POST GAME [Round 26, 2025] Broncos vs Cowboys

Cowboys vs Broncos

Cowboys

30 - 38

MATCH COMPLETE

QCB Stadium

30 Aug 2025

Broncos

Match Stats

Cowboys Broncos
5 Tries 7
5 / 5 Conversions 5 / 7
0/0 Field Goals 0/0
0/0 2P Field Goals 0/0
2 Try Assists 6
Cowboys Broncos
53% Possession 47%
10 / 34 Set Completion 11 / 26
51 Time in Opposition Half 49
1336 Metres Gained 1536
1 Dropouts 0
8 Dummy Half Runs 9
19 / 473 Kicks/Kick Metres 13 / 450
0 40/20 0
0 20/40 0
16 Offloads 12
0 1 on 1 Steals 0
4 Line Breaks 12
2 Line Break Assists 10
6 Support Play 7
Cowboys Broncos
10 / 34 Set Completion 11 / 26
2 Penalties (Conceded) 5
4 Set Restarts 1
14 Errors 18

Player Stats

# Cowboys T Pts TA LB TB OFF Ta MT IT Pos DR K KM M E P
1 S. Drinkwater 0 10 0 0 6 2 6 4 0 54 1 3 36m 114m 3 0
2 S. Valemei 2 8 0 1 2 1 4 8 0 16 0 0 0m 147m 0 0
3 J. Purdue 0 0 0 0 1 2 16 0 1 19 1 0 0m 70m 0 0
14 Z. Laybutt 0 0 1 0 0 1 14 5 1 24 0 1 11m 75m 3 0
5 B. Burns 1 4 0 1 5 0 12 2 0 20 2 0 0m 146m 0 1
6 J. Clifford 1 4 0 1 3 2 12 4 1 46 0 11 375m 70m 2 0
7 T. Dearden 0 0 0 0 6 4 20 5 3 65 0 4 51m 37m 0 1
8 J. McLean 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 1 0 22 0 0 0m 112m 1 0
9 R. Robson 1 4 0 1 2 0 26 1 3 60 2 0 0m 16m 0 0
10 J. Taumalolo 0 0 0 0 1 2 13 3 0 25 0 0 0m 178m 0 0
11 J. Bateman 0 0 1 0 5 1 35 9 1 17 1 0 0m 86m 1 0
12 J. Nanai 0 0 0 0 2 0 22 5 4 14 0 0 0m 32m 4 0
13 R. Cotter 0 0 0 0 0 1 39 5 3 14 0 0 0m 91m 0 0
15 K. Lawton 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1 0 38 1 0 0m 12m 0 0
16 H. Edwards 0 0 0 0 1 0 22 2 2 6 0 0 0m 47m 0 0
17 T. Mikaele 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 0 0 10 0 0 0m 94m 0 0
18 K. O'Donnell 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 0m 9m 0 0
# Broncos T Pts TA LB TB OFF Ta MT IT Pos DR K KM M E P
1 R. Walsh 1 14 2 0 10 3 2 1 0 49 1 6 212m 154m 6 0
2 J. Karapani 1 4 0 3 7 0 2 1 0 18 0 0 0m 192m 0 0
3 K. Staggs 1 4 0 1 3 2 14 0 1 18 2 0 0m 145m 3 1
4 G. Shibasaki 2 8 1 3 7 0 9 2 1 19 0 0 0m 154m 5 0
5 D. Mariner 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 1 0 18 1 0 0m 157m 1 0
6 B. Walters 1 4 1 0 3 0 28 4 3 27 3 0 0m 59m 1 0
7 B. Hunt 0 0 1 0 1 3 15 5 3 36 1 7 238m 22m 0 0
8 C. Jensen 0 0 0 0 1 0 24 0 1 10 0 0 0m 84m 0 0
9 C. Paix 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 1 1 57 1 0 0m 12m 0 2
10 P. Haas 1 4 0 1 6 1 31 1 2 11 0 0 0m 130m 0 0
11 J. Hunt 0 0 0 1 3 0 24 4 0 8 0 0 0m 68m 0 1
12 J. Riki 0 0 0 1 5 0 35 5 3 15 0 0 0m 99m 1 0
13 P. Carrigan 0 0 0 0 1 2 29 4 3 17 0 0 0m 86m 0 0
14 T. Smoothy 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3 1 53 0 0 0m 0m 0 0
15 K. Hetherington 0 0 0 1 2 0 31 2 2 13 0 0 0m 103m 0 0
16 B. Talty 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 0 1 7 0 0 0m 49m 0 0
17 B. Piakura 0 0 0 0 1 0 13 1 1 3 0 0 0m 22m 1 1
 
pennywisealfie said:
This is the plot of a comedy film. In a world where the strictest coach in the world starts coaching.....the most undisciplined team of all time! It's madcap laugh a minute in BRONCOS! Rated PG.
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One of those 90’s children sports movies like the mighty ducks, except they improve and we find ways to suck even more.
 
