Weakened Brisbane Broncos round 1

BRONCOS winger Lachlan Maranta will miss the start of the NRL season after fracturing his wrist.The 23-year-old, a favourite of coach Wayne Bennett, injured his arm at training last Thursday, with a specialist confirming today that he will require surgery.The injury will rule Maranta out for 10 to 12 weeks, meaning he will miss next month’s All Stars game and the World Club Challenge, as well as the start of the season in early March.Maranta was expected be part of the Broncos starting line-up for the first month, with regular centre Jack Reed not scheduled to return from a shoulder injury until April.So Lachlan maranta and Jack reed are out against us in round one.Do any of you rate thoes players or will the game be just as challenging with out them in the Broncos lineup?

You need to be a member of 1Eyed Eel to add comments!

Join 1Eyed Eel

Votes: 0
Email me when people reply –

Replies

  • Jennings and Foran will take em.
  • Darren nichols to come up from reserve grade to represent broncos in the world all stars game. Well i think thats bennetts plan.
    • Funny how Bennett only selected nuffies from his team for the All Stars game and now picking a reserve grader from his team.

  • Lachlan actually did this around round 20 last year and didn't worry about getting it scanned. It settled down but flared up yesterday morning after training. They got it scanned as a precaution and found that the scaphoid had fractured and that it was an old injury (cue hack jurnos to read this and claim exclusive) . If you have ever done a scaphoid you know its a real painful injury - I have no idea how he ever got anywhere near catching a ball ! Tough bloke and a bloody good footballer.
  • Massive loss, don't think they Broncos will be able to cope.

  • Not a big loss but considering both centre and winger are both out would affect there combination in defence and attack
  • Expect the Eels to cop a flogging regardless.

    • Not this year.
    • 10 Mins in the bin for you Sir UniCol
  • Not another 100,000 Poppa.

    Will you never learn?

    Where was the Chairman to keep you two in line?

This reply was deleted.

More stuff to read

Acme replied to LB's discussion 1EE Modern day Eels team: Centres
"Tahu for me I'd say.
Are we only considering games played for the Eels?"
35 minutes ago
Stevo replied to Comedian's discussion Great we won the battle but not the war
"Ha I reckon we've just brought oursleves a premiership "
39 minutes ago
Stevo replied to LB's discussion Barnett swap for Lomax
"You defiently wouldnt say NO to a quality player like Barnett and with Matterson on the brink of medical retirement he'd be a great addition"
43 minutes ago
Acme replied to Comedian's discussion Great we won the battle but not the war
"I'd hope the NRL are able to move on quickly and would see it in their best interest to do so. They have not come out of this looking good at all.
It wouldn't surprise me if at some point during the season, they see an opportunity to screw us over…"
45 minutes ago
More…