Lockyer reveals teen to revive woeful Broncos

Brisbane fable Darren Lockyer has tipped teenage hooker Blake Mozer to travel successful and marque a quality adjacent season, arsenic the Broncos look to prime up the pieces aft a devastating extremity to their 2022 campaign.

While Reece Walsh and Adam Reynolds are penciled successful astatine fullback and halfback, respectively, Lockyer said helium wouldn't beryllium amazed if the roar rookie comes successful to assertion the No.9 jersey.

"Reece is simply a prime endowment - he'll travel backmost successful and play the one, evidently Adam Reynolds volition enactment determination astatine the 7 - there's inactive a spot of statement astir the nine," he said connected Nine's QLDER.

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"There is simply a young kid coming through, Blake Mozer. But you've inactive got Billy Walters and Cory Paix.

"There whitethorn beryllium different 1 coming to the club, different hooker, but there'll beryllium immoderate contention for the hooker spot but I deliberation there's precocious hopes internally for this young kid Blake Mozer coming through, who unluckily conscionable sustained a semipermanent wounded astatine the backmost extremity of the year."

Mozer has been a portion of the Broncos academy since helium was 13, and trained with the NRL squad these play aft graduating from famed rugby league nursery, Keebra Park High School.

In May, helium re-signed astatine Red Hill until the extremity of 2025.

Darren Lockyer has named Blake Mozer arsenic a imaginable solution to Brisbane's hooker woes. (Getty)

Lockyer said that alongside Mozer and Walsh, Ezra Mam should proceed to hone his trade arsenic the five-eighth successful what would beryllium 1 of the youngest combinations of No.1, 6, and 9 successful the NRL - with Reynolds providing the seasoned presence

"He's young, he's inactive learning. The six is inactive up for grabs but I deliberation long-term, he's the antheral there," Lockyer said.

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But Paix, who shared clip with Walters this year, shouldn't beryllium forgotten either. The Broncos' onslaught looked a batch much polished erstwhile helium was connected the field, winning 9 of 12 successful games that helium featured in.

"I spot a batch of creativity successful his play, surely shining astatine the close clip of the play and not doing truthful good astatine the incorrect portion - but I conjecture that beauteous overmuch was shared passim the people of the team," Wally Lewis said.

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"A batch of the guys, the assurance levels seemed to beryllium damaged. Were they irreparable? I conjecture lone clip volition tell."

There's nary mincing words erstwhile it comes to the disappointment of the last fewer weeks of Brisbane season, and Lockyer said that it has to beryllium finals oregon bust, careless of who they opt to spell with successful those cardinal positions.

"If you're looking astatine continual improvement, we've gone from 14th to ninth. And I deliberation Kevin, everyone internally astatine the club, players, admin, would beryllium reasoning finals is decidedly the target," helium said.

"To play finals, we cognize that that's what the Broncos are about. It looked apt it was going to hap this year, but we fell short.

"We bash request to look astatine the areas wherever we person to get amended to play finals football."

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