POST GAME [Round 10, 2024] Broncos vs Eels

[Big Pete]

I might be crazy but I thought Gozieski's knock on came off the back of a shoulder to the head. I thought he looked like copped a head knock from his body language. Thought it warranted a look-in from the HIA doc given how they took Mam off the field last week. Ugh. I might've been seeing things anyway

I thought Hopgood tucked the arm in as well.

our challenge the bunker says the Parra player is trying to lock the ball up but not necessarily trying to strip it. So he admits it was not a loose carry by Cobbo and the fact he says he is trying to lock the ball up means by definition that he is playing at the ball so it must then be a strip. How Frikkin stupid is that call?

I thought the call was right, but the explanation was poor. If he simply ruled it a loose carry with no clear attempt to strip at the ball, most would have lived with it.

The one Sutton pinged Staggs for “planting the ball” too. he got to his feet and this was done on a few occasions by eels players but he thought it was ok then.

Did those players maintain their balance? It was the right ruling since Staggs fell after playing the ball, but the officials have been lax on this in recent months.

 

[Volvo Driver]

I feel like the biased against us is going to get worse and worse as it dawns on the Sydney folk that we’re a really good football team.

Wonder if the Storm fans carry on about Sydney bias as much as our fans seem to do..?

I get it, every team's supporters complain about refs but gees it's tiring reading it in every thread.

We need to just worry about how our team plays rather than any ref/Sydney/news ltd bias because most of the time it's our own fault for losing.

 

[BroncsFan]

47 missed tackles. 11 errors.

We do that next week, we’ll get killed.

And conceded 19 offloads!!

 

[BroncsFan]

We've got a good run home as well, 4 matches against the top 4 and 10 against the bottom 9.

I feel the Origin period is the big decider on where we end up finishing this year.

We have no Reynolds to steer the ship and take pressure off the origin guys, but during that stretch we go:
Rd 13. Bye
Rd 14. Sharks (who never have anyone in origin... top of the table and all that)
Rd 15. Bunnies in Sydney (might be a good match up for us this year with how they're travelling, but Trell is back)
Rd 16. Bye
Rd 17. Wahs in NZ... because of course it would be... straight off origin let's fly them over to NZ to play the only team other than sharks that never have anyone in origin
Rd 18. Penrith.. Chin will be back by this point no doubt
Rd 19. Dargons in origin week... they'll lose Bhunt and maybe Lomax... maybe Sua pending how teams are going... should be a winnable game even with the outs
Rd 20. Newcastle away after origin 3... again the luck of the draw has us travelling after origin. Unsure on Ponga, but he could be due back around this time as well

Having byes in 13 and then 16 is nice to get two during origin, but 13 and 19 is the go... that's been reserved for ... checks notes... oh Melbourne... who got the same last year as well.

Also I feel we need to be lining ourselves up for a bye before round 13... don't think the bye in round 25 or whatever helped us all that much last year, because we were entrenched in the top 4 and resting players anyway.

NRL always screw us with a tough draw early on so people actually tune in... we could desperately use a bye before now this year.

Byes at the end of the year aren't needed if you're winning, because you can just rest players later on anyway. It does give the origin guys a dedicated week off after the series is finished though, so that's a benefit to look forward to

 

[BroncsFan]

1 bad drop and 1 six again that was absolutely brain dead. But he's learning and hopefully will come good. No improvement on Hunt yet though. Butchered a play where we may have scored and his drop near our 20m led to an almost try, saved by him taking the most epic dive due to making a read on a lead runner and getting a little bit lucky.

The dive he took for the obstruction is a good defensive play in today's NRL... I didn't really take note of Talagi's first try through Ezra, but he had no inside help because Piakura was caught up infield and didn't slide well. Maybe he had an opportunity to take a dive as well, but didn't realise it. It's shit, but can't win nowadays without taking dives. Reyno is one of the best at it in defence.

 

[BroncsFan]

I might be crazy but I thought Gozieski's knock on came off the back of a shoulder to the head. I thought he looked like copped a head knock from his body language. Thought it warranted a look-in from the HIA doc given how they took Mam off the field last week. Ugh. I might've been seeing things anyway

I noticed that he copped a shot from Hopgood, but only saw it once and only caught the back of it.

Didn't look like there were a whole lot of arms and wrapping in the attempt.

 

[Swordfish]

And conceded 19 offloads!!

