'11 | Finals Wk 2 | Sat | Broncos 13-12* Dragons | Suncorp

[Dr Crane]

soward's kick was still a better play than farah and benji put on last night.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

I think that was everything Broncos had...Manly will beat them next week

The defence is ordinary. With hardly any territory Saints looked scoring every time, if Manly get any ball they'll carve up

 

[Loudstrat]

Yes, the Dragons went down fighting big time!

 

[ironhorse]

Mcguire deserved MoTM with 43 tries .

 

[BDR]

Josh McGuire fully deserves Hannant's Australian jersey.

edit: and there he is with MoTM. 43 tries according to Nine..

wow well done! what was the score then, 248-all at full time?

 

[ceagle]

Hopefully all the media just talk about locky all week to take the pressure of us.

 

[user_nat]

wow well done! what was the score then, 248-all at full time?

Had he scored that many, I don't think Parker would have landed that many conversion..

 

[Timmah]

It's bad enough that your first team didn't make the finals but to make it even worse your other team gets punted in golden point, maybe you can follow another team next year to give yourself even more of a chance. Sucks to be you Tim Tam, even more so than usual......

WTF?

Broncos won and deserve to progress, they've been great all year. Do you not agree that it would've been far more fitting for a game of that quality to go to golden try, with both teams chancing their hand at crossing the line instead of hit up hit up hit up field goal?

 

[Slackboy72]

Unfortunately with that loss we may have to listen Warren Boland for another week. Gee he's unbearable.

 

[Y2Eel]

WTF?

Broncos won and deserve to progress, they've been great all year. Do you not agree that it would've been far more fitting for a game of that quality to go to golden try, with both teams chancing their hand at crossing the line instead of hit up hit up hit up field goal?

No..

 

[Oldboy]

Manly will win it this year.

No doubt.

 

[jarro]

great win to my boys ... awesome effort to withstand the dragons fightback.

Locky will play next week .... no dramas.

 

[Big Pete]

To pull a similar line you like to use Tim, I doubt you'd share this opinion if the Dragons won.

With that said, Dragons fans have nothing to be disappointed about tonight other than the result. Their boys put in and came up against one of the best performances we've put together all season and nearly came away with. Fantastic game and I'm so proud the teams that we both supported showed the rest of the comp. what real Rugby League is.

 

[Evenflow]

WTF?

Broncos won and deserve to progress, they've been great all year. Do you not agree that it would've been far more fitting for a game of that quality to go to golden try, with both teams chancing their hand at crossing the line instead of hit up hit up hit up field goal?

So what do you propose Tim, 5 mins each way waiting for someone to score a try and if they didn't keep going until they do? What happens if they go another 20 mins or more and no try is scored, go for GP then?

Most of these blokes have played (at least) over 20 games for the season of the toughest game in the world, playing for a chance to play in the prelim the next week and then if they have onto the GF if they get through that, do you think it's fair that they may have to play maybe an extra quarter of a game or even more the week before than their opponents in the prelim?

Given fatigue sets in so late in the game and how hard it is to score a try at the best of times it's not unreasonable at all to think a try wouldn't be scored in the first 2 five minute periods of extra time. The sooner the game is decided in these situations the better it is and the fairer it is for the winner hence why we still have GP in finals.

 

[Charles Bronson]

So what do you propose Tim, 5 mins each way waiting for someone to score a try and if they didn't keep going until they do? What happens if they go another 20 mins or more and no try is scored, go for GP then?

Most of these blokes have played (at least) over 20 games for the season of the toughest game in the world, playing for a chance to play in the prelim the next week and then if they have onto the GF if they get through that, do you think it's fair that they may have to play maybe an extra quarter of a game or even more the week before than their opponents in the prelim?

Given fatigue sets in so late in the game and how hard it is to score a try at the best of times it's not unreasonable at all to think a try wouldn't be scored in the first 2 five minute periods of extra time. The sooner the game is decided in these situations the better it is and the fairer it is for the winner hence why we still have GP in finals.

one way around the fatigue would be to extend the bench only in extra time by 2, so each team would have reserve players specifically for extra time.

golden try is a better option for finals IMO.

 

[Hutty1986]

Just got home. Absolutely shattered, but f*ck I'm proud of the way our boys came back when it looked like we would get towelled up in that first half.

Great game Brissy & as for Locky.. what moe can you say about a champion-the big players come up with the big play. Good luck against Manly, what a fantastic game of football that was.

 

[Billythekid]

Not a fan of golden try at all, it's fine as is.

Great match of footy. People can insult the dragons/storm etc play style all they want but to me that was a damn near perfect game of footy

 

[ceagle]

Foxsports are saying that Locky has a depressed fractured cheek bone, nfi how serious that is.

 

[Timmah]

So what do you propose Tim, 5 mins each way waiting for someone to score a try and if they didn't keep going until they do? What happens if they go another 20 mins or more and no try is scored, go for GP then?

In regular season, 5 min each way - no try, it's a draw. Same as now. Finals footy it would be not much different, with two tired teams eventually one would crack.

Most of these blokes have played (at least) over 20 games for the season of the toughest game in the world, playing for a chance to play in the prelim the next week and then if they have onto the GF if they get through that, do you think it's fair that they may have to play maybe an extra quarter of a game or even more the week before than their opponents in the prelim?

Given fatigue sets in so late in the game and how hard it is to score a try at the best of times it's not unreasonable at all to think a try wouldn't be scored in the first 2 five minute periods of extra time. The sooner the game is decided in these situations the better it is and the fairer it is for the winner hence why we still have GP in finals.

How is it much different to what we've got now? Instead of one-up one-up one-up FG attempt, we'd see flamboyant footy (hopefully) and tired defence against each other. Can't be that bad, surely.

 

[Timmah]

Foxsports are saying that Locky has a depressed fractured cheek bone, nfi how serious that is.

Same injury that saw Kimmorley miss 3 weeks in 2009. Even if he returns next week or week after he won't be the same player.