Brooks is tanking

[WesternSuburbsBoy]

I agree but give it a little time, I said that before a ball was kicked. Api is not orthodox. A few good signs last weekend.

The good signs only appeared when Wakeham came on otherwise we looked completely 'Rudderless'

 

[WesternSuburbsBoy]

We need to learn to roll through the middle and our halves need to play more like fullbacks. Our outside backs need to play more like forwards. Completely reinventing our game won’t happen without hiccups. Wakeham likely the #7. If we win and Brooks is 6 people will soon forget the $

Our halves need to play like actual halves mate that's why they're playing in the halves. I am completely expecting Brooks to be named at 7 this week but I hope to God that Wakeham is actually the 7 & Brooks just plays to his strength which is his running otherwise it's going to be another crap game from the worst 7 in the comp.

 

[liltiger]

The one part of that I agree with is that Brooks personality is not suited to being a dominant halfback. A couple of points of order:

Joey admitted to going out drinking all night and the rest and would still rock up and be the best. Natural talent.

Brooks hasn’t missed that much footy and to me he always looks like he does the fitness work. His improvement in defense is testament to that.

We’ve given him 3 weeks without trials with the new system/team. If I don’t see improvement in the next 5-6 weeks I’ll stop defending him. But I don’t want to see him doing everything like he has to do now, he needs help.

He has gotten the help, we have finally given him a pack to work with. He is struggling big time. As for Joey he was a huge larrikin at the club, but it's been told time and again that he was always the hardest trainer, he himself mentioned his banana kick he learnt by staying back after training and doing it hundreds of times through the years. He was even known to absolutely spray guys for making mistakes at training.
He was a Larrakin no doubt but his work ethic was second to none.

 

[Lukic]

I’d love to see Brooks run for a grand total of 40m and just do his job like Adam Reynolds does at Brisbane. Let’s see who steps up and does the job of Cobbo, Farnworth, Staggs and Reece Walsh. I’ll wait…

Our team has made the 2nd most metres of any team in the league apart from Brisbane. Brooks doesn't have to run. We had more tackles than any other team did in their opponent's 20 over the first two weeks.

All he has to do is to get us to score when we're in the opponent's redzone. If he could do a halfback's job, we'd be 2-1 and maybe 3-0 lol.

Deadset Stevie Wonder probably watches our games with more detail than you.

 

[liltiger]

I’d love to see Brooks run for a grand total of 40m and just do his job like Adam Reynolds does at Brisbane. Let’s see who steps up and does the job of Cobbo, Farnworth, Staggs and Reece Walsh. I’ll wait…

Until they get direction noone will be able to. Who ever is the half needs to play straight then if Brooks is 5/8 he can link with his running game. But as it is the backs are struggling to get involved atm because there just seems to be no direction.

 

[WesternSuburbsBoy]

I love this one. If you don't like someone's opinion just call them racist.

it’s funny lol got accused of being racist towards AD by someone on fb & i’m Lebanese myself 😂😂

 

[earl]

it’s funny lol got accused of being racist towards AD by someone on fb & i’m Lebanese myself 😂😂

It is pretty funny right.

 

[Lukic]

So what the opposition just let’s you cross the line when you get in the red zone do they? It’s all on the little guy in the #7 to unlock the door? Dead set watch some other games and you might see the halfback just distributes it down there and it’s up to your attacking weapons to get over. Half the time ours drop it cold. Maybe just watch some Panthers highlights or something. You’re obsessed.

So Brooks needs the Australian team around him to win?

I think it's a lot easier to get a good halfback than it is to get a 1-6 and 8-17 who are rep level just so we can make precious Brooksy look good.

 

[Tigertilidie32]

It crossed my mind, how a half with as many games as Luke cant find the chest of a support player on a consistent basis amazes me.

Must be more going on here behind closed doors.

Or a grubber into the ingoal for another set ?? Absolutely no idea on how to run a team let alone tactical pressure..

 

[The Fresh Oil]

So Brooks needs the Australian team around him to win?

I think it's a lot easier to get a good halfback than it is to get a 1-6 and 8-17 who are rep level just so we can make precious Brooksy look good.

I like the days when Brooks just needed good service from dummy to be unleashed. Then it was a decent forward pack to be unleashed.

Now that the 9 is sorted and the forwards are taking shape, Brooks now needs a full rep team to be unleashed.

 

[earl]

Keep the narrative going. Bring a Turbo or a Latrell in and we are 2-1 or 3-0. It’s not too much to ask to expect to have one genuine game breaker.

