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It's been said a million times too.... halves don't hit their straps generally until they are mid 20s. All the ingredients are there for Ezra - just needs to keep learning and growing his game. It will come.

Often off the back of a number of dubious 6-again decisions that never get questioned. If the ref blows 6 penalties in the first 20 minutes, everyone's up in arms. 2 penalties and 5 six agains? - barely gets a mention.

If we're going to have a snowballs chance in hell of retaining him, now is when we need to use him and at least give him the rest of the year to prove it. We're not winning the comp this year, that's a certainty. Let's aim for a good '25.

There are many ways to manage that without pushing the conversation back to how good your own kid is. That's specifically the issue with it.

You don't rob a new kid of a moment in the sun to try and redirect that focus onto your own child. That's extremely unprofessional. If he redirected it to namelss players who put in everything trying to get the result tonight - fine. But he didn't. He made the focus about Billy and that is so...

Being down on talent simply means there's less capability for the big plays, less individual brilliance, defense not being as good. It doesn't make players throw forward passes. Give away 7 penalties in the first half. Silly turn-over errors. It doesn't stop regular top 17 players from being...

I'm frankly shocked about the mozer response from Kev. That's a diabolical thing to say. The kid was getting a wrap and rightly so, back him in and give him some sun. Not make it all about your own fucking kid. That's under 12s level shit.

One more serious injury and he's retiring.... not worth the risk. Let this mob stew in their shit.

I fear if Semu doesn't we'll be conceeding a couple of hundred kilos to their pack. Even with him we'll be light on. Surely it's ducks and drakes to keep pressure off him until game day?

My only concern with this method is we're never going to achieve the complete control you were mentioning that made the panthers so successful. The Storm route, that club has a lot of pull as the most successful club over the last 20 years, coming to a bit of a halt in the last 4 years...

Do the Broncos need to field a lower grade team then? Seems that this would be a positive and neccessary step to achieve this?

I love your positivity @Santa but the blatant reality this season is just not our year. Our fitness is dismal compared to last season. Like seriously poor. We were kissed by luck with injuries last season. This year, it's like a uno-reverse card on that front. We had the best bench in the...

Noone wins outside the 4, we're already cooked.

Indeed, we missed our shot and now it's 2016 all over again. ARey's arm I'd wager was more then final nail rather than the catalyst. We were already performing well under what was needed to dethrone the Panthers.

Well, I'd contend we have been this bad even at full strength. The difference is we tend to have a lot of points in us at full strength which paints over the cracks. This is not a well prepared team. There's no two ways about that. Broncos '23 would put 60 on these pretenders. They are a...

I think people fail to realise we've been terrible defensively all year. The errors? all year. The lack of go forward? all year.

Starting to even wonder if I was being optimistic now.

Not always a bad thing as long as it's stablised and not at risk of damaging the repair work - but as he's been doing this at games and in dressing rooms in full view of the medicos I'd say there's a low risk in their view. Definitely won't be seeing Reyno early - he will have to resume...

We had a few shit years but don't act like we're not the fucking Broncos...

This is part of the issue. Melbourne without Munster. Riff without Cleary. Both are still top 8 teams, heck, you could take out Paps and Yeo and they'd still finish in the top eight. The squad at the very minimum needs to be hanging onto the ball and defending well enough to scratch out tough...