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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3238036, member: 1899"] Their development has been off the boil since 2019. I've never been completely satisfied with the Broncos development programs. They bring enough in to be among the best in the NRL but they should be head and shoulders above the rest given the amount of resources they have at their disposal. Still, they were attracting the best Queensland talent which was something you couldn't say after Cyril retired and they were bleeding talent to Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. However in '19 the Broncos started to lose all their best junior prospects and failed to replace them with adequate signings. The cupboard is nearly bare after Brendan Piakura and they had to pay a king's ransom to keep him. I'm not even sure if he'll live up to that, if he can't make the 17 by the end of this year I fail to see how it's a good investment. Based on what I've seen, I don't think he's ready and won't be ready until 2023. It's not completely dire they do have Selywn Cobbo, TC Robati, Xavier Willison, Xavier Va'a, Shaun Packer coming through but again you're looking at 2023-2024 before they can be considered NRL players. The Broncos can't afford to be reliant on these players, some of them won't play NRL and some of them may just be average first graders. That's fine but my point is that the Broncos have to keep searching and find that next Ryan Papenhuyzen and get them into their system. [/QUOTE]

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