We have lost Curran, Xerri, Sua and Rauqe, but signed McClean, Lussick and Volatano. We have gained more than we have lost, the only time passing the ball via the lock looks good is when Hayward plays lock. Salmon looks good when he runs straight and hard. Lussick will allow Hayward to play...

At least we will be back to being an unfancied team next season. Lots of lessons from this season, we make it hard for ourselves at times. Nothing wrong with forwards punching holes off halves, plenty wrong with halves getting slow ball from forwards with no runners. All this passing in the...

Most of the stuff we got wrong this year in attack we also got wrong for the last 5 years. Our attack was even worse at times in past years.

Would have been worse if we needed to win that game to make the semis. I always expected the Broncos to have a dig in this game. When our attack was working well the ball was going from the dummy-half to a half. We went back to passing to a lock and a lot of forwards passing out the back or...

Disappointing, we were fairly flat. Panthers gane was intense, but we need to work on backing up

Broncos wanted it more at the start, but we have got back to 10-10. Hopefully the side can switch on in the second half. Kiraz has been unusually bad thev last 5 weeks.

Volkman has extended at Parra. We might be able to identify another player worth signing. Woods is an option for left sided half. I still think that the best left sided half at the club is Teaupa, but he played a mix of Flegg and reserve grade, probably not ready. If Dykes is staying and...

This is how I see our young players. The young guy has some attributes of the past/current player. Galvin - Terry Lamb, Brad Clyde Hayward - Terry Lamb, Craig Pouller-Mounter Woods - Steve Mortimer, Thurston Conti - Brent Sherwin, Brett Kimmorley Johno Sua - Willie Tonga, Nigel Vagana Chelden...

How many games of lower grade football did Galvin play before his NRL debut? Zero - he went straight from school boy football to NRL. Next best are guys like Nathan Cleary and Joey Walsh with 20-30 lower grade games. Galvin has played around 30 games of NRL. Walsh is a fair comp with Galvin...

Has Copper Connolly been doing anything useful recently? He seems like a guy who could bat 6 in tests, bowl a bit of handy spin, and be good in the field. I doubt that his bowling would be good enough for long spells in tests.

The other souces of frustrstion are 1) I expected the Broncos to win a lot more games over the last 8 weeks, and that would have helped us. 2) Refs cost us round 10 and round 19, and the players didn't handle it well. 3) The Tigers copped a few rough calls against the Cows 4) The Cows are a...

Rounds 4,5,7,8,9 were all winnable games, and we only needed to win 2. Rounds 13, 23 and 24 we also should have won 1-2 of these games. We had a review after round 11 and that seemed to help, perhaps we should have had it after round 5. Once is more than enough, I don't want to ever see a...

I am much more interested in recruitment and renention this year. We have a few fringe players, who I mostly hope are staying Hughes, Todd, Sua, Dykes, Cocherane, Turpin, Konz, Young. And I also think 1-2 more signings might make a big difference to 2027. A guy who can do a solid job at 5/8...

One gane to go, then it is going to be a long offseason, so best to enjoy it. I hope that it is an entertaining game, the players enjoy it, and have some fun. We picked a close to full strength side, so all players in the 23 who are staying at the club should be ok for the preseason, That...

Not a lot of team changes this week, but Spinks, Readon and Underhill might get a run to get some NRL experience.

All champion players who win big games are mentally tough and plysically tough. Galvin and Hayward didn't crumble against the Panthers, Tracey didn't crumble, most fullbacks were 50/50 at best under that ball. We need a better fullback, but mental strength isn't a big issue. Marhoney and...

We are building. Galvin after 30 games is a much better player than Cleary, Cronk and Thurston after 30 games. That doesn't mean halfback is his best position. Hayward after 1 full season of NRL is a better player than Ennis at a similar stage of his career. Thst doesn't mean starting hooker...