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Round 23 vs. South Sydney Rabbitohs Discussion

Big Pete

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NRL 2019 - Round 23
Brisbane Broncos v South Sydney Rabbitohs
Suncorp Stadium, Milton (TICKETS)
Friday 23 August 2019

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1. Anthony Milford
5. Jamayne Isaako
3. Kotoni Staggs
4. Alex Glenn
2. Corey Oates
6. Darius Boyd
7. Sean O'Sullivan
8. Matthew Lodge
9. Andrew McCullough
10. Payne Haas
11. David Fifita
12. Matt Gillett
13. Joe Ofahengaue

Interchange

14. James Segeyaro
15. Thomas Flegler
16. Gehamat Shibasaki
17. Patty Carrigan

Reserves

18. Rhys Kennedy
19. Izaia Perese
20. Shaun Fensom
21. Fanitesi Niu

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1. Adam Doueihi
2. Dane Gagai
3. James Roberts
4. Kyle Turner
5. Campbell Graham
6. Cody Walker
7. Adam Reynolds
8. Sam Burgess
9. Damien Cook
10. Liam Knight
11. John Sutton
12. Jaydn Su'A
13. Cameron Murray

Interchange
14. Mark Nicholls
15. Ethan Lowe
16. Dean Britt
17. Tevita Tatola

Reserves
18. Tom Amone
19. Corey Allan
20. Bayley Sironen
21. Connor Tracey​
 

Nerd

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Would have been nice to knock off the Bunnies but again we cruelled ourselves with too many unforced errors. Surely even Siebold has to concede that the Darius Boyd experiment is a miserable failure. We had the Rabbits in trouble early in the game and 3 times Boyd fxxcks up the play all the while Kotoni Staggs in blistering form is cooling his heels on the other side of the field. It's pretty generous of us to play every week with 12 men and Darius Boyd on the field. Just stick a back rower at 5/8 and be done with it. I'm an ex prop and have more of an idea what a 5/8 is supposed to do than Boyd. Even if we do make the finals we will be gone in week one so why not blood a few young halves for next year.
 

Big Pete

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The effort reminded me a lot of the Broncos performance against Wests. Whenever they got into the arm wrestle, the Broncos were the better side but they just kept inviting the opposition back into the contest to the point where they made it too hard for themselves. Brisbane blew so many opportunities by making some silly errors and I can't help but feel they fell for Souths extremely dirty tactics. Souths took a by any means necessary approach and while it proved essential on the night, it's going to cost them down the road.

As disappointing as the loss was a few players like Payne Haas, David Fifita, Kotoni Staggs etc. really stood up for the side. Haas made over 100 post-contact metres, Fifita came up with three fantastic individual efforts and Staggs proved a real handful with limited possession.

While it's difficult to swallow, this season defining loss maybe the best thing to happen moving forward. The Broncos record under their current configuration has actually been pretty good which may have conned the players into thinking it was working. There are some things the Broncos are doing well, but it isn't their attacking structures, or ability to construct positive attacking sets.
 

Bronco18

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Seibolt isn't the answer, can't see how things will be any different next year.

There's been some dopey things Seibold has done this year no doubt. BUT - I can see how there can be a fair bit of improvement.

A halves combination that has had the offseason to settle and train together would be a start. That might not even involve Darius Boyd if the rumours are to be believed.

PLUS - Bird will be back. Say what you want about him, he's a damn step up from Shibasaki. The young forwards will have another year of experience under their belt.
 

GoTheBroncs

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We won't win a premiership regardless of who the coach is until we have a genuine superstar in the spine. Our forward pack is excellent but moot if we can't get over the try line.

Our highest profile spine player is Milford who can't even make the QLD team (let's say fringe QLD to be generous).

Let's look at the top teams:

Melbourne: Smith (could play QLD if desired, maybe AUS), Munster (QLD and probably AUS)
Roosters: Tedesco (NSW, AUS), Cronk (could play QLD if desired), Keary (NSW and fringe AUS)
Manly: Turbo (NSW, AUS), Cherry-Evans (QLD, AUS)
Souths: Cook (NSW, AUS), Reynolds (fringe NSW), Cody Walker (fringe NSW)
Canberra: Hodgson (could easily play Origin if he was Australian), Whighton (fringe NSW)

Any combination of Milford (fringe QLD), McCullough, Boyd, Turpin, SOS, Dearden, Isaako, Segeyaro won't cut it for 2020 unless one of the youngsters has a rookie of the year type season.
 

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