PRE-GAME [Round 3, 2026] - Broncos vs Storm

[ningnangnong]

Discuss.

 

[tommy]

Post game?

 

[Santa]

Omg this game is gonna suck.

Broncos 28 - Storm 0

 

[_wwong]

Why couldn’t they give us the titans and tigers to start the year. NRL just couldn’t wait to destroy us after last season.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Put that 50 on us Storm and end our misery.

 

[Renegade]

Dont hurt me daddy.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Post game?

It may as well be. If Bellyache doesn't smell blood in the water at the moment, I'd be staggered. He wants revenge, and we seem primed to deliver it to him.

 

[Swordfish]

Duffy -6
BHunt-7
Mozer in.

Shiba out for Anderson.

Ezra - drop him & make him just practice defence the next 2 weeks.

Adam - just sit out the next game.

 

[Santa]

Melbourne will be looking for revenge too...

Let them win it. We'll win when it counts.

 

[MrTickyMcG]

Duffy -6
BHunt-7
Mozer in.

Shiba out for Anderson.

Ezra - drop him & make him just practice defence the next 2 weeks.

Adam - just sit out the next game.

I think - 6 for Duffy is harsh considering he didn’t play.
-7 for Hunt sounds about right.

Oh wait, this ain’t the postgame thread for the Eels game

 

[Battler]

Do Parra want to do an Arey for Pezet swap?

 

[vertigo]

Terrible timing for this matchup

 

[Alfie magic]

Storm by 50

 

[Astro]

Turn up or get ****ed up. These guys have a choice to make this week.

 

[nopatience101]

Who even cares anymore? The NRL have no interest in what happens in the middle 60m of the field. They want the entire game played in the 20m and will blow manufactured penalties & set restarts to get the ball there and then blow them again to insure points are scored so they can restart play and do it all over again. There is no contest, no struggle for territory, either physical or tactical, there is only set restarts.

 

[kman]

I hope Piakura is back for this game we need his aggression in attack and defence.

 

[Sproj]

Gosiewski is gone as he failed his HIA.

Tawha is, I’m sorry to say, a bad recruitment decision thus far but hopefully can start turning it around.

All five backs are not even close to what they were last year but who do you drop? You aren’t dropping the Australian centres and the wingers were great in 2025.
Arey should be out ‘injured’, were better without him sad to say.

1. Walsh
2. Karapani
3. Staggs
4. Shibasaki
5. Mariner
6. Mam
7. Bunt
8. Jensen
9. Paix
10. Haas
11. Piakura
12. Jiki
13. Carrigan

14. Mozer
15. Willison
16. Talty
17. Anderson
18. Duffy
19. Piki

 

[Broncx252]

Gosiewski is gone as he failed his HIA.

Tawha is, I’m sorry to say, a bad recruitment decision thus far but hopefully can start turning it around.

All five backs are not even close to what they were last year but who do you drop? You aren’t dropping the Australian centres and the wingers were great in 2025.
Arey should be out ‘injured’, were better without him sad to say.

1. Walsh
2. Karapani
3. Staggs
4. Shibasaki
5. Mariner
6. Mam
7. Bunt
8. Jensen
9. Paix
10. Haas
11. Piakura
12. Jiki
13. Carrigan

14. Mozer
15. Willison
16. Talty
17. Anderson
18. Duffy
19. Piki

This might be a long shot but I’d have Duffy at halfback