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Maguire says there are several spots up in the air that have to be confirmed before the club fly out to England on the 9th of February. The game against Hull KR will take place on the morning of February 20 (AEDT). <\/p>\n
The Broncos coach says he hasn\u2019t told those players on the bubble whether they\u2019ll be apart of the touring squad, believing that\u2019ll create a more willing competition for spots over the next few days. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want everyone to train the house down and then I will make a final call next week after training sessions,\u201d Maguire told Code Sports.<\/p>\n
It has been reported that six spots are still undecided. <\/p>\n
Star back rower Brendan Piakura won\u2019t play with former Dolphin Aublix Tawha the favourite to take Piakura\u2019s place. <\/p>\n
Kobe Hetherington (Manly) and Tyson Smoothy (Super League) are the other two players missing from Brisbane\u2019s grand final winning 17, but Maguire signalled a couple of new recruits who could force their way onto the place to England. <\/p>\n
Seemingly outside of the best Broncos 17 at the moment, Grant Anderson has made every post a winner since joining his new club.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Obs\u2019 (Tawha) is definitely someone to consider,\u201d Maguire said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve lost Kobe and \u2018Smooth\u2019, so there\u2019s a few spots I\u2019m looking at. Obs has come in and he has been excellent. Grant Anderson and Tom Duffy have been very good, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack (Gosiewski) is back training with \u2018Brendy\u2019 (Piakura) being out so I am looking at my options and then I will go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to Piakura, Hetherington and Smoothy, the other changes to the Broncos\u2019 2025 grand final side is Ezra Mam starting at five-eighth with Ben Hunt moving to hooker, which pushes Cory Paix to the bench. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos coach Michael Maguire has yet to settle on his 20-man squad for this month\u2019s World Club Challenge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-450751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}