Queensland Maroons coach Billy Slater believes the Brisbane Broncos can still play finals footy despite needing to go undefeated without several stars including Payne Haas and Ezra Mam.

The Broncos capitulated in a huge loss to the Gold Coast Titans on Saturday but Slater isn’t writing them off yet.

“You’re out when you mathematically can’t make the finals,” Slater said on his own podcast.

“I feel that the magic number is 30 points and there’s five games to go and they’re sitting on 20 points.

“If they win their last five games, they finish on 30 and they’ve got a pretty good for and against.

“It’s gonna be really hard [because] they’ve got a few tough games coming up.

“They’re as much of a chance as a few of the other teams in the competition.

“I get the feeling that it’s near impossible to play finals but I don’t write anyone off until they are mathematically out.”

The Broncos next face the Cowboys in Townsville.