This pisses me off so much so that I almost went onto break my tele today. Our goal line defence is good(almost). But opposition teams are given way too much room to offload & they’re exploiting that at will. We’re not locking & slowing the play down. Either cheap meters or free offloads are given away.
I hate seeing this & to my disappointment, this is becoming a common thing every week.

I read the other day that Moose has come into the coaching department & wonder all this silly defence from our guys is a byproduct of Mooses’s signing .

I for one, like to the see the kind of defence & attack we displayed against cheat grubs Storm during last year finals. We would flog any team with that sort of effort.

 

[Midean]

After sleeping on it.

Happy with the win.
Happy Rogers didn't shit the bed.

Willison is a beast, love how he plays, and also loved seeing Haas run some angles, the dude is fast.
Close to Cobbo's best game this season.

What a weird game.
The stats were against us almost all game across the board, yet we still won comfortably.

The commentators kept going on about how Parra had nothing go their way, except literally everything went their way, they just didnt capitalize (granted we showed some very good defense at times).

This game is another example of how the Broncos beat any team outside the top 4, even when we play poorly, but if we play like that against the Roosters/Storm/Panthers, we get a cricket score put on us.

Kev has some work to do.

 

[KateBroncos1812]

 

[Bucking Beads]

Wonder if the Storm fans carry on about Sydney bias as much as our fans seem to do..?

I get it, every team's supporters complain about refs but gees it's tiring reading it in every thread.

We need to just worry about how our team plays rather than any ref/Sydney/news ltd bias because most of the time it's our own fault for losing.

You’re in the wrong neighbourhood brother

 

[Bish]

All the Media talk recently has been about giving refs and officials respect.

Well, I was always taught that respect is earned and not given on a say so.

How do you give respect to refs and the bunker that gives out bullshit calls so consistently? “Oh they do a hard job and we have no game without them”, they say.
That’s fair enough, but they should be accountable for the dumb decisions that are made. Why is it every week we seem to have so many less penalties and 6 agains called against us than the opposition? Are we that ill disciplined and are they always that well disciplined or is there another agenda?

As for us, tough game. We were very average as a team, but we have match winners throughout.

Those offloads were crazy,

happy with the two but still waiting for that 60-70-80 minute complete performance. We’re fortunate that a couple of 20 minute spells are enough for us to win games.

 

[Fatboy]

Thought Rogers was solid and didn't look out of place, just kept it simple and let mam and Walsh do their thing. Entire backline played well and rolled their sleeves up.

Carrigan looks tired.

I thought he did too. Poor guy looked so flat.

 

[Culhwch]

Lucky eels bombed 4 try's and handed us 2 on a platter. Plus missing Moses and Gutherson

We bombed a couple ourselves and we're missing Reynolds.

You make your own luck, both our tries off their errors were forced with good defensive efforts, unlike a couple we handed to the Roosters last week...

 

[Old Mate]

I’m concerned with Billy’s wrist, I broke mine years ago and it hurt but thought I was alright. Went to drive and realised I couldn’t change gears so had to use my other arm. Was only a tiny fracture in the end. Hope he hasn’t done the same.

 

[Xzei]

Did those players maintain their balance? It was the right ruling since Staggs fell after playing the ball, but the officials have been lax on this in recent months.

Thought the ptb from staggs was fine live got to his feet and played the ball with his foot actually touching the ball.

 

[Bucking Beads]

I’m concerned with Billy’s wrist, I broke mine years ago and it hurt but thought I was alright. Went to drive and realised I couldn’t change gears so had to use my other arm. Was only a tiny fracture in the end. Hope he hasn’t done the same.

Not the end of the world if we lose Billy for a period of time. Smoothy has been bloody good and can still get better. Mozer and Paix are good depth also. Paix should probably be playing first grade somewhere tbh

 

[Old Mate]

Not the end of the world if we lose Billy for a period of time. Smoothy has been bloody good and can still get better. Mozer and Paix are good depth also. Paix should probably be playing first grade somewhere tbh

Yeah it’s a position we have decent depth in so it isn’t the end of the world. I was thinking last night how lucky we are to have Smoothy able to play big minutes. If it was Mozer or Paix on the bench I’d be concerned giving them so much game time.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

I’m concerned with Billy’s wrist, I broke mine years ago and it hurt but thought I was alright. Went to drive and realised I couldn’t change gears so had to use my other arm. Was only a tiny fracture in the end. Hope he hasn’t done the same.

I may have heard this wrong but I thought Kev said it was a tendon issue rather than a break.