Thanks for being such a great team, Broncos!

[Professor47]

With all this garbage going on in RL these days, particularly off the field, I've been laying off news reports and kicking back and watching some old tapes and games.

I don't think anyone can argue Brisbane have been such winners on the field the past decade or so. Some great recent memories, the two goldnen point games against the titans, the lockyer kick on full time for Kemp against the eels and some great older ones in the 98-00 season as well. One really great memory is the 60-6-ish win against the bears one day, that game was awesome.

Regardless, The Broncs have given so much great memories for me - hopefully more the come. Just a big shout out to the team! - True winners on the field.

 

[Coxy]

With all this garbage going on in RL these days, particularly off the field, I've been laying off news reports and kicking back and watching some old tapes and games.

I don't think anyone can argue Brisbane have been such winners on the field the past decade or so. Some great recent memories, the two goldnen point games against the titans, the lockyer kick on full time for Kemp against the eels and some great older ones in the 98-00 season as well. One really great memory is the 60-6-ish win against the bears one day, that game was awesome.

Regardless, The Broncs have given so much great memories for me - hopefully more the come. Just a big shout out to the team! - True winners on the field.

One of the highlights for me about that particular game was that it came 48 hours after Locky's absolutely disastrous Test appearance in the ANZAC Test. He dropped like 3 or 4 kicks at fullback and the Kiwis scored from all of them, giving Australia a touch up.

People were calling for his head.

2 days later he absolutely annihilated the Bears.

It showed what a champion player he would become.

 

[rnabokov]

Champion players, champion team and club, champion supporters - very special.

 

[OXY-351]

Do you think the broncos will ever not perform to the high standards they have set? I mean year after year, they just keep on producing. Have a look at a team like the raiders. They were red hot in the late 80s, early 90s, but over the last decade they have been a team that people think have overacheived even if they scrape in to 8th spot. I wonder if there will become a time where the Broncos will lose that aura about them and just become "another" team in the NRL. I hope not, but I suppose it's inevetiable. Peaks and troughs

 

[pennywisealfie]

i had a look the other day, and we are only 3 finals series away from breaking the record for most consecutive finals series appearances (yes i was that bored, i calculated it lol), set by souths a looooong time ago.

I dont see us missing the finals any time soon

 

[Coxy]

This is also a good page to look at:
http://stats.rleague.com/rl/misc/misc0.html

It shows teams ranked by winning percentage each decade.

Since the Broncos came in in 1988, their record is:

1980s: 4th (62.2%). Parramatta first with 62.75%
1990s: 1st (70.95%)
2000s: 2nd (59.6%). Melbourne first with 60.95%

Overall, compared to all teams, the Broncos have the highest winning percentage of any club (64.97%).
The next highest is Melbourne with 62.29%, but they've played about half as many games.

Amazing stuff really.

 

[OXY-351]

If they had merged the sydney comp in to one team too, I'm sure they'd have had similar success in the QRL

 

[Coxy]

*sniff* *nibble* Nah, seems dodgy. I'm leaving it dangling there for someone else to bite on............

 

[OXY-351]

*sniff* *nibble* Nah, seems dodgy. I'm leaving it dangling there for someone else to bite on............

Seriously though, they had some great talent available in the early years because they had the whole BRL comp to pick from. No longer did QLD players have to head to sydney to join the NSWRL.

When you have the calibre of players such as Lewis, Langer, Miles etc at your club, you're going to attract other big names who want to join to play along side them. This carried on through the 90s with the likes on Sailor, Lockyer etc joining the club, and getting to play with some of their childhood heros. No doubt this is still happening today with players signing because they want to play along side the likes of Lockyer, Hodges etc.

The club as it is today, is built on the back of those big names who signed in the early years, with each successive generation of players singing up to play at the club their heros play/played at. Think about it. What child in SEQLD grew up in the late 80s, early 90s wanting to play for the Gold Coast. Did they even have any big names until an aging Lewis joined up in 92? Same with the crushers, and up until maybe 6-7 years ago, the cowboys.

I think it's easy to be successful when you have a high calibre of players at your club, and it helps to sign these players when you are the only real option for some of them. As a Broncos fan, I'm not complainign about this, but things need to be put in persepctive sometimes.

 

[pennywisealfie]

so what your saying is that if, say canterbury saw a qld cup game and saw someone they liked, then offered him a place at canterbury, hed be like "nah, only the broncos are allowed to sign me".

seriously, i hate when people say "the broncos have the whole of queensland to pick from", as if no sydney club has no right at all to sign someone from queensland or something.

