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It's not so much does Francis warrant NRL selection, it's getting to a point where we won't have a choice but to play him in the NRL side.
PRE-GAME [Round 8, 2026] - Broncos vs Bulldogs
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I don't think that's accurate... Semu had 20-25 family travel to Sydney for the tigers game... so he was absolutely playing on the weekend.
It would've been the Arthars injury that stopped him from debuting... probably also the Staggs injury, because that happened in early in the first half, so Madge had to keep Perham up his sleeve.
Semu was also named on the extended bench against Dolphins when Haas didn't play... he didn't get a chance that night because Anderson got injured and Shiba came on instead.
Nio ended up debuting in the titans game, but didn't have family there because it wasn't expected that he would be playing.
Crazy how many times the 6 man bench has saved us already this year... we've needed a back from the bench 4 games in a row (Anderson injury, Reece injury, double HIA's at hooker and then Jesse last week).. we won 3 of those games, but without the 6 man bench we potentially lose all of them trying to shuffle players out of position.
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He didn't play because of the Arthars and Staggs injury.
This is his jersey for the game, notice the text on the front chest. You're not handing someone their debut if you don't rate them. It was just an unfortunate set of circumstances that led to him being held back.
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We didn't really. He signed a 1 year extension then his gf got a great job in Sydney so we released him
Bucking Beads
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Semu will absolutely debut this Friday night 
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seriously?
we let him go so he could be with his partner who had a job in Sydney. keeping him under those circumstances wouldn't have done him or us any good
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Semu will absolutely debut this Friday night
depends on who else joins the hospital ward we have set up in our dressing room. if it's more backs, we may not be able to play him
1 game at lock in his cup career
Surprisingly 2 at five-eighth and 1 at fullback aswell..
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Semu will absolutely debut this Friday night
He's the new Petterson-Robati.
Gos was decent in the middle last week
He was supposed to play on Saturday, Semu's family was all there for his debut, and he was going to play.
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Bucking Beads
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Hope his family aren't to upset they went down and didn't get to see the debut
theshed
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The outs list is crazy
Walsh, Hunt, Haas, Staggs, Carrigan, Jensen, Walters, Anderson, Mozer, J Hunt
I’m sure I’m just repeating someone else’s team list but it must look something like:
1. Perham
2. Karapani
3. Shibasaki
4. Mariner
5. Verhoeven
6. Mam
7. Reynolds
8. Talty
9. Paix
10. Gosiewski
11. Piakura
12. Riki
13. Willison
14. Rogers
15. Semu
16. Francis
17. Bukowski
18. Duffy
19…. Uh Cam Smith?
Walsh, Hunt, Haas, Staggs, Carrigan, Jensen, Walters, Anderson, Mozer, J Hunt
I’m sure I’m just repeating someone else’s team list but it must look something like:
1. Perham
2. Karapani
3. Shibasaki
4. Mariner
5. Verhoeven
6. Mam
7. Reynolds
8. Talty
9. Paix
10. Gosiewski
11. Piakura
12. Riki
13. Willison
14. Rogers
15. Semu
16. Francis
17. Bukowski
18. Duffy
19…. Uh Cam Smith?
Fitzy
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Va’A this year has me confident we have a decent player on our hands. Only 21, and has been far and away our form player in cup both in performance and consistency (barring Duffy). Another tick for Burt in getting the best out of his/our players.
He was going to debut last week. Don’t think it says anything about him that they went with the experience of Gosiewski, and I think that decision was completely justified with the work that Gos got through. I don’t have my concerns with Gos starting at 13 after last week (albeit not ideal) and I certainly don’t think Semu not getting a game last week was a case of not being trusted or poorly rated. Jaidyen Hunt has never put a foot wrong in a Broncos jersey imo and he got picked over him still.
He was going to debut last week. Don’t think it says anything about him that they went with the experience of Gosiewski, and I think that decision was completely justified with the work that Gos got through. I don’t have my concerns with Gos starting at 13 after last week (albeit not ideal) and I certainly don’t think Semu not getting a game last week was a case of not being trusted or poorly rated. Jaidyen Hunt has never put a foot wrong in a Broncos jersey imo and he got picked over him still.
Josh Rogers has scored more NRL points than Total number of games that bench has played.. minus Smith of course.
17 games all up
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Todd Smith was taking an eternity to call held all night and I am surprised there weren’t more injuries tbh.
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