Broncos Player Movements and Rumours 2013

[simmo77]

Ioane is a beast. Sign him on a 4 year increasing deal so by the time he is settled he is one the highest paid wingers. He'll play origin in his first year.

 

[pennywisealfie]

We need to stay away from anything Mundine related. The guy is delusional and all of his followers seem to be douches.

 

[jakepearce94]

Im sick of saying of this but he was never sacked.
All you clowns think I was talking shit last season but as usual I am right.

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/spor...tans-out-of-race/story-e6frexnr-1226600151925

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/n...-gagai-settle-in/story-e6frfgbo-1226442887936
SACKED Bronco Dane Gagai has pledged not to fail master coach Wayne Bennett in Newcastle, attributing his stunning renaissance at the Knights to candid advice from controversial enforcer Willie Mason.

 

[jakepearce94]

Good first up contribution. Most of those I wouldn't have even tried to touch. Beau Ryan, for example, was showing career-best form so wouldn't have been cheap, and in reality was only following his mates. Ferguson is as bad as Dugan. And a heap of them were given extensions after debuting as depth players, or long-term juniors, so were never really on the market (Hurrell, Lee, Wighton, Srama, Sezer, Moga, etc).

ferguson isn't as bad as dugan, but i'd rather dugan easily. ferguson sounds like the biggest wanker to the fans.

 

[Big Dave]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/n...-gagai-settle-in/story-e6frfgbo-1226442887936
SACKED Bronco Dane Gagai has pledged not to fail master coach Wayne Bennett in Newcastle, attributing his stunning renaissance at the Knights to candid advice from controversial enforcer Willie Mason.

Coach Anthony Griffin showed how crucial culture was to his Broncos last year when he told Dane Gagai he would not play first grade that season and could leave.

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/spor...tans-out-of-race/story-e6frexnr-1226600151925

Date of artcile March 2013

 

[broncos4life]

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/spor...tans-out-of-race/story-e6frexnr-1226600151925

Date of artcile March 2013

haha whatever. You can post whatever articles you want that word it slightly differently but at the end of the day he was sacked.

If your boss comes to you and says "You will never advance any further in this organisation and when your current contract runs out I'm not renewing it, so you might as well start looking elsewhere now", you have been sacked. You can tell yourself that you 'left for a better opportunity' but you were sacked

 

[Kaz]

Dane Gagai was released from the Broncos.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...over-a-month-ago/story-e6frep5x-1226350161045

Which would mean the Knights would have to be paying the Broncos from sort of money. (I think)

 

[Browny]

Who gives a shit about Gagai?!

He showed nothing special whilst he was here

 

[jakepearce94]

I agree, but if that is the strategy when the equivalent of the thurston/cronk/dce becomes available in 2 or 3 years time the club has to be willing to compete and pay the money rather than walk away because 2 other clubs offer more and Gee/Griffin are above a bidding war. We seem to be caught in no mans land where we don't want the solid first grader because they are really not much better than what we have but seem reluctant to throw out the big contract.

I'd love to know how much cap flexibility we really have, hard to see we would be at capacity, I mean other than Hodges do we have any player who would be top 5 in their position?

hoffman is in the top 5 wingers in the game atm, i wouldn't even put hodges in the top 5 centres atm, hannants a top 5 prop, mccullough is a top 5 dummy half based on his defence more so then anything else, he is solid, nothing brilliant, and parker is in the top 5 for second rowers.

 

[jarro65]

hoffman is in the top 5 wingers in the game atm, i wouldn't even put hodges in the top 5 centres atm, hannants a top 5 prop, mccullough is a top 5 dummy half based on his defence more so then anything else, he is solid, nothing brilliant, and parker is in the top 5 for second rowers.

You're kidding right ??

 

[jakepearce94]

Okay, now we're talking!

I don't think the club could've realistically made any of those happen, because those players were always going to take less money to stay at their clubs.
I'm not sure about Cronk tbh, but I know for a fact we made a play for Thurston and DCE, and this is not from the journos, take that with as much salt as you want, but my source has not failed me, ever! Most of the times, he won't confirm or doesn't know, but when he does, it's always correct.

