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Broncos Roster, Signings and Rumours Discussion 2023

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

PLAYER		2023	2024	2025
Adam Reynolds	Half	2023	2024
Billy Walters	Hooker, half	2023	2024
Blake Mozer	Hooker	2023	2024	2025
Brendan Piakura	Second row	2023	2024
Corey Jensen	Prop	2023	2024	2025
Corey Oates	Wing	2023	PO	PO
Cory Paix	Hooker, half	2023	2024	2025
Deine Mariner	Centre, wing	2023	2024	Until 2027
Delouise Hoeter	Centre, wing	2023	2024
Ethan Quai-Ward	Centre, wing	Bulldogs
Ezra Mam	Half	2023	2024
Fletcher Baker	Prop, Second Row		2024	2025
Herbie Farnworth	Centre, wing	2023	Sea World
Jesse Arthars	Centre, wing, Fullback	2023	2024	Until 2026
Jock Madden	Half	2023	2024
Jordan Riki	Second row	2023	2024
Jordan Pereira	Wing	2023
Keenan Palasia	Second row	2023	Titans
Kobe Hetherington	Lock	2023	2024	2025
Kotoni Staggs	Centre	2023	2024	2025
Kurt Capewell	Second row	2023	2024
Logan Bayliss	Prop	2023
Marty Taupau	Prop, second row, lock	2023	2024
Patrick Carrigan	Prop, lock	2023	2024	Until 2028
Payne Haas	Prop	2023	2024	Until 2026
Reece Walsh	Fullback	2023	2024	2025
Selwyn Cobbo	Wing, centre, fullback	2023	2024	2025
Thomas Flegler	Prop	2023	Sea World
Tristan Sailor	Fullback, half	2023	2024	2025
Xavier Willison	Prop	2023	2024	2025

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

 

[theshed]

What would our strongest pack / bench be?

8. Haas
9. Hooker A
10. Flegler
11. Capewell
12. Riki
13. Patty

14. Hooker B
15. Hetherington
16. Jensen
17. Robati (can cover middle+2nd row)

Depth:
Palasia
Piakura
Willison
Bayliss-Brow

 

[holdzy]

What would our strongest pack / bench be?

8. Haas
9. Hooker A
10. Flegler
11. Capewell
12. Riki
13. Patty

14. Hooker B
15. Hetherington
16. Jensen
17. Robati (can cover middle+2nd row)

Depth:
Palasia
Piakura
Willison
Bayliss-Brow

Probably that but Flegs should come off the bench. I doubt it will happen as a measure to keep him but it makes the rotation/impact stronger with Jensen starting imo.

 

[McHunt]

In regards to the release??

By signing him for 24 and 25 the titans have put an end date on his time at the Broncos.... so that can put questions back on them.

Is there any point keeping him for 23 if he's gone??

Could that spot be better used on someone else??

Is our depth sufficient if we let him go early??

If someone like Willison, TC, etc. hits the ground running then Palasia may drop further down the list... if that happens I can see titans coming back asking for the release again.

Unless something dire happens with our middle stocks I can see Palasia moving to titans before June 30.

Maybe we'll do the Isaako trick again and play him Rd 1 so he counts as top 30 and then carry his salary to next year.

No, I don't understand how this story went so tits-up. There was an interview with Keenan saying he'd asked to leave and why, one with Kevvie saying he wanted him to stay, a spot-on leak that the Titans had signed him, and the general assumption it was going Keenan's way. All due diligence. Looked pretty bankable. I was fooled.

Unsurprisingly, Badel and a couple of others went early on it, while other outlets waited for the Titans announcement. They all had stories prepped about a massive coup. And then the big bellyflop. Someone somewhere is pissing their pants over this.

 

[theshed]

Probably that but Flegs should come off the bench. I doubt it will happen as a measure to keep him but it makes the rotation/impact stronger with Jensen starting imo.

Yeah I definitely agree with you I just didn’t bother putting it that way in the list because I knew it would basically not be a chance of occurring. I think that is a far better rotation. Let Jensen toil away for 25 minutes then tell Flegler to come off the bench and outdo whatever Patty and Haas had achieved to start the game. Patty and Haas should only need to play 60 minutes each considering our forward options.

 

[Sproj]

No, I don't understand how this story went so tits-up. There was an interview with Keenan saying he'd asked to leave and why, one with Kevvie saying he wanted him to stay, a spot-on leak that the Titans had signed him, and the general assumption it was going Keenan's way. All due diligence. Looked pretty bankable. I was fooled.

Unsurprisingly, Badel and a couple of others went early on it, while other outlets waited for the Titans announcement. They all had stories prepped about a massive coup. And then the big bellyflop. Someone somewhere is pissing their pants over this.

I am always happy to sink the boot in to journalists when they act like gossip columnists but in this instance, I don't think it is that big a deal. All the signs seemed to point to Palasia getting a release, so makes sense to make a confident judgement that this is what was going to happen. This is different to totally fabricating stories.

