[2025 Trial] Broncos vs Bulldogs

[kman]

Piakura deserves that 2nd row spot, he was amazing in defence and ran well in his offence.

 

[Santa]

That sin bin rule is going to be a huge fucking problem.

It's only being tested in the trials. Hopefully we don't hear about it again.

 

[McHunt]

Anyone else think walters looks better at 6 than 9 at the moment.

Yes, he looked sluggish at 9, but Madden was substantially better in the halves. Not raving about Madden either, but the class gap was there to see. I don't think Rogers is first grade material.

 

[Manofoneway]

Piakura deserves that 2nd row spot, he was amazing in defence and ran well in his offence.

Yep. Really impressed. Worked hard, just needs to focus for 80 minutes which is his biggest challenge

 

[Skathen]

I'm not happy with our options at 14 in the absence of Mozer and Mam. And fullback is a worry.

Depends on when Blake is back in - if he's back in the first month, I think we're golden. When Mam returns or is at least available - we get Hunt option for halves or 14. We're good there hopefully.

Fullback though - eek - No Sailor, Perham - Seigwalt is definitely not the solution - he was out to see in a trial.... It's Walsh, Cobbloaf, then maybe we are forced to send one of the other wingers back there like Arthars.

 

[kman]

I really don't see what everyone likes about Ricki he is good in defence but never breaks the line or causes any miss tackles.

 

[BroncsFan]

Smoothy is solid, that's all you need out of your 14 if you don't want to go random with Madden.

It looked like Smoothy spent more time at 9 than Billy... was also happy to see Smoothy get some time at lock... didn't think he looked out of place either.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Geez is that Hunt or Lockyer talking, can't tell the difference.

 

[Super Freak]

Latrell needs to build some muscle.

Gets dominated in the tackle too easily.

 

[Super Freak]

Mariner surely left centre after today.

Gem got his chance but didn’t really do much with it.

 

[Skathen]

Latrell needs to build some muscle.

Gets dominated in the tackle too easily.

The only positive thing he did was put up a good bomb. He only had to take what 3 catches and bobbled one. Dropped a soda of a pass too and in defense, I'd back myself to score against him.

 

[kman]

Hetherington was amazing that game and he's one of my players I'm looking forward to watch this season.

 

[McHunt]

Fullback though - eek - No Sailor, Perham - Seigwalt is definitely not the solution - he was out to see in a trial.... It's Walsh, Cobbloaf, then maybe we are forced to send one of the other wingers back there like Arthars.

He's only played 7 games at fullback at cup level. Kid is 23 though. He's no youngster.

 

[BroncosFever]

Walters was the best player on the park for mine.

Locked down the 9.

 

[Skathen]

He's only played 7 games at fullback at cup level. Kid is 23 though. He's no youngster.

That was a shock when I learned that, he looks like a young teenager... if he's 23, he's done growing....

 

[GCBRONCO]

Walters was the best player on the park for mine.

Locked down the 9.

 

[BroncsFan]

Latrell needs to build some muscle.

Gets dominated in the tackle too easily.

He looked way out of his depth.

This is where previously we may have just kept him on, because good bloke, has been there all preseason, we probably won't need to play him anyway, etc.

But I'm wondering if Madge saw that and went "nope we need a better back up than him"

I don't like having to rely on Cobbo or Arthars either... they're both starters... we do have Mariner and Shiba that can then cover whichever one moves, but it's not ideal having to shuffle starters around to cover an injury, suspension, HIA, origin duty or even restings after origin

 

[BroncosFever]

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