'15 | R1 | Thu | BRI 6-36 SOU | Suncorp

[BranVan3000]

To put this game in context in 2006 the Cowboys towelled up the Broncos in Rd 1 to the tune of 30 odd points.

Everyone said the Broncos were going to miss the eight and the Cowboys were contenders.

Broncos go onto win the the Grand Final, and we finish nowhere.

To put it in context, last year we towelled up the Broncos and went on to win the Premiership! Wow back to back here we come

 

[Kiwi]

I'm not taking a slight on the Broncos here but genuinely curious. Does the Broncos roster fit the mould for Bennett football? It's a good attacking roster but we all know Bennett likes to play the percentages. It worked at St George with a roster that suited that style. It didn't work at Newcastle and I feel like it would be a mistake to try the same thing at Brisbane.

If I were a Broncos fan I'd be wanting to see Parker offloading to Milford whenever he can. Fit the game to the players strengths. Two offloads for the team in the entire game seems flawed to me when you have the best offloader in the game in your side (Parker had 0 offloads).

Broncs fans, am I reading too much into Round 1?

Reading to much into it to be honest. People forget Bennett has coached attacking teams in the past. Plus it's not like there were no Bronco offloads etc. We tried a few things but nothing came off, we dropped to much ball and made alot of unforced errors. You don't give Souths that much easy ball and expect to even get close. We will improve, those doubting Bennett generally end up with egg on their face.

 

[yobbo84]

I'd rate Souths performance last night a 6 out of 10. We weren't overly impressive. Brisbane were just terrible.

 

[Hutty1986]

Surely with some of the attacking firepower the Broncos have (Milf, Hunt, Hodges, etc) they would be better served playing a far more offence-orientated brand of footy.

They have a good pack and despite the sh*t served up last night, a potentially devastating halves combination. f**k 'Bennett-ball,' it's time for a new game plan (Sir) Wayne!

 

[Sacrolishes]

Bennetts post match comments were farcical. He puts their performance down to how the team has played over the past few years under another coach. Blames that game on the previous coaching. In saying that he believes he could do nothing to help or change the way they play in the offseason to adapt some style or change in his own coaching for a round 1 game. Bitch please. Coaches like Brad Arthur and Toovey made their teams from seller dwellers to performers within an offseason. Guy is getting a little delusional.

 

[TheFrog]

Souths will win the comp at least 3 of the next 5 years.

Ah yes we might as well not play the remaining 200 odd games and award the premiership to Souths now, on the basis of putting away a seriously inept Broncos side in the first week of March.

The broncos were totally underdone, and completely not ready for the comp to start, and the Rabbitohs were good enough to give a them a hiding. It was a typical first game of the season.

 

[TheFrog]

. Coaches like Brad Arthur and Toovey made their teams from seller (sic) dwellers to performers within an offseason. Guy is getting a little delusional.

Toovey took over a team that had just won the premiership and took them to a preliminary final loss.

Arthur took over a rabble, and turned them into a team who played good footy at home but away from home were still a rabble, and they finished 10th, winning exactly half their games. A somewhat better example.

 

[blaza88z]

Bennetts post match comments were farcical. He puts their performance down to how the team has played over the past few years under another coach. Blames that game on the previous coaching. In saying that he believes he could do nothing to help or change the way they play in the offseason to adapt some style or change in his own coaching for a round 1 game. Bitch please. Coaches like Brad Arthur and Toovey made their teams from seller dwellers to performers within an offseason. Guy is getting a little delusional.

didn't Toovey just take over the reigns after Manly won the comp?

 

[Kiwi]

Surely with some of the attacking firepower the Broncos have (Milf, Hunt, Hodges, etc) they would be better served playing a far more offence-orientated brand of footy.

They have a good pack and despite the sh*t served up last night, a potentially devastating halves combination. f**k 'Bennett-ball,' it's time for a new game plan (Sir) Wayne!

