'They can't make the semis': Brohman's big call on Broncos 04:39

I want to play you what Kevin Walters had to say last night because that's probably the other big story today, the fact that they've lost six in a row. And I'm sure our 4BC listeners in Brisbane would love the three of you boys' thoughts on the Broncos at the moment. This is what Kevin Walters said. He was obviously disappointed with the performance and believes that they can still play finals. The thing that annoys me, and I don't bother about St George, but I just bother about us. I just know we're so much a better team than...

than what we're doing. You know, I feel sorry. I don't feel sorry. I'm just disappointed that that's what we throw up. And I'm disappointed, you know, myself as a coach, that that's what's being presented, you know, consistently. That's not good enough. And, you know, that rests on me. So that's why, yeah. That six losses, Kev, now the mathematics is that you need to win six of at least your last seven games to make the eight. Yeah.

Can you do that with, I mean, you've got players coming back. Do you believe you can do that? Yeah, I believe we can do that. But my belief, it's about these fellas and, you know, things have got to change though for that to happen. Can't keep doing what we're doing because we're no chance of it happening. But if we change our mentality and our habits with our skill level, you'll see there'll be a big shift. But, you know, right now it's been that way for a long time.

Well, let's get a quick comment from the three of you on the Broncos. Darrell, we'll start with you. They found themselves in a hole, six losses in a row. Can they get themselves out of this hole? I don't think so. They can go forwards.

I know they're missing the halfback. Adam Reynolds is a fantastic player. They've got a few blokes coming back in, but I thought they got absolutely out-muscled again last night. And they've got little blokes coming in. I think he had three hookers in the squad, and they were trying to throw them in two or three of them playing at the same time. He had Moser, Smoothie and Walters. So they've got a massive problem there. I understand they only had 25th players or something in the whole squad.

So they've got, you know, A, the boys playing origin, and B, you've got injuries everywhere. So based on what I saw last night, they can't make the semis. Yeah, I'm with the big man. I just had a look at their draw. The last couple of games, I think they've got the Dolphins at Suncorp, and then they've got Melbourne. Storm, yeah. The Storm. So it's going to be extremely tough. They're eight points out of top four.

They're eight points away from that, four points out of the eight. So I think it's going to be extremely tough. They're going to have to go on some sort of run, and I don't know if they can do it. Here's their next four anyway. I think you mentioned the last two. The next four are winnable games. Yeah, they are. They've got Newcastle, the Bulldogs, the Gold Coast, and North Queensland. Right.

We're going to throw a bit at them because they're all handy sides and they're all battling for a top eight spot as well. The problem with it is as well is that they're going to have to put all this energy and focus now in to winning every one of these games just to get to the finals. And usually when you see that situation arise, they gasp by the time they get to that final series. Yeah, I called the game last night and by halftime they were down by a fair bit. But it was off the back of a 6-1 penalty count. They're disciplined and

last night and probably for the past month has been horrendous. But last night, their attack looked pedestrian. Like they looked like they weren't running hard and their edge defense in the first half was horrible. Like some of the tries that the Dragons scored, they just ran straight past them and they were just grabbing at them. I've got to give credit to the Dragons though. I thought their outside backs last night were outstanding. They got their sets off to a great start.

But I really liked Kyle Flanagan's performance last night. He came up with a number of passes that led to tries. Jesse Marshke, he didn't overplay his hand either. His kicking game I thought was outstanding. It was simple, but he was putting them in the corners and they just didn't come up with anything. The Brisbane Broncos, they left it to too late. I just think the scoreline flooded them a bit because I thought the Dragons were...

well on top and they kind of just cruised to that victory. What I would have liked to have seen, because we spoke about the bench, they had Moses, Smoothie and Carapani on. I would have liked to have seen Carapani come on into the centres and Dean Mariner go to the wing, Corey Oates come off.

I just don't, I think Mariner is a far better winger than he is a centre and he doesn't get as involved when he's in the centre. So I would have liked to have seen that change come out to try and spark something in attack and get some points. Fair enough too. All right, well, 4BC listeners in Brisbane, your Broncos need to get a wriggle on, otherwise they will miss out on the finals completely.