Broncos Roster, Signings and Rumours Discussion 2025

[BroncsFan]

Agreed.
Madden is the one the club needs to have a chat with. Even a release for next season to the UK and sign him for 27 if both the club and him want to stay. Baker is a easy one to just not sign for next year.
I wouldn't want to lose someone like Cobbo to keep Adam for one year.

The 9 situation could play a part too, Paix is going well ATM but Mozer is still yet to return and Ezra makes him way into the team to at some point. If Hunt ends up going to 9 to make way for Ezra and Mozer pushes his way onto the bench, we still have Billy for another year and Paix might be in cup with some form to start the year which could spark interest from other clubs. He may be one that gets squeezed out if we can't move Madden on.

Yep halves and hooker is where we are bloated at the moment.

I do think we probably need at least 3 hookers and one of the hookers needs to be able to 80mins.

We have 2 playing every week, so if one goes down then you need another.

If another one then goes down... like if one gets a season ender and you've only got 3, then even a HIA becomes troublesome to handle.

So one of the hookers needs to be able to play 80 if needed.

At the moment we've got Paix, Billy, Mozer, Smoothy, Bhunt and Bukowski.

6 fucking hookers across the top 30 + Dev squad.

Bukowski is someone who's going to jump into the top 30 as of next year and is probably the one they will want to pair up with Mozer for the log run, which like you said, means Paix is dropped to depth.

After 2026, I'd imagine Bhunt is retired... although he might chuck a Cherry and keep playing on as well... and Billy is off contract at like 33 so I'd imagine they let him walk after that.

So those two are likely gone on top of Smoothy at the end of this year and we're quickly back to 3 in a couple years.

Someone said it the other day and it's about getting the guys to take a cheap contract for next year because you're in a premiership window and I don't think we win one without Reynolds.

I think it looks a bit tough this year, because Melbourne look insane and have a chip on their shoulder after last year, and Dogs defence just looks insane... I'll be interested if they can keep it up for a full season though.

On the other hand I'm not yet sold on our defence... our goal line has been reasonably solid, but im not sure if that is a lot of scrambling or if it's actually getting solid... my concern is more the edges and teams are just getting their so easily, even in yardage.

But next year with a second preseason of Madge and a second preseason of getting the defence up to scratch... could be our year... especially if Bellamy ***** off should storm get the prem this year