Tiger-ferret
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They aren’t after brooks because they signed Hastings for 900 a year…
Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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Tiger-ferret
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Yep. The club needs to sign 2 top line halves if brooks isn’t in the top 2.
earl
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Which is starting to look like a mistake.
earl
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Exactly. We need cool, calm, rational people making these decisions.
I don't have a problem with Brooks going but we need two better halves.
Tiger-ferret
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I saw him as the short term tie over, esp for depth until we signed or developed out long term half. You can’t compete in the market with those stupid offers.
twentyforty
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Let’s just wait and see, there’s a lot of footy to be played before November and halfbacks are like chicken teeth.
When you look at all the good 7s playing today they all have very good 6s and most have settled spines.
It’s a cop out to load up on Brooksy for the problems we have at the club.
You Brooks bashers sure do take your bashing seriously.🤣
Looking back at some of those match highlights from the videos you provided, Brooks could have and should have been a genuine marquee player all along.......if we could have just held on to the big three plus Simona and Ado Carr.
What an amazing Team We could have been 👍, and we all would have felt 20 years younger than we do atm 😉.
But imo the weight of expectation on his shoulders from being the only one remaining from the big 4, has been too heavy a load for him to carry.
Now he has got a couple of players around him that are or can be as good as the big three, his confidence is back 🤞and I hope he is able for his sake as well as ours, to have a few more years of marquee class football left in him, and he is able to retire as a genuine Legend for WT.
twentyforty
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Brooks can’t have been too bad if he’s had no pressure to retain his spot in the team.
That says to me that the entire team has been poor.
They can sack him for all I care. This is what they do. When Sheens said he was looking for a development coach, pretty sure he was meaning a coach who could get the best from every player, regardless of their age or level of experience.
Brooks surely isn’t finished, he has everything to