Brisbane
Pros:
Croft looks far better than anything they have had in the halves for years. Milford looks a bit more free.
Lot of forwards playing very well
All up and comers are coming along very well.
Darius isn’t a bad defensive centre.

Cons:
Leaking points – though not through particularly soft tries
Don’t really see much more structure to what they are doing, relying on a lot of individual brilliance.

Cowboys
Pros
Look as if they will hang in on games
Actually have structured plays that they seem to run fairly well for round 1.

Cons
Holmes was clearly mostly gone very early on. He had barely any lateral movement Think he got done by Fifita because of that. Not sure why Fox commentators couldn’t seem that he was on half legs.

Didn’t see that result coming, looks like another long year for the Cows and Green, might be smart to place a bet on the first coach sacked

All the fullbacks in the nrl this season haven’t had to worry about negative press. All the pressure has been on Latrell,
I know Lomax will fail along with Holmes issako and an Brimson. As for the cowboys they’ve got one forward in Taumalolo the rest of the pack is as soft as custard, also Morgan is the most overrated player in the comp, Morgan is a good centre or impact player of the bench but he has no control of the game. The cowboys need a leader in attack and unfortunately Morgan isn’t the man

I’m sure you couldn’t be sure of that prediction.
Brisbane can just find outside backs & forwards of quality, seemingly at will.
If the halves fire , they can do anything. Eventually they’ll find the right halves combination & will be unstoppable. Especially with the awesome young forwards they have. They just need some quality leadership.
# Above is what I had to say about the Broncos, after this sites season Broncos Preview a while back. The preview writer had them coming 9th!
I didn’t know Croft was going to be as good as he was that game. He looked very good leading them around.
As they fielded a well under strength side in that game. They may well get a lot better than in game one. So Nuggets supporters, Parramatta supporters . All those saying this year’s competition is between just a few clubs, not including the Broncos? Here come the Broncos!

It’s just one game so far EOD, Cowboys made them look good also, but agree the potential is there, next week will reveal more about the Bronco’s, lets wait till then.

True penso..
Still , if I supported the Broncos right now? I’d think, ‘ things are so bright , I have to wear shades ‘. 😎

I see this of about 1-2 weeks of games we actually get for the next few months.

As for if you were a Broncos supporter (which I am) nah, you can’t ignore the 21 the cowboys put on. The broncos have long been a team that could score points but they can’t take their own medicine either. I don’t mind the croft, staggs, arthurs right side defense, though – it seems better than the last incarnation.

Also worried about isaako. I have no stats to back me up but I think he often makes mistakes that are going to cost the team. He was better than I thought he would be at FB, though.

Croft has the speedy decisiveness that they were needing.

What a lot of people need to take into consideration is the effect it will have on teams playing games in empty stadiums.
Teams use the crowds to spur them on.
This will affect more teams than people think.
I know my Eels rely on the home crowd big time.

It isn’t going to get to that. One or two players are going to be diagnosed and that’s it, the league will have to be suspended.