POST GAME [Round 12, 2023] Broncos vs Panthers

[Mustafur]

It's the T20 effect. More scores means more excitement, means more viewers, means more money.

and more Penrifff.

 

[McHunt]

It's the T20 effect. More scores means more excitement, means more viewers, means more money.

Hard to argue with any of that. I'm in.

 

[Midean]

So when do we win our next game? Or is this a repeat of the end of last season?

Are we going to go from 1st to out of the 8?

Also, The ref overruling the bunker is a pandoras box that has been opened against the Broncos.
Regardless of it being the right call, the ref cannot intervene once it has been sent to the bunker.

Lets see if that ever ever happens again.

Another week, another farcical display from the officials.

EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK.

I just want to watch one round where there isnt a brand new fucking howler of a decision by the officials.

 

[Swordfish]

Gritty yet courageous defense from our guys. The guys have competed all out, gave it all they have, and we got beaten if not for some on the fly rule changes. Some may ask really? To them -- for sure. It's the Broncos so, any non-existent rules apply.

From the loss against Souffs, our guys have truly gone a gear up in our defense. 2 weeks in a row, the team performed exceptionally well and that too without Adam. This team has improved immensely and Kev should be commended for that.

Sure, there are lapses and certain individuals need to be better but these L's certainly make the group to develop the killer instinct. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special. We're special this year and we will only get better.

I also want to call it out that it's not just the playing group but it's the coaching department too that's learning. If there's one thing that I'm most critical of Kev - it's the interchanges & bench usage. I hope our bench usage improves a lot.

If we've our full squad and plays to our strengths, we will beat any team convincingly & consistently. Period!

 

[Mustafur]

I forgot about the time when I 6(I was living at Cairns at the time) and my dad took me to a Holden dealer where Peter Brock was doing a singing session and I had him sign my Broncos hat at the time that I used like everyday back then, not long after we took a plane to Brisbane to visit family and I somehow lost my hat on the plane and I searched everywhere(I still think to this day someone stole it because I had it in the overhead compartment), man I was angry at the time lmao.

 

[Nerd]

He's still moving forward as he promotes it, Madden's tackle wasn't enough to stop him in his tracks.

I disagree. Players only ever look to lift the ball and promote it over the line because their gut feeling is that they may not make it. I don't understand why they would alter a rule that has worked fine since the game began. We want to take the refs out of the game not make it more complicated for them.

 

[HarryAllan7]

I think they made a massive mistake again tonight but I’m sorry we didn’t lose because of the ref we lost because we were bang average. The deserved team won and whilst that needs investigating that situation the deserved team definitely won tonight.

Never said we lost because of the refereeing.

penrith were better and deserved to win even though we showed a ton of heart.

my issue is that every week there is inconsistency and ineptitude that ruins games and takes the results away from the players on the field. It doesn’t just happen to us, either.

 

[Nerd]

As expected Cleary pinned us in our half with his kicking game and our inexperienced halves struggled with our kicking game. Put Reynolds in our team and we probably would have won last night.

Saying that we had a 7 playing his second game for the club and his first as a 7 and a 5/8 who in only his second year of first grade against the Australian number 7 and Origin 5/8.

If we make the semis the only team so far that worries me is Souffs. The Storm beat us by two tries and both were scored when we were down to 12 men and missing Reynolds for most of the game. We lost a close game to Penrith with possibly the two most inexperienced halves in the comp.

I thought we won the forward battle against both the Storm and Penrith and hold no fear for them if we meet either in the finals.

On Marty Taupau he needs to see minimal time on the field and Jensen should be seeing at least 30 minutes a week. I'm of the opinion that Taupau being on the bench is denying one of our younger forwards game time from the bench in short bursts to get some feel for first grade.

 

[winslow_wong]

Ash Klein was actually helping us for once but Adam gee said “wtf ash?”

 

[Xzei]

not a bad game over all considering the outs two 50/50 calls go our way and we are having a different conversation thismorning

 

[theshed]

What’s this about Laui and the ref?

 

[Big Pete]

What’s this about Laui and the ref?

 

[MrMoore]

We were never going to win this one, glad I woke up and it wasn't a 40+ shalacking. Looks like they done alright considering.

 

[Foordy]

He's still moving forward as he promotes it, Madden's tackle wasn't enough to stop him in his tracks.

doesn't have to.

to use the momentum exception to the double movement rule, momentum has to have taken the ball to the in goal, as if the player never promoted it.

in this case, the ball is level with his chest when he hits the deck, and he promotes it to be level with his his head. and the ball only touches the chalk, before he is bundled out into touch. momentum never takes his chest across the line, so the ball would never have ended up across the line.

It was a text book double movement ... in fact if you allow that to be a try, you may as well get a big black pen and cross out the double movement rule, because it no longer exists

 

[LittleDavey]

doesn't have to.

to use the momentum exception to the double movement rule, momentum has to have taken the ball to the in goal, as if the player never promoted it.

in this case, the ball is level with his chest when he hits the deck, and he promotes it to be level with his his head. and the ball only touches the chalk, before he is bundled out into touch. momentum never takes his chest across the line, so the ball would never have ended up across the line.

It was a text book double movement ... in fact if you allow that to be a try, you may as well get a big black pen and cross out the double movement rule, because it no longer exists

This, it was a textbook double movement for mine, it's a very simple rule. He doesn't promote the ball, it doesn't reach the line.

Happy with the Walsh no-try on first look (though the ref overruling the bunker I am not okay with because that is not the way it works) because he wasn't even looking at the ball. However, watching it again he is in the air with a fair chance of catching it when it comes down - geez he had some hang time! - so I think that should be taken into account. He WAS a chance at the ball after all, and I don't see what he did was any different than the likes of Coen Hess coming through and spoiling catches with no real chance at catching the ball because he's steaming through at a million miles an hour. Or to what the Storm did to us every kick last week. It is something they need to tighten up, but again, I don't really know how you do that.

A lot to take from lastnight, the boys should hold their heads up high. Some almost tries again, geez if we get those right and defend like lastnight, no-one in the comp can touch us IMO. This was against easily the best defence in the competition and without our main general in attack, that can't be understated. We are in this year up to our eyeballs, just need to keep believing and not drop our heads and let the inevitable slide down the ladder get to us. Premierships aren't won in May, still plenty of time to get those combinations right. Kev was also right in his presser - Penrith have been doing this together for years, we're still learning. Really good signs, I'm disappointed but also really proud. Lots to like about what this team are building.

 

[Super Freak]

doesn't have to.

to use the momentum exception to the double movement rule, momentum has to have taken the ball to the in goal, as if the player never promoted it.

in this case, the ball is level with his chest when he hits the deck, and he promotes it to be level with his his head. and the ball only touches the chalk, before he is bundled out into touch. momentum never takes his chest across the line, so the ball would never have ended up across the line.

It was a text book double movement ... in fact if you allow that to be a try, you may as well get a big black pen and cross out the double movement rule, because it no longer exists

The ball is tucked under the chin ahead of the right shoulder, even without promotion his chest ends up in line with the line so the ball still would have made it.

Bunker definitely didn't have enough to overturn it.

 

[Manofoneway]

I liked Cobbo sending Luai flying late as well...

Yeah, Cobbo smashed Luai a few times. Was a great to see. Thought Cobbo had a great game after a pretty poor performance last week. Good on him

 

[Manofoneway]

Does anyone know if some of our players don't make the 18 for origin will they be able to travel to NZ to play? I cant see Billy having these players in origin camp and letting them go for the weekend before a game. I think we will lose a majority of our stars for this one simply because we are playing in NZ