I find all of this stupid. I don't expect Brooks to win us the game. If anyone does they haven't seen much of him as a player. He isn't that good.

The problem is every loss is Brooks fault which means every win he gets all the credit. It's stupid.

Just tell me Brooks had a shocker on the weekend and if he does that again they should punt him. He wasn't good on the weekend but he was also the key guy behind us scoring any points. He isn't the sole reason we lost. There were lots of players performing significantly worse than him.

 

[WesternSuburbsBoy]

I like the days when Brooks just needed good service from dummy to be unleashed. Then it was a decent forward pack to be unleashed.

Now that the 9 is sorted and the forwards are taking shape, Brooks now needs a full rep team to be unleashed.

remember when we had a spine of Teddy, Moses, Brooks & Farah & he still wasn't unleashed? then they punted Farah because they thought he was the problem & to everyone's surprise he still wasn't.... UNLEASHED

 

[The Fresh Oil]

I find all of this stupid. I don't expect Brooks to win us the game. If anyone does they haven't seen much of him as a player. He isn't that good.

The problem is every loss is Brooks fault which means every win he gets all the credit. It's stupid.

Just tell me Brooks had a shocker on the weekend and if he does that again they should punt him. He wasn't good on the weekend but he was also the key guy behind us scoring any points. He isn't the sole reason we lost. There were lots of players performing significantly worse than him.

Dunno about that. I'm a pretty hard critic of Brooks and I put the dogs loss squarely on AD.

The rest are on Brooks though.

 

[sleeve]

Just more bashing, and stupidity.

 

[earl]

Dunno about that. I'm a pretty hard critic of Brooks and I put the dogs loss squarely on AD.

This is what gets me. People teeing off on Brooks but that performance from AD on the weekend was one of the most woeful I've ever seen in the top grade.

Plus Brooks carved up for a small period of time.

This isn't a one off either. Last year I said I wanted Hastings and Doueihi as our halves but Doueihi was crud. I was told I was being too harsh on AD due to his ACL injury but that excuse has been shown to be wrong.

If Brooks has a shocker I'll change my tune but at this point I don't see him as being anywhere near an issue in this team.

 

[loklok]

I find all of this stupid. I don't expect Brooks to win us the game. If anyone does they haven't seen much of him as a player. He isn't that good.

The problem is every loss is Brooks fault which means every win he gets all the credit. It's stupid.

Just tell me Brooks had a shocker on the weekend and if he does that again they should punt him. He wasn't good on the weekend but he was also the key guy behind us scoring any points. He isn't the sole reason we lost. There were lots of players performing significantly worse than him.

C,Mon earl
What would u like your halfback to do in your side

 

[The Fresh Oil]

This is what gets me. People teeing off on Brooks but that performance from AD on the weekend was one of the most woeful I've ever seen in the top grade.

Plus Brooks carved up for a small period of time.

This isn't a one off either. Last year I said I wanted Hastings and Doueihi as our halves but Doueihi was crud. I was told I was being too harsh on AD due to his ACL injury but that excuse has been shown to be wrong.

If Brooks has a shocker I'll change my tune but at this point I don't see him as being anywhere near an issue in this team.

Man, Brooks has been shit for 10 years. AD was shit for one game and got punted from the halves. Which is good but doesn't give Brooks a pass on the years and years of rubbish we have watched from him.

Perfect world, Brooks and AD are never seen at Wests again.

 

[WesternSuburbsBoy]

You’re a muppet. Lies before facts. You’re talking about a time when he was considered the best young halfback going around.

ahhh yes the classic name calling once you don’t agree with someone… judging from your posts on here I thought you were better than that but clearly I was wrong

 

[The Fresh Oil]

You’re a muppet. Lies before facts. You’re talking about a time when he was considered the best young halfback going around.

Are you being serious?

 

[earl]

C,Mon earl
What would u like your halfback to do in your side

I don't care about the number on his back but he isn't a marquee player and he isn't a controlling halfback and he isn't a creative halfback. There was a player who played for Brisbane ages ago and he was a half. He was useless apart from his running game but his running game was superb. Brooks running game isn't as good but his overall game is better.

He ain't though Nathan Cleary or Andrew Johns.

I don't care if you get a Steve Mortimer half who is basically just a runner but they should be judged on how they play that role rather than being judged as a game controlling halfback.

To make it simpler I view Brooks as a 6 and they've been playing him that way for a while.