What's going wrong with the Broncos?

I can understand why people thought they'd be right up there. They've got some really talented footballers, Payne Haas is the next superstar of the game in my opinion. Then there's Tevita Pangai Jnr, Ofengahue, David Fifita, Matt Lodge. Anthony Milford was once a game breaker who knew that there wouldn't be more of the same. Mchulloch is a pretty decent no. 9. Darius Boyd is not playing well at all this year but he's an ex origin great. Corey Oates is one of the best wingers in the game and at the beginning of the season they also had James Roberts, another origin star. They've got a great team, but I agree they probably lost a few senior players which disturbed the balance of their team.

Nobody ever says you can keep them all but I'm glad they let the best ones slip thru the net , it helps even up the comp. Keep any one of the players like Smith, Munster , Cronk , JT or even DCE ( who was dynamite for his first few years) and the Broncos would have been winning titles now and again almost for sure.

It's all very well quoting the stars that slipped through the Broncos fingers but you can't keep them all, Slater was offered as much as he got at the Storm but reckoned he'd get a better shot at Melbourne. Not everyone wants to sit in the reserves behind internationals forever.

I think you are falling for the anti Darius media campaign. He's actually not doing that badly and his mistakes are ignored when done by other players. DB gets pasted when Ramien runs over him - not a word when he does it to TRS, DB gets beaten cold, grasping for air - same happens to Cronk and not a word, I've seen stacks of guys go for intercepts and fail. DB is on a journo's nasty radar, don't buy into it. If Bennett doesn't have a lot to do with the development of these guys, how come so many want to follow him? + he had injury problems last year - Bird one example. ANd Dragons would have beaten most that day, they actually had a good team.

DP, Bennett had the full squad (except Glenn being out injured) when they fell into the bottom of the 8 last year & got belted by 30 points at their home fortress in their only final so his efforts last year weren't that good. He lived off the surprise 2015 grand final qualification for the next few years & their subsequent finals performances were pretty ordinary in that period. Just because the young guys were recruited when he was coach doesn't mean he developed them, he's the one who ticked off on a 30 year old Boyd getting a 4 year contract at $800k a season, how's that looking for value to us supporters now.

Fair enough to give Bennett credits for the dragon's premiership but at least mark it with an asterisk to denote that the Storm played that season for no premiership points and absolutely smashed St George in their late season clash. No doubt Melbourne would have won that premiership if they'd played for points (which Cronulla seemed to have been allowed to do) & SuperCoach wouldn't have that one on his resume.

Have to say, of all the guys you listed as being lost in the last two years that only the retirees have been missed. Blair, Kahu, Nikorima & Wallace were never going to improve and get them a premiership while Hunt seemed permanently scarred by his GF blunder. McCullough & Glenn have given great service but the kids are overtaking Alex and Macca is struggling to hold out the more penetrative duo of Turpin & Segeyaro. Seibold seems to be planning for 2020 while hoping they make the 8 this year & I reckon he's planned for Milford at fullback with Bird as 5/8, Staggs as right centre leaving Boyd as a spare maybe filling the centre vacancy. Based on their retention so far, Cory Paix will fill that Nikorima role of backup halfback/hooker to Turpin if he stays & he's fairly robust so will handle the role. I also think that Isaiah Perese is being groomed as the other centre because he's getting full games in the Intrust Cup for Redcliffe instead of few minutes from the bench in the NRL. When Penrith was getting all the wraps for their abundant young talent a few years back they never got success, it took recruiting Maloney to give them direction. Bird could be that factor for the Broncos next year, he was just hitting good form when he got the knee injury. As a supporter, I'm happy with Seibold's approach & also am realistic enough to accept that they probably fluked that 2015 GF spot with the squad they had at the time.

Siebold. The answer is seibold.

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I would have thought that of all people, a Broncos supporter could spell "LOSE"?

I was just thinking the other day, how good is the league this season with the Broncos (Dragons and Bulldogs) in the bottom 4? I think it's a fantastic comp this season, the teams are so evenly mediocre that only 2 teams are certainly out of finals contention (Bulldogs and Titans)!

The one positive for Brisbane this year was when Dearden and Turpin played together. It looked like a seven and a nine that knew their roles fairly well.

I wrote an article at the start of this season and concluded that recruitment had been the reason the Broncos have a title drought of sorts. I didn't realise at the time that Keary wanted to play for the Broncos at the start of his career. Another title winner (x 2) who the Broncos didn't want. It stops being bad luck when it goes on for too long. Just about all the best players have come from QLD in the last 10 years but the cream of the crop have developed their careers south of the QLD border (even JT had to leave to get a start)

It has gotten better in the last 3-5 years

The person that Brisbane is missing was recruitment manager Cyril Connell. He left the club in 2008. He passed away the following year. And I read somewhere that in Brisbane's last premiership win in 2006, Connell recruited 15 out of the 17. If Brisbane want to conduct a review, maybe they should at improving on recruiting.

Even when Qld were the dominant state from 2006-2017, Brisbane only won one premiership. And that was right at the beginning of Qlds reign. I do Brisbane's scouting and talent id. You look at the Qld greats like Smith, Cronk, JT, Slater, Inglis, they have all slipped through Brisbane's net.

Maybe, no doubt Bellamy is a fantastic person when creating a club culture. Yet at a coaching level; Bennett, Gibson, Sheen and even Hasler have multiple premierships at more than one club. That's a level that eludes Bellamy.

The bottom line with the Broncos is that QLD have the weakest state roster for 15? or 20? years yet none of the Broncos spine make the team even when players get injured. All of the QLD spine are playing for NSW clubs. Just about every player at the Broncos is or has been considered of SOO standard but they're not all playing up to that standard. Get TPJ, Milford and Boyd playing like regular rep players then they have plenty of others who are playing reps to challenge for the crown. I heard the commentators read out the Cows pack as they ran out on to the field today and some were saying it was the best pack in the comp at seasons start. They're not dominating though.

Ahh the refs! The same refs who've awarded Souths 25% more penalties than the broncos so far this season. 120 penalties so far and 2nd in the NRL for penalties awarded. We know who the refs favour and it ain't the team from north of the Tweed.

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