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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3266610, member: 9052"] I think Milford was exceptional in 2016 until the origin teams were named and he missed out. Prior to that Milford was every bit a star playmaker and was completely owning the team .... I would love to see some replays of those early games to make sure I'm not fantasizing about something that didn't exist. I feel after the origin snub he fell off a cliff. Either a loss of confidence or just flat out sulking. He ended up doing his shoulder and finishing the year in the rehab group. From there I believe Bhunt signed his dragons deal in early 2017 and to me i felt that Bennett looked to pivot and effectively make Milford his halfback. I felt this was actually paying off at times throughout 2017 and thought 2016 Milf was actually showing signs of a guy that could be the halfback and lead playmaker moving forward. However I think throughout 2017 there was too much distraction around Bhunt and perhaps a lack of planning for who was going to be Milf's halves partner from that point on. - Bhunt got dropped and then moved to hooker and then back to halfback (I think??). - Broncos signed Bird... however this seemed odd as he didn't seem to be an answer for a Milf halves pairing - Broncos chased hard for Taylor only to miss out due to a million dollar bid from titans - Bennett then pivoted and proclaimed that Knik would be the halfback next year and that was the end of it Milf did his shoulder again and finished the year in rehab.... again this was a big sliding doors moment as Milf missed an entire off season to effectively transition to being a halfback. 2018 rolled around and the halves pairing was Milford and Knik.... I think a mistake may have been made here only because it looked like Knik was given the halfback responsibilities. That may sound tongue in cheek, but I feel that Bennett really could've doubled down and went whole hog on making Milf the halfback. He had been the prime playmaker since 2016 at that point and Knik always looked a 6 rather than a 7. I think by the end of 2018 Milf was taking ownership again, but there appeared to be confusion around who was in control of the halves and who was the dominant half. I'd say we probably also committed wholly to the split halves at this point largely limiting Milf to the left side of the field. I recall the middle forward being a pseudo halfback was in full effect across the comp from 2016 onwards. Throughout 2018 there was massive unrest across the squad with the Bennett / Seibold saga effectively starting from July 2018 onwards. Ultimately we would get up and perform against higher placed teams but fall in a heap against weaker teams... only to be flogged and kicked out of the finals by a poor dragons team in front of 40k at Suncorp. I'd say for the entirety of Seibold's reign that he never wanted Milf.... I think he wanted Dearden to debut and takeover the 7 jersey halfway through 2019... which is why Knik wanted to move, and he would see how a Milf / Dearden partnership would go. Dearden came in and got injured right when he was starting to look good (game vs Titans he got injured 8mins in). At that point Knik was gone and we were fucked with no halves depth, eventually finishing with Turps and Boyd in the halves and Milf playing 1, 6 & 7 from fullback. I'd say Milf lost any sort of faith he had in Seibold throughout that year and it was probably the end of Seibold from that point on, as Boyd looked all but done with Seibold as well. Experience was gone and the remaining senior players had no faith in Seibold. I thought 2020 we started well... you could see that Seibold got the team up to standard and gave them some tips in defence with tactical penalties (what roosters use inside their own 10m to halt momentum)... but covid hit and the game change where tactical penalties didn't matter anymore. We didn't have the smarts in the team to adapt and que one of the worst NRL performances by a team in the NRL era. I thought despite Milf's try vs rabbits in round 2 that he looked largely disinterested. Seibold brought Croft in to become his 7 and only ever talked about Dearden... effectively Milford had been given the tap by Seibold that he was done at the Broncos with 2yr left on his deal. Apologies for the long post but I thought for a long time Milf was on target to be a very good playmaker for us and definitely had the skillset to be our primary playmaker for a very long time, however a number of sliding doors moment appears to have completely derailed what could've been a great career. [/QUOTE]

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