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 Hunt	Half, hooker	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

VJ Semu	Prop
Bailey Trew	Wing
Cameron Bukowski	Hooker
Hayze Perham	Fullback, Wing
Jett Bryce	Second Row
Luke Gale	Lock
Sione Hopoate	Wing
Gehamat Shibasaki	Centre
Josh Coric	Lock
Latrell Siegwalt	Fullback, Five-Eight
Callum Eggerling	Hooker
Glen Vaihu	Wing, Centre
Matthew Koellner	Prop
Ewan Moore	Second Row
Tristan Powell	Prop
Lachlan West	Fullback
Ronald Philitoga	Wing

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
Hunt, Mozer, Paix, Walters, Smoothy

Half
Hunt, 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 Hunt, 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

 

[Big Del]

He has shown no more ability and talent than Joe ofa did at the same age, how's that going?

Sleepy Joe ?

Well , note to self .
Do not listen to this guy`s player ratings .

 

[Evander]

I remember there was a report of an argument with Kevvie at training .
Then Paix was never seen again .

This year he wins Qcup hooker of the year this year , But couldn`t even make the bench at the Broncos .
I`d be interested to near the back story .

Did he actually win Queensland cup hooker of the year?

 

[BroncosFever]

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.

You're a hard judge, he played 3 games.

 

[McHunt]

Did he actually win Queensland cup hooker of the year?

QLD Cup announce Team of the Year

There’s a lot of NRL experience in the team.

www.zerotackle.com

 

[McHunt]

You're a hard judge, he played 3 games.

He's played 64 minutes all up. The hype around him is all based on him being huge and gangly, which worked for him at Cup level, purely as a battering ram. He managed to exploit it in his first NRL game. In a way that Payne and Patty surprisingly don't.

@NSW stables is right: he's yet to prove his worth on the NRL stage beyond his dimensions.

I look forward to his combination with Mozer bearing fruit in the higher grade, but I would reserve my judgement for now as to whether it will pan out.

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

Sleepy Joe ?

Well , note to self .
Do not listen to this guy`s player ratings .

By the time Joe ofa was 22 years old he had about 50 nrl games under his belt, had played in a grand final, and was highly touted for origin. I never have or never will rate him that high but don't let confirmation bias cloud your memory, he was highly rated at the same age....and look where that's gone... that's the point...

 

[Big Del]

Did he actually win Queensland cup hooker of the year?

Forgotten Broncos player joins Trai Fuller on prestigious list​

 

[Big Del]

By the time Joe ofa was 22 years old he had about 50 nrl games under his belt, had played in a grand final, and was highly touted for origin. I never have or never will rate him that high but don't let confirmation bias cloud your memory, he was highly rated at the same age....and look where that's gone... that's the point...

By the time Xavier Willison was 22 he had 2 knee reconstructions .
Apples and oranges .

I`m sticking to my earlier statement .

 

[Dylan S]

Thoughts on letting Cobbo go and using the money to sign some quality back row depth? Having Staggs Mariner as your centres, Arthars on one wing and even a guy like Quai Ward given a run on the sting, his stats in q cup were quite good in regards to run metres and hit ups, also quality in the air and would play for minimum - gives us time for our young outside backs to develop for another year or two

 

[Big Del]

Thoughts on letting Cobbo go and using the money to sign some quality back row depth? Having Staggs Mariner as your centres, Arthars on one wing and even a guy like Quai Ward given a run on the sting, his stats in q cup were quite good in regards to run metres and hit ups, also quality in the air and would play for minimum - gives us time for our young outside backs to develop for another year or two

They tell me Quai Ward is not up to it in NRL .
I asked about him a cpl of weeks ago as in what happened to ?

An in form Cobbo will win you a lot more games than a good back rower .
Whether he can regain that form I don`t know .

 

[Fernando]

They tell me Quai Ward is not up to it in NRL .
I asked about him a cpl of weeks ago as in what happened to ?

An in form Cobbo will win you a lot more games than a good back rower .
Whether he can regain that form I don`t know .

I don't think a prime Greg Inglis could make up for the points we concede from having PIakura starting. Never seen a worse defensive season from a backrower, I'm struggling to remember any regular starting backrowers at all that have been a defensive liability in the NRL.

 

[BroncosFever]

I don't think a prime Greg Inglis could make up for the points we concede from having PIakura starting. Never seen a worse defensive season from a backrower, I'm struggling to remember any regular starting backrowers at all that have been a defensive liability in the NRL.

Bryce Cartwright

 

[Fernando]

Bryce Cartwright

Good call, forgot about him.

 

[YeahNahMate]

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

Maybe that is overpaying. It's hard to tell with the salary cap these days.

I definitely disagree with the Joe Offa call though. Willison is a way more damaging ball runner and has better work rate at similar ages. The only thing that's held Willison back are injuries

 

[GCBRONCO]

You're a hard judge, he played 3 games.

He shouldn't have been been brought back for the last match of the season, it was clear as day he wasn't 100% after returning from injury in the Intrust Cup let alone ready for a return to NRL. I think a fairer indication is to see how he handles hopefully an injury free off-season and trials.

 

[YeahNahMate]

Thoughts on letting Cobbo go and using the money to sign some quality back row depth? Having Staggs Mariner as your centres, Arthars on one wing and even a guy like Quai Ward given a run on the sting, his stats in q cup were quite good in regards to run metres and hit ups, also quality in the air and would play for minimum - gives us time for our young outside backs to develop for another year or two

I know that they can negotiate from November 1, but I would rather wait and see what they produce this year before we decide on Staggs and Cobbo. Before this year, I definitely would have preferred Staggs to leave before Cobbo. However, after off-field dramas involving Cobbo nearly every year since his debut, it's making it hard to back him to stay out of the headlines off the field.

 

[Big Del]

I don't think a prime Greg Inglis could make up for the points we concede from having PIakura starting. Never seen a worse defensive season from a backrower, I'm struggling to remember any regular starting backrowers at all that have been a defensive liability in the NRL.

Having him and Ezra on the same side in defence just made it worse too .
Other teams worked out these guys get panicked when there is more than 1 runner . A cpl of times they took no one and the opposition breezed in for tries .

Said it before both Piakura and Mam can be very good front on , but run some angles and or multiple options they are not up to par .
Add Mozer to that has trouble with angled runs group too . Benny Teo has work to do .

 

[Dylan S]

I know that they can negotiate from November 1, but I would rather wait and see what they produce this year before we decide on Staggs and Cobbo. Before this year, I definitely would have preferred Staggs to leave before Cobbo. However, after off-field dramas involving Cobbo nearly every year since his debut, it's making it hard to back him to stay out of the headlines off the field.

I love selwyn as a player 100 percent, it’s just his worst game is so far away from his best and needs to find consistency- the problem is clubs are going to throw massive money at him, but his form doesn’t warrant massive money - he should repay Brisbane and put in a solid year of consistence footy to demand a big wage and even then can we afford all of these top $$ outside backs - someone will have to give
Madge has a good headache