POST GAME [Round 19, 2025] Broncos vs Titans

[lynx000]

Not me lol if I was going to get a coffee for example I'd backflip into the shop

Physical challenge, backflip out of the shop with the coffee, without any spillage.

 

[Evander]

I thought the titans tried really hard, they didn’t play like a team coming last. Happy with the scrappy win into the bye to polish a few things up and to put 50 on the eels in 2 weeks time.

 

[Jeffy]

I rewatched that game just to watch Hunt's service.

Take back some of posts about his passing. He passed fine actually to the right off the ground. Nice pass to Reynolds after the Karapani break at 49:50 game time.

It's when he takes the ball off the ground, and then doesn't meaningfully engage any markers, before dishing off a delayed ball that's not great. Still would like to see him have a scoot but better much better signs than I first thought.

 

[theshed]

I noticed he could go up a size in shorts.

What you chose to focus on is none of my business

 

[Harry]

Talty has certainly found something, first two games for the Bears I thought he looked clueless, just trying too much and coming away with not much.

Penalties and poor defence marked his time at the Bears, but I haven't seen that at all in NRL.

Sometimes these players need the step up in competition to elevate their game. I know the traditional thinking is wanting to see a player dominate in the lower grades to prove they are ready for the call up, but sometimes it takes rising to the first grade occasion for players to take that next step.

Wasn't Mam the same if I recall correctly? I seem to remember when he first got picked he wasn't blowing anyone away in the lower grades - certainly not producing anything that indicated he was going to succeed at the top level... The rest is history, and he's still developing extremely nicely as a playmaker.

 

[1910]

Sometimes these players need the step up in competition to elevate their game. I know the traditional thinking is wanting to see a player dominate in the lower grades to prove they are ready for the call up, but sometimes it takes rising to the first grade occasion for players to take that next step.

Wasn't Mam the same if I recall correctly? I seem to remember when he first got picked he wasn't blowing anyone away in the lower grades - certainly not producing anything that indicated he was going to succeed at the top level... The rest is history, and he's still developing extremely nicely as a playmaker.

Talty is 100 games deep in his Cup career and 27 years old, he comes to Brisbane plays two games of Cup and didn't exactly inspire. He's not learning his trade and as a minimum you don't want to see 19 year old Bai on debut monster him. I would have been looking for the experienced Cup player to flog the kid. There are other factors, new team, new team mates, shipped off to Burleigh. Sometimes the problem when you prepare for your NRL for 10 years can be the come down after a few games which well might come yet.

That's different to a 19-year-old Mam.

 

[Harry]

Talty is 100 games deep in his Cup career and 27 years old, he comes to Brisbane plays two games of Cup and didn't exactly inspire. He's not learning his trade and as a minimum you don't want to see 19 year old Bai on debut monster him. I would have been looking for the experienced Cup player to flog the kid. There are other factors, new team, new team mates, shipped off to Burleigh. Sometimes the problem when you prepare for your NRL for 10 years can be the come down after a few games which well might come yet.

That's different to a 19-year-old Mam.

All good and valid points and I definitely see the difference with the Mam situation.

I tend to see it like Origin - when players go up that next level to play Origin, quite often they markedly improve and never look back. Maybe it's the self-belief and confidence, maybe its benefitting from being surrounded and influenced by a group of more elite players and coaches, maybe a mix of intangibles, but it definitely happens a lot.

I hope for Talty's sake that he goes on with it and ends up becoming a consistent first grader. Most prop forwards are only really hitting their straps mid to late 20s (Payne excluded, he's just a bizarre freak), so he could still put together a nice little 5 year stint if he goes on with it.

 

[Elcapitano20]

Credit to Smoothy, he did some great defensive work, specially on Tino and Fotuaaika

 

[phoenix]

Yeah if I had to choose Fifita or Baker for 300k

 

[Allo]

All good and valid points and I definitely see the difference with the Mam situation.

I tend to see it like Origin - when players go up that next level to play Origin, quite often they markedly improve and never look back. Maybe it's the self-belief and confidence, maybe its benefitting from being surrounded and influenced by a group of more elite players and coaches, maybe a mix of intangibles, but it definitely happens a lot.

I hope for Talty's sake that he goes on with it and ends up becoming a consistent first grader. Most prop forwards are only really hitting their straps mid to late 20s (Payne excluded, he's just a bizarre freak), so he could still put together a nice little 5 year stint if he goes on with it.

Far cry from top grade footy (not that I ever played), but when I stepped up from juniors to fill-in for the seniors (15yo playing with 25-35yo), I always played out of my skin.

It’s a rise to the occasion, and many need it to get that confidence that they can do it and belong at that level. On the other hand players can end up languishing in reserve grade, believing that’s their ceiling.

Sometimes that’s for good reason and the decision to never have been picked gets vindicated if they eventually get into an NRL team, other times it’s a case of wasted potential because they never got a real shot.

 

[Mitchell_Broncos]

 

[FACTHUNT]

Love ya Walshy but that moustache is giving era of the aids epidemic so it's a no from me dawg

 

[dasherhalo]

Credit to Smoothy, he did some great defensive work, specially on Tino and Fotuaaika

"I'm just happy to be playing, I'll slot in anywhere the coach wants me, whoever that is".

Coach: "go tackle Tino and Mo".

Smoothy: "****".

 

[GCBRONCO]

 

[Super Freak]

I can't believe the media were even reporting on it.

That happens regularly in every team sport in the ****ing world. Hell, if you watch the players at the games, you'll regularly see them give teammates a spray for not being in position or dropping an easy pass.