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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2405235, member: 1764"] I dunno. I get a very 2000 feel about this. Alf had retired the year before, we had a pretty inexperienced backline apart from Sailor, De Vere and Lockyer (and new recruit Ikin), and Kevin Walters our only real recognised half, very much on the decline in his career. But we had a superb forward pack mixed with experience (Tallis, Webcke, Campion, Thorn, Howard), and youth (Civoniceva, Priddis, Harrison, Carlaw, Meyers). Despite not really having a great halves combination (mixtures of Walters, Ben Walker, Ikin) the forwards dominated so much that it didn't matter, we ground teams to oblivion. Is the Broncos squad of 2012 as good as that team? No. But the pack has a similar mix about it, similar quality, and if they play to their potential and can dominate their opponents more often than not, there's no reason we won't make top 4. The question is whether we have the cattle to win when it counts in the finals after that. To be honest, even the 2000 team struggled in that respect, but just got the job done (down 20-6 at half time in the quarter final, and had to hang on desperately to beat Parra in the preliminary final, although never really looked in doubt against the Roosters in the GF). [/QUOTE]

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