Elimination Final - Cowboys vs Broncos - Pre-Match Discussion

[Kaz]

Gillett has to be out surely.

Did you see the way his arm was hanging? There is no way that's an injury he can get over in a week.

It happens to Gallen all the time & he plays.

Oh wait.

 

[broncos4life]

I was calling for his sacking after the 2012 season and have been unpopular on here ever since. Two years down the track and the Broncos are still stuck in the same old situation, as good a forum as BHQ is, the posters who stick their heads out tend to be the most knowledgable. Broncospawn is a good fan and a nice guy but would probably be more suited to the Bronco's fb page forums where encouragement and hope is dished out on s regular basis by posters who only have a limited perception of the game. He is a true fan though who would never jump ship no matter how bad things got.

Mate your unpopular here because your a dickhead, nothing else. For a start you are having a go at bspwn saying he is some kind of cheerleader, have a look at who started the sack hook thread you SPED.

Don't confuse the fact that you don't get internet backflips with anything other than the fact that you say outrageous because you think it makes you cool.

If you act like a knob you will be treated as one, it's pretty simple

 

[Rabbir]

Don't worry, hayseed's gone now.

Matt Moylan av, hey?

You aren't a true fan.

 

[Cult]

Matt Moylan av, hey?

You aren't a true fan.

Your name is similar to Rabbit. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Rabbir]

Your name is similar to Rabbit. Coincidence? I think not.

Yep, I'm a Rabbitohs fan.

 

[Kimlo]

Matt Moylan av, hey?

You aren't a true fan.

I could perhaps understand this dig if it was Vertigo posting it, but even then BP didn't get in on the true fan discussion. It's not your axe to grind...

 

[vertigo]

I think you will find that a lot of posters are members, I know I certainly am.

That all has nothing to do with it, he is proud of the fact that he will be cheering on the opposition in a finals match. For all I know he buys his membership so he can go along each game and cheer on the opposition there too

Mate, I've been a member 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and now 2015.

I wanted the Griffin era to be over, falling arse backwards into eighth is something people are happy about now I guess expectations have dropped which is something I refuse to accept.

I had red mist last night seeing how happy people were when I feel we should've beat Melbourne to get in off the back of our own efforts, hell we definitely should have except we made so many bonehead mistakes. Maybe if we played the last game of the round I could've viewed that game as reducing the defecit to the Warriors PD but it felt like having everything go our way just to extend the season to another game that is against a team in white hot form which we can never seem to play the way we should against.

I'll delete my posts.

 

[Ari Gold]

Why do people care if the Cowboys win? You don't get Origin shields for providing the winning NRL club.

Should we therefore support the Storm because they have 4 Queenslanders in their team? Souths have three which by my reckoning is one more than what the Cowboys provided.

AFAIC the Cowboys can go **** themselves.

 

[jd87]

Why do people care if the Cowboys win? You don't get Origin shields for providing the winning NRL club.

id personally would like to see the cowboys win the comp(besides us of course) just because they have never won it before. id also be happy for rabbitohs to win it to. as long as its not the storm,manly, roosters or bulldogs (just because i despise all bulldogs players and there fans)

 

[Renegade]

Why do people care if the Cowboys win? You don't get Origin shields for providing the winning NRL club.

Should we therefore support the Storm because they have 4 Queenslanders in their team? Souths have three which by my reckoning is one more than what the Cowboys provided.

AFAIC the Cowboys can go **** themselves.

Because I'm from Mackay and if I was born 10 years later, Cowboys would be the team I'd support.

I don't see the issue with having a second team for whatever reason one might harbour.

 

[theshed]

Mate, I've been a member 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and now 2015.

I wanted the Griffin era to be over, falling arse backwards into eighth is something people are happy about now I guess expectations have dropped which is something I refuse to accept.

I had red mist last night seeing how happy people were when I feel we should've beat Melbourne to get in off the back of our own efforts, hell we definitely should have except we made so many bonehead mistakes. Maybe if we played the last game of the round I could've viewed that game as reducing the defecit to the Warriors PD but it felt like having everything go our way just to extend the season to another game that is against a team in white hot form which we can never seem to play the way we should against.

I'll delete my posts.

I admit that earlier in the season I wanted us to miss the 8 just to see Hook get fired. Once that already happened I wanted us to make the finals by any means necessary.

Yeah we didn't make it in the most convincing fashion but we made it which means we're more deserving than 8 other teams.

