Brisbane Broncos thread on how to lose a GI and a Lock and a semi final

Professional scapegoat.

 

Yeah look, Hodges is a vastly over-rated Origin player but with Queensland's current outside back depth.. as a NSW fan I am absolutely hoping Hodges doesn't play Origin this year.

 

Yeah indeed. I'd much rather come up against Chambers or O'Neill or someone like that.

 

Yeah, officially hope you guys get the spoon.

 

Explains Josh Hoffman retracting his request for a release and calling up the fans too.

 

Makes for a very predictable attack these days; doesn't take a lot for the defence to look up and know the ball will be going whichever side Hunt is standing on. Personally I'd be pretty comfortable leaving the side that had to defend something that lined up as Hoffman first receiver, Glenn second receiver pretty open. To make this sort of thing work in the modern game I think you need either a really top class halfback or a some forwards with genuine skill who offered some ball-playing away from the halves.

Beyond that, there's the very real problem that Hoffman should never be second receiver ever. He looks completely unco when he has to do that job even as fullback, let alone five-eighth ffs.

Griffin has really just got to stop doubling down. How many years is he going to try the "oh we'll just be bigger/stronger/fitter/more homogenously athletic than the opposition and dominate them, Under 12s style" thing and have it fail? Brisbane need to try actually playing football this year. This means not listing a strength and condition coach as the key signing, not trying to fudge the most important creative position in the game and not moving players wider just so they can run hard and straight at halfbacks.

They need to pick their best two genuine halves and give them a freeish reign to actually play like halves and react to what's in front of them. I don't care if that means Strasser, Taylor, fucking Hoffman or even Josh McGuire ffs; whoever they pick there needs a genuine role, not just someone to "do a job", "have a good running game" or whatever Griffin thinks he can get away with. He's a complete spud of a coach whose utility starts and ends with having an Under 12s side with the biggest kids in the comp; he'd coach that pretty well but beyond that he's lost for ideas. It also means that they need to give Parker a license to do some ball-playing around the middle third, and Thaiday on the edge if he's going to play there. They need to start creating points through slight of hand; not just field position, athleticism and physical presence.

The only thing more damaging than Brisbane going in with this sort of attitude again would be it actually working. I think I'd just about turn it in as a rugby league fan then.