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[QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3301680, member: 1899"] I've got to be completely upfront, my knowledge of anything pre-2000s is completely rudimentary. It's something I'd love to expand on in the coming weeks and hopefully when NRL.com expands their on-demand service which they keep promising but seldom deliver on. I didn't want to leave this thread hanging so the next topic I wanted to talk about was one that you're all familiar with, the Brisbane Broncos post-1998. At the time, the Brisbane Broncos were in a class of their own and while they weren't invincible if they turned up nobody could match them. I thought they demonstrated this in the finals when they stumbled against Parramatta. The Eels were too clever for the Broncos on the day and just employed this tactic where they would put the ball out of play and just wouldn't allow the Broncos to get any sort of rhythm. Brisbane would quickly find another gear and absolutely thumped Melbourne and Sydney before running over the top off a gallant Bulldogs outfit to claim premiership #4. It seemed like there was no reason why the Broncos wouldn't claim premiership #5 the following year. They had lost Darren Smith but they had cover and on top of that they had just added one of the most promising dummy halves to their ranks in Luke Priddis. It really seemed like a matter of when, not if. However as it's been well documented, Brisbane started the season horribly with a 1-1-8 record and Alf sensationally called time after a horrible start. Looking back on that period, while a couple of the senior players had hit the wall and just couldn't replicate what they were able to the year before I also think the game had changed. Teams were moving away from exciting attacking football and were beginning to rely more on flat football where they would constantly rotate their unlimited interchanges and just steam-roll the opposition into submission. This approach stood in conflict of the Broncos who had a few set structures but largely the team was built around players like Langer and giving them a license to conjure up their magic. With Alf out of the picture, the whole dynamic of the team changed. The team started to play a lot more structured football and switched their focus from attack to defence. There was less flair about how they approached their football, but the Broncos had found some grit and it was through that style a player like Gorden Tallis, Luke Priddis and Kevin Campion really began to lead the way. Campion for mine is one player who doesn't get enough attention when it comes to those teams but he was such an unselfish player who in those tough moments would really stick out. At the end of the day the Broncos finished 13-2-11 to qualify 8th and while they were easily disposed of by Cronulla in the final Bennett had got a head-start on the 2000 premiership and was about to unleash one of the most dominant 'rebuilding' teams in history. Next time I pick this up, I want to cover 2000-01 - how the Broncos were able to become so dominant and how quickly they were eclipsed by other clubs. [/QUOTE]
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