 

[Cult]

Mate, I've been a member 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and now 2015.

I wanted the Griffin era to be over, falling arse backwards into eighth is something people are happy about now I guess expectations have dropped which is something I refuse to accept.

I had red mist last night seeing how happy people were when I feel we should've beat Melbourne to get in off the back of our own efforts, hell we definitely should have except we made so many bonehead mistakes. Maybe if we played the last game of the round I could've viewed that game as reducing the defecit to the Warriors PD but it felt like having everything go our way just to extend the season to another game that is against a team in white hot form which we can never seem to play the way we should against.

I'll delete my posts.

We're still happy because our team, your team, is still in the finals race. We all wish we could have done better but it's not like we got in by luck. We made the top 8. Expectations haven't dropped. We are happy that our team is still in with a shot, that is all. I'd prefer to be happy with still being in the 8 rather than cheering for another team, which is something I'll never do. If the Broncos are out, **** the other teams. Just like the other 26 weeks a year.

 

[Big Pete]

Read enough about this real fan tangent. If you guys want to continue that conversation feel free to start your own thread where the rest of us won't have to read it.

Focusing on the game for a second and it really doesn't bode well for the Broncos.

North Queensland have only lost one game at Townsville all season, Round 3 v Warriors to the tune of 20-16. Since then they've been undefeated at Dairy Farmers and have beaten the likes of Sydney, Manly & Souths at home.

Brisbane have yet to register a finals win over them either, sitting at a 0-2 record.

Key for the Broncos will be ensuring they get off to a good start. The Cowboys are filled with confidence players who go missing when the going gets tough so ensuring that we get off on the right foot and apply the right amount of pressure from then on will go a long way to earning the victory.

Also need to apply all sorts of pressure on JT's kicking game.

Ideal Broncos Backline would look like this...

1. Josh Hoffman
2. Daniel Vidot
3. Dale Copley
4. Justin Hodges
5. Lachlan Maranta

With Hoffman/Hodges swapping in offence.

Will be a tough ask but anything is possible at this stage of the season.

 

[Alec]

We can beat any side, assuming we are at our best and they are not. The same applies to every other side too, to varying degrees though. So that's what we'll be hoping for, us being at our best and them not.

Unfortunately it's the finals, teams are a lot more focused. Cowboys at their best are better than us at our best, by quite a bit.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

You are all just fans..

I'm a SUPER fan....

 

[rnabokov]

Read enough about this real fan tangent. If you guys want to continue that conversation feel free to start your own thread where the rest of us won't have to read it.

Focusing on the game for a second and it really doesn't bode well for the Broncos.

North Queensland have only lost one game at Townsville all season, Round 3 v Warriors to the tune of 20-16. Since then they've been undefeated at Dairy Farmers and have beaten the likes of Sydney, Manly & Souths at home.

Brisbane have yet to register a finals win over them either, sitting at a 0-2 record.

Key for the Broncos will be ensuring they get off to a good start. The Cowboys are filled with confidence players who go missing when the going gets tough so ensuring that we get off on the right foot and apply the right amount of pressure from then on will go a long way to earning the victory.

Also need to apply all sorts of pressure on JT's kicking game.

Ideal Broncos Backline would look like this...

1. Josh Hoffman
2. Daniel Vidot
3. Dale Copley
4. Justin Hodges
5. Lachlan Maranta

With Hoffman/Hodges swapping in offence.

Will be a tough ask but anything is possible at this stage of the season.

Spot on BP.


Now who owns the blue one ...

 

[Cult]

Who is everyone going to go for once the Broncos knock the Cowboys out of the finals race though?

 

[mieko]

I'm going to jump on the Hodges to centre in defence, fullback in attack bandwagon. He was horribly exposed on the weekend. Hoffman might not be the most creative fullback, but he is by far the safest in our entire squad under the high ball, for diffusing grubbers, and has a powerful running game on kick returns. If he's fit, name him at #1 and when the ball is in our hands he can move to the centres while Hodges roams. If Hoffman is not available, I'm a bit more concerned.

1000% Morkel. Hodges simply can't be anywhere near the back in D, I really hope Hoffman is good to go, we will need him in the defense side of it(bombs etc).

That Feldt fella is something else as well, will be hard to contain him under the high ball and general wing attack. Vidot(I think) will have a hard night trying to defuse all night as Luis will just bomb the shit out of him.

This is a game we can definitely win if we can keep our heads in the game.