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Payne Haas has played his last game in a Broncos jersey (For now, go the cries from Brisbane fans) and he's done it in a dead-rubber in front of 13,000 fans in Sydney.

For a duo like him and Pat Carrigan to end like this just feels wrong.

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And Adam Reynolds is heading for retirement. Such a huge part of the core of the 2025 premiership team is gone.

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The Bulldogs coach is not happy with that performance.

"We had a lot to play for. It's been a tough up and down year. We wanted to finish the year strong. I expected us to put in our best performance of the year and we were a long way off that.

"Everything  we did this week was about getting our best performance tonight and I'm shattered we didn't."

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So it ends 34-20 to the Broncos, which is the equal-most points they've scored all year, tied with their round 23 tally against the Raiders.

Halfback Ben Hunt says they did it for Payne Haas before he sets sail for Redfern.

"Payne means a hell of a lot to this club. It's been a disappointing year but the boys carried themselves really well."

The short kick-off is well short, bounces even further back, but then goes forward for two bounces and the Bulldogs regather in front of a shell-shocked Broncos side.

The luck is turning.

Lachie Galvin's grubber takes a deflection and Grant Anderson can't clean up, with the halfback regathering the ricochet to score.

Stephen Crichton leaves the conversion wide left, so they still trail 34-20 with five six minutes left.

He goes for the 40/20 from dummy half and Connor Tracey is forced to bat it back into play, but he can only knock it dead.

But it's a galaxy brain play as it turns out, because they've regathered the short dropout through Jacob Kiraz and got a piggyback penalty for a crusher tackle.

Viliame Kikau scores a brilliant barnstorming try after a monster fend on Tom Duffy.

And the broncos have chosen to receive the kick-off as the Bulldogs finally arrive in the second half.

The Bulldogs spin it right to get out of their own red zone and Lachlan Galvin launches it back left to Stephen Crichton, who fires another long ball, but Grant Anderson flies out of nowhere to intercept.

He gets caught and spun around by the defence as he looks to offload.

Eventually Tom Duffy arrives, but by that point Anderosn has to offload behind his back, and he's thrown it forward!

Duffy raced away to score, and only realised it had been called forward after he got up to celebrate.

This is getting out of hand as the Bulldogs surrender possession and Grant Anderson tip-toes up the sideline to get them flying upfield.

Ben Hunt again chips over early in the count and Josiah Karapani catches on the full, but a stumble stops him from scoring.

So he simply reloads and orchestrates a more straightforward left-side shift, ending in a stunning putdown by Karapani.

His impressive night just gets better.

Ben Hunt comes up with what looks like a little improvisational play, propping off his left foot on the left side of the field to catch the Bulldogs' defence napping.

He kicks high into a vacant zone behind the left flank and it's perfectly weighted for Jordan Riki to catch and score.

And it's a trademark Hunt try in his 373rd NRL game as he jags back hard off his right foot to bamboozle Stephen Crichton and Viliame Kikau.

He bumps off Connor Tracey and the Broncos have the first two tries of the second half.

Pat Carrigan offloads in the middle of the field and Billy Walters wastes no time firing the ball out wide, where Kotoni Staggs unleashes Grant Anderson down the right wing.

Walters backs up through the middle and gets it back to score.

He's been immense under the high ball, near enough to flawless in fact, and can't be stopped when it's in his hands.

He's just had his 10th tackle bust and he's already approach 100 metres.

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The Bulldogs plays some audacious attacking football to end the half but Jacob Preston's grubber ends up with the Broncos and the whistle is blown.

An entertaining half of football, with both sides showing why they're not in the finals and giving glimpses as to why that frustrates their fans so much.