Up until this year, the club had a course set, which is one of the reasons they didn't push hard and throw a blank cheque at those guys. The other reason is that a massive salary for one player would cost us other important players.

Norman's departure has changed things, but the panorama out there has changed as well.
I don't understand how you're saying that the club is twiddeling its thumbs, as there is really no one available that will satisfy our requirements, except maybe Carney, and that guy has apparently refused a $900k / year offer from the Warriors, and will remain at the Sharks for 2/3 of that. Do you think we should up the ante even more to get him? I don't.

Who else is out there? Dugan who is a total ****wit, and Sam Tomkins whom, as good as he is in the ESL, is way too expensive for a gamble at NRL level.

Only ones left are promising young guys, whom realistically have nothing over Hunt yet. Speaking of, maybe he has what it takes, but he hasn't shown nearly enough for me to believe it, and apparently the same goes for the club hierarchy.

nearly every player goes for money these days, gone are the days of loyalty.

We did that when we decided to back Norman and Hunt when Lockyer retired. That ended well.

did we really think we were going to win a premiership with those two? god, what were we thinking...

I agree it probably hasn't, but can you say any of the players that we could have signed in the meantime would have really turned the club around in to a premierhip force?

No offence, but I think you're stuck in the past if you think a club can compete for the premiership each year these days. Rightly or wrongly, under the salary cap (unless you cheat), it's all about peaks and troughs, not consistant years. You need to build up to a premierhsip. Imo the broncos did this in 2011, but fell just short.

These days you could be happy with just making the 8 every year, which I'm the broncos could do by signing slight above average players, or you could wait and hold out those funds for that premeirship winning player to come to the club in a year or two, and actually have a chance at winning the top prize.

Sometimes a short term pain is worth a long term gain. To me a club like Souths epitomises this.

greg inglis no doubt would have made us more of a premiership threat.

Well if they both come it would be good but Ioane on his own would need to take a pay cut. Apparently he is on $800k in Union.

yeah $700-$750k i heard.

 

[Big Dave]

haha whatever. You can post whatever articles you want that word it slightly differently but at the end of the day he was sacked.

If your boss comes to you and says "You will never advance any further in this organisation and when your current contract runs out I'm not renewing it, so you might as well start looking elsewhere now", you have been sacked. You can tell yourself that you 'left for a better opportunity' but you were sacked

Yeah and the boss still allowed him to train with the rest of the lads even though he was "sacked". Good one.
He was never sacked. He could have stayed and played Quuensland Cup for the rest of the year.

That's the end of the discussion.

 

[broncos4life]

Yeah and the boss still allowed him to train with the rest of the lads even though he was "sacked". Good one.
He was never sacked. He could have stayed and played Quuensland Cup for the rest of the year.

That's the end of the discussion.

If you say so boss

 

[Big Dave]

hoffman is in the top 5 wingers in the game atm, i wouldn't even put hodges in the top 5 centres atm, hannants a top 5 prop, mccullough is a top 5 dummy half based on his defence more so then anything else, he is solid, nothing brilliant, and parker is in the top 5 for second rowers.

WTF? Hodges is easily top 5. MacTurd top 5? WTF?! not even the best 9 at the club. Parker is not top 5. Hannant not top 5 either

 

[Son Edo]

Parker is severely underrated, easily the best and most consistent player at the club and nobody knows it.

 

[vertigo]

gone are the days of loyalty.

Only for mercenary types, just use zerotackle.com to look at each clubs re-signings, more often than not the guys that command big bucks stay loyal - it's better off for them in the long run and for their legacy.

 

[Alec]

Parker is severely underrated, easily the best and most consistent player at the club and nobody knows it.

I agree, but there are more quality back rowers in the NRL than any other position, so it's hard to pick the top 5.

 

[Porthoz]

Who gives a shit about Gagai?!

He showed nothing special whilst he was here

I disagree with that. The kid showed plenty of potential and talent, especially in the U20's, but I also liked him in the few times he played FG, despite some shortcomings you should expect from a rookie.

Doesn't excuse his attitude and justice of his sacking.