I think that is the plan, but people need to realise that this team needs to walk before it can run. We have a lot of new key combinations, we made a lot of unforced errors, for example the kick offs have frustrated me for a while, no team screws up their kick offs more than us, we are good for stuffing up at least one kick off a game over the last few years, we either kick it out on the full, dead or stuff up the first set/tackle after scoring and let the opposition in off the next set.

People talk about Bennett Ball, I think Bennett ball is to get defence right first, do the little things right and then the rest will come. Which as far as I'm concerned is perfect. We didn't do the little and simple things right last night, period. Our potentially devastating halves combo can do squat when we hand the opposition 70% of the ball and they spend the night tackling. Our team is failing to do the basics right now, when we did have the ball our first 2 or 3 hit ups were crap nearly every set, I think Vidot was missed here and should be called back up, he always got our sets started in 2014 with strong runs, it layed the platform for us a lot in 2014.

There are a few on here saying Bennett is blaming others, I look at this and see and take a lot of positives from it.

http://rugbyleagueweek.com.au/broncos-presser/

WAYNE Bennett was glad his Broncos lined up against the Rabbitohs on Thursday night.

Not that he enjoyed the 36-6 drubbing South Sydney handed his side at Suncorp Stadium.
But the hard lessons learned on the night were a reality check for where the Broncos are with their football right now, and how much they have to improve to be a premiership contender.
?In a cynical way, I am pleased we did play them tonight,? Bennett said.

way, I am pleased we did play them tonight,? Bennett said.

?At least we know how far we have got to go.
?We didn?t get an easy game and all of a sudden get a false sense of security and confidence.
?We?ve just got to get a lot of unforced errors out of our game. Until we do that we won?t match it with them.?
The ruthless and relentless Rabbitohs reminded Bennett and his assistant Kevin Walters of another stellar side of the 1990s.
?Kevin Walters said after the game, ?That was the Broncos 20 years ago.?
?We?ve just swapped our jerseys?,? Bennett quipped.

?So we all know how it works here.
?We?ve got to get back to making it work.
?That is the journey we are all on.
?South Sydney were extremely good, and there were lots of lessons for us in that.
?We need to realise what good teams do, compared to the teams that aren?t so good.?
Bennett has explained the controversial comment he made last year about Souths being ?predictable? as in reality a complement.
What he was saying was that they are predictably excellent in the way they execute their plans, in contrast to Brisbane.
?We are predictable at being unpredictable?it drives a coach insane,? Bennett said.
Bennett said his team tried hard, but failed to execute at the level required.
?It is just doing the little things right,? Bennett said.
?The game is too clinical today to make the mistakes that we make and think we can compete with the top teams.
?At half-time they had 20 sets and we?d had 13, and we paid the price for that in the second half.
?You can?t have the best team in the competition seven sets ahead at half-time because of penalties and repeat sets they weren?t giving away.?

Heaps a lot of praise on Souths, and rightly so, also acknowledges our problems very well.

 

[Kiwi]

To put this game in context in 2006 the Cowboys towelled up the Broncos in Rd 1 to the tune of 30 odd points.

Everyone said the Broncos were going to miss the eight and the Cowboys were contenders.

Broncos go onto win the the Grand Final, and we finish nowhere.

I can certainly see your point, can't see us winning it this year though, but I will cheer them on no matter what and do see soooo much improvement possibilities in the team.

 

[Maroon4life]

I think that is the plan, but people need to realise that this team needs to walk before it can run. We have a lot of new key combinations, we made a lot of unforced errors, for example the kick offs have frustrated me for a while, no team screws up their kick offs more than us, we are good for stuffing up at least one kick off a game over the last few years, we either kick it out on the full, dead or stuff up the first set/tackle after scoring and let the opposition in off the next set.

People talk about Bennett Ball, I think Bennett ball is to get defence right first, do the little things right and then the rest will come. Which as far as I'm concerned is perfect. We didn't do the little and simple things right last night, period. Our potentially devastating halves combo can do squat when we hand the opposition 70% of the ball and they spend the night tackling. Our team is failing to do the basics right now, when we did have the ball our first 2 or 3 hit ups were crap nearly every set, I think Vidot was missed here and should be called back up, he always got our sets started in 2014 with strong runs, it layed the platform for us a lot in 2014.