 

[Swordfish]

Patty and Haas should only need to play 60 minutes each considering our forward options.

exactly! They shouldn’t be getting burned out at the end of each game by playing longer than they should.

To a lesser extent, part of me thinks that burning often could be one of the reasons for Payne’s release request besides his desire for a bigger pay check & his idiot advisors.

 

[Sproj]

exactly! They shouldn’t be getting burned out at the end of each game by playing longer than they should.

To a lesser extent, part of me thinks that burning often could be one of the reasons for Payne’s release request besides his desire for a bigger pay check & his idiot advisors.

Could also be a reason for our fade out in the back end of the season too. Too many players playing too long and busted.

 

[Swordfish]

Yup. Hope Kev improves on this aspect of coaching greatly. If not, next year will be a repeat of this year.

 

[theshed]

Could also be a reason for our fade out in the back end of the season too. Too many players playing too long and busted.

Correct

 

[Morkel]

Could also be a reason for our fade out in the back end of the season too. Too many players playing too long and busted.

Yeah I was mulling over this. I honestly don't know the stats and the minutes each player played, but if Kev was quite rigid with his interchange timing it could well have been something that other teams exploited after seeing a pattern. Especially those with clued up coaches. It would just be a matter of knowing that X player is normally subbed off at X time, spend the 5 minutes leading up to that time targeting that guy heavily to really gas them out and leave a weak point to exploit.

If you had the time to go through the interchanges in the first half of the season, look at the timing of each, and then look at the times that the tries were scored against us later in the season, you could argue a correlation. The reason it only happened towards the back end of the season would be, considering injuries, team mix, etc, the first half would be more erratic and it would take that long to establish the trends.

 

[Mustafur]

What would our strongest pack / bench be?

8. Haas
9. Hooker A
10. Flegler
11. Capewell
12. Riki
13. Patty

14. Hooker B
15. Hetherington
16. Jensen
17. Robati (can cover middle+2nd row)

Depth:
Palasia
Piakura
Willison
Bayliss-Brow

I'll assume going by last season there is unlikely to be a bench backrower(Robati could do Middle but not as effective).

I think it will be a battle between Willison and Palasia for that spot with Willison probably coming out on top at the start of the season because he is due more game time now, this is assuming no injuries.

 

[Painin the Haas]

I'll assume going by last season there is unlikely to be a bench backrower(Robati could do Middle but not as effective).

I think it will be a battle between Willison and Palasia for that spot with Willison probably coming out on top at the start of the season because he is due more game time now, this is assuming no injuries.

I agree Kevie prefers not to carry one but we should. Capewell and Riki struggled to play 80min towards the end and we need a back up to capewell who moves into the backs when there is an injury.

defence focus we should carry one. We have a good middle rotation, the 4th bench spot has been treated like a luxury choice anyway to might as well have someone who is primarily second rower but can fill middle

 

[theshed]

I agree Kevie prefers not to carry one but we should. Capewell and Riki struggled to play 80min towards the end and we need a back up to capewell who moves into the backs when there is an injury.

defence focus we should carry one. We have a good middle rotation, the 4th bench spot has been treated like a luxury choice anyway to might as well have someone who is primarily second rower but can fill middle

Yeah it almost makes too much sense

 

[Sanjit Joseph]

Surprised there is no news on Kearney.
Anyone have an update

 

[Fitzy]

I don’t know if it has been reported in here but Harradyn Wilson is at Manly now. Don’t know what role that is in whether it is development or main. I don’t think it is train and trial cause he at the very least would of had that up here but you never know.

 

[McHunt]

Surprised there is no news on Kearney.
Anyone have an update

It's too soon to write him off. He was still contracted to the Storm up until the end of November, doing what I don't know. The source on all this is a speculative piece by Badel at the end of October. He might have some inside chatter, or he might be connecting the same dots as the rest of us. Either way, we know he's moving back to Brisbane, the timing is right and he'd be a good fit. It's a fair bet by Badel. But here's the meat in the piece (excluding Corey Parker's opinion):

"News Corp can reveal Brisbane officialdom are keen for Kearney to return to Red Hill."​

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"He will stand down as Craig Bellamy’s assistant at Melbourne at the end of November and return to his family in Brisbane."​

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" It is understood Walters has not had talks with Kearney at this stage given that the 50-year-old is officially contracted to the Storm for another month."​

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"He lives just a short drive from Broncos headquarters"​

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If we can take any of this seriously, it might be a week or more before we hear he's "set to" sign.

 

[Chewed]

I don’t know if it has been reported in here but Harradyn Wilson is at Manly now. Don’t know what role that is in whether it is development or main. I don’t think it is train and trial cause he at the very least would of had that up here but you never know.

Hope he goes alright, had a rough trot with the Magpies this year. Have too many young halves as it is though, so best of luck to him.

 

[Swordfish]

Fox Sports reporting that we signed James Johnson who plays Center from Knights for next season. They’re also reporting that he’s currently training with our main squad. Does anyone know about this?
For the life of me, I don’t get why we’re stacking ourselves with too many Center options?