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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 3016057, member: 8315"] I believe the reason given for our disastrous start to 1999 was complacency. Most of the squad were involved in the Broncos winning the premiership, QLD winning the Origin series and Australia winning a Test series the previous year. He alludes to it with this comment: [I]We left Auckland on a high. Wayne and Alfie were at the top of their games, we had the premiership and Origin safely in Queensland and were were looking forward to another clean sweep. How wrong could we be? [/I] As you said, we had a big name team. In hindsight, was there ever any doubt we'd turn it around? We had a five game losing streak followed by an eleven match winning streak. Comparing the 1999 side and coach to the 2019 side and coach is an exercise in futility, I think. As for Gordie's contribution that year, here's what David Middleton had to say: [I]During the Brisbane Broncos' incredible year of fluctuating fortunes, second rower Gorden Tallis remained the single constant force. When the chips were down amid the worst start to a season in the club's 11 year history, Tallis was the one player who could hold his head high. He was Queensland's most effective forward during the State of Origin series, and a player around whom the selectors built their pack for Australia's Anzac Test team to play New Zealand. The tangible rewards of Tallis' 1999 season were considerable. He was a resounding winner of the Broncos' Player of the Year title, he was Dally M second-rower of the year and his peers voted him the hardest player to tackle and the toughest competitor in an annual poll in Rugby League Week. [/I] Tallis bled for the jersey. I believe he has the right to criticise the club. Further reading: Raging Bull by Gorden Tallis with Mike Colman [/QUOTE]

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