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16-6 in Mal Meninga Cup to Burleigh. Verhoeven opened the scoring for the Bears with a strong run. Then before half-time Trew put McLaren over back on the inside to extend the Bears lead. It's been ugly half, but Bears look to have worked themselves into the game.

Late changes Beni Allen will be in 21 for Josh Coric. Sione Hopoate has dropped out of the squad with Leota coming onto the wing at #15.

Are you happy now coach? McLaren shapes to kick, dummies and hands it off to Tonihi who puts Trew away down the corner. Trew breaks a couple of tackles, draws the fullback and puts McLaren over back in the middle. Jets made to pay after failing to take advantage of Hill's 40/20.

Tau'a'alo scores for Bears right on the shadows of half-time. A real dummy halves try. Watson made them double up a few times, gave the halves an opportunity to spread it and then went back there one final time and got the answer he wanted.

Good footy all-round there. Elder does well to all but set up a try only for Sykes to pull off a classic try saver over the line. Good initiative from Trew to race the ball back for a 7 tackle restart while the rest of the team was celebrating.

Well put that time stamp down, that'll go onto the Broncos highlight reels. Verhoeven slices through down the left and opens the scoring for the Bears. Tough kick coming up here for Watson.

Harrison Hill kicks a 40/20 but Fraser is caught for exploiting an obstruction. Bears fail to find touch, Fraser once again runs an obstruction.

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Fraser spills it taking a simple hit-up and the Bears go on the attack. However Watson's attempt to delay the pass inadvertently picks up Sykes and the Bears blow a golden opportunity to hit back.

Kallquist runs around Eteru, takes on McLaren who fails to get a hand on him and opens the scoring for the Jets. 4-0 Jets kick to come.

Hope #4 Tayshon Foley is OK. He's on the medicab after he got caught up in an awkward tackle and his head slammed into the turf. Still early days here, Jets will have the ball on tackle 0 after Verhoeven failed to intercept Foley's speculator.

You've covered most of them, Philitoga is one of those blue chip players who could give Madge something to think about come the Origin period. 13 tries from 13 games in QCup, so he can finish off tries and he moves well. We'll see how he's taken to the pre-season, he's been picked ahead of Vaihu...

Over on QPlus TV you can support the Bears against the Jets at 3:20pm (AEST). Disharne Tonihi (#4), Bailey Trew (#5) and Marley Igasan (#10) will be in action. Also sounds like Antonio Verhoeven will be in action. Likely at #3.

Burleigh will provide a stream on their Facebook page. Link

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Originally I wrote a paragraph about Gordon and how he'll likely come into the halves sooner rather than later. However I read a report that he's largely been training in the centres and threw it in the bin. Gordon is definitely a chance in the centres. It's a tough role because he'll have to...

How did you draw that conclusion?

Let's use the Broncos as a case study. They have five junior 'guns' on their list: Coby Black, Israel Leota, Bailey Trew, Cameron Bukowski and Jett Bryce. These are five players who all played Mal Meninga Cup last year and they're just entering the NRL system. Black and Leota are on 135K...

I disagree. Paix has nine weeks to prove himself and every indication suggests that Madge is looking to make a change there. While Mozer appears to have the inside running, it sounds like Paix will be his offsider. So that's potentially nine weeks for Paix to sell himself and either earn an...