Swordfish said:
Guys, brace yourself for Father Crawley & Pope Drunk Fcuk preachings on Monday.

Agree that it’s an ugly win but watch them how they spin it and preach that
1. the cheat fcuks would steam roll us Thursday week. They would conveniently leave out the fact that the grubs got steamrolled by 40 points in 1 half but the the sole attention & their spin would be on

2. Shibas pass to Billy which is forward was let go &
3. how many of our passes were turned a blind eye to & the NRL must strictly enforce rules on us.
4. Walsh is cocky, arrogant, getting out of control & he will ruin our chances.
5. We are lucky to finish in the top 8.

Stupid lowlife morons.
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Walsh is borderline in better form than 2009 Hayne (who was getting glazed like a donut by the media at the time), but all we get from ‘journos’ are unhinged opinions such as his cockiness being the reason for injuries etc.

Fox league will be sorted for the summer if he wins the CCM: they can boot up a 24 hr “Walsh” channel and have Crawley, Brandy, and the boys rant about him in between highlights
 
Watched the match highlights and except for one of our tries, the rest were all correct as the ball was passed backwards. For the Cows I could only see their 1st and 4th tries as legitimate. That 3rd try was ridiculous-so if we throw a ball into an opponent and it travels forward and then regathered by the same side, it’s okay?
Walsh wasn’t playing at the ball yet this arsey try was allowed. FML
 
Scorchie said:
Just me or did it feel like Hunt didn’t actually do anything most of the game except a couple of times he ran in a circle
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I’d be fine with Reynolds coming back in if his worst games were just that.

Too often he makes some game-turning errors and unlike Walsh can’t at least balance them out
 
Walshy's location on his instagram, lmaoooooo - crying Paul Crawley article coming soon!!
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Regarding second row, some of the lines Shiba runs, and the way he hits a gap is better than most of our second row options.

Also has been pretty good defensively at centre (which is arguably the hardest position to defend), so is used to edge defence and reads it pretty well.

With some of the depth in the outside backs next year, it would not be bad to have him run some reps at second row in the off season. Then again, do you really want to run him in a different position when he has just had the best year of his career at centre?
 
I’ve seen so much carry on this morning about the pass for Billy’s try and I keep watching it and trying to not have broncos bias.

I just cannot compute the mass hysteria about it. I’ll concede it is flat and I’m probably happy to concede it is a little bit forward, but everyone is acting like it was 3 metres forward.
 
Scorchie said:
Just me or did it feel like Hunt didn’t actually do anything most of the game except a couple of times he ran in a circle
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Last night wasn’t his best, along with 16 of his mates. But, I’m reluctant to change what’s been working.
I don’t know if playing second fiddle to reyno has worked. I feel like he just plods along when he knows he doesn’t have to be the top dog.
One thing I’ve enjoyed with Hunt has been how he has kept his team mates accountable. I wish reyno had a blow up in him.
 
Best moment of the game by far.

Payne is the best at what he does.
Also Bateman is dogshit and up there with my most disliked players of all time, so when Payne lined him up, run through him and scored, it was a double win for me.

 
Midean said:
Best moment of the game by far.

Payne is the best at what he does.
Also Bateman is dogshit and up there with my most disliked players of all time, so when Payne lined him up, run through him and scored, it was a double win for me.

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The poor guy looked so sick all game. He only managed 3 hit ups in the first half, and he still managed to pull this shit out. He’s a god
 
the_next said:
But, I’m reluctant to change what’s been working
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If you want Hunt in instead of Reynolds then you're not reluctant to change what's working.

because we won 6 from the last 7 games before his injury against the Storm and that included against 3 top 8 teams (2 of them were top 4). Hunt has managed a few wins, but the majority of those came against bottom 4 teams, where we hardly looked convincing
 
MrTickyMcG said:
I’ve seen so much carry on this morning about the pass for Billy’s try and I keep watching it and trying to not have broncos bias.

I just cannot compute the mass hysteria about it. I’ll concede it is flat and I’m probably happy to concede it is a little bit forward, but everyone is acting like it was 3 metres forward.
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We will never be able to know what a forward pass is in this sport in that situation, you got guys going full pelt down the field, passing to someone else going just as quick, you can't freeze time because obviously it will go behind the guy running to catch it.

It probably was forward but like I just said, you got 2 guys going hell for leather and one passes the ball to another, it's always going to look forward when they are running in line with each other.
 
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