PRE-GAME Round 2 - Broncos vs Cowboys

[Foordy]

His ability to get into a position to offload isn't a bonus to his game? Haven't we been crying out for second phase play since Parker retired? McGuire especially has been savaged for not being able to ball play or offload, now we have Lodge and TPJ who possess those skills as natural talents and we aren't going to capitalise on that? Sure, he could be more selective, but coaching him to stop doing it is the wrong move imo.

we need to let him get the core role of a prop down first ... then later we can re-introduce offloads to his game.

right now let him focus on getting good meters and a quick play the ball

 

[winslow_wong]

Wayne Bennett nor any broncos staff members give two ***** about super coach or fantasy stats period. They only care about winning and doing what's best for the team which is what TPJ said that he will do going forward. You have to earn the right to offload the ball to begin with and we cant beat the cowboys with another handling error display like the Dragons game. And TPJs biggest strength is the ability to bend the line and get a quick play the ball. That's exactly what we need on Friday

I was hoping milfords would be sniffing around for a tpj offload to re-ignite his game.

 

[Smokin' Joe]

Finished the round.

Taggers: 42 minutes and nine tackle breaks.
Flegler: 32 minutes and 11 tackles with nine runs.
Scarlett- 388 kicking meters.
Fai- 22 tackles- 3 missed.
Haas- 48 minutes, 26 tackles and 0 missed. 14 runs and 155m, nine tackle breaks.
Turpin- 49 minutes, 20 tackles and 0 missed.

Haas’s stats are mighty impressive for a kid against men.

 

[Renegade]

Haas’s stats are mighty impressive for a kid against men.

If you're good enough you're old enough!

 

[Smokin' Joe]

If you're good enough you're old enough!

Absolutely

 

[BroncsFan]

Morgan is out?

Massive boost for our chances.

Please all just the ridiculous mind games from Paul Green. I don't care what any journos say Morgan would be $1.01 to play. Hell they've named Temaire in the 14 jersey. Green is as transparent as clean glass.

You can tell when a player won't play when Green names them in the starting squad despite a serious injury cloud.

Also that article says Coote is a chance of returning but he isn't even named in the squad... who writes this.

 

[Super Freak]

Darren Lockyer tells Kodi Nikorima he needs to talk more if he wants to influence the game

March 14, 2018

BRONCOS playmaking legend Darren Lockyer has urged Kodi Nikorima to be more vocal against the Cowboys on Friday night as the underfire halfback braces for a daunting showdown with Johnathan Thurston.

While Brisbane’s $1 million man Anthony Milford has copped brickbats for his round one performance, Lockyer says Nikorima cannot escape scrutiny for his quiet display in the Broncos’ 34-12 loss to the Dragons.

The jury is out on whether Nikorima can be Brisbane’s long-term No. 7 and the pressure will be amplified when the 23-year-old is asked to outpoint Thurston in the Queensland derby.

Playing behind a beaten pack last week at Kogarah, Nikorima had just 35 possessions, almost half of Ben Hunt’s 57 as the big-money Dragons recruit returned to haunt his former Broncos teammates.

Champion playmaker Thurston can regularly be seen barking orders at his Cowboys colleagues and Lockyer, the 355-game Broncos legend, warned Nikorima not to go into his shell.

“What would help Kodi is being more vocal and organising players around him,” said Lockyer, the last Broncos playmaker to steer the club to a premiership in 2006.

“When I was in the halves, I found the more I talked to the forwards and setting up plays, the more I got involved.

“Sometimes you don’t only get involved by touching the football — you can get involved with your voice and the way you direct your teammates.

“I’d like to see Kodi as well as Anthony (Milford) talking more, that would show me they are engaged in what’s happening out on the field.”

For all his doubters, Nikorima’s record as a starting playmaker is promising. Of 14 matches in the Broncos’ No. 7 jumper, Nikorima has won 10 games for a success rate of 71 per cent, evidence he knows how to steer an NRL team to victory.

