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Worst calamity: The choosen one is officially” set to be excluded” by the Broncos after several bully” Legend Gorden Tallis declared….

Broncos legend Gorden Tallis has called on the club to take the captaincy off Adam Reynolds and hand it to Pat Carrigan and believes the side has an “attitude” problem.

Brisbane look set to miss finals for the third time in four seasons under Kevin Walters and last weekend they produced their worst performance of the season when they were hammered by the Bulldogs.

Tallis believes the team – which made the grand final last year – is lacking direction and he took aim at Reynolds in particular.

“I think the team is lacking leadership. I watch them closely… on Saturday somebody needed to stand up and put a stake in the ground,” Tallis said on NRL 360.

“(Reynolds) didn’t do it, and in the grand final he didn’t get them home either. If he’s the captain and he’s not doing it, there might be a chance to put Pat Carrigan there.

“It’s about putting your ego in your pocket because Allan Langer left to go to England and they put me as captain. When he came back, Alf was the captain again but he said ‘no you’re our leader’.

“In that game on the weekend, under the pump, if I’m playing with Allan Langer, he gets out from dummyhalf, he does three or four tackles in a row, he looks at us and challenges us. There’s none of that happening at the moment.

“So maybe there should be a change with (the person) who gets the C next to their name.”

But Tallis added there were other factors at play and said injuries have also played a significant role this season.

“The grand final hangover, I think it’s real. I think it’s a shortened pre-season. Vegas, going over there with a short pre-season,” Tallis said.

“I think they thought going over there would maybe (impact them) for four or five weeks (afterwards) but then they got the injuries.

“There have only been five games this year where Carrigan, Haas, Reynolds, Mam and Walsh have all been on the field.

“Throw all that in and then I think their defence on the weekend was attitude.

“I went to training last Friday and it felt like a semi–final or grand final, the amount of people that were there. I always say the more you get pat on the back the softer you become, so when they do lose games, they’ve still got the fan base.

Maybe the players do believe that, I think it’s back to hard work.”

Phil Rothfield revealed that interim Eels coach Trent Barrett will join Walters as an assistant next season and said the latter must take responsibility for the club’s current situation.

“I think it comes back to attitude and ego,” he said.

“I don’t want to blame Kevin Walters but this is the third out of four years that they’re going to miss finals, so there’s a problem there.

“I guarantee if we put dollar figures on every player on the park on the weekend, the Broncos would be worth, minimum, $2 million more than Canterbury.

“I’m not sure Reynolds should have been extended next year and if they hadn’t then maybe they could have kept Farnworth of Flegler.”