The NRL club is in a parlous state after a record-breaking defeat and subsequent reports of players staying out late the night before
The Brisbane Broncos have not endured a more damning and desolate season among the 32 they have seen. Nor has the club that was long the standard-bearer for sporting organisation success, the premier free agent destination and the game’s gold-tinted powerbroker been left in such a desperate and parlous state.
John Steinbeck wrote in The Winter Of Our Discontent that “men don’t get knocked out … what kills them is erosion. They get nudged into failure. It’s slow. It rots out your guts”. It perfectly sums up why a team that not so long ago were the most feared in the league managed to get bundled out of the premiership by a record-breaking 58-0 defeat that surely ranks among the most guileless, dispassionate and unprofessional playoff performances that any team has put up in a September showdown.
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