But Nikorima accepts he is not the finished article as an elite NRL playmaker. Quiet by nature, the Kiwi Test utility is working hard on his communication and says it’s vital he takes more control against Thurston’s Cowboys in a bid to ease the strain on Milford.

“We can definitely share the workload a bit better,” Nikorima said.

“There is a lot of pressure on ‘Milf’ this year and it’s important I take the pressure off him.

“With ‘Macca’ (hooker Andrew McCullough) and Darius (Boyd, fullback), we are trying to share the playmaking roles and in time our spine will click.

“It’s going to be a massive challenge this week for me and Milf.

“Thurston is someone I try and base my game on. The thing I like is his competitiveness, in attack or defence, I really admire the way he plays and I’ve tried to base my game on that moving forward.”

Source: Courier Mail

 

[1910]

Haas’s stats are mighty impressive for a kid against men.

Yeah, good thing too was that he improved as the game went. At the start it was just I’m big and run one out. Then by the end of his stint he was being smarter. He took a run didn’t fight it so much and got a quicker play the ball, took it left and Wynnum score.

Think getting around Dobson will help. Dobson turned him under a lot.

This week against Falcons will be good. Big Tui will be keen. Trigger will have been frothing at the mouth this week.

 

[holdzy]

Please all just the ridiculous mind games from Paul Green. I don't care what any journos say Morgan would be $1.01 to play. Hell they've named Temaire in the 14 jersey. Green is as transparent as clean glass.

You can tell when a player won't play when Green names them in the starting squad despite a serious injury cloud.

Also that article says Coote is a chance of returning but he isn't even named in the squad... who writes this.

I hope you're wrong, but if not, our forwards need to get acquainted with his rib cage.

 

[Harry Sack]

His ability to get into a position to offload isn't a bonus to his game? Haven't we been crying out for second phase play since Parker retired? McGuire especially has been savaged for not being able to ball play or offload, now we have Lodge and TPJ who possess those skills as natural talents and we aren't going to capitalise on that? Sure, he could be more selective, but coaching him to stop doing it is the wrong move imo.

I'd say it's a case of you need to walk before you can run. Back to the basics and introduce that stuff gradually. That said, i'm hoping they've more just told him to limit it.

 

[Super Freak]

Also that article says Coote is a chance of returning but he isn't even named in the squad... who writes this.

That part of the article was written before the squad was named.

Some of it's written beforehand and the rest is added after the squads are named.

 

[Aldo]

In a text book world, I get why we need to play no frills, hard footy to get better field position and get our confidence back. But in reality, if we go too one out because we are scared of dropping the ball, we'll get murdered. Against a good, big pack like the Cowboys, I just don't think we have the players to bend the line if we play too conservatively.

I don't mind them using passing/offloads to go forward and isolate defenders to get a quick play the ball. We just need to execute better. Some of the errors we made last week were Under 9 shit. Just comes down to a bit more focus, switch on with the right attitude and execute the play like a fucking NRL level player that's getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.

 

[Morkel]

None of TPJ’s offloads resulted in a break IIRC. That’s not because we had no one sniffing around, it’s because their line was still completely intact. Get a roll-on first, have them back-tracking and then the offloads can come in to play. At the moment, we’re risking a turnover with the reward of maybe the equivalent of one extra play in the set.

 

[Super Freak]

Morgan insists he is a 60/40 chance of playing this week.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...2/news-story/b05717e27eae7b4b9e37600f52bc6d27

 

[winslow_wong]

Morgan wants to ease back into first grade by feasting on Milford.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Morgan wants to ease back into first grade by feasting on Milford.

He would have to get on the treadmill pretty quickly to burn that off afterwards.

 

[roo-ted]

If you're good enough you're old enough!

See that's what I thought

 

[Stix]

See that's what I thought

He's definitely capable of tearing it up in first grade, but consistency would be his issue. If he pulls those stats out regularly in the ISC and handles the week in week out stuff well I can't see Wayne holding him back for the sake of it.