Brisbane Broncos
The NRL’s most successful club, the Brisbane Broncos were formed in 1988 under coach Wayne Bennett. Bennett led the Broncos to six Premiership victories and thus far have a perfect record in Grand Final matches. It is this culture, with the help of league legends Shane Webcke, Darren Lockyer and Alan Langer, that has enabled Brisbane to record the highest annual revenues out of all NRL clubs and maintain the largest crowd attendances in the competition with an average of 33,000 people per game.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Darren Lockyer rated the Sydney Roosters the NRL’s benchmark attack after they upset Brisbane’s finals momentum with a 34-30 win in a high class clash at Suncorp Stadium on Monday night.
While Lockyer was impressed enough to tip the Roosters as genuine premiership contenders, he cautioned the tri colours would need to work on their defence [...] Read article
Sunday, July 18th, 2010Melbourne superstar Greg Inglis is tipped to sign a multi-year deal with the Brisbane Broncos on Monday.
Forty-eight hours after a report commissioned by News Limited revealed Melbourne had exceeded the salary cap by more than $3 million over the past four seasons, Inglis is set to break up the Storm’s “fab four” and accept a [...] Read article
Saturday, July 17th, 2010Two magical pieces of ball handling by fullback Josh Hoffman and winger Antonio Winterstein combined to give Brisbane a 24-10 NRL victory over the Gold Coast at Skilled Park on Friday night.
The Titans had led 10-6 after enjoying a mountain of possession in the opening 40 minutes.
But Winterstein’s second try following some brilliant play from [...] Read article
Friday, July 16th, 2010On Monday, 12th July, Bruno Cullen announced he is stepping down as the CEO of the Brisbane Broncos as of the 31st December of this year.
With all his knockers, myself sometimes included, he has undoubtedly been a long term servant of the club (since 1989). But with this impending change the question is asked, [...] Read article
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010It was the night that the Baby Broncos came of age – but the Wests Tigers still walked away with a 16-14 NRL win at Suncorp Stadium.
For the record, bench back Mitch Brown defied slippery conditions to snaffle a clever Robbie Farah kick and clinch the match-winning try in the 78th minute for the Wests [...] Read article
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Back from a work related hiatus (translation: Work controls my life).
Broncos v Tigers. Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Friday 7.35pm
Whilst usually spending much of his time treating his players to wisdom and general rugby league martyr-like insight, Tigers coach Tim Sheens has decided to get a little selfish, and has treated himself to a new sports car. [...] Read article
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Parramatta coach Daniel Anderson claimed superstar fullback Jarryd Hayne was trying too hard to lift the Eels out of a mire that has them slowly slipping out of NRL finals contention, following Saturday night’s 10-6 loss to Brisbane.
Hayne has struggled to find the spark which propelled the Eels in last year’s dramatic run to the [...] Read article
Monday, June 7th, 2010AFL recruit Israel Folau showed a possible glimpse of the future by taking a huge mark to score one of his two tries in Brisbane’s gutsy 22-6 NRL victory over Manly at Brookvale Oval on Sunday.
The Broncos conceded a try after just two minutes, but Folau’s dominant leap over Sea Eagles fullback Ben Farrar and [...] Read article
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Rugby league has, up until 1995 (or the Super League era), been before its time. It was one of the first codes to become professional and the sport that made mid-week games popular in Australia. Rugby league made changes to traditional rules because the public wanted it.
However, lately (maybe due to recovering from the Super [...] Read article
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss has slammed the AFL for offering massive contracts for code-jumpers to promote the game rather than investing more in junior programs.
While Karmichael Hunt was carrying out his first official duty as a contracted player with expansion club Gold Coast on Monday, Voss said it was “ridiculous” the former league fullback [...] Read article
Sunday, May 30th, 2010Brisbane coach Ivan Henjak hailed skipper Darren Lockyer following his tremendous display in the Broncos’ 20-4 NRL win over Cronulla on Saturday.
The Queensland and Australia captain showed no ill-effects in backing up from Wednesday’s State of Origin opener, to guide his side to a third successive victory, with brilliant all-round performance.
Lockyer raced home for a [...] Read article
Saturday, May 29th, 2010It was hard to tell who would be more fired up by Ricky Stuart’s shock resignation – Cronulla or Brisbane.
The Sharks will inevitably be motivated to begin a fitting send-off for Stuart against the Broncos in Saturday night’s NRL clash at Toyota Park.
But Stuart’s surprise announcement that he would walk away from Cronulla with a [...] Read article
