POST GAME [Round 3, 2022] Broncos vs Cowboys

[BooKhaki]

People going to admit Cobbo isn't first grade standard yet?

 

[BooKhaki]

Niu, Staggs and Cobbo were so unbelievably bad. Niu and Cobbo need to be in ISC.

 

[Big Pete]

I thought there were two key differences between both teams.

In attack the Cowboys played with plenty of structure which allowed them to get through their sets effortlessly as the players understood what was required of them. Meanwhile the Broncos could rarely capitilise on their plays because the players appeared to be lost in their roles.

Then the biggest difference was the defence. The Cowboys line-speed was unbelievable, they've taken a page from the Panthers hand-book where they're daring the referee to penalise them and they seldom would. If you get the chance go back to Granville tackling Cobbo in-goal and notice how he's 2m offside before the referee calls go. They were testing the official all afternoon and kudos to them since that's the meta right now. It's just a matter of whether you have the fitness to pull it off which the Cows did.

 

[Wolfie]

What i would say is Lee and Periera looked like they had a bit of chemistry in the trials. Surely now is the time after 3 poor efforts by our right side to give players that did well in the trials a run. We cant keep rewarding poor performances with spots in the team.

 

[Sproj]

I've been posting on this forum for around 10 years under various usernames and it always seems to be the same formula. The supposed superstars of this forum with 15K posts plus talk up these youngsters (back in the day it was Kurtis Lingwoodock who amounted to jack shit), youngster gets picked for 1st grade and are hopeless, the rest of the nuffies jump up and down and complain about why these players aren't any good.

I don't ever recall talking Lingwoodock up but what I will say is thank you. You have single-handedly identified the issue with the Brisbane Broncos - us posters on here who have more than 15k posts. I will be on the phone to Kevvie ASAP and tell him the problem with the team the last couple of years is...me (and my fellow 15k plus posters).

 

[theshed]

We arguably the most experienced 7 in the game our transition to attack is still terrible. Instead of shifting wide and running a set play off the back of a quick play the ball (like the storm, panthers, roosters) we almost always do it off the back of a slow play the ball. It’s fucking frustrating. It’s like they are trying to pick the worst possible time to through the ball wide. I’m not sure if that’s the 9 or 7 fault but something needs to change.
It’s something we haven’t been good at for a long time.

*cough*coach*cough*

 

[Johnny92]

Well I'm his biggest critic at centre, and even I would be loathe to move him now, simply because of his defence alone.

He has to be moved to fullback he's the best option at the club

 

[Wolfie]

People going to admit Cobbo isn't first grade standard yet?

I'd say its more he isnt ready for regular football rather than him not being good enough. They probably think they need to play him to get him to sign.

 

[Bongo]

So do we just lay the boot in to half our squad until they turn up and win again? Is that how this works?

Or do we get behind them and support them, just let me know aye. I am a bit confused.

Lay the boot to some like staggs whose displays have been unprofessional over all three matches while on big money.

Support Niu by putting him in Q Cup to learn his trade. He is not an NRL fullback yet based on his two matches.

Turpin to play much less minutes but hold a place in the team.

The others that were bad should get another shot.

 

[McHunt]

Should shift him to the right

I'm starting to warm to the idea of shifting Herbie to the back. At least to see how he looks back there.

If Kevvie were to switch them mid-game, it wouldn't be like dropping either from their position and it wouldn't catch the media's attention during the week.

 

[Midean]

Kelly was invisible today as well, he has been key to our wins and he went missing.

 

[winslow_wong]

People going to admit Cobbo isn't first grade standard yet?

Is he any worse than what Coates was last year?

 

[winslow_wong]

Kelly was invisible today as well, he has been key to our wins and he went missing.

Everything fell apart once he launched that kick dead in goal with no pressure on him.

 

[Wolfie]

*cough*coach*cough*

I know i'll get shit for it, but i've never thought he should have been the coach, i dont think he is good enough but we got backed into a corner in a lot of ways and he is the coach we had to have rather than the one we really needed, which is a shame because he is such a likeable and good bloke

 

[Broncapz]

Don't know what to do about fullback. Tesi is just so unconvincing, and I feel like he's probably enough of a battle tank to go into center.

Cobbo still needs a few more minutes in the oven (QCup).

Turpin is giving away at least a penalty a game, and he just can't seem to do anything with some of the good meters and quick PTB that Haas, Carrigan put out.

Carrigan, Herbie were standouts.

 

[BroncsFan]

You cant criticise a forward for getting the ball late in the sets. Thats why you pay big money for a 7 like Reynolds to ensure those sorts of things dont happen. Its not the fault of the forward if they throw him the ball. Your hooker and halves should be running the side better than that.

Agreed... it's on the halves and hooker and also Kevvie who utilises the middle forward as a ball player.

It should be abolished... I fucking hate the tactic. Get the ball into the halves hands instead of bottlenecking it via a middle forward.

I don't mind the middle doing some ball handling (and I think Carrigan has been better at it this year) but he shouldn't be touching it inside the 20m more than the halfback

 

[007]

The bad:

• Tesi - Simply not 1st grade material, never will be.
• Staggs - Needs to get stuck into some hard work, no flashy stuff.
• Turpin - killed any chance of momentum in the first half.
• Cobbo - looked like he was lacking confidence and was a little lost. (Hard to be confident when your inside man is MIA)
• Kelly - Failed to step up and gain control when needed.

I have a suspicion Haas has his mind elsewhere, looks a little unlike himself energy wise.

Changes Needed:

• A lot of our problems stemmed from hooker today.
• Walters to Hooker, Paix interchange. Turpin suspended/dropped.
• Tesi dumped, but for who?
• Reynolds needs expectation taken off him.
• Kelly needs to get involved more.
• James needs to step up his game run meters wise as an interchange.
  

 

[theshed]

Everything fell apart once he launched that kick dead in goal with no pressure on him.

That started it. The horrible offload from Patty 15m backwards added to it and then it spiralled from there.