POST GAME Round 3 - Broncos vs Dragons

[I bleed Maroon]

Another big concern is the fact we looked gassed 10 minutes into the game. Who the **** is responsible for conditioning at the club and how are they still employed?

 

[roo-ted]

Are we all starting to notice a trend? The last 2-3 years it always comes back to the same 3 players when we have these horrible losses, the 9, 7 & 1. We've tried blaming it on Bennett being behind the times with his game plan, we've tried blaming it on the forwards not giving us momentum, we've tried blaming it on Milford for not living up to his paycheck.

Nah...

It's those 3. We need to find better, fast.

Niko actually played well considering the soft performance from our pack

 

[Renegade]

Hell yeah! Heaps of people were just hanging to sink the knives in. Makes for a fun week.

The rollercoaster is what makes the football season. Winning all the time is boring and conducive to a harmonious forum, who wants that?!

 

[porouian]

If we follow last years form, we’ll play like world beaters against a good team

So next week vs Roosters? I'll take it!

 

[Alec]

I don’t know how we go from dominating the cowboys to getting bitch slapped by the dragons. I noticed tonight that we didn’t play with nearly as much aggression and contact was soft in defensive. The other thing is that we were trying to tackle them up top instead of taking their legs out

It's the same thing as last year. We'd be up for a big game and then can't bring the same intensity the week after.

I actually watched a clip of a recent Joe Rogan Experience today where he talks to some fighter about intensity and training. He made a point that intense training is unsustainable for the whole week, about how he trains every day but less intense, and ends up with more hours of training over a year in total. It's not the same thing, but kinda probably applies here too, we were fucking intense last week and last year at times but it's unsustainable, and what you got was a noticeable drop off.

 

[winslow_wong]

The rollercoaster is what makes the football season. Winning all the time is boring and conducive to a harmonious forum, who wants that?!

Drunk

 

[Huge]

Milford was great tonight.

Really? I thought he was horrendous...at times. He was also very good at times.That adds up to average.

 

[Footy Fanatic]

All those saying drop Macca, we literally have nobody to replace him. If any of you watched Turpin for Reddy, you would understand why.

The real problem is that we don't have anyone putting any pressure on him. Hopefully one of the young halves we have can develop into a great hooker. Maybe Paix.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Really? I thought he was horrendous...at times. He was also very good at times.That adds up to average.

That's a tad harsh. In a rubbish team performance I thought he was busting his ass to lift us. His kicking was excellent and he even made attempts to run the ball.

 

[Unbreakable]

Niko actually played well considering the soft performance from our pack

I keep reading that he's playing well, I'm yet to see it myself, I think he's completely screwing a majority of our right side sweeping plays with his stop start style of running, indecision and poor kicking.

If this is him playing well, it's time to immediately move on.

 

[Maroon4life]

Are we all starting to notice a trend? The last 2-3 years it always comes back to the same 3 players when we have these horrible losses, the 9, 7 & 1. We've tried blaming it on Bennett being behind the times with his game plan, we've tried blaming it on the forwards not giving us momentum, we've tried blaming it on Milford for not living up to his paycheck.

Nah...

It's those 3. We need to find better, fast.

Maccas been a plodder for years, he literally personifies mediocrity in such a crucial position.

Knik is just not the #7 we need, he’s the #7 some other club needs but we can’t utilise his strengths.

Boyd needs to just good it in so we can move on and build toward a new spine.

 

[PNG Broncos fan88]

Discuss

Like shooting down others opinions, what's yours?

 

[the_next]

What’s with ex broncos coming back and haunting the broncos.

 

[Old Mate]

I keep reading that he's playing well, I'm yet to see it myself, I think he's completely screwing a majority of our right side sweeping plays with his stop start style of running, indecision and poor kicking.

If this is him playing well, it's time to immediately move on.

I’d rather give him a run at fullback.

 

[Wolfie]

The real problem is that we don't have anyone putting any pressure on him. Hopefully one of the young halves we have can develop into a great hooker. Maybe Paix.

That's my point. You don't pick a player who isn't banging the door down imo unless you are beset by injury.

If we want a good hooker, let's make a play for Harry Grant because he won't be seeing any game time down at Melbourne

 

[I bleed Maroon]

Also fun fact for you all: Hunt is now 3 from 3 against us. Let that sink in.

 

[Locky’s Left Boot]

I only watched the last half hour but the one thing I did notice was how ineffective Macca was in defence. He rarely won the contact and then couldn’t win the wrestle making it easy for them to find their front and get a quick ptb.

But apparently that’s what’s suppose to be his best feature considering he is absolute dog shit in attack. I’ve said all along just because he has high tackle counts doesn’t make him a great defender. He is the Nathan Hindmarsh of the Broncos, not so much the flopping side of it but how his tackle counts are over exaggerated by just joining in 3 man tackles. He never dominates a man one on one in the ruck. He is serviceable at best and the sooner we find a better replacement the sooner this team will click and move forward.

One of the main reasons I was excited for Seibold’s arrival is because I believe once he went from
Cook to Macca, that he would identify our issues at 9 immediately and Macca wouldn’t last the season and we’d finally try to rectify this problem. I’d be damn interested to know what he is thinking after 3 weeks. It’s bleeding obvious that a 9 that either has a slick passing game, or a half decent running game would improve this team 3 fold. I would settle for just one of those traits at the very least. If Kodi was capable of defending strongly for 80 mins at 9, Macca would be in reserve grade by Easter.

 

[broncsgoat]

Someone asked in the game thread how many hunt made and it was 10. Niko made 24