What is happening at the Broncos?

He's a bit over the top but Boyd did make a few crucial errors that could've cost us big time. Error returning the ball after the first try, dropping the bomb late in the game when cows had the momentum. I'm still backing him for now but I agree with the sentiment - the one thing we can seemingly rely on with Boyd is his safety at the back, once he loses that he will become a liability.
 
Yeah but Glenn and Lodge tried. I'm growing very tired of watched Boyd repeatedly out of position, and when he is in position, just watching the play unfold. Even Gavin Coopers try. Boyd was no where to be seen. He just doesn't cover anywhere near enough ground at the back. Compare him to Slater, Tedesco, RTS and even some of the up and comers like Ponga, Edwards etc and he just doesnt seem hungry enough.
 
I want to see the occasional shock tactic. Say, we received the ball from a kickoff, particularly the high floater occasions and with Roberts onside and on the other side of the field we might kick long and deep to the side Roberts is on. The defence is always just jogging if the ball has gone to the farthest side and the fullbacks always slid in the direction the balls kicked. I saw NSW do it once, from a scrum on their twenty, try time.
 
Unbreakable said:
Haha, I love how salty Kent is on NRL 360 about Bennett's presser.

"He's only doing it to cover himself, he's under pressure from the club to perform and is trying to divert the attention away from him."

Gold.
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Bennett has got the exact reaction he wanted from the media & they are too stupid to see it lol. He gets mocked for being old and not with it anymore but it's awesome to watch him toy with the media.

The even funnier thing is when the public tag along for the ride. My mate, a staunch dragons fan, even said "you can tell he is under pressure and paranoid. Look at how he blew up at Milford at training" haha its like watching a puppet show with Bennett pulling the strings from above sometimes
 
Unbreakable said:
Haha, I love how salty Kent is on NRL 360 about Bennett's presser.

"He's only doing it to cover himself, he's under pressure from the club to perform and is trying to divert the attention away from him."

Gold.
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Trying to divert attention away from him? If anything he's doing a classic Bennett and trying to bring all the attention onto him to take it off the players(especially Lodge). Not all of them fell for it but obviously Kent got played like a fucking fiddle.
 
If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. Paul Kent is probably the most switched on of all the reporters (I don’t like the guy but he is generally pretty on to things) but even he can’t figure it out.

The last thing Bennett would want is the media blowing smoke up their arse after that game which is why he said what he said. The sad thing is these halfwits don’t get it and are only concerned about their bruised egos. If they wanted to damage Bennett the best thing they could do is instill us as premiership favourites.
 
Vonnie and Hooper with Ennis and Sam Burgess were just on Big League praising him saying he it's still the master coach and knows exactly what he's doing to get the best out of his players.
 
ivanhungryjak said:
Vonnie and Hooper with Ennis and Sam Burgess were just on Big League praising him saying he it's still the master coach and knows exactly what he's doing to get the best out of his players.
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Hooper does an amazing job getting around for a bloke without a spine. He was on the Triple M shows on the weekend bagging out Bennett saying he is feeling the pressure and has lost it because that was the agenda of Tallis and Kent. The guy is a cat.
 
broncos4life said:
Hooper does an amazing job getting around for a bloke without a spine. He was on the Triple M shows on the weekend bagging out Bennett saying he is feeling the pressure and has lost it because that was the agenda of Tallis and Kent. The guy is a cat.
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If he drops the line".......in the fair dinkum department....." one more fucking time.....
 
Kenty has lost his way, been hanging with Slothfield for too long. Slothfield looks like he had a triple bypass last week too. They both have a weird hate for Broncs
 
:porthozthinksthisishot:

Wayne Bennett’s siege mentality shows how the Broncos coach is fighting to save his job
Paul Kent, The Daily Telegraph
March 20, 2018 7:25am

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A READING from Saint Wayne, on the Broncos, circa 2007 A.D.:

“Our policy was to nurture Queensland talent, bring our own juniors along, and if we were to recruit we would only buy the best — we wouldn’t take on other people’s problems.”

Things have changed a bit at the Broncos since then.

The Broncos were the reigning premiers when Saint Wayne, under the earthly nom de plume of Wayne Bennett, was explaining to us all why the Broncos are so successful.

They were high and mighty and entitled to feel a little successful.

It no longer applies.

