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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2805073, member: 1899"] Just finished with the first half. At 20-6, the Broncos had a golden opportunity to get themselves back into the contest. Their set of six after points was everything you could have wanted and when McCullough earned his side a penalty with a clever dart from dummy half it appeared they were going to go back to back. Unfortunately as it's often the case just as they were building momentum, the opposition gave away the penalty and they lost their way. My biggest gripe with the Broncos attack, and it's been this way for a long time is that they don't play short enough inside the opposition twenty. It always has to be a cut-out pass to Milford or Hunt and Boyd which ultimately gives the opposition more time to predict the play and come up with the right option. Save for some fantastic finishing efforts from Oates and Kahu, I doubt the Broncos would have been as potent as they have been in recent years. But we saw the same thing here where McCullough went long to Milford, he was quickly taken by the Wolves defence and then on the 4th tackle, instead of using the quick play the ball to really challenge the line, or giving Hunt an opportunity to put the defence in two minds, he has to pass it onto McGuire who basically just wastes a tackle. Brisbane have two of the best running halves in the game, it boggles my mind they rarely get the ball inside the opposition twenty and when they do, it has to be a long loopy pass from McCullough. There needs to be a license for either half to go into dummy half when they want to or more short plays where the half can lay on an inside pass to draw the defence back inside to give the likes of Roberts and Kahu space out-wide. Instead, what we see a lot is by the time Roberts gets the ball, he has to run back inside because the defence is already over him like a wet blanket. It completely ruins the formation for the Broncos and rarely results in points. I feel like the forwards are copping a rough go of it. All four of the Wolves tries were down to poor defence (or play) from the edge players. Whenever they were getting bent backwards, it was largely due to the Wolves targeting Hunt-Roberts' channel in defence or off a 20m restart. Ofahengaue in particular seems to be copping a rough go off it despite coming up with some of the best carries and tackles of the half for Brisbane. If I had one complaint with the forwards, it's that we rely on our backs far too often to make metres. Too often it seems like the Broncos go through sets where Boyd, Oates, Kahu and even Roberts have to touch the ball first before a forward ever thinks of carting it up. It should be two back hit-ups and then a forward, the way the Broncos currently do it makes it too easy for the opposition. [/QUOTE]

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