 

[mrslong]

The club as it is today, is built on the back of those big names who signed in the early years, with each successive generation of players singing up to play at the club their heros play/played at.

Which adds to it's absolute orsmness icon_thumbs_u icon_thumbs_u icon_thumbs_u icon_thumbs_u icon_thumbs_u icon_thumbs_u icon_thumbs_u

 

[Je$ter]

I think it's easy to be successful when you have a high calibre of players at your club, and it helps to sign these players when you are the only real option for some of them. As a Broncos fan, I'm not complainign about this, but things need to be put in persepctive sometimes.

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You go to any major schoolboy carnival for 15yrs+ kids and every club in the comp is present looking to sign kids.

In fact, a lot of kids are turned off the Broncos because they tend to have a lot of juniors throughout Qld, and some kids believe they would have better shots at clubs like the Roosters or Manly.

 

[OXY-351]

so what your saying is that if, say canterbury saw a qld cup game and saw someone they liked, then offered him a place at canterbury, hed be like "nah, only the broncos are allowed to sign me".

seriously, i hate when people say "the broncos have the whole of queensland to pick from", as if no sydney club has no right at all to sign someone from queensland or something.

No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that back in the 70s/80s, for whatever reasons, a lot of high profile QLD footballers stayed in the BRL rather than head to Sydney. Then the Broncos were formed, and a lot of them were convinced to join. They could have the best of both worlds. Stay in brisbane, and play in the premeire league comp in the country.

The Broncos admistration at the time should be commended for signing these guys up, cause I beleive it's shaped the way the club has been for the past 21 years, even know some of the players and officials are long gone

I don't think the Broncos have all of QLD to pick from anymore, and there's nothing to stop a young player signing with another club, but it's got to be a great carrot to dangle in front of a young players head that they can play at such a great club, with such great players, some probably their childhood stars. Great players attract other great players, so over the years, the broncos have been able to build on this legacy of great players the club had in it's first season or two, at which point they did have a large proportion of QLD players to pick from - a luxury sydney teams in the comp never had

 

[OXY-351]

[quote="OXY-351":2u2fi8j2]I think it's easy to be successful when you have a high calibre of players at your club, and it helps to sign these players when you are the only real option for some of them. As a Broncos fan, I'm not complainign about this, but things need to be put in persepctive sometimes.

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You go to any major schoolboy carnival for 15yrs+ kids and every club in the comp is present looking to sign kids.[/quote:2u2fi8j2]

That probably didn't read as it should've. Again, I didn't mean these days. I was talking about the guys that signed back in the initial season - the guys I'm saying the club was built on. The game wasn't professional then, so they had to worry about jobs. Plus a lot of them weren't young kids anymore, so had families etc. Moving to Sydney for them would be much a bigger deal than some 20 year old kid moving these days. All they have to worry about is which pub they are gonna get pissed at, and finding a unit in a unit block that has a hot teenager in it.

 

[Coxy]

I actually do agree with OXY, part of the Broncos early success was definitely the attraction of staying in Brisbane plus the Queensland superstars we got in our first few years.

But the Broncos still had to convert that to premierships, which they did very successfully in the 1990s. Everyone goes on about how any idiot would win with the players we had back then, but there were some very good teams around. Canberra, Canterbury, Manly, St George, Newcastle were evolving as a threat, as were the Roosters.

If the Broncos hadn't won those premierships, particularly 1992-93, they wouldn't have the talent and record they have achieved since.

 

[Je$ter]

Yeah understand where you are coming from now, have to agree with you the way the club went in those early days has def paved the way for the success they continue to have.

 

[Coxy]

Yep, but to be honest having made the finals every year in the 2000s is everything to do with the culture and structure within the club. Talent wise I don't think the Broncos have been the best most seasons this decade. For example, this is the first year since probably 2001 that you can say the Broncos' backline is star studded. And that's countered by the fact our pack isn't as full of rep players as it was through most of the decade (Webcke, Civoniceva, Thorn, Carroll, Carlaw etc).

Look at St George. They were THE club to play for in the 60s. The 70s they remained strong, but success became more sporadic in the 80s and 90s...the odd Grand Final but also the odd rank season.

The Broncos aren't the only ones who benefit from having a reputation for producing superstar talent etc.

I reckon the next 5-10 years is absolutely critical for the Broncos. They need to keep making the finals, and win the odd premiership. If they begin to be a club that regularly misses the finals then there's less attraction for players to stay.

 

[rissi_gurl]

Get what oxy is saying but its not just those old players...its culture as well and a culture that was consistant throughout the past 20 years...and big wraps for that have to go to one W Bennett!!