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Yeah, that doesn’t paint such a great picture for Kev.
THE EX Kevin Walters
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MrTickyMcG
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Haha, wow that is a severe overreaction! Go back to bed for a few hours mate.
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Second most successful at not getting sacked.
Manofoneway
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Talking grand final appearances coming back from a wooden spoon from another coach.
Manofoneway
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You are a loser.
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Nope, Kevvie is still the loser in this thread.
Manofoneway
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What a burn.
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Here is how Kevvie's career compares to the Broncos' worst coach's career. Best you give up now:
NEWS - Walters' record compares with early Broncos: Maranta
Founding Brisbane Broncos chairman Barry Maranta has hit out at critics of coach Kevin Walters and says his first four seasons at the helm compare favourably with the initial four years of the club. Walters has been savaged for missing finals for the third time in four seasons under his...
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You didn't get your wish.
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True but I'm a Broncos supporter, so I want Maguire to be successful.
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Well that didn't take much sweet talking.
I'll say this much: if it quickly goes tits up again, I think this time we blame something other than the coach.
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I've been blaming squad mentality for about 15 years at this point... well basically since NYC brought the 08 generation through... hoping to finally see a change in attitude this year
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We seem to be on the verge of having a fully realized team, with the exception of the edges. Riki and Piakura are the main worries. It would be fairly controversial to drop either, but they're not really holding their places. One might need to go to the bench. The other might need to be dropped.
We have an embarrassment of riches in the middle and outside backs.
I think we have the ingredients for a transitioning spine but that largely depends on how Black, Mozer and Bukowski work out. Black, mostly. Hunt is only a bandaid, but he'll see us through this year, at least.
I'm relatively optimistic Ezra will come back stronger. Apart from rekindling his form, he'll need to toughen the **** up, and not lose his rag whenever he gets called names, which will happen the next time he sets foot on turf, and will continue for the forseeable future. He just has to wear it and not react.
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Yeah the onslaught of the Sydney media means he's enemy number 1 when he returns... he's basically seen as Lodge 2.0 to the Sydney public and will be copping boos every time he touches it... all because he did his drugs in Qld instead of Sydney.
Broncos need to be running a full scale PR campaign to repair his image otherwise it's going to be pretty awful for him when he comes back.
If he isn't already he should be well off social media and Brisbane shouldn't even think about putting him up for open media.
They should probably arrange a softball interview as well... probably with Badel, because they need News Corp to be leading the "rehabilitated" narrative moving forward. In the interview get him to own up to things:
- When did he do the drugs in question... so Sydney know he didn't smash out a bunch of lines the morning of moving house (because who the **** would do that)
- How long has he been smashing lines and his general night life leading up to it
- Impact of becoming an overnight celebrity, etc.
- His current sobriety and mindset moving forward
The Sydney circle jerk still just assume he was completely off his face when he decided to jump behind the wheel... except he wasn't charged with those kinds of offences, but that gets ignored or misreported down south for clicks.
Also need to have Ezra doing something for the victims... assuming all the legal stuff has been dealt with... I'm assuming he would want to, but need to figure out what that is... buy the Uber guy a new car or something.
If he's not helped to at least get him out of the crosshairs of Sydney then I would worry about him being able to get back to his best, because there will just always be this huge pressure on him whenever he gets on the field. He didn't have that pressure in 2023, but he didn't respond well in 2024 when there were injuries, and I can't see it getting better if he's got all the off field stuff hanging around either
Manofoneway
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If the next coach does not workout it has to be R and R decisions we look at. Prioritising the most talented over the hardest working.
Mam over Dearden (even though I was on that train in 2023)
Milford over hunt (never on that train)
Piakura over capewell
cobbo over farnworth...
The list goes on.
Anyway we all need to be team broncos. New coach means new start, new player mentality. Even a fresh start for the lacklustre performers in 2024. Mam, piakura, riki all included!
Mam over Dearden (even though I was on that train in 2023)
Milford over hunt (never on that train)
Piakura over capewell
cobbo over farnworth...
The list goes on.
Anyway we all need to be team broncos. New coach means new start, new player mentality. Even a fresh start for the lacklustre performers in 2024. Mam, piakura, riki all included!
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I'd say MOST rugby league players do SOME cocaine socially in the off season, along with MOST of the media. Cocaine is where weed was twenty years ago. It's illegal so you shut up about it, but everyone comes across it at parties. EVERYONE. Music, radio and TV runs on coke. It's all a big wank, and frankly anyone calling him a drug addict because he had some in his system is either a prude or a wanker.
Besides-which, there's no evidence of a connection between him taking drugs and the car accident. That's innuendo. Maybe he has a problem with coke, maybe it explains his ego trip, but we don't know that. All we know is he was caught with traces in his system that would never have been picked up had he not had a car accident. He got fined in a traffic court. Like hundreds of others who did the same thing.
We saw him melt down right at the beginning of last season because another brown guy got under his skin with some banter that backfired worse on the bantee, but did the intended job at the time.
Regardless of whether certain types of name-calling is forbidden, you can't let it put you off your game in professional sport. He needs to toughen the **** up and if he's called names, it needs to add fire to his belly along with his team-mates.
The legal shit he's going through, yeah that's not great, but he brought that on himself. Go cry to Payne, and see how far that gets him.
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If the next coach doesn't work out, we might need to take away their towels.
Manofoneway
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Yep. This is 100% right. I liken the sensitivity to alex Glenn calling out cyber bullies back in 2020. It was a terrible look to see the captain come out and address some anonymous online trolls as if it was actually impacting the playing group. Thicker skin required probably from the whole team. The current generation are a bunch of pussies though I guess.
