PRE-GAME Round 4 - Broncos vs Roosters

[Mightybroncs2k17]

We just had a 10 week break and here i am thinking our team is going to be fit healthy and rearing to go and now we are in worse shape then before the lockdown.

I'm thinking this game should just be treated as a free throw at the stumps as such. We aren't going to beat them with our standard game plan. Give the boys all a licence to offload, spread the ball early in the sets, do what we can to throw the opposition off. I think if we try get into an arm wrestle they'll destroy us. I wanna see the forwards running off the back fence to hit the ball up.

 

[BroncsFan]

8. Hass
9. Hopoate
10. Lodge
11. Bullemor
12. Flegler
13. Carrigan

14. Paix
15. Offa
16. Kennedy
17. Nui/Teo

That would be the most conservative line up imo. Hopefully Teo joins us last minute and can come on for Bullemor for 10-15 mins. :') we are screwed.

The other option is bringing on Deardon or Gamble but TBH im not even sure if Gamble is in the squad.

Unless Teo joins us in the next hour or so he can't be named in the 21 man squad today

 

[McHunt]

At risk of sounding like a massive fan, this is the kind of game you’d want McCullough starting with Paix off the bench. As much as we all appreciate Seibs getting rid of these players, they really would have been helpful during these times.

Waste of a game. Best thing Seibs has done is flick Macca. We've been going nowhere with him controlling the ball. I'm excited about seeing Niu and Paix make their debuts.

 

[BroncsFan]

We just had a 10 week break and here i am thinking our team is going to be fit healthy and rearing to go and now we are in worse shape then before the lockdown.

I'm thinking this game should just be treated as a free throw at the stumps as such. We aren't going to beat them with our standard game plan. Give the boys all a licence to offload, spread the ball early in the sets, do what we can to throw the opposition off. I think if we try get into an arm wrestle they'll destroy us. I wanna see the forwards running off the back fence to hit the ball up.

I think the only positive about the current situation is we are playing the harder end of the draw now whilst we are down on players.

I think at full strength we would be a decent chance of beating roosters, manly and knights (our next 3 opponents), but I dont think we'd be odds on to beat them... so if we manage to pick up a win now it's a bonus. We've got nothing to lose and no one expects us to win so if we jag 1-2 wins out of those 3 that'd be a massive bonus to morale and points on the ladder.

After the knights in rd 6 we've got titans, warriors, storm then dogs.... by this point Glenn is scheduled back, TPJ and Staggs will be back from suspension and Fifi will be close to returning. So it will be good to have these reinforcements coming back just in time for the games we are expected to win.

I'd be fucking livid right now if we were scheduled to play titans, warriors, dogs, etc. with the team absolutely decimated by injury and suspensions... as it brings games we're expected to win back to 50/50 games primarily due to injuries.

 

[Wolfie]

What is the go with piax? Is he a half or a 9?

He thinks he is a half. The Broncos think otherwise!

 

[winslow_wong]

If Turpin is out and Paix debuts, then Siebold needs to forget about Nui and put another hooker on the bench to cover for him. No way could he possibly go the full 80 on debut.

What’s happened to dearden? Can he fill a bench hooking role?

 

[McHunt]

Pronunciation tip:

Niu = Nee-You (or New) NOT New-Eee as I've been hearing

 

[Super Freak]

Based on the article just posted on the Broncos site, this is the expected 17.

1. Isaako
2. Oates
3. Arthars
4. Boyd
5. Farnworth
6. Milford
7. Croft (c)
8. Flegler/Lodge
9. Turpin
10. Haas
11. Bullemor
12. Hopoate
13. Carrigan (c)

14. Niu
15. Ofahengaue
16. Kennedy
17. Lodge/Flegler

 

[winslow_wong]

At risk of sounding like a massive fan, this is the kind of game you’d want McCullough starting with Paix off the bench. As much as we all appreciate Seibs getting rid of these players, they really would have been helpful during these times.

That’s kinda like saying we have a backrow crisis so I wish sua was still around or staggs has been suspended, I wish James roberts didn’t get let go.

 

[Foordy]

Based on the article just posted on the Broncos site, this is the expected 17.

1. Isaako
2. Coates
3. Arthars
4. Boyd
5. Farnworth
6. Milford
7. Croft (c)
8. Flegler/Lodge
9. Turpin
10. Haas
11. Bullemor
12. Hopoate
13. Carrigan (c)

14. Niu
15. Ofahengaue
16. Kennedy
17. Lodge/Flegler

Oates? dropped or injured?

 

[Super Freak]

Oates? dropped or injured?

Neither. Meant to be Oates.

 

[Unbreakable]

Carrigan & Croft co-captains whilst Glenn is out.

 

[Blindside Bronco]

Neither. Meant to be Oates.

See spelling does make a difference

 

[Super Freak]

 

[Super Freak]

Based on the article just posted on the Broncos site, this is the expected 17.

1. Isaako
2. Oates
3. Arthars
4. Boyd
5. Farnworth
6. Milford
7. Croft (c)
8. Flegler/Lodge
9. Turpin
10. Haas
11. Bullemor
12. Hopoate
13. Carrigan (c)

14. Niu
15. Ofahengaue
16. Kennedy
17. Lodge/Flegler

Nailed it.

 

[winslow_wong]

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Are there two paixes in the squad?

 

[Foordy]

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a couple of typos mate

Nui is in the 14 and Lodge in the 17

 

[Super Freak]

Fixed.