Broncos poor says NRL coach Griffin
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Brisbane coach Anthony Griffin didn’t hide his disappointment after Brisbane crashed to their third straight NRL loss at the hands of a ruthless Melbourne 34-10 at AAMI Park on Friday night.
Brisbane’s dressing room resembled a morgue after the six-tries-to-two loss, with the Storm surging six points clear of their rivals on top of the NRL ladder.
Griffin, who opted to rest three of his State of Origin veterans, Petero Civoniceva, Sam Thaiday and Justin Hodges, put his hand up in the post match press conference, refusing to offer any excuses and instead paying out on his players’ effort.
“At the moment we’ve got ourselves in a bit of a hole for whatever reason,” said Griffin.
“We came up with a horrible performance tonight but it is what it is.
“I thought we were very poor, probably our worst performance of the year.
“We didn’t have any real ethic about our attack or defence.”
A devastating late injury to young forward Dave Hala, which seems to have ended his season, made it a lousy night all-around for the Broncos.
Hala was taken by ambulance to hospital after the game with a torn tendon in his knee which also may have been dislocated.
“We were a bit off tonight,” said Broncos halfback Peter Wallace who got through the clash without any recurrence of his groin injury.
“We let ourselves down badly defensively and we’ve got a lot of work to do.”
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May 26th 2012 @ 7:54am
Bill Larkin said | May 26th 2012 @ 7:54am | Report comment
One thing I haven’t seen much of in commentary about the Storm is their new found confidence in attack. Last year games like this, with both teams having similar possession and ground position, would have been a grind, usually resulting in a Storm win. There was no attack from the back half, as there is now. I think Ballamy has given Widdup free reign, and we now see him getting the backline moving very well indeed. In my opinion he’s potentially the Storm’s best ever five-eight.
A more potent and adventurous backline, combined with a harder pack (Ryles has made a big difference) will make this team very hard to beat.
May 26th 2012 @ 8:10am
oikee said | May 26th 2012 @ 8:10am | Report comment
Thats a understatement. Brisbane desparately needs another team in Brisbane, while the Broncos are away getting flogged each week at away games, Suncorp stadium plays host to the only game in town, the reds union boys.
The Broncos are a watered down weak version of a team, they need some city rivalry to toughen them up. I have never seen such a weak surrendering every time they play, they dont even give a yelp.
Minuture ponies.
The only guy pulling his weight last night was hannett, the depth and baby Broncos need to grow up, and another player is out for the year, with our depth i cant see us making the top 8. We are a long way from home, and we are slying down like a pack of weak mongrel dogs. Why sugar-coat this, you start mamking excuses every week you start to believe them, look at the Blues.
May 27th 2012 @ 2:50pm
Q1der said | May 27th 2012 @ 2:50pm | Report comment
watered down weak version of a team? They’re only second on the ladder. Gee hate to see your thoughts if they were bottom on the ladder like your titans team? So are you suggesting they won’t make the finals?
May 26th 2012 @ 8:43am
Meesta Cool said | May 26th 2012 @ 8:43am | Report comment
Oikee. Last night was shocking conditions for any level of football. Broncos started the game with 4-5 stars in the stands and ended the game with only twelve men on the field and no bench players able to come on. The night was a disaster , wet, windy, freezin’ and slippery surface. DON”T judge your team on this performance, nothing went right for them,,, these nights happen!.
May 26th 2012 @ 8:56am
oikee said | May 26th 2012 @ 8:56am | Report comment
I am not putting down the game, i dont mind those cold awful nights were even a alley cat stays indoors, no i am talking about this young team of Broncos, they sooner or later have to stand up, like i said, only one guy was doing the work. Hannett, and he had to back up.
These young guys are only going through the motions, they need to start doing more, or get rid of them and buy some older decent performers. Enough is enough, we are being flogged by the same top teams every year, we now need to stand up and be counted.
Mate i am screaming at the tv, swearing, i have never done this, i am turning into a complete wreck, i now cant watch Friday night tv, i told my wife i will tape the Broncos and only watch them if they win, i am turning into a lunatic.
That is unhealthy.
I just come off moderation, now i know why.
May 26th 2012 @ 8:59am
oikee said | May 26th 2012 @ 8:59am | Report comment
I’ll be on medication next. i think i need to go to anger management theorpy.
Look, this could be a good sign, i have never been this passionaite about the game.
