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**Official** NRL 2009 Thread
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Johnners
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Greg Bird sentenced to 16 months over glassing incident | The Australian
Will be interesting to see what he does after the sentence. Can't imagine it'll be easy for him to re-ignite his football career anyway.
Will be interesting to see what he does after the sentence. Can't imagine it'll be easy for him to re-ignite his football career anyway.
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Blewy
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pasag
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Good.
Craig
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Folau can finish well close to the line, but so can Sailor for example. And honestly hes just a big blob haha. Morris is class this year, can score from 100 metres or 5 metres out. Hayne is the same.
Mister Wright
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I blame the loss on PEWS. He never tips the Broncos. 
Prince EWS
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Tipped them to win the competition at the start of 2006. That worked out okay.I blame the loss on PEWS. He never tips the Broncos.
It might seem like I have a bias against them if all you do is look at my tips for this year, but that's simply because I don't rate their squad very highly this year. I'm pretty sure I tipped them about 20 times last year, for example, and I tipped them plenty in 2006 (and for good reason).
They've generally found a way to win anyway this year (until the last few weeks, although that can be explained by Origin I suppose, particularly this week) but every week I sit down, look at their team and think "meh". They're not bad, but I don't see their squad being deserving of a top 4 finish.
FTR, in 2009:
Success Tipping For Broncos (9 times, 5 correct): 56%
Success Tipping Against Broncos (5 times, 2 correct): 40%
So the Broncos are in fact more likely to win when I don't tip them than when I do. You may actually be onto something with that...
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Mister Wright
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It was always going to be hard for the Broncs this season losing 4 of their pack (that one way or another ended up at the Bulldogs), but we did start the season very well. When you look at it, we have two former Origin players (Marsh & Parker) , one current Origin player (Thaiday), a former International rep (Clinton) and a future Origin rep (Kenny) in the pack so we shouldn't be doing that badly with our defence. I just think we lack a lot of confidence and cohesion atm around the ruck.
We need to stick with one hooker, when we finally settled on Berrigan in 2006 late in the season, we ran with strong legs into the finals and that got us the Trophy, McCullogh has tons of potential and should be stuck with. I don't mind Marsh off the bench, but we need to stick with one of them, whoever it is.
Strange days for a Broncos fan, conceeding 3 40+ games in concession. Hopefully it's not something we get used to.
We need to stick with one hooker, when we finally settled on Berrigan in 2006 late in the season, we ran with strong legs into the finals and that got us the Trophy, McCullogh has tons of potential and should be stuck with. I don't mind Marsh off the bench, but we need to stick with one of them, whoever it is.
Strange days for a Broncos fan, conceeding 3 40+ games in concession. Hopefully it's not something we get used to.
BoyBrumby
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Simon
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I really hate the current Broncos team, we are so arrogant and sloppy on field. Bad habits from our leaders are creeping into the young players and its crap to see. Broncos have such a grand history of class and not giving up, we are turning into the Roosters though.
Ausage
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This was more what I was referring to. Origin is no excuse to be getting 40 put on you week in, week out. They've let in some pathetically soft tries. Millington might be a handy player, but no one should be fending off 7 NRL players to score a try.
Simon
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Actually because of the way the Broncos spread out the juniors we should have less of an excuse than anyone. TBH though the ammount of players coming from Toyota Cup to NRL is ridiuclous. TC is basically what Jersey Flegg used to be and because of Reserves grade no one ever debuted in NRL straight from Flegg.
