Why Parramatta’s clash with Brisbane could be the start of something big – صحيفة الصوت

As the many Brisbane fans in your life may have told you, and there always seems to be more of them around when the Broncos are winning, there’s a bit of a 2006 vibe around.

Even a full 15 years after their last premiership, the Broncos are still one of the biggest teams around. Their wins and their losses, their highs and their lows are louder and faster and more extreme than anybody else’s because nobody else has a city like Brisbane all to themselves.

So even though Brisbane were in a preliminary final as recently as 2017, and only missed the finals twice during their descent under Anthony Seibold, it feels like they were away for longer, and — having now returned to the land of the living — they have risen from greater depths.

With Melbourne on the ropes due to a serious injury toll, there’s a spot open in the top four, and Brisbane will have it in their sights with an eye on starting a serious run with Thursday night’s clash against Parramatta.

Make the top four and everything is possible. Make the top four and your dreams come true. But what is that dream, precisely? Just how high should Brisbane be looking to climb?

The snappy answer is to say they’re looking to go all the way, just like they did back in the Wayne Bennett days when Allan Langer was running the show, Brisbane were the most powerful club in the world and there were so many premierships they lost track of them all. God, don’t you just miss the 1990s?

A heavy Origin representation was supposed to knock them off the horse, but instead unheralded players like Delouise Hoeter, Jordan Pereira and Zac Hosking have gone from being guys who were just filling out the roster to loyal sons of the Kevolution who have kept the dream alive. A classic Brisbane campaign needs to have a couple of baby Broncos efforts, and in the last two weeks that’s exactly what the Queenslanders have got.

But for Brisbane fans to start dreaming of another premiership, their side must find one last gear. The Broncos have risen back to premiership relevance by beating all the teams below them on the ladder, and that’s not meant as an insult because that’s exactly what a team needs to do to make the finals. Of their 11 wins, only one has come against the current top four.