Dragons V Roosters *SPOILER*

[Jeba]

A lot of those slumps the Broncos suffered were generally triggered by injuries as well.

That is true. 2001 we lost Tallis for the season and Lockyer for 6 weeks if I recall correctly. (could be wrong about Locky)

2002 we lost Alf for a bit with his broken thumb.

2003 we lost Tallis for 6 weeks and Lockyer for 6 weeks.

No excuses in '04 and '05 though.

 

[Coxy]

That is true. 2001 we lost Tallis for the season and Lockyer for 6 weeks if I recall correctly. (could be wrong about Locky)

2002 we lost Alf for a bit with his broken thumb.

2003 we lost Tallis for 6 weeks and Lockyer for 6 weeks.

No excuses in '04 and '05 though.

2001 was worse than that. We lost Ikin (when he was playing great footy), we lost Tallis, we lost Prince, we lost Berrigan.

We didn't lose Lockyer though. He played 27 games that season.

 

[mrslong]

When did Tallis get injured then retire? was it 04?

2007 was the absolute worst. We played our best ever footy (Knights 71-6) and then lost Locky...KHunt....Berro....argh!

 

[Big Pete]

At that point, the injury toll we had in 2001 was the worst in the club's history. To make it as far as we did just shows how professional the team was.

And I wouldn't really say there weren't any excuses in 2004. We went through that season without our starting half and hooker and things got so bad we had Costigan playing hooker and had recalled Ikin and Green out of retirement. I don't think we were a chance that year, but it was still a very good year for the club and I thought it set us up well for a premiership.

Injuries also hit us at the wrong time of the season in 2005. I still remember that Penrith game where we suffered a few injuries and they exploited it by targetting Hodges who was virtually on one leg to break our hearts in the dying minutes. Then there was a similar story against the Eels where we were actually leading and looking like the better side until Moi Moi took out Barnes with a head high. By the time all our players came back, it was finals time and we had no form to show for it. After going down to the Storm (in trying circumstances, f**k Orford the diving mole) we were absolutely tearing the Tigers apart...but then had nothing to show for it. That had to be right up there as one of the weirdest halves in Broncos history, next to that last round loss we suffered against Parramatta. We made something like six linebreaks, yet trailed by ten points.

mrslong - Actually, that win didn't really trigger our big comeback as we went onto lose against a rat-s**t Dragons side the next week. We would turn it around against the Doggies after backing up from Origin. From there we won something like 5 in a row until Lockyer went down like he was shot by a sniper. Sucked big time because I think out of any other team, the squad we had were the only ones who could have challenged the Storm at the time.

 

[Coxy]

When did Tallis get injured then retire? was it 04?

He got injured in 2001. Came back in 2002. Retired in 2004.

 

[mrslong]

Yeah half way thru the season iirc? I was at the game (v Manly?) where he hit the deck and that was it. bye bye gordie.

 

[Coxy]

Yeah half way thru the season iirc? I was at the game (v Manly?) where he hit the deck and that was it. bye bye gordie.

Yeah :-( Innocuous little tackle by Adam Muir. Slightly high but nothing in it. And Gordie got up with jelly legs. Nobody thought much of it until a couple of days later when they said it was a serious neck injury, he'd be out for the season and may never play again!