sentences:  At the end of the 1996 season, players Kerrod Walters, Alan Cann, Willie Carne and Michael Hancock were asked to leave the club, as they could no longer be guaranteed regular places in the Broncos' first grade team.The Brisbane Broncos had been involved in the Super League war since the beginning around 1994.After thinly veiled threats of expulsion from the NSWRL, the club was one of the first of several to sign with the new league and all players followed suit.