The Broncos have not won a premiership since then, and the club’s ability to entice the best talent from the Queensland junior leagues has fallen behind superior programs at both Melbourne and North Queensland.

So when James Roberts became available, despite being sacked from two clubs and Saint already having pledged a centre position to Dale Copley, Copley was out the door and Roberts was in.

A similar shift in stance came for Matt Lodge, whose history is well documented.

It is example of what pressure can do. It takes only heat and pressure can turn a chunk of coal into a diamond, and just a little of each to have a coach changing the ground on which he stands.

Saint Wayne’s attempts to blame the Broncos early season woes on us pesky rascals in the media was first class media spin.

“There is no other club in any sport in this country who would have pulled together in the last couple of weeks after all the adversity that we have been through,” he said.

Really?

A week earlier the Broncos were under fire for the poor handling of Lodge’s return. No fight against adversity then, the week it actually happened. They played terribly.

They let in 34 points against St George Illawarra with weak defence and an attack that went side to side.

Bennett later admitted he made a mistake starting with Sam Thaiday at dummy-half with Andrew McCullough coming off the bench.

He excused his halves’ poor performances, saying it’s hard for any halves to perform behind a retreating pack, even though that’s what they are paid to sometimes do.

Later he gave both halves an expletive-laden spray at training, in full view of the media.

Meanwhile, he convinced his players it was the media who were the problem all along.

“You guys bagged us so you can take the credit for that,” Tevita Pangai Jr said after they beat North Queensland. “Keep bagging us every week and we’ll play harder to win.”

What does it say about a professional, player or team, that it needs media criticism to perform at their best?

Bennett has convinced them, though. Never mind the Broncos’ troubles were entirely self-inflicted, brought about through arrogance and excessive pride.

It’s evidenced in Bennett claiming, in his sermon from the Mount, that no other club in the country could have done what they did.

A fair-minded person would argue Penrith has endured more adversity than the Broncos.

The Panthers released their two star juniors, Matt Moylan and Bryce Cartwright, over the summer after they fell out with the club.

Speculation continues over the future of coach Anthony Griffin and who actually coaches the team.

And yet the Panthers overcame all their adversity, if that’s what it is, with two tough come-from-behind wins in the opening two rounds.

Manly is another. The Sea Eagles went into this season $800,000 below the salary cap because the NRL is investigating them for salary cap irregularities and has refused to allow them to spend money, with the possibility that points might still be deducted.

It makes times a little tougher than a few hurtful comments.

The irony hidden in all this is that the man under most pressure at Brisbane is Bennett.

A third party has approached Paul Green about coaching Brisbane — so the Broncos can truthfully say they have not approached Green and Green can truthfully answer that he has not been approached by the Broncos.

He is privately fighting for his job, so preaches solidarity within.

“You will never divide us guys, so stay out of it,” he said after the Cowboys win.

“Our strength is our club and our people.”

What was he suggesting? That it was personal? That it was wrong?

Nobody knows, because even as he said it he was standing and walking out and ignoring the follow-up questions.

It was Saint Wayne at his superior best. He had saved it up and delivered it with perfect timing ... so he did not have to answer to it.
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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...b/news-story/9d8f05e873b1833c824476cd548eaff9
 
Tom said:
:porthozthinksthisishot:



https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...b/news-story/9d8f05e873b1833c824476cd548eaff9
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Kent is ruining his credibility daily at the moment. As he admitted on the Sunday Triple M show he used to think he and Wayne were friends and that ended with the Benji Marshall thing last year and further claims that Bennett lied publicly about it. It is very clear that Kent is acting like a dumped Ex and not a professional reporter. I think he took pride in the fact that he was one of the few media princesses that Bennett would talk to, but he blow it and now he is using his platform to try and get back at him, it is really sad.
 
broncos4life said:
Kent is ruining his credibility daily at the moment. As he admitted on the Sunday Triple M show he used to think he and Wayne were friends and that ended with the Benji Marshall thing last year and further claims that Bennett lied publicly about it. It is very clear that Kent is acting like a dumped Ex and not a professional reporter. I think he took pride in the fact that he was one of the few media princesses that Bennett would talk to, but he blow it and now he is using his platform to try and get back at him, it is really sad.
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He doesn't even get that he fell for Wayne's trap hook, line and sinker. This is exactly what Bennett was trying to do to take the attention off the players.
 
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