00:00the Broncos, because if you want to talk about two consecutive
00:03bad losses, the Broncos have just lost to the Titans
00:07and the Dragons, who are historically bad teams, Lee.
00:11And before we get into the Broncos, just shout out to Keanu Kinney's
00:15last five minutes of that game.
00:16Jesus Christ, that was unbelievable.
00:18Did he play as well, Jesus Christ?
00:20I didn't notice him.
00:21And that Philip Sammy try, which I think is going to go a bit
00:24understated because of Keanu Kinney's last five.
00:26But, yeah, beating Walshie in that run to the trial line,
00:31just unbelievable.
00:31But where do you put the Broncos now, Lee?
00:35Like, that's a lot.
00:37Can they back up the Premiership defense?
00:42First thing, I'm going to go back to the Tigers for a moment.
00:44The Tigers are going back to their reverting to type now.
00:48Now they're under pressure.
00:50Okay.
00:51So this is the Tigers of old, isn't it, getting beat by these kind
00:54of score lines.
00:55So they've not changed that much.
00:56So the reason I've brought that up now is because I'm going to talk
00:59about the Broncos.
01:01What are the Broncos?
01:02And I think it's not just Reece Walsh that are rocks and diamonds.
01:06I think the team itself can be rocks and diamonds.
01:08And it won the competition last year without being convincing for much
01:12of the year.
01:13So they lost five on the bounce at a similar time last year.
01:17And the call started for Madge McGuire's head.
01:21Buzz Rothfield did something about a boat trip or something like that.
01:25And it's starting again now.
01:27Okay.
01:28The media seem to have it in a little bit for Madge McGuire.
01:32When coaches of a certain caliber are working with teams,
01:37they understand that it's a long year.
01:41They understand that the National Ping Pong Rugby League will go through ups and downs
01:45throughout the year.
01:46There'll be times when your origin players aren't available.
01:49There'll be times when you need to be up, times when you can afford to drop a little
01:53bit.
01:54And you also need to condition your players for the back end of the season.
01:58If I was a Brisbane Broncos fan right now, I'd ignore all the chatter.
02:03If I was a Brisbane Broncos player, I would ignore all the chatter because it's media
02:08drivel in many cases.
02:11Even people who are saying they can't make the top four, they can't make the finals.
02:15They're looking at it with old criteria.
02:18They're looking at it before we had the buys.
02:20They're looking at it before we had ping pong happening on the field and all these high score
02:25lines.
02:26And when you play ping pong, sometimes the opposition can get a try when you can't get
02:30a try.
02:30And it's just a shootout.
02:33So I would totally not worry from a Brisbane perspective.
02:37I've never been one to heap praise on the Broncos for various reasons.
02:42But I'm telling you now, they've got one of the best coaches in the game.
02:46Somebody who's won two premierships in Australia, one in England, and one of the few who's won
02:51a premiership on both sides of the world.
02:53And people have their agendas and they're trying to put them on Brisbane.
02:57I would imagine within their four walls, Madge Maguire and his staff will be locking it down.
03:02I was going to say, how would you talk to them in that sense?
03:05I mean, obviously, they've shown they can do it before.
03:07There are external doubts are one thing, internal doubts are the other.
03:11So how do you prevent that from becoming internal doubts about your own chances?
03:16We can read too much into a small defeat.
03:21I mean, yes, they did get battered off two teams.
03:23They got battered off the Sea Eagles and the Warriors, I think.
03:28That would suggest to me that back then, maybe the Broncos were doing a bit more of the
03:33heavy conditioning in training during that time.
03:36And if you communicate with your players and you tell them where you're at and what your
03:39goals are, it's not a problem.
03:41When you lose a game by one try or one goal or anything, the key is to deal with the
03:47twin
03:47imposters of victory and defeat very much the same.
03:50Just as if you win a game by two points or four points, you can't get too carried away
03:55with it.
03:55If you lose one by two points or four points, you've lost a game by two or four points and
04:01that's it.
04:02You've lost a game of football where both teams were competing hard.
04:05So I think the game is changing rapidly in front of our eyes, Dazzler.
04:12Nobody would have predicted Penrith to get to the finals last year.
04:15And the same things were being said about Penrith.
04:18And I think they were in a more perilous position last year than the Broncos.
04:21So, yeah, I don't think it's that big a job for Michael Maguire to keep it together, quite
04:28frankly, because he knows what he's doing.
04:31I just wonder how sustainable it is to like, obviously, yeah, you have to time your runs
04:37and you want to be in a good position leading into finals.
04:41But then you have teams like Penrith who are just, I mean, obviously, last year is an
04:46aberration.
04:47They are, but traditionally just solid throughout the year and then perform in finals.
04:52Whereas Broncos, if last year they pretty much scraped in and then scraped through their
04:57finals wins, like they were tight, close wins.
05:00And I don't know how sustainable that is as a, you know, as a long term, if you want like
05:04long term success as well.
05:06Absolutely.
05:07But it's just the way they need to roll.
05:09You've got to play to your strengths and you've got to accentuate your strengths.
05:21Get your words out, Lee.
05:22Yeah.
05:23All right.
05:24Well, that is one to watch.
05:26Shout out to the Titans, though, because I think that was, they needed that win.
05:30That was, that kind of feels like a bit more to do with the Titans winning than it was the
05:35Broncos losing.
05:37Yeah.
05:39That was, that kind of feels like a bit more to do with the Titans winning than it was the
05:44one that was the one that was the one that was the one that was the one that was the
05:45one that
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