May 26th 2012 @ 10:33am
NF said | May 26th 2012 @ 10:33am | Report comment
oikee I can’t wait til the Broncos get the wooden spoon one day just for your reaction
May 27th 2012 @ 8:12pm
Seismic Chris said | May 27th 2012 @ 8:12pm | Report comment
I can’t wait till Oikee starts writing his own articles. Give it a go mate, nothing wrong with a bit of passion mixed with some knowledge.
May 27th 2012 @ 12:45pm
Boris said | May 27th 2012 @ 12:45pm | Report comment
You can always barrack for Melbourne Storm Oikee, after all their best 3 players are all Queenslanders (Smith, Slater and Cronk). I too am frustrated with the Broncs, they started the season well but that was before they came up against the likes of Manly and Melbourne. They lack the consistency and discipline of say a Melbourne Storm side, there is also a better level of understanding between the Melbourne players, they read each others play so well and back each other up. Leaving out Petero and Sam was a bit puzzling as I don’t believe they were carrying any injuries, or at least have them come of the bench like Melbourne did with Smith. Even the Gold Coast Titans had their origin players backing up last night. As much as I’d like to see the Broncos win the competition I reckon Melbourne is looking the goods for the minor premiership this year. Bellamy has done a terrific job with Melbourne over the years, maybe Griffin can take a leaf or two out of his book, it doesn’t hurt to learn from others.
May 26th 2012 @ 9:29am
Mals said | May 26th 2012 @ 9:29am | Report comment
So Oikee did the better win last night? Would be nice to see you congratulate the opposition for once.
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May 26th 2012 @ 11:09am
oikee said | May 26th 2012 @ 11:09am | Report comment
Mals, my dad had his Storm shirt on this morning, i get enough flogging off him. When i see you, i get enoung from Manly fans.
Yes, yes, the better teams win, but like i said, the Broncos are nothing but a waek feeder team for Sydney, even next year we lose Teo and Beale, why are we even in the comp, why dont Gallop just make the Bronocos a feeder team.
My spelling is up to putty, i have the cat sitting on my lap taking up keyboasrd room. I am even getting bullied by the cat.
May 26th 2012 @ 12:28pm
eagleJack said | May 26th 2012 @ 12:28pm | Report comment
you are a classic Oiks always good for a smile
May 26th 2012 @ 5:26pm
Meesta Cool said | May 26th 2012 @ 5:26pm | Report comment
Charles Dickens wrote some wonderful characters into his books, non of the come within Coooey of Oikee. keep it up mate. your posts vary from brilliance to lunacy, but, tey make this Roar place enjoyable… Brilliant I tell you, Brilliant!.
May 26th 2012 @ 10:11am
Bearfax said | May 26th 2012 @ 10:11am | Report comment
What can Griffin expect of his team when he leaves his best players out. Or did he seriously think he was going to win this one with those players missing. I suspect he decided that this match was a lost cause from the start, and decided to sacrifice 2 points and save his best players from injury.
May 26th 2012 @ 10:53am
gaz said | May 26th 2012 @ 10:53am | Report comment
Bear, Bellamy summed it up beautifully “my origin players wanted to play”.
Don’t get me wrong I am a Broncos member and supporter and not throwing in the towel just yet but something is a miss. The Broncos put togeather a string of wins aginst sides ‘out of the top eight’ but as soon as they come up against the top teams they have been found wanting. I’m wth you Oikes not a lot of joy last night but as long as they took something away from playing a very very good, well coached and extremely disciplined side there is still hope.
May 26th 2012 @ 11:24am
oikee said | May 26th 2012 @ 11:24am | Report comment
Yes, can understand the Storm players wanting to play. But when you have a 36 year old on his last legs (Petro), a guy who only has to trip on a leaf and is out(Hodgo), and Fiaday, if anything happened to him, we might as well find a nice place to put the wooden spoon, it makes a hell of a difference. These guys carry the Broncos each week, it is all we have got now thanks to gallop destroying this once proud club.
If Gallop does not move on within the next few years, the Broncos and Brisbane comp will be finished, he is destroying rugby league single handedly. We have no chance of winning a comp within the next 20 years, none whatsoever, all thanks to Gallop and this magic salary cap that only punishes the big powerful clubs.
Look at the Broncos spine, a kid at hooker, a kid at five-eight and a kid at Fullback, the whole team is just kids, now other clubs are buying the kids that look half decent.
I give up, i am going mentally insane.
May 26th 2012 @ 12:15pm
NF said | May 26th 2012 @ 12:15pm | Report comment
Cmon oikee the Broncos will be finished talk about hyperbole how about we wait til the Broncos get a few wooden spoons and stay bottom of the table for couple of years like the Cowboys for example. So stop complaining oikee last I check the Broncos still got 6 premierships to there name if anything your the typical whinging Broncos supporter.
May 26th 2012 @ 12:23pm
Patrick Angel said | May 26th 2012 @ 12:23pm | Report comment
Yeah Gallops fault there’s no other team in Brisbane, nothing at all to do with the people who own your team killing off every other team in SE Queensland.
May 26th 2012 @ 1:29pm
oikee said | May 26th 2012 @ 1:29pm | Report comment
As i said below, over 2 milion people in Brisbane, and most are looking for other codes to follow because our fearless one has let the game down, the fans down. You cant have a stadium like Suncorp not being used, the owners will just find other tenats , as they have done.
Go have a look at our wooden spooners, both in West Sydney. The giants will have a premiership before our basket case clubs, Penrith cant even bring juniors through until 2015, they still have Craig Gower being paid 700 thousand a year, how long he been gone, 5 years now. They lose about 13 million a season, they are run poorly, nobody cared, this is why Gus had to go back, to bring a broom.
Gallop will take this game into the gutter i tell ya, the gutter.
May 26th 2012 @ 2:06pm
NF said | May 26th 2012 @ 2:06pm | Report comment
The Broncos will be fine there still in the top 4 FFS oikee you speak of the Broncos if there were getting the wooden spoon which I wouldn’t mind seeing for once & for the Cowboys to be on top…for once.
May 27th 2012 @ 12:19am
Tony Archers Maroon Underwear said | May 27th 2012 @ 12:19am | Report comment
ha yeah right Oikee nice try but Brisbane have got one of the best sides in the comp, Broncos lose one game and its because of the cap… You should try supporting a team that really has been punished by the cap like St George, Parramatta or Penrith.
Though I agree with you that the cap should go as it unfairly punishes not only success in the NRL comp but also clubs like the Broncos who invest in and bring through good juniors.
But while its here it needs to be strictly enforced to prevent the better connected clubs cough Bronc cough os like the storm from rorting a massive advantage over everyone else.
Id love for the NRL to have a look at the last Brisbane GF winning team it had 9-10 Origin players in it hmmm who’d they beat again oh yeah thats right the storm…
May 26th 2012 @ 11:48am
Rellum said | May 26th 2012 @ 11:48am | Report comment
Last night the thing that stood out to me was how poor Reed and Dale Copley in attack down the left. Both players stand so flat, they seem so keen to run onto a kick that they are never sitting deep enough to run onto a short pass.
Both Brocos tries came from working the ball along the Storms left hand defensive line and it is no coincidence to me that we couldn’t create those same opportunities on the other side. Norman Set up plenty of chances down that side but they were all butchered by poor positioning from the outside backs.
May 26th 2012 @ 1:24pm
oikee said | May 26th 2012 @ 1:24pm | Report comment
Outside backs, what outside backs. We have Reed who throws out a arm and hopes he can stop a steamtrain, and we have to use Gillet in the centresa because our club is devoid of depth. They could not even afford to keep Gagai. Copley is still at school .
Yes it is Gallops fault, he is turning a city with over 2 million residents look elsewhere for entertainment.
Brisbane needs another team to support, we are losing fans by not having another team in the city.
He wont announce expansion, he should have already given the expansion teams the go, so they can start getting a team together, start promoting and maybe come in next year or 2014. He is wasting time letting other codes get that legup.
Look at our other heartland, the Wwest of Sydney, our heartland clubs trying to fight off other codes fighting out the battle of the wooden spoon, no wonder every code is charging into the wesern suburbs, they see Gallop and the big come on i am a sucker sign.
Mate, even a fool would have made sure the Panthers and eels had a better looking roster. They cant even bring through juniors, both teams are capped out and i think even Gower is still on the Penrith cap, this is how badly the west has been run under Gallops watch, and you guys support this, good luck then when league is floundering like a fish, a big mullet outta water.
May 26th 2012 @ 3:06pm
Bill Larkin said | May 26th 2012 @ 3:06pm | Report comment
Gee, and I thought the Storm was playing the second placed team………..
Seems nobody whinges quite like a Broncos supporter.
May 26th 2012 @ 5:05pm
gaz said | May 26th 2012 @ 5:05pm | Report comment
Nobody Bill??
Check out the other articles here…I think you’ll find plenty of non Bronco supporters having a cry!