Match Discussion: Round 20 vs Brisbane @ McDonald Jones Stadium, New Lambton / Awabakal

[Apey]

Might be home time...

 

[Dr Dr Gimedanews]

Keep in mind our spine is fringe first grade + a coach that literally rewards average

 

[Woody90]

I don’t want to see mapapalangi play for us again.
I’m also sick of our non-contested kicks.
Can’t wait for O’Sullivan to blow this team up.

The not contesting the kicks is coached. Blake Green said as much a couple of weeks ago. It’s not just the squad.

 

[macavity]

Sad thing is other than Best getting injured we aren’t really missing anyone. This is as good as it gets.

I mean Elliott isn’t changing this.

 

[Knight Tales]

Hetherington the clown who wants to milk us for every dollar.

 

[Yosh]

Mapa looks like he isn't a first grader unfortunately.

I'm ready to see Gamble go into 7 and Pryce go into 6. I'm even willing to see Crossland play 7.

 

[Woody90]

I want Ponga to go to a good team. I want to see what he can do with good players around him.

To be honest his massive salary is one of the reasons we’re in cap problems. Love the bloke but we’ve also been very good to him considering how little he gets on the field.

 

[GreenMachine121]

Are gamble and Hastings the most useless halves ever ? That’s a yes from me

 

[Haffa]

Keep in mind our spine is fringe first grade + a coach that literally rewards average

5 years he’s been in charge and this team is no better than when he arrived. One 10 game run aside he’s proven to be an average coach.

 

[Zoidberg]

I wish the crowd boo’ed them off. That is nowhere near good enough.

 

[Rod]

It's amazing how much flows from our horrendous attack and gameplan.

People will look at 18-0 and think our defence sucks. I actually think our defence is pretty good. I would even say it's a top 6-8 defence. But you need to give it a chance and one of the main parts of defence is attack, and we have 0.

Which is insane when you consider we scored the most tries in the comp last year.

 

[Yosh]

AOB needs to go. Vomit worthy. Our resolve in defense has been excellent. It's hard to defend the line when we only have 30% of the ball and when we have it we literally hand it back to them. We NEVER take an attacking kick. We kick to hand over the ball. Disgusting.

 

[Zoidberg]

To be honest his massive salary is one of the reasons we’re in cap problems. Love the bloke but we’ve also been very good to him considering how little he gets on the field.

Partly agree but most teams have a player on his type of money and can still afford a good squad around them.

 

[Knight Tales]

To think there are people who think signing Madge Maguire is a bad idea. I would be lining him up for 2026 NOW! O’Brien has nothing more to offer. It is just a joke now.

 

[Woody90]

5 years he’s been in charge and this team is no better than when he arrived. One 10 game run aside he’s proven to be an average coach.

Can’t wait to watch us play exactly the same way in the second half. He won’t acknowledge the game plan isn’t working.

 

[perverse]

It's amazing how much flows from our horrendous attack and gameplan.

People will look at 18-0 and think our defence sucks. I actually think our defence is pretty good. I would even say it's a top 6-8 defence. But you need to give it a chance and one of the main parts of defence is attack, and we have 0.

Which is insane when you consider we scored the most tries in the comp last year.

Yes, our attack is so bad it puts unnecessary additional pressure on our defence. No doubt about it. It's insane to me that these blokes train together as a professional job. I dunno what they do all year.

 

[macavity]

What a shit show.

 

[Jono078]

18-0 isn't exactly horrible but if you watched that half, there was not much good about it.

I think it was one of our most disgusting tbh.

Worst part is we all saw it coming. We all hoped and wished to be proved wrong, but as we all said, we'd put in a performance to get the Broncos back in form. That's EXACTLY what's going down.

 

[Apey]

To be honest his massive salary is one of the reasons we’re in cap problems. Love the bloke but we’ve also been very good to him considering how little he gets on the field.

Nah.

Allegedly Clearys on 1.1M, Ponga 1.4M. That 300k isn't turning us into premiership contender with Ponga out like Panthers still are without Cleary. We're paying a dozen plodders too much before Ponga is an issue.

 

[Haffa]

Can’t wait to watch us play exactly the same way in the second half. He won’t acknowledge the game plan isn’t working.

Something needs to change. It might as well be him. Who knows we may attract a decent half or two.