Well I have really not been wanting to do this but I want to do my next work task even less, so here goes:
1. Isaako - He was pretty good I thought. He ran a beautiful set piece once there, caught bombs well and actually looked like breaking tackles pretty regularly. Needs to still develop the ability to support play though - 6
2. Oates - Absolutely useless, he may as well have not even been on the field. He got literally laughed at, put his head down and just kept submitting, he can no longer be a winger, he is on the bench or out of the side all together - 2
3. Staggs - Every so often, a young gun will have a game like that. Given how good he went in the first two rounds, it is what it is but he had a shocker and will be suspended for his trouble. At least he was trying even though nothing was coming off and his defense was all at see. Horror night like so many others - 1
4. Boyd - I am going to go against the grain here. He bombed a try, yes. He offers nothing in attack as usual but he was rock solid in defense mostly. In a side that was as a whole horrible, he was alright - 5
5. Arthars - Never had a chance to do anything really and given his inside defenders were defending like Swiss cheese evaporating, he couldn't do anything. I actually thought his attempt to stop the Sivo try was pretty good. Sivo scores 99 times out of a 100 there regardless - 4
6. Milford - He will always have his defenders and you could legitimately argue that no half could do anything behind such a badly beaten pack but that would just be making another excuse for this guy. No one could have expected miracles when your forwards are that comprehensively beaten but one would expect a million dollar player to at least go looking to do something, not let the other half do everything and bomb a try to boot. Defensively he was pretty good to be fair. Regardless, look like you are trying to do something. Croft made him look like he was discard half from another team. 1
7. Croft - His defense was suspect but I put a lot of that down to a horror performance from Hoppa and Staggs. At least he tried his guts out. He went looking for work, he scored a nice try and looked far more like the million dollar half than the overpaid bloke in the 6 did - 6
8. Flegler - The side definitely looked better with him out there but that isn't saying much, no side out there looked good. He had a fairly quiet game compared to what we have come to expect from him so early in his career. He wasn't alone in having an off night - 4
9. Turpin - He tackled his backside off and left him with absolutely no energy to do anything else but you know what, the side didn't have the ball long enough to do anything. He looked threatening a couple of times and that is pretty impressive on the back of 65 tackles. He was good for what he needed to do - 7
10. Haas - Had a quiet game and as many have mentioned, still pulled out stats other props would be super proud of. He needs to be signed for life. Would love to see him develop a bit of an attitude of taking no prisoners but he is the future of this forward pack along with Carrigan and Fifita. Love this kid so much when even a quiet game gets you an - 8
11. Glenn - Has any other captain ever been this unlucky? Finally got to lead his side out and then gets himself literally carved up to be out for another few weeks. He did what he could while he was out there, certainly did more in half the game time of some other blokes out there - 5
12. Hopoate - Worst ever game by a Bronco not named Whitchurch, Kennedy or Manihera? Looked clueless and made error after error after error in attack and defense. It was a horror show and he should be lucky to see first grade again. We quite likely watched the death of a league career last night sadly - 0 (for the Broncos), 5 (for the Eels), net gain of -5
13. Carrigan - He was great. He played like a leader out there. He needs to get more in the other side's face as most of this side needs to but he ran so hard, at times looked like the only guy capable of denting the line and made a mountain of tackles. He will play for Queensland and possibly Australia this year, you heard it here first - 8
14. Farnworth - He needs to start on the wing next week. I thought he was actually excellent in his time out there. The shining light for sure in my opinion. He ran with venom and hit extremely well. The shot he put on Gutherson was a thing of beauty. I think everyone wants to hit Gutherson like that and he deserves it, carries on like a jerk every second of every game. That alone is worth a high score. This kid is going places. Right now, he is the best winger the Broncs have BY FAR and possibly even the best back given Staggs' defensive weaknesses - 8
15. Ofahenguie - I have defended him a lot on here but tonight was horrible. He is surplus to needs to be honest as he just has never consistently come on as he looked like he would 5 years ago. I am not against losing him to keep some of the other kids as I used to be sadly. He has all the potential in the world and was coming back from a super long break but still, like Oates and Milford, just continues to go backwards - 1
17. Bullemor - I mistook him for Farnworth at times, true story but he looked like he was trying at least, even though he didn't really seem to do much - 5
21. Lodge - I thought he was somewhat disappointing but certainly not horrible by any means. He was serviceable but that is to be expected coming back from a fairly serious injury and long lay off. He'll be far better next week - 5
Siebold - What happened bro? He looked so promising in weeks 1 and 2 but last night seemed a major step back to last season. Oh well, let's see what next week brings shall we?
The Ref - Certainly gave Parra a few legs up that weren't warranted or needed but goodness me, a 20-2 penalty count (or whatever it actually was) is absurd. There were some really weird forward pass and knock on calls that went against both teams. Overall horrible performance but that is par for the course for refereeing these days.
Parramatta - Well done, better team won comfortably and they are legit premiership contenders. They played like men against boys and showed that a good side never lets the foot off the pedal.