BAGNF05
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You mean when he won awards for his play?
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Lee's fedora
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You mean the year where the clear winner was Cooper Cronk similar how Wighton won when Cleary was the better player
Blake
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No, it does not sound believable. Doueihi is a running 5/8, not a creative one. Many of his try assists came from offloads near the line, not from putting players into gaps. Hastings and Doueihi are a bad match.
Blake
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You have decided Brooks is bad and you don't see anything else. It is observation bias and we all have it to some extent. Stating your opinion on a forum does not make it true, no matter how many thousand times you say the same thing.
Lee's fedora
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Hastings and AD are a perfect match Jacko creates and kicks and AD runs pretty damn simple combo
Blake
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Benji was creative but "old" Benji cost far more points than he earned with poor defence and giving away momentum. We have not have creative 5/8's or fullbacks recently.
Lee's fedora
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So Josh Reynolds wasn't a creative half ?
Blake
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Munster, Lui and Cody walker are examples of creative 5/8's. Doueihi so far has played 5/8 mostly like a 2nd rower. Run hard and straight and don't pass.
Blake
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No, tried hard and enthusiastic, but not a good passing game, poor vision. Would have been a great hooker apart from his defence.
BAGNF05
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So easy to forget, rookie of the year, dally m half of the year, touted as one of a big 4 that would dominate the game for years. Lost his mates, club down the shitter
Lee's fedora
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How would we receive news of Luke Thompson to us for 600k ?
BAGNF05
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Done his nuts too
Lee's fedora
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Gotta admit I did love Reyno taking it to Latrell
I agree with @BAGNF05 sentiments.
Both Hastings and Brooks looked very similar in that last 30mins.
Both have been trying to direct the team and create on the back of it without anyone worthwhile to capitalise on the efforts.
The difference I feel between the two is not that Hastings makes players play better, it’s that he keeps them involved.
He tells them your taking this run or decoy run for me or to stay alive if I look to shift back.
Brooks would play out the game plan last year whilst expecting, Liddle, forwards, backs etc all to remember what they practiced at training.
That lack of connection in communication was where he let us down. You would often see him barking orders but it wasn’t in the sense of marshalling the guys around the paddock the way Hastings does. It seemed more when he wanted to get ready to set up a play.
The game plan with Hastings seems pretty clear, put a forward into and over the advantage line, capitalise off an offload then put the next one through until the half breaks become full breaks. I really think he plays like a roming ball playing lock with a kicking game more so than a halfback but maybe I’m just not used to seeing a halfback play the full width of the field since probably before the NRL era when inside centres linked up as 2nd five eights.
Last year Brooks and Madge attempted the full width style and I for one am glad as it got him out of his edge and out of his shell and really brought a competitor out in him.
He wouldn’t pass as much up the field as Hastings does but would touch it probably just as much in the attacking zone.
Overall it just seems the personality differences in the two obviously suit one for the lead role more than the other.
What thread am I on?
Both Hastings and Brooks looked very similar in that last 30mins.
Both have been trying to direct the team and create on the back of it without anyone worthwhile to capitalise on the efforts.
The difference I feel between the two is not that Hastings makes players play better, it’s that he keeps them involved.
He tells them your taking this run or decoy run for me or to stay alive if I look to shift back.
Brooks would play out the game plan last year whilst expecting, Liddle, forwards, backs etc all to remember what they practiced at training.
That lack of connection in communication was where he let us down. You would often see him barking orders but it wasn’t in the sense of marshalling the guys around the paddock the way Hastings does. It seemed more when he wanted to get ready to set up a play.
The game plan with Hastings seems pretty clear, put a forward into and over the advantage line, capitalise off an offload then put the next one through until the half breaks become full breaks. I really think he plays like a roming ball playing lock with a kicking game more so than a halfback but maybe I’m just not used to seeing a halfback play the full width of the field since probably before the NRL era when inside centres linked up as 2nd five eights.
Last year Brooks and Madge attempted the full width style and I for one am glad as it got him out of his edge and out of his shell and really brought a competitor out in him.
He wouldn’t pass as much up the field as Hastings does but would touch it probably just as much in the attacking zone.
Overall it just seems the personality differences in the two obviously suit one for the lead role more than the other.
What thread am I on?
BAGNF05
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Would be awesome for Stef
Lee's fedora
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Luke reminds me a lot of James Graham early on in his career and a player we could really benefit from
Really not sure about that. He reminds me of a smaller and less effective Matt lodge.
BAGNF05
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Bit of mongrel. Tamou is a nice fella but not agro enough. Too many nice guys at WT.
Blake
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There are quite a few better halves than Brooks, what I am saying is your spine has to be balanced. Someone has to play first receiver and take control on the last. Someone has to distribute in the middle, and you need at least one player that can create opportunities when they get some space, have vision and put people into gaps with good passes. We have not had balance for years, we have bought the best players we could and it has been difficult to see the overall plan like you can with the better teams.
