BRONCOS’ LOSSES WIN UNWANTED RECORD

EVEN if the 2020 Broncos miraculously find some winning form in the run to the end of the season, this team will still officially be Brisbane’s worst-performed team.

With only three wins and six games left to play, Anthony Seibold’s side will become the first to win fewer than 10 games in a season.

That sobering revelation comes as a battered and bruised Brisbane attempts to find 17 fit players for Friday’s clash with the Dragons.

The 2013 season was the club’s previous worse, managing 10 wins and 12th place.

Brisbane’s fall from grace has been exacerbated by a series of astonishing secondhalf capitulations.

The Broncos’ “secondhalf syndrome” is the worst in the NRL. Fox Sports Lab statistics reveal Brisbane have scored just 12 points in the final quarter of games in 2020, while their opponents have rattled up 150.

The lacklustre secondhalf effort was again on show last weekend when leading 8-6 at halftime against the Raiders, before last year’s grand finalists piled on 30 unanswered points.

Interim coach Peter Gentle admitted the players had struggled towards the back end of games.

“We looked like two different teams,” Gentle said after Saturday night’s loss.

“If we make an error, we need to learn to defend it.”

The Broncos will be without Payne Haas at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night after the barnstorming forward on Monday took an early guilty plea for a grade two dangerous contact charge.