LIVE GAME [Round 13, 2026] - Broncos vs Dragons

[Skathen]

Think it's definitely time to see what Duffy can offer over Mam. Put Mam back to the bench, inject him in the last 20 and ban him from maccas for a few months. Trim him down and get him back to his speedy best. His entire threat was beating defenders, he can't do that if he can't use his speed.

Shiba - he's clearly fallen back into his previous form that saw him pin-ball through multiple clubs. Whatever he's doing different this year (likely not doing) is destroying whatever he can offer.

Paiks, best we've got but still injury prone and dumb as a bag of rocks.

X-Man out of the prop rotation just kills our middle.

Patty has problems, not even talking about his ankle. Something is wrong either physically or upstairs. He's just not 'all in' this year.

Reece, back to '24 form.

Just don't think we're using Staggs correctly. When he runs 2nd rower lines 20 out, he's devastating and we just don't do it enough.

Talty, love the bloke, but looks like he's running in quicksand this year.

Never thought we'd miss Jensen so much in the middle.

 

[Santa]

Legit question….
Does anyone else wanna punch Matt Russell in the head for his commentary?
The game is ****en annoying as it is, but his commentary is infuriating

Alexander makes it worse too. They dont even know what going on half the time...

 

[Brocko]

Cook is heads and shoulders above Paix, which is embarrassing. Why we just re-signed him is beyond me.

ESL bound Cook. Its laughable how much better he is than our 2 today

 

[BroncsFan]

And forwards too busy looking for a pass to ****ing run.

And playmakers who have no ****ing clue what to do because no-one is given them an option.

The team looks completely rudderless.

The only time we've looked good was leading up to the crap Bhunt crash ball.

There were 3 tackles that looked actually structured, because they had the penalty and bunker review to set something up, and it ended up creating a quick ptb for Piaks... Bhunt was late to the ball, and it ended up in Payne's hands who took a settler... but the whole line was not set for anything... it went 2-3 passes wide and none of Ezra, Reynolds or Reece touched it.

A quick ptb has to set off alarm bells for the attack, but instead they had no ****ing idea what to do with it.

 

[Allo]

At this rate ditto.

Only 6 more games that aren’t on FTA

I think I’ll do the same tbh, save myself $46 a month

 

[Jazza]

Turbo making a good point. Hass is killing it in the middle, players like Wlash and Mam need to be in there following him for an offload.

Apparently we’re last in offloads this year. Need to change things up

 

[eazy-duzzit]

I just can't cope that our play the ball speed is always so slow compared to our opposition.

It's mindblowing..the service out of dummy half has to be the absolute worst in the comp. If it's not Paix taking 5 years to pass, it's Mam or Walsh casually passing it like they're just playing around at the park

 

[the_next]

This is typical Brisbane but, none of it should surprise us and I made comment in the pre game thread of this exact performance incoming.
They think they’re the kings of the nrl. Sure, you were in the off season but are now back looking like cellar dwellers.
Thought they could just turn up and win on their names alone.
Fkn embarrassing.

Hopefully Reece can do what he did to the Roosters in the second half to get us home. That’s our only hope. Just a bandaid solution at this point but we need some form of confidence to get some momentum building.

 

[Broncones]

We need a hooker who can cause urgency around the play ball. We need to be playing direct and quickly through the middle. Walsh should remember that he’s a fullback first and a playmaker second.

we’ve got a 5/8th who never ball plays and fullback who never runs

Paix and hunt never run the ball it's pretty annoying. I do think hunt is much better in the role but, at least he gives Walsh a spray when he does something ******ed

 

[Bronx48]

Not having Riki sucks. He’s been the most consistent this season, unlike some of these blokes who look like they don’t even realise they’re not at a training session.

 

[Waynesaurus]

Turbo on the panel is torture to listen to

I'm not sure how he got a run, he doesn't play for the Roosters........

 

[dejan]

Tbf, Bunt at hooker has been pretty shocking too. And a few weeks ago Paix was playing 80 minutes a game and looking solid.

I am calling a bit of fatigue due to training load. It worked last year, which helped us go on a good run.

Basically, we need a circuit breaker win to reenergize everyone until the training load eases up.

 

[Cult]

Dead set, having to listen to Alex Glenn struggle to read five words off his script for 80 minutes might be the end for me. He couldn’t motivate us when he was on the field, how’s he going to do it over a loud speaker?

 

[Brett Da Man LeMan]

Anyone think we can comeback.

I do, but we need either hunt or reyno off, preferably both to be a chance. Everyone is looking to get their hands on the ball, no one is running it.
Our back lines have no idea how to set up because they don't know which half, or if reece, or carrigan ffs, will be running the next play.
No one is running lines to create doubt. Everyone is flat. Do that stuff better

 

[johnyE]

GOD IT JUST SHITS ME when Hass makes a bust and nobody supports him .

 

[_wwong]

ESL bound Cook. Its laughable how much better he is than our 2 today

If he played for us, we improve so much. Paix is useless at dummy half. Slow service and never even looks up to run.

 

[Kaz]

fI we lose, Madge better sent an email to the NRL like Ciraldo is.

 

[Bronx48]

Our offer to Shiba is even 300k too much.