possibly be convinced of the ridiculous notion that these three were victims of an agenda to remove any obstacles to Billy Fucking Walters becoming a regular member of the Broncos 17 is a sad indictment on the supposed intelligence inherent in humans.
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Yet there we were with Billy fucking Walters - the butt of everyone's jokes when it was first rumoured his father would be poaching him from the Tigers - donning the number 6 jersey in round one of 2022.

You can spin the other three any way you like. You can blame the player, the club, the coaches, whatever you choose. But they all came to us hopeful and left broken. And the coach's son, well he just got extended.

And just quietly, how did our spine look at the end of the season?
 
Round 1 was injury cover, yeah? Reyno is fit, Billy likely doesn't play in the halves. Fairly well demonstrated by the fact that the following week, Reyno came back and he was not in the halves. And, if I recall, he played well enough that fist week that there was a genuine question of whether Albie or Billy would be the one to be dropped.

Not a very successful conspiracy if everything was geared towards opening up a halves spot that he was only in for a single round...
 
McHunt said:
Yet there we were with Billy fucking Walters - the butt of everyone's jokes when it was first rumoured his father would be poaching him from the Tigers - donning the number 6 jersey in round one of 2022.

You can spin the other three any way you like. You can blame the player, the club, the coaches, whatever you choose. But they all came to us hopeful and left broken. And the coach's son, well he just got extended.

And just quietly, how did our spine look at the end of the season?
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Or, the more likely scenario that our "top-line" halves were dogshit, and rightly shown the door, the halves that remained to partner Reynolds were an unknown (TMM) or injury-prone fringe first-graders, and our hookers were not much better. In the case of hooker, we at least have a very promising young player coming through, and supposedly little in the way of spare cap space to spend, so a dependable, cheap, loyal, and hard-working utility would make sense. There are zero reports of rumours that he is on anything much above minimum wage, he is a low-maintenance, club-focused player, and will play wherever he is asked, and will give his all in that position. You're trying to make this a negative, citing nepotism, because (well who fucking knows), when in reality, we have a player here who is willing to bleed for the coach and club and push his limited talents as far as possible, which is far more than you'd be able to expect from a stocko journeyman.

Does that leave us a top-line hooker or half short until Mozer is ready? Maybe, but the question remains on who we could have legitimately targeted, who would have been a realistic chance, and who would have suited what we needed? The options look pretty barren.
 
Morkel said:
Or, the more likely scenario that our "top-line" halves were dogshit, and rightly shown the door, the halves that remained to partner Reynolds were an unknown (TMM) or injury-prone fringe first-graders, and our hookers were not much better. In the case of hooker, we at least have a very promising young player coming through, and supposedly little in the way of spare cap space to spend, so a dependable, cheap, loyal, and hard-working utility would make sense. There are zero reports of rumours that he is on anything much above minimum wage, he is a low-maintenance, club-focused player, and will play wherever he is asked, and will give his all in that position. You're trying to make this a negative, citing nepotism, because (well who fucking knows), when in reality, we have a player here who is willing to bleed for the coach and club and push his limited talents as far as possible, which is far more than you'd be able to expect from a stocko journeyman.
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He handled the ball more than any other player last season. We didn't make the 8. I don't care whether he was cheap. We got what we paid for.
 
holdzy said:
If all three are out I'll take it.
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Are you trying to trick me into taking a wager against you that I am offering but with even shorter odds against me?

Im not making that bet with you haha.
 
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