Welcome to the latest sports physiology interrogation.

This week we are examining in detail the biliary system of Broncos CEO Bruno Cullen – the part which stores and distributes a truckload of bile when required.

That is usually around coach or player retention time. May we present in the interest of weird science: I Am Bruno’s Gall Bladder.

The Spray: “Even though you’re only 8cm long and 2.5cm wide, you’ve been really punching above your weight with all the gall you’ve been giving us. You must be the Alfie Langer of bladders.”

Bruno’s gall bladder: “How so?”

TS: “First you tell us you can’t afford to keep big Petero – someone who sweated blood for the club, then you and the rest of your body parts go and snap up a kid not even shaving and pay him $1.6 million.”

BGB: “God made us do it. The kid’s connected.”

TS: “And God will presumably, miraculously, squeeze Israel Folau under the salary cap?”

BGB: “We’re praying like hell.”

TS: “It was nice of Benny, who talked the kid into coming home, to throw you that hand grenade before he becomes a Dragon.”

BGB: “What can I say… that’s Benny for you. I said, Benny don’t do us any more favours.”

TS: “You seem to have been working overtime pumping a lot of bile in Benny’s direction. The Rooster’s aborted defection must have cut deep.”

BGB: “Bruno’s left ventricle has never recovered from the heart burn. Look it’s not just that … it’s a lot of things – we had the world’s best second rower and Wayne says to Brad Thorn after 2000 – follow your heart and Bruno’s skips 20 beats. Ditto when he kissed Brent Tate goodbye last year. You try running a business with Mother Teresa treating the player’s like bleeding hearts.”

TS: “Most of your gall has been directed in recent times towards the Storm and their unsportsmanlike conduct, what with grapple tackles … and now the chicken wing shoulder pluck.”

BGB: “Well did you see that outrageous stunt they did to Michael Ennis?”

TS: “Yes, that arm pull of Michael’s was terrible, yet by all reports you’re moving hell and high water to recruit the man in charge of coaching a team that makes Rock N Roll Wrestling look like a bunch of whimps.”

BGB: “Well I know Bruno’s mouth has been trying very hard to address that issue with Craig … telling him that we don’t do things that way in Brisbane. We are a family club which does not stoop to such levels. But of course, but if you can’t beat them … you recruit them.”