POST GAME [Round 15, 2024] Broncos vs Rabbitohs

[TimWhatley]

Sorry, I thought you said something about the hookers never running, our lack of momentum in the ruck for our forwards o run onto and that type of thing........

I missed the first 10mins but I wasn't seeing much from Billy in his first stint. It wasn't until he can back and started running and engaging the markers that he started to make a difference. So at least Billy can do it if he's instructed to, Smoothy I'm not so sure. If you swapped our hookers for Cook, I think alot of our attack problems go away.

 

[Manofoneway]

I missed the first 10mins but I wasn't seeing much from Billy in his first stint. It wasn't until he can back and started running and engaging the markers that he started to make a difference. So at least Billy can do it if he's instructed to, Smoothy I'm not so sure. If you swapped our hookers for Cook, I think alot of our attack problems go away.

Our problems in attack are solved if we hold the ball. Got nothing to do with our hookers

 

[Bronx48]

…. so Kevvie said the “effort” was there and he isn’t overly concerned. It’s going to be a long second half of the season isn’t it.

 

[Gaz]

Melbourne without Munster. Riff without Cleary. Both are still top 8 teams, heck, you could take out Paps and Yeo and they'd still finish in the top eight.

Coaches are still there!

 

[1910]

Piakura gets more disappointing with every game. He needs some time back in the reggies.

Souths say no thanks. He’d miss 20 tackles at the Magpies.

 

[Slippin Jimmy]

…. so Kevvie said the “effort” was there and he isn’t overly concerned. It’s going to be a long second half of the season isn’t it.

Team confidence is a massive issue right now. He's probably trying to preserve whatever's left of it until we get some troops back.

 

[Culhwch]

Drop Piaks to the bench and use him as impact.

 

[Big Pete]

If you don't laugh, you'll only cry.

18 errors, 50 missed tackles, 10 Penalties, 43% possession - there's nothing to write home about.

It's a tough period for the Broncos. They'll have to change what they're doing and work on their combinations to get the ball to the right areas of the field. The backs in particular have to work on defending kicks and work harder to get the ball out of trouble.

I don't think they'll get there by making a sway of changes. The Broncos just have to pick the best side they possibly can and just pride themselves on the basics. The one passage where they looked OK was when Mam kicked it into a corner and the Broncos put together a nice chase. For a brief moment, they swung momentum only for an error to un-do all their hard work.

That's what they have to work on - they can't bring in a Josh Rogers, Va'a Semu or Creedence Toia and expect things to improve. Those players need to work on their own issues and bringing them in isn't going to solve matters.

 

[Broncapz]

60-70th min we conceded three unanswered tries to the titans
40-50th min we conceded three unanswered tries to the sharks
10-20th min we conceded three unanswered tries to souths

We've got a real habit of conceding 3 unanswered tries in short order. A very very very painful habit.

 

[GCBRONCO]

I haven't watched it and going from what has been said I'm not sure I can bring myself to.

 

[Broncapz]

Then why in the flying **** did we let Capewell go? Why did we even give him an indication that he was unwanted?

That is the tale of the tape when it comes to this club in the past 10 years, terrible fucking decisions that come back around to bite us.

It was a gamble on Piakura., and capewell getting a better long term offer.

 

[broncos4life]

All this talk of we fucked up releasing Capewell is clearly from people that have not watched him this year. He has spent a majority of it injured and when he has played he has been ok at best. Not sure how that would be helping us.

In reality if we kept him the same people would be saying THAT was a failure of R+R to keep a guy too long.

 

[BroncosFever]

…. so Kevvie said the “effort” was there and he isn’t overly concerned. It’s going to be a long second half of the season isn’t it.

It was there, we got ourselves back into the game when it was 18-0 down, the average mug wouldn't see it that way, we were still 18 points down but we started to get on top. We just struggled to score points and execute our plays.

 

[mitch222]

All this talk of we fucked up releasing Capewell is clearly from people that have not watched him this year. He has spent a majority of it injured and when he has played he has been ok at best. Not sure how that would be helping us.

In reality if we kept him the same people would be saying THAT was a failure of R+R to keep a guy too long.

But we could really use Capewell for leadership and half a game from the bench because clearly Piakura just isn’t up to play 80 yet and to be honest I’m not surprised
It took Riki like 3 years to start playing a consistent 80

 

[Battler]

Joey had such a hard on for a send off. He's still burning from Origin 1.

'If he'd stayed down...' What are you implying, Joey, that Walsh foxed unconsciousness?

I thought Riki was lucky not to be sent off: hit the bloke off the ball and arguably high. Suaalii’s shot, however, was far worse and deserved 10 or so weeks on the sideline

 

[Waynesaurus]

Umm.......so let me get this straight, Riki was charged and will spend a couple of weeks on sidelines for a tackle that wasn't high yet NAS and JWH who are serial offenders can just rack up 'fines' and play on?

 

[Bronx48]

2 weeks . F**k me!! What a joke

 

[Broncapz]

2 weeks . F**k me!! What a joke

It's fair, a player without the ball shouldn't have to worry about their head.