Is the Bronco DNA now choking?

[Broncapz]

From 2008 prelim to now, we've done nothing but choke.

Prelims we've lost, to getting smashed in finals then on to 2015, then to dropping from top 4 to missing the 8 in 2022 to the biggest Grand Final choke in Australian sporting history.

Are we just chokers now?

This is just now what I expect from us. I hate it.

 

[Fitzy]

What a shit topic to talk about day before our new season.

 

[Renegade]

Dunno about choking but we're getting good at losing the big one in dramatic fashion.

 

[Sproj]

Would rather be there and lose than not be there at all.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Meh we were choking far earlier then that, 1994-96 frustrated me no end with the dismal finals performances and that squad would shit on the current one, not to mention the season fades of the early to mid 2000's. It's not something exclusive to post 2008.

 

[BroncosFever]

I will consider it a choke if the boys go to water and don't back it up with another great season.

It hurts because to get to a GF you need a lot of things to go your way, outside of just playing good footy consistently.

 

[Mustafur]

I can't call it choking if we were not expected to win going into the game.

 

[Sproj]

I can't call it choking if we were not expected to win going into the game.

I was expecting to win.

 

[BroncosFever]

I was expecting to win.

Obviously the position we put ourselves into during the game, we should have won the game.

Before the game though, it was all Penrith.

 

[winslow_wong]

We finally flogged the storm last year though. Maybe the “dna” is changing.

 

[Super Freak]

We went into that GF with a fairly inexperienced team. Our only players with GF experience Panthers nullified well.

I wouldn't give us the chokers tag yet.

 

[Santa]

I don't like this thread.

 

[Broncapz]

I don't like this thread.

Me either, I think things will change. But we just gotta be more like the QLD origin team and step up in the big moments.

This past decade and a half has been defined by failing at the big moments.

 

[Wolfie]

Different eras, but our teams that won everything had tough, mentally strong footballers who could handle setbacks. If you were in the trenches, give me the likes of Webcke, Tallis, Thorn, Petero, Lockyer etc ( the list can go on and on ) over Carrigan, Haas, Reynolds, Staggs, Walsh every day of the week. These blokes as it stands have to get over the line. We failed to do this in 2015 and 2023. Hopefully they can do it so they can all be elevated to the same bracket as some of our other greats.

 

[Browny]

If our squad goes full 2016 then yes.

If we step up and win the big one and back up with a mini destiny then no.

 

[Allo]

Me either, I think things will change. But we just gotta be more like the QLD origin team and step up in the big moments.

This past decade and a half has been defined by failing at the big moments.

You didn't have to make it you know

 

[thenry]

I'd like to choke you for making this thread. How very dare you.

 

[Browny]

It’s a shame that Covid didn’t allow a 2015 or 2023 GF