We have 95%? Sweet... we've obviously been dudded all this time. Well, here's the Broncos line-up for 2008 considering we have a whole STATE at our disposal:
1. Hunt
2. Inglis
3. Hodges
4. S.Bell
5. B.Bowen
6. Lockyer
7. Thurston
8. Price
9. C.Smith
10. Civoniceva
11. C.Webb
12. Johnson
13. Carroll
14. S.Thaiday
15. Hannant
16. Taylor
17. M.Bowen
Bit of a let-down that we had to get rid of Ennis, but I can't wait until next year!!
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Yes, we have a bigger area to cover than a lot of teams and we do benefit from that. But here's a couple of facts for you all:
1. Nearly EVERY team in the competition has feeder ties to Qld areas. Even those without full feeder teams have affiliations, high schools and NOTHING stops them from coming up here to sign kids (thus, not a Monopoly - get it?)
2. Under something called the salary cap, we simply CANNOT own all of the players in the state. If the salary cap didn't exist, I have no doubts at all in my mind that the Broncos would have won the last 10 premierships straight - we make more money than any other club and would have paid through the teeth to get superstars in every jersey.
Look, we aren't hard done by like a lot of stupid Bronco fans consistently whinge and whine about. But by the same token, we don't have $50 million and 4,000 star players to choose from each year.
We play by the same rules as every other club in the competition. We might have the benefit of having stronger ties to a bigger area than many, but do you think that Dave Taylor have stayed with Brisbane for $50k a year in the past two seasons if a Sydney club was offering him $400k?
Smart management, a professional set-up, a history of success and a damn fine coach is what has given our club the edge to win the competitions that we have.
