25 Years 25 Moments DVD - Collectors Edition

[Broncoman]

The baby Broncos win is one of my favorite Broncos wins, on one of my many League DVD's there is footage and a few highlights of it. Please fox sports can you show it I would love to see the whole game.

 

[Big Pete]

There's some footage of it in here...

[video=youtube_share;6U2VKgvfbPY]http://youtu.be/6U2VKgvfbPY[/video]

 

[Son Edo]

Glad the 2011 semi final is on there, never saw that game on TV, was at the game though.

Hope the 2006 prelim final also makes it, was at the game but never saw it on TV.

 

[Financeguy]

This is available online at jb hifi for $45 if people were having trouble finding it.

 

[Big Pete]

Finally got my hands on a copy.

For those wondering what the special moments are...

[SPOILERS]Round 1 1988 vs. Manly
Challenge Cup Final 1989 vs. Illawarra
Semi Final 1990 vs. Manly
Lotto Challenge Final 1991 vs. Penrith
Round 20 1991 vs. Norths
NRL Grand Final 1992 vs. Saints
NRL Grand Final 1993 vs. Saints
Steve Renouf's 23 tries in 1994
Super League 1997 Grand Final vs. Cronulla
NRL Grand Final 1998 vs. Canterbury
Round 11 1999 vs. Balmain
NRL Grand Final 2000 vs. Sydney
NRL Semi Final 2001 vs. Dragons
Round 12 2002 vs. Tigers
Round 16 2003 vs. Sydney
Round 5 2004 vs. Sydney
Round 5 2005 vs. Eels
NRL Grand Final 2006 vs. Storm
Round 11 2007 vs. Newcastle
Round 17 2007 vs. Titans
Round 12 2008 vs. Eels
Qualifying Final 2009 vs. Titans
Semi Final 2009 vs. Dragons
Round 1 2010 vs. Cowboys
Semi Final 2011 vs. Dragons

It's basically just highlights of tries with Andrew Voss narrating [/SPOILERS]

 

[Son Edo]

Glad they're showing lots of games from 2000 - 2011.

Disappointing the 06 Prelim didn't make it. In fact, only one game showed during 2006?

 

[GCBRONCO]

Yeah I find that disappointing as I do the absence of the 1993 grand final qualifier, the 2 hardest finals games the Broncos have had to work for to qualify to the grand final, showed a lot of heart and passion to win them.

 

[Kaz]

Disappointing the 06 Prelim didn't make it.

That was one of the best games we have played.

 

[Broncoman]

Got my hands on a copy today at JB-HIFI in Queen Street. Could've been better but it's still a good collection of highlights.

 

[Son Edo]

Parents are going to Parramtta to see the game, said they'll have a look for it. If not, Mother will just order it online.

 

[GCBRONCO]

I'll throw in the 1990 match(lol no not the dreadful display in the finals) against the Raiders in which both teams put on a great display of attacking football and the Broncos win after Paul Hauff makes a great break to score a try in the dying seconds.

 

[Big Pete]

I'm basically making this the 'old Broncos match thread'.

Was waiting to 'acquire' some new television shows so decided to pop on a GF since it's been ages since I've seen us win anything of note. Decided to go with 1997 GF since it was featured in Big League last week and truth be told I'd never watched it in full before. Couple of notes...

- One of the most noticeable attributes about the game is the SL exclusive rules. '0' tackle and the scorers kicking off was a little tough to wrap my head around after spending so many years watching it the other way round. Retroactively it's funny watching the commentators explain rules that are now commonplace in the modern game. Sterlo had to explain in depth why the first try may have been controversial as it was only in Super League you weren't allowed to tackle a player in the air. I didn't know that was an exclusive rule...but in hindsight it's a pretty damn good one.

- The Broncos team sheet lied. Always thought Gee played at hooker etc. but really there were a bunch of changes including...

4. Darren Smith
6. Anthony Mundine
9. Kevin Walters
13. Andrew Gee

Choc gets a bad wrap IMO. My perception was that he was a total passenger out there. He may have been during the season but in the GF I thought he was one of our best on field. Created plenty of opportunities and came up with some good options. I think Mundine's public persona and Walters' forced move is what causes a lot of angst looking back.

- Game itself was a dogs breakfast. Cronulla made too many mistakes and didn't have enough class out-wide to threaten the Broncos. Meanwhile, Brisbane never really got into any kind of rhythmn and despite being comfortably a class above it took them around 60 minutes to really put Cronulla away.

- To me the game is about two unsung heroes at the club - Peter Ryan and John Plath. Plathy was such a stirrer and it was a crack up listening to him claiming innocence off the field. Fans like to bag out Ennis but honestly he was just a more polished version of Johnny. Meanwhile, Ryan deserves to be right up there with TC & Gilly as the best one on one defenders at the club. The shot he put on Peachey won the game for us, no doubt about it.

Are there any memories you guys have of this game?

 

[Anonymous person]

Are there any memories you guys have of this game?

i was there, it was awesome lol.

Super League was fantastic and i wish the NSWRL (im sorry, "A"RL) died and Super League took over as the main competition to be perfectly honest. much better rules, much faster game. i loved zero tackle at the start of every set. defusing a bomb 1m out from your line and getting tackled straight away shouldnt count as a tackle.

back then i thought mundine was great because he ran his mouth a lot, but he actually backed it up. he was a great player, and anyone saying otherwise is deluded.

 

[pennywisealfie]

anyone who has Foxtel IQ, go and record any of the Classic Matches throughout the week. Sometimes its an old Broncos match. I've seen:

Broncos vs Norths from 92
Broncos vs Manly from 89
Broncos vs Roosters from 99
Broncos vs Parramatta from 96

 

[Broncoman]

I was only 2 years old in 1997 but i've got the Super League grand final on DVD and watch it occasionaly.

The game is basically dominated by the Broncos as Cronulla produce a pretty sloppy performance making to many mistakes which makes them have difficulty in getting out of their own half. Brisbane's poor handling keeps the game tight as we go into halftime ahead 10-2 with the only try coming off a bomb that was fumbled by Matty Rogers and picked up by the Pearl who dived over.

Cronulla get a sniff just after halftime as a pass from Sailor goes to ground and is dived on by Russell Richardson and the score is 10-8 and Cronulla gain some momentuem but after a huge hit on Peachey by Peter Ryan the ball goes to the left and Renouf goes over and Lockyer converts to put the margin back out to 8 and the Broncos go on with the job controlling the rest of the game and finish with a comfortable 26-8 win with the Pearl bagging a hatrick and Hancock icing it.

Classic commetary from Sterlo as Lockyer sets Renouf up for his 3rd try: "He is going to be a superstar this kid Darren Lockyer"

Brisbane Broncos 26: 3 tries by Steve Renouf and a try by Michael Hancock, 5 goals by Darren Lockyer
Cronulla Sharks 8: Try by Russell Richardson and 2 goals by Matt Rogers

 

[Anonymous person]

thanks for the commentary of a 16 year old game we all saw.....

 

[Big Pete]

:thumbup1: classy post Bman, would love to get your insight on other old games.

 

[Mr Fourex]

Broncos Greatest Grand Final Team Revealed - Brisbane Broncos

Wouldn't mind this hanging in the fourex den of inequity.....