THE Broncos are set to back themselves to enter the post-Darren Lockyer era without entering the player market.
Living by the "you reap what you sow" motto that is struck in bronze outside the club's weights room, Brisbane's first-year head coach Anthony Griffin will back the philosophy of beloved late talent scout Cyril Connell.
Griffin has banked the club's long-term future, and his own budding career, on harvesting its own crop. The six-time premiers have secured every member of their top playing roster for at least the next year with contract upgrades and extensions. As they pledged in March, Brisbane have utilised the salary cap funds freed by Lockyer's imminent retirement to lock away their entire stable of up-and-comers, rather than buying a big-name player.
"If it works, it works. If it doesn't there will be pressure on me," Griffin said.
