Yep summarised well and notice that injuries started to screw the side in 2016/17? Was this when the current medical idiots came on board?
The team has no genuine superstars anymore aside from Haas and Staggs but both of them are still just kids and have defensive deficiencies in their games.
No one else is even close to top 5 in the comp in their positions, aside from MAYBE Carrigan but even then, lock is a very strong position comp wide. There is barely anyone who would even be top ten outside the above mentioned 3.
Compare to the side of 2006 or even 2015 when you had teams littered with top 5/10 players in almost every position. You can't win anything when 98% of your side are in the bottom half/quarter of their position. What the hey was Seibold and the board thinking with this roster?
Whilst I agree we have plenty of poor performers and a heap of injuries to the few that do, it is not all doom and gloom.
We have always had players that are never going to be dally m winners or even rep. players. Sometimes they have been the majority, but the team with a good coach can find a way to succeed.
That 2006 side had Perry as a half, Casey McGuire in the centres, along with David staff, and Dane Carlaw. Insert them in the current team and players they replace will start to look a whole lot better. They were good, but not great (and to be fair, two of those played origin). The difference was they had some truly great players around them, some old hard heads who knew how to compete and teach the young rising stars what playing for the broncos was all about.
If you look at our team, as it stands, the missing ingredient is that "never say die" attitude broncos like Walters had in spades. Recognising this Walters has made special projects of two players in particular: TPJ and Milford.
Both have the ability to turn a match on its head, regardless of where their teammates are performing and the state of the game.
It's one ingredient that's missing. That webke like "play the 79th like first" type player is there as well. In fact we have two in Haas and carrigan. The last part is a bit tougher: that mean old forward who can put the other team's champion on his back and double-guessing every play he gets hit in is an obvious point lacking.
I've seen Teo, TPJ, and even Offa give it a go but not quite pull it off for reasons of either fitness, technique or both. It's a fine to walk, but every team needs at least one, if not more.
In the past player like the axe, Ryan and even a young Ben Teo have done so in the forwards whilst Lewis, Hodges, Darren smith have done the same in the backs (I think staggs can do that role if he works hard but puts himself too often in "no man's land".
I don't envy Walter's job as other coaches, even Bennet right back to the beginning had all those types of players when starting their tenure. He will have to make them.
