Broncos Roster, Signings and Rumours Discussion 2021

[Huge]

He isn't bad as such, I just don't think he offers anything we don't already have. He's never really cracked it up at the Cowboys which is a worry considering they don't have that many good options there and they haven't used him a great deal. I'm not a fan of his signing tbh but who knows, a fresh start might be what he needs to kick on.

I don't know much about him but a standard model workhorse is essential in every farm's workshop and similarly every football team. He seems to be a good defender just by looking at his career stats etc. I've always liked seeing a dependable forward doing his bit. I also like the fact he's 26/27 years old and seasoned.

 

[Wolfie]

Losing faith in Pat, mate?

Not at all. He's still essential. We just need another quality prop to share the load or we are going to burn some of these younger guys out.

 

[Wolfie]

We have let lodge and tpj go so we have to replace them to cover injuries. A depth replacement is a good move.

I'd rather us improve on what we have though. It's how you improve as a team

 

[007]

B Hunt?

 

[007]

Also i think the leak at Brisbane appears to be fixed. Journos in Syd are literally trying to connect their own dots.

• Gagais mgmt were the ones that told journos they are talking to other clubs.
• Dogs leaked TPJ thing.
• Milfs mgmt are the ones talking about him, not Broncos. Even Parra were tight lipped about discussions and appears both clubs kept it short and sweet even with NRL auditor included.

Im happy with this change.

 

[Bongo]

I'd rather us improve on what we have though. It's how you improve as a team

I think the improvement is reallocating the salary. We are still paying half lodges salary. The only way we make that work is getting a cheap replacement and then allocating the cash to improve the spine. Otherwise there was no point moving him on. We had to many top tier paid props. I think its great we are getting cheap props to even it out. We have flegler haas carrigan kennedy bully and willison. Cheapies are what's needed in my view.

 

[Bongo]

What errors? You honestly believe Isaako cost us the game!!!!! Fmd. He kicked dead once and got pushed in to touch as well and that cost us the game?

He made way more errors than that and a lot of them directly led to tigers scoring tries in the next set of 6. The ones I remember are

Running to the sideline on the first tackle.Now some will argue he was pushed over illegally. I don't think he was but he shouldn't have even gone to the sideline in the first place. Stupid play.

He dropped a bomb. On its own as a one off its forgiveable but yet another error on cleaning up a kick. There are lots of other examples throughout the season.

Not leaping and allowing Nofaluma to catch it over the top of him? With the rules the way they are you have to jump from where Isaako was but Isaako is not clever enough to do this standard stuff. Good fullbacks just do this.

Kicking out on the full for I don't know at least the 5th time I can remember over the last few seasons.The kick off to start the game could easily have gone this way too. He doesn't learn.

Failing to kick the 10m on the kick off. Yes we were chasing the game but once again he doesn't execute.

They were at crucial times that gave away early possession and all show a lack of an ability to play smart. This is not the odd bad game. Same thing happened on half time against the dragons and stifling the attack with errors when he was the fullback. Its been going on a long time and he is not addressing it. If he can remove these errors and be smarter he is a good player but like Milford he has run out of time in my view and I don't think he is capable of fixing it. He us a dumb player that I can't see changing

If you take Isaako out of that game as well as croft with his defensive running out of the line we probably have held the control of the game and I think we win it.

 

[pagey]

I think the improvement is reallocating the salary. We are still paying half lodges salary. The only way we make that work is getting a cheap replacement and then allocating the cash to improve the spine. Otherwise there was no point moving him on. We had to many top tier paid props. I think its great we are getting cheap props to even it out. We have flegler haas carrigan kennedy bully and willison. Cheapies are what's needed in my view.

True but I was hoping for Ryan James, Jenson is bog average imo
You still need bang for buck , happy to wait and see how things pan out though.

 

[Wolfie]

I think the improvement is reallocating the salary. We are still paying half lodges salary. The only way we make that work is getting a cheap replacement and then allocating the cash to improve the spine. Otherwise there was no point moving him on. We had to many top tier paid props. I think its great we are getting cheap props to even it out. We have flegler haas carrigan kennedy bully and willison. Cheapies are what's needed in my view.

Don't disagree we need some cheapies, but in terms of depth I reckon it's outside backs we need more than props. Fairly certain Jensen is going to be as successful as the last forward we got from the cows.

 

[Bongo]

True but I was hoping for Ryan James, Jenson is bog average imo
You still need bang for buck , happy to wait and see how things pan out though.

Fair point. We have to replace lodge and tpj so maybe james comes too. Only thing us his injury history.

 

[Bongo]

Don't disagree we need some cheapies, but in terms of depth I reckon it's outside backs we need more than props.

Yes. We need both. We have replace lodge and tpj with forwards. We also need more backs to replace Arthur's, Copley, Coates, Kenner. I would throw in Isaako too. I presume they are coming too. We have Lee and Peirera at this stage

 

[Jason Simmons]

He made way more errors than that and a lot of them directly led to tigers scoring tries in the next set of 6. The ones I remember are

Running to the sideline on the first tackle.Now some will argue he was pushed over illegally. I don't think he was but he shouldn't have even gone to the sideline in the first place. Stupid play.

He dropped a bomb. On its own as a one off its forgiveable but yet another error on cleaning up a kick. There are lots of other examples throughout the season.

Not leaping and allowing Nofaluma to catch it over the top of him? With the rules the way they are you have to jump from where Isaako was but Isaako is not clever enough to do this standard stuff. Good fullbacks just do this.

Kicking out on the full for I don't know at least the 5th time I can remember over the last few seasons.The kick off to start the game could easily have gone this way too. He doesn't learn.

Failing to kick the 10m on the kick off. Yes we were chasing the game but once again he doesn't execute.

They were at crucial times that gave away early possession and all show a lack of an ability to play smart. This is not the odd bad game. Same thing happened on half time against the dragons and stifling the attack with errors when he was the fullback. Its been going on a long time and he is not addressing it. If he can remove these errors and be smarter he is a good player but like Milford he has run out of time in my view and I don't think he is capable of fixing it. He us a dumb player that I can't see changing

If you take Isaako out of that game as well as croft with his defensive running out of the line we probably have held the control of the game and I think we win it.

Most of us saw all that mate, but the wilful blindness of the great underdog supporter you are trying to convince, won’t agree…

 

[Super Freak]

Jensen would no doubt be on a cheap deal and would be a depth signing which we could use after losing both TPJ and Lodge.

Still hope we're going after James.

 

[pagey]

Fair point. We have to replace lodge and tpj so maybe james comes too. Only thing us his injury history.

Yeah true

 

[nopatience101]

ikin, after making his first signing, reckons we are now done for the year.

 

[nopatience101]

I'd rather us improve on what we have though. It's how you improve as a team

We have already used 35 players & haven't improved, at some point the coach has to start asking if maybe its him...

 

[broncoscope]

He made way more errors than that and a lot of them directly led to tigers scoring tries in the next set of 6. The ones I remember are

Running to the sideline on the first tackle.Now some will argue he was pushed over illegally. I don't think he was but he shouldn't have even gone to the sideline in the first place. Stupid play.

He dropped a bomb. On its own as a one off its forgiveable but yet another error on cleaning up a kick. There are lots of other examples throughout the season.

Not leaping and allowing Nofaluma to catch it over the top of him? With the rules the way they are you have to jump from where Isaako was but Isaako is not clever enough to do this standard stuff. Good fullbacks just do this.

Kicking out on the full for I don't know at least the 5th time I can remember over the last few seasons.The kick off to start the game could easily have gone this way too. He doesn't learn.

Failing to kick the 10m on the kick off. Yes we were chasing the game but once again he doesn't execute.

They were at crucial times that gave away early possession and all show a lack of an ability to play smart. This is not the odd bad game. Same thing happened on half time against the dragons and stifling the attack with errors when he was the fullback. Its been going on a long time and he is not addressing it. If he can remove these errors and be smarter he is a good player but like Milford he has run out of time in my view and I don't think he is capable of fixing it. He us a dumb player that I can't see changing

If you take Isaako out of that game as well as croft with his defensive running out of the line we probably have held the control of the game and I think we win it.

Yes he made quite a few errors but the thing that really irks me is that blank braindead look he gets after he ***** up... Drives me round the bend !!!

 

[theshed]

Yes he made quite a few errors but the thing that really irks me is that blank braindead look he gets after he ***** up... Drives me round the bend !!!

I dunno, not sure how I’d react if I fucked up at work in front of 10’s of thousands of people.

Probably this: