NEWS Brisbane Broncos confirm they are going after Rabbitoh Cody Walker

[BroncsFan]

Now, let's give it traction:

"Sources affiliated with the Broncos inner workings have said should Ponga gain a release, they have the cap space to take him on this year. Broncoshq insiders are quietly confident they have landed their best player since the GI fiasco."

Well done... Lurker won't even have to write anything just copy/paste... although he'll change BHQ to "sources close to the organisation"

 

[Morkel]

Ponga is quietly unhappy playing with a team that is perennially struggling, and is looking forward to playing for a team that is just newly struggling.

"I'm definitely looking forward to adding to the Broncos' skillset. Pearcey here has a massive right foot step that he always uses near the opposition line, and it's pathetically ineffective. If I can pass on plays like that to their rookie half, it'd make losing games that much simpler".

Ponga has also gained experience in how to best mismanage a balanced team under the salary cap, witnessing the Knights spend overs to recruit opposition teams' surplus players.

"For sure, mate. Watching their books get clogged up with shithouse players like Ese'ese, Glasby, Pearce, Mann & Buhrer, it's a real lesson on how to fill that cap up real fast. We were all laughing the other day on how there was a time we were spending nearly 2 million a year on those Mata'utia brothers, man, where did that money go?".

Fitting such players in to a Brisbane roster that is only new to cap mismanagement is going to be a tricky task, but with such a high turnover of coaches these days, it is getting easier to find disenfranchised players who are out for big contracts, way beyond their skillset. One such player Brisbane are eyeing off is Eels bed-shitter Mitchell Moses. Moses has a fantastic no-look cutout pass that has been hugely successful in going over the sidelines or being ripe for opposition players to intercept, but with approximately one in twenty hitting the mark, has managed to make enough highlight reels to keep desperate clubs interested. Brisbane are keeping an eye on him, and sources close to the club have intimated that his high-risk, low-reward, low-IQ plays are the sort of thing a $1.5 million a year player must attempt on a regular basis to revolutionise a salary-cap clusterfuck.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

There has not been any denial from Ponga that he is Broncos bound in 2022 or even earlier.

 

[tommy]

There has not been any denial from Ponga that he is Broncos bound in 2022 or even earlier.

Ponga and his management remain tight-lipped on the matter, but (newspaper) understands..............................

 

[The Strapper]

Well we should be.

Couldn’t afford him anyway Newcastle will sell the ranch to keep him.

 

[The Strapper]

Since when did truth matter where clickbait is in play?

It matters here as I would like to think that on this forum we have higher standards than some rugby league reporters.

 

[007]

Ponga - pass. Easy to read him, and his ego gets the better of him in games. Would rather throw the money at Walker or TPJ.

 

[Alec]

Ponga - pass. Easy to read him, and his ego gets the better of him in games. Would rather throw the money at Walker or TPJ.

Disagree, Ponga is probably the best ball playing fullback in the comp (an actual ball player who can create space for his outside men, not just a finisher IMO), has fantastic footwork and good support play. I dunno about his supposed bad attitude, but even Boyd had shitty attitude in the past too.

I'd definitely make Ponga our number 1 priority, unless Reece Walsh ends up being a huge gun too.

 

[broncsgoat]

Ponga - pass. Easy to read him, and his ego gets the better of him in games. Would rather throw the money at Walker or TPJ.

Yeah nah. Ponga is a dead set freak.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

It matters here as I would like to think that on this forum we have higher standards than some rugby league reporters.

A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer.

Rhetorical question - Wikipedia

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[Matheos]

This Cody Walker story is just an easy sell for eyeballs. You have an ex-coach with one club struggling for results and the player performing unbelievably. It's simple Rugby League journo maths. You know, 2+2 = 5 stuff.

In reality, Walker doesn't improve us long-term and signing him means either Milford moves positions or is moved on .... or they play in the halves together and we experience a slightly better version of Milf/Knik with no game management.
We're clearly investing in young Dearden and with Milford still 24 years old, we have the potential to see a sustained and successful halves pairing to build the club around.

 

[winslow_wong]

Couldn’t afford him anyway Newcastle will sell the ranch to keep him.

We still have that GI money saved in a trust fund that’s been gaining interest as well.

Ponga to Brisbane confirmed.

 

[Cult]

We still have that GI money saved in a trust fund that’s been gaining interest as well.

Ponga to Brisbane confirmed.

Hopefully we haven’t been saving it.... for a rainy day

 

[Ponga01]

Why is no one reporting on Broncos clearing the decks to make a play at Ponga???

They want me! Oh wait...

 

[The Strapper]

Hopefully we haven’t been saving it.... for a rainy day

Well it’s been raining most of this season so far.

 

[Jason Simmons]

This Cody Walker story is just an easy sell for eyeballs. You have an ex-coach with one club struggling for results and the player performing unbelievably. It's simple Rugby League journo maths. You know, 2+2 = 5 stuff.

In reality, Walker doesn't improve us long-term and signing him means either Milford moves positions or is moved on .... or they play in the halves together and we experience a slightly better version of Milf/Knik with no game management.
We're clearly investing in young Dearden and with Milford still 24 years old, we have the potential to see a sustained and successful halves pairing to build the club around.

Seibold said tonight on NRL360, it’s rubbish. No-one from Brisbane has spoken to Cody or his manager and as he knows Cody personally, he knows how happily settled Cody is in Sydney and that it would be a waste of time even trying to sign him.

It’s a play to bump up his Rabbits contract and it’s a play as tired as it gets...

 

[Huge]

Seibold said tonight on NRL360, it’s rubbish. No-one from Brisbane has spoken to Cody or his manager and as he knows Cody personally, he knows how happily settled Cody is in Sydney and that it would be a waste of time even trying to sign him.

It’s a play to bump up his Rabbits contract and it’s a play as tired as it gets...

Self praise here, pretty much as I called it.