There are a few on here saying Bennett is blaming others, I look at this and see and take a lot of positives from it.

http://rugbyleagueweek.com.au/broncos-presser/



Heaps a lot of praise on Souths, and rightly so, also acknowledges our problems very well.

Going to stop you there, this halves pairing has not shown any potential to be deadly. It is purely theoretical but has not set any expectations to be some sort of langer/walters reincarnation. What we saw last night was a fair indication of where they're at.

 

[Kiwi]

Bennett wants Brisbane to become as good as Souths in a couple of years time.

Wayne you have no chance.

A very solid win by Souths but still lots of room for improvement.

A tough one coming up next against Roosters.

Milford imo is not ready to play five eighth.

Bennett has put egg on peoples faces many times before and I have faith in him doing it again.

 

[perverse]

Yeah, that was my mantra while he was at the Knights.

 

[ram raid]

Reynolds stomped all over Hunt last night. Enjoyed every minute of it. Climaxed when he kicked that goal from half way. What a way to start off the season with the mighty bunnies pissing all over Wayne and his rabble of a team.

 

[BranVan3000]

Hunt carried us last year with a forward pack going nowhere, as a half that's the hardest thing to do, you can't argue that.. Reynolds has a solid kicking game but he's not going to carve you up with his running game and for me having a half who isn't afraid to run the ball is far more dangerous than a guy who just kicks it

Hunt is a better player than Reynolds, whether you can concede it or not

lmfao next minute - Premiership winning halfback Reynolds is MOTM and invisible man Hunt is nowhere to be seen

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

This is sadly going to be a boring one sided season opener. Souths 42-12.. Probably one of the worst Bronco's line ups I have ever seen, not even coach handshake will be able to help them and they will get smashed.

Got the margin right at least.. Was probably optimistic that the Bronco's could score twice. Going to be a long season for the Bronc's.

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

Reynolds stomped all over Hunt last night. Enjoyed every minute of it. Climaxed when he kicked that goal from half way. What a way to start off the season with the mighty bunnies pissing all over Wayne and his rabble of a team.

To be fair, Hunt played behind a beaten pack, he still is a class act sorrounded by lot's of crap.

 

[Twatface Magee]

Bronco Thaiday Under Fire From Bennett

A Brisbane back-rower was always going to be a talking point after the Broncos' NRL season opener against Souths at Suncorp Stadium

A Brisbane back-rower was always going to be a talking point after the Broncos' NRL season opener against South Sydney at Suncorp Stadium.

Unfortunately, it was not milestone man Corey Parker when the dust settled on Thursday night's 36-6 loss.

Off contract Sam Thaiday looks to be at least relegated to the bench next round after Broncos coach Wayne Bennett took aim at the ill-disciplined Test forward following the Rabbitohs' rout.

Parker took centre stage - literally - after being allowed to lead out the Broncos ahead of newly anointed captain Justin Hodges in his 300th NRL game.

He became only the second Broncos player to achieve the feat behind Darren Lockyer (355 games).

The NRL even approved the 30m marking on the field to be painted with the number 300.

However, Thaiday was the back-rower on everyone's lips post-match after giving away costly penalties.

"It's not acceptable from Sam, to be honest," Bennett said.

"Okay, he's an Australian (Test) player and 200-game player here and just knows that kind of stuff doesn't work.

"We have to have a team that's disciplined and can match it with the top teams and your top and most senior players have to be responsible."

Thaiday racked up a team-high 123 metres from 13 hit-ups along with 34 tackles.

http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/sport/nrl/news/2015/3/brisbane-broncos-sam-thaiday-under-fire-from-wayne-bennett-following-loss-to-south-sydney-rabbitohs/

 

[BranVan3000]

I never thought i would say this anytime soon but we have the edge in the forwards just. Going to be an epic forward battle.

Omfg lol

 

[blaza88z]

lmfao next minute - Premiership winning halfback Reynolds is MOTM and invisible man Hunt is nowhere to be seen

that's more to do with the forward pack dominance of Souffs and I am sure you know that