Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

So much debate on Brooks with most saying all bad or all good . Taking emotion out I feel Brooks who has improved his defence a lot and does have some speed but plays very structured in that he catches and passes on first few tackles and kicks on the 5th .These 5th tackle options generally look rushed and the kicks are often ineffective. Love or hate him Moses is much more instinctive where he plays eyes up footy and the opposition are not quite what he will do whether he will run ,kick or pass on any tackle! In other words an instinctive style vs a structured one . I admit the more go forward the pack gains the more time the half has to figure it out !
I'm not suggesting recruit Moses just using him as comparison .
Can Sheens after so many years get Brooks to play different ?
 
batboy said:
Dunno Wighton is a hard one for me....
More of a centre / back rower these days I think.
Big powerful running game and not much else.

Raiders paid massive money for him, Is the main reason he's
always been in the spine.

If he'd stayed at Centre his whole career,
He'd make Joey Manu look like Nathan Milone
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Out & out centre aye, I agree.

Genuine footballer tho.
Underrated.
 
Stevec said:
So much debate on Brooks with most saying all bad or all good . Taking emotion out I feel Brooks who has improved his defence a lot and does have some speed but plays very structured in that he catches and passes on first few tackles and kicks on the 5th .These 5th tackle options generally look rushed and the kicks are often ineffective. Love or hate him Moses is much more instinctive where he plays eyes up footy and the opposition are not quite what he will do whether he will run ,kick or pass on any tackle! In other words an instinctive style vs a structured one . I admit the more go forward the pack gains the more time the half has to figure it out !
I'm not suggesting recruit Moses just using him as comparison .
Can Sheens after so many years get Brooks to play different ?
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That is the $64 question S ?
 
I doubt Moses will come back to the Tigers. At his age it will be all about putting himself at a club that has a real chance of winning the comp in the next couple of seasons and that is not us. Okay money will be a factor but there will be plenty of that thrown at him.

We certainly need to be identifying a kid in our juniors who plays no7 and getting him plenty of coaching.
 
supercoach said:
I doubt Moses will come back to the Tigers. At his age it will be all about putting himself at a club that has a real chance of winning the comp in the next couple of seasons and that is not us. Okay money will be a factor but there will be plenty of that thrown at him.

We certainly need to be identifying a kid in our juniors who plays no7 and getting him plenty of coaching.
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Sounds like the Brooks story revisited.
 
happy_tiger said:
Start at the top of the list and work you way down

If you aim for the middle ...you end up in the middle ...if your lucky ....probably explains all the 9th place finishes
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Ahh, my old stretch target theory.
Aim to be premiers and see how high you can go, notice I didn’t say 9th !!!!!!!
 
diedpretty said:
I don't think the talk of Bateman coming had anything to do with it. The fact is he wasn't going to play 7 here and didn't want to play at 13 or 14. Newcastle offered him the 7 jersey and a hefty pay rise. No brainer really - good luck to him.
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I didn't think it had anything to do with it until @THE_POM came on here and confirmed that they don't like each other at all. So there obviously was some truth to it.
 
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happy_tiger said:
Whether you are or aren't a Brooks fan we all have to be concerned with Brooks having another calf issue at the end of the season

The more issues he gets the more it will drop his top line speed ...his biggest strength
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Other than his speed Happy, he doesn't have much else in his kit bag for a half
 
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AL The Tiger said:
I didn't think it had anything to do with it until @THE_POM came on here and confirmed that they don't like each other at all. So there obviously was some truth to it.
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You just never know .......but the one thing I saw that most blokes hated more than anything else ...was the blokes who hit on other players wives and GF's ......I know I have my own story of this occurance with a player ...he wouldn't have known me or the fact this girl was my GF at the time ...but if they had roomed us together in the following rep sides ....would have got ugly
 
The fact that people are debating whether Brooks is good enough after 9 years says it all.

Unfortunately in pre-season the part of our brain known as “hopeful yet irrational” continues to think that Brooks might come good and we might make the 8.

When we fail to score points and Brooks has 3 bad games and 1 good game the same thing will happen - everyone will pile into him for 3 weeks and then think he has turned the corner with one good game, and then cycle will repeat.

Hastings was a far superior 7. With Api and Hastings we would’ve been a team capable of 8-12th. (Closer to 8)

With Api and Brooks we will be 13th-17th. (Closer to 16)

This is such disappointing news.

Unless we get Mitch (which I think we’re a 1% chance of) we are going to be a sad club in 2023.
 
happy_tiger said:
And I've bagged Woods ...but I tell you what ...you get Woods playing the way when he was 20 and not turning his back to the defence and worrying how many Fantasy points he was averaging every week ......

I still maintain at the age of 20 he was potentially the best young prop I'd seen since Lazarus ....
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Problem he ain't 20 anymore and he isn't the hungry young prop he used to be.
 
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