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The Brisbane Broncos have long been the benchmark in regards to ‘in-house’ player recruitment, but with the stables bereft of the talent needed to return to the top in the near future, Anthony Griffin must been hiding a superstar signing.
The recruitment rumour mill has been in overdrive for most of the season (read Quade Cooper, Benji Marshall, Daly Cherry-Evans, Ben Barba and so on), so stories about Anthony Milford, Martin Kennedy and the movements of Peter Wallace in the new year need to be taken with a grain of salt.
The loss of Corey Norman will only benefit the Broncs in 2014 as it will see Josh Hoffman cement his place at fullback. But what can the halves combination possibly be when Scott Prince’s life support is finally switched off and Peter Wallace shifts from number 14 to 15? To 16. To 17. To early retirement.
This is where Hook has to pull something out of the air.
Of the current contracted 2014 players (excluding Prince and Wallace) Ben Hunt is the only established half. Ashley Taylor is definitely one to watch but cannot and will not be an immediate fix.
Looking further than Hunt and Taylor you only find more inexperienced players that will need a handful of years in top flight footy before they can provide stability at the scrum base.
Perhaps it’s too close to home for me to accept that the Broncos are in a rebuilding phase that I never thought they’d need, or perhaps Anthony Griffin is a genius behind-the-scenes operator with a trump card of the Sonny Bill Williams variety.
Either way, the Broncos look set to carry their ordinary 2013 form through most of 2014 and possibly beyond.
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