OFFICIAL 2025 Roster

PLAYER ROSTER FOR 2025 AND BEYOND
Red: final season of contract.

PLAYER		2025	2026	2027	2028	2029
Adam Reynolds	Half	2025	Coach?
Antonio Verhoeven	Lock, Second row	2025*	2026*
Ben Te Kura	Prop	2025	2026
Billy Walters	Hooker, half	2025	2026
Blake Mozer	Hooker	2025
Brendan Piakura	Second row	2025	2026	2027
Coby Black	Half	2025**	2026
Corey Jensen	Prop	2025
Cory Paix	Hooker, half	2025
Deine Mariner	Centre, wing	2025	2026	2027
Delouise Hoeter	Centre, wing	2025
Ezra Mam	Half	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029
Fletcher Baker	Prop, Second Row	2025
Israel Leota	Wing	2025
Jack Gosiewski	Second Row	2025
Jaiyden Hunt	Prop, Lock, Second Row	2025
Jesse Arthars	Centre, wing, Fullback	2025	2026
Jock Madden	Half	2025	2026
Josh Rogers	Half	2025	2026
Jordan Riki	Second row	2025	2026	2027
Kobe Hetherington	Lock	2025
Kotoni Staggs	Centre	2025
Marty Taupau	Prop	2025
Patrick Carrigan	Prop, lock	2025	2026	2027	2028
Payne Haas	Prop	2025	2026
Reece Walsh	Fullback	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029
Selwyn Cobbo	Wing, centre, fullback	2025
Tyson Smoothy	Hooker	2025
Va'a Semu	Prop	2025	2026	2027
Xavier Willison	Prop	2025	2026	2027

*TBC
** TBC top 30

TRAIN & TRIAL

Callum Eggerling: Hooker

Latrell Seigwalt: Five Eighth, Fullback

Gehamat Shibasaki: Centre, Wing

Ronald Philitoga: Wing

Glen Vaihu: Centre, Wing

Tristan Powell: Prop

DEVELOPMENT (2024)

Bailey Trew: centre

Coby Black: half

Israel Leota: wing

Va'a Semu: prop

UNSIGNED in 2025

Josiah Karapani

STOCKS

Front Row
Carrigan, Haas, Hunt, Baker, Willison, Jensen, Te Kura, Semu, Marty Taupau

Second Row
Baker, Piakura, Riki, Taupau, Hunt, Gosiewski

Lock
Carrigan, Hetherington, Taupau, Hunt

Hooker
Mozer, Paix, Walters, Smoothy

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

Fullback
Cobbo, Walsh, Arthars,

Centre
Staggs, Mariner, Arthars, Cobbo, Hoeter

Wing
Cobbo, Arthars, Leota, Hoeter


ETHNO MAP

QLD
Ben Te Kura, Billy Walters, Blake Mozer, Brendan Piakura, Coby Black, Corey Jensen, Corey Oates, Cory Paix, Delouise Hoeter, Ezra Mam, Israel Leota, Jack Gosiewski, Jaiyden Hunt, Josh Rogers, Kobe Hetherington, Patrick Carrigan, Reece Walsh, Selwyn Cobbo, Tyson Smoothy

NZ
Deine Mariner, Brendan Piakura, Jesse Arthars, Jordan Riki, Xavier Willison, Marty Taupau

NSW
Adam Reynolds, Fletcher Baker, Jock Madden, Kotoni Staggs, Payne Haas

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

Tonga
Kotoni Staggs, Delouise Hoeter,

Samoa
Jesse Arthars, Payne Haas, Marty Taupau

Cook Islands
Brendan Piakura, Xavier Willison

 

[YeahNahMate]

I thought Jock was looking decent until he got injured and then just wasn't the same and then got injured again. I am certainly not giving up on him.

Unfortunately, in the back end of the season, there were just some awful, awful signing extensions in Rogers and Walters.

I would be extending Oates for another year, even if it meant we had to say pay out Rogers to get him off the books or Walters even.

We still have a decent side moving forward if Maguire can nail the preseason. We have more than enough talent as is to bounce back very quickly. I would be very interested to see this:

1. Walsh
2. Trew/Leota/some unexpected metre eater signing
3. Mariner
4. Cobbo
5. Arthars
6. Mam
7. Reynolds / Madden (when Reynolds is inevitably injured) / Black
8. Willison
9. Paix
10. Haas
11. Piakura
12. Riki
13. Carrigan

14. Mozer
15. Te Kura/Semu
16. Hetherington/Taupau
17. Staggs

No Jensen?

 

[Sproj]

No Jensen?

Depth

 

[NSW stables]

Depth

I know te kura is big, but he just looks too slow and not vicious enough with his running. I know he is young, but I am not sold on him.

I am concerned he is just another kid that has come through the grades getting by because he is much bigger than everyone else, but when they hit first grade where the defence is better, they struggle because they didn't have develop other skills or endurance to get by.

 

[NSW stables]

Depth

I know te kura is big, but he just looks too slow and not vicious enough with his running. I know he is young, but I am not sold on him.

I am concerned he is just another kid that has come through the grades getting by because he is much bigger than everyone else, but when they hit first grade where the defence is better, struggle because they didn't have develop other skills or endurance to get by.

 

[Sproj]

I know te kura is big, but he just looks too slow and not vicious enough with his running. I know he is young, but I am not sold on him.

I am concerned he is just another kid that has come through the grades getting by because he is much bigger than everyone else, but when they hit first grade where the defence is better, they struggle because they didn't have develop other skills or endurance to get by.

He looked pretty good against Melbourne pre-lisfranc injury and in Q Cup. His question mark is fitness and age. He looks an amazing prospect.

 

[Big Del]

I would be extending Oates for another year, even if it meant we had to say pay out Rogers to get him off the books or Walters even.

What role do you see Oates playing ?

 

[Sproj]

What role do you see Oates playing ?

Experienced depth.

 

[Kaz]

Anyone worried about Willison.

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

Anyone worried about Willison.

More worried we will over pay to keep him tbh. Great front row prospect but we are falling into the same trap we do every year if we pay big for him. There's probably a dozen props around his age just as good that you don't hear about and will get smaller contract because they don't play for the broncos.

 

[YeahNahMate]

More worried we will over pay to keep him tbh. Great front row prospect but we are falling into the same trap we do every year if we pay big for him. There's probably a dozen props around his age just as good that you don't hear about and will get smaller contract because they don't play for the broncos.

He’s on 250K right now, wonder if he’d be happy with 500K

 

[YeahNahMate]

What role do you see Oates playing ?

Experienced depth.

Personally I think Oates time is done. He’s just too painfully slow to be a winger these day, Would’ve rathered Karapani as wing depth

 

[BroncsFan]

Yes, like Paix...

I think Oates and the Broncos would both be better off to part ways. A fresh start somewhere else would do him good. Super League probably the best option.

Not sure Oates would head overseas... doesnt he have media gigs lined up??

Heading to ESL puts him out of the spotlight and wastes any momentum he has on that front

 

[BroncsFan]

I know te kura is big, but he just looks too slow and not vicious enough with his running. I know he is young, but I am not sold on him.

I am concerned he is just another kid that has come through the grades getting by because he is much bigger than everyone else, but when they hit first grade where the defence is better, they struggle because they didn't have develop other skills or endurance to get by.

Yep I'd prefer us to invest in the known talent that is Willison if it has to be a choice between the two of them

 

[Gaz]

Yes, like Paix...

I think Oates and the Broncos would both be better off to part ways. A fresh start somewhere else would do him good. Super League probably the best option.

Wingers still have to run fast in Super League. Easy to say but perhaps he should have moved into the forwards when he started talking about it. Certainly when he felt himself slowing up. If he had spent a year in Q. Cup in the forwards, back then, maybe he would be on top of it now. Think it’s too late.

 

[Big Del]

Experienced depth.

Kinda like a consultant ?
Cause unless there is a miracle he would be playing Q Cup at Souths with Karmicheal .
If he was in the opposing team at training against the wingers in the 1st 17 do you think he would be competitive ? Or he could help their development with veteran insights ?

 

[Big Del]

More worried we will over pay to keep him tbh. Great front row prospect but we are falling into the same trap we do every year if we pay big for him. There's probably a dozen props around his age just as good that you don't hear about and will get smaller contract because they don't play for the broncos.

These guys that you don`t hear about ?
Do they play for Maori All Stars ? Do they / could they score tries or drive runners back wards in the tackles ?
I highly doubt it . If they could they would be playing 1sts already .

 

[Big Del]

Would’ve rathered Karapani as wing depth

+1

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

He’s on 250K right now, wonder if he’d be happy with 500K

Even that's over paying. What's he shown? Talent yes. But you could buy about 20 different players who have played at the level he did this year for years for that. That is paid on the assumption that he is going to get better, I could give you 1000 case studies that show they stay the same or get worse about more often than they improve. Not saying he will, but I am so fucking sick of this club over paying for these young guys bcos their manager is sucking them off bcos the media has hyped them up. He has shown no more ability and talent than Joe ofa did at the same age, how's that going? He wants more than another club offers him from the broncos (a club that developed him and stick with him through injuries with the best support and facilities money can buy?) than CYA. NEXT... and there will be 3 or 4 in the next few years I can guarantee. Over spend on the spine and that its