Brisbane Broncos’ NRL pain in 2021 much the same with Brodie Croft-Tom Dearden shuffle looming

We’re two weeks into the NRL season and already the panic has set in over the Brisbane Broncos.

Coming off the worst season in the club’s history and one of the worst for any team in recent memory, things are still rotten in Red Hill, off to an 0-2 start.

For any other club, it would just be another poor season chalked up, but when it’s the biggest team in the league it can’t be ignored.

There’s really not much mystery here; the Broncos are one of the worst teams in the league because they’ve assembled a pretty poor roster that’s not demonstrably different to the team that went 17-3 in 2020, apart from some major losses.

They are without the top three players from their 2020 side to start 2021 — boom young forward David Fifita was lost…