Our realistic chances?

[OXY-351]

Love the post/mid-season BroncoHQ doom rant. It happens every year. I think it might be winter settling in.

The thing that I think is different to other years is that the broncos aren't in a slump as such, it's that they don't have the team to win the comp imo. They have some great players in the team, and can grind out wins, but the players in the positions that really matter (9,1 and especially 6 and 7), just don't have the skills or experience at the moment to produce that little bit extra required for finals footy. They are missing that Lockyer type player who can pull of the big plays when needed.

 

[Broncoman]

Moral of the story is

NEVER WRITE THE BRONCOS OFF

 

[Bucking Beads]

I can't see us winning another game this season. Injuries are hitting us hard and our halves have no idea at the moment. Our coach is hopeless and our recruitment for next season has been poor. Dark days ahead for the Broncos.

 

[Broncos1995]

I will admit i've got a weird feeling Anthony Griffin won't last at the broncos, While Griffin is no Henjak he's made some dud decisions. I've got a weird feeling he'll get sacked and Craig Bellamy will coach us (No Joke).

 

[broncos4life]

I can't see us winning another game this season. Injuries are hitting us hard and our halves have no idea at the moment. Our coach is hopeless and our recruitment for next season has been poor. Dark days ahead for the Broncos.

Your kidding right???? our coach is hopeless??? this kind of post is just retarded, go support the eels

 

[broncos4life]

I will admit i've got a weird feeling Anthony Griffin won't last at the broncos, While Griffin is no Henjak he's made some dud decisions. I've got a weird feeling he'll get sacked and Craig Bellamy will coach us (No Joke).

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[Porthoz]

I can't see us winning another game this season. Injuries are hitting us hard and our halves have no idea at the moment. Our coach is hopeless and our recruitment for next season has been poor. Dark days ahead for the Broncos.

 

[OXY-351]

go support the eels

Given he obviously likes fishing, the Eels are probably a suitable team

 

[noisetheory]

fishing? thought eels would like strippers more. throw alot of cash at something, that wont get you off (the bottom of the ladder)

 

[subsbligh]

They are missing that Lockyer type player who can pull of the big plays when needed.

Load of rubbish.

Most other teams, most of the time don't have the luxury of a future immortal leading them around the park but still win premierships.

Who filled that role for St George in 2010 or Manly in 2008 or 2011 when they won the premiership? You can't say Soward, Hornby, DCE, Matt Orford or Liam Foran are in the class of Lockyer. In that bunch maybe you'd say perhaps DCE>Norman or Wallace but the rest are at the same level, if not less than Norman or Wallace.

Got nothing to do with Lockyer.

 

[Old Mate]

Load of rubbish.

Most other teams, most of the time don't have the luxury of a future immortal leading them around the park but still win premierships.

Who filled that role for St George in 2010 or Manly in 2008 or 2011 when they won the premiership? You can't say Soward, Hornby, DCE, Matt Orford or Liam Foran are in the class of Lockyer. In that bunch maybe you'd say perhaps DCE>Norman or Wallace but the rest are at the same level, if not less than Norman or Wallace.

Got nothing to do with Lockyer.

I'd take Soward over Norman and it was Keiran Foran, not Liam and I'd definitely take Keiran over Norman.

 

[Anonymous person]

foran, orford and soward are better than wallace and norman.

 

[subsbligh]

I'd take Soward over Norman and it was Keiran Foran, not Liam and I'd definitely take Keiran over Norman.

foran, orford and soward are better than wallace and norman.

My reply was in response to the comment that we can't win a premiership without a player like Lockyer.

On the whole, Soward/Hornby are not really that much better than Wallace/Norman and the Dragons were capable of a premiership with those halves.

And none of those sides had the Qld State of Origin forward pack starting for them.

 

[Coxy]

Norman at the moment is incapable of creating something. He doesn't read the play at all. He either seems random, or simply executing what he was told to do at training without actually looking at what's in front of him. He's poor.

I don't overly rate Orford, Hornby, Foran or Soward as playmakers (at least one of them is too subtle for my liking), but they are all superior at reading the play than Norman is now.

There have been some occasions where Norman has played what's in front of him and done well, but very few this season. I see nothing to suggest Norman is capable of being a premiership winning five-eighth at this stage of his career.

Note: in all statements about Norman I'm talking about NOW, this season, what he's shown to this point. I'm NOT saying he can't develop those abilities.

 

[Bucking Beads]

I just don't understand why we can't have someone running off our halves. TBH our team play has been shocking. Norman gets the ball everyone is flat footed and Norman ends up running it himself. Same goes with Wallace. The only play the do consistently is that inside ball to Hoffman. It is bollocks IMO. This is 90% what we are doing at training and 10% talent.

 

[OXY-351]

My reply was in response to the comment that we can't win a premiership without a player like Lockyer.

I'm not saying we can't win without Lockyer, it's just that for too long the broncos could rely on Lockyer to produce those type of match winning plays that finals require that noone else had to step up to the plate, and now that he's gone, no-one has stepped up to the plate to take control of games. Wallace has the occasional game where he shows the skills, but too inconsistent for mine.

 

[broncos4life]

I'm glad alot of people on here 'support' the broncos, imagine if you 'supported' parra or some other useless side. The broncs have had a few poor games (like they always do after origin) and we are hearing everything from get rid of hoffman, wallace, norman, macca, the guy that runs the oranges, security guards and stadium cleaners to Hook is rubbish get rid of him. The sky isn't falling and we are in a much better place than anyone could have imagined the first year post locky. If some of you went for parra you would have necked yourself long ago.

 

[noisetheory]

get alfie off the field. he is confusing the halves. just let them play footy for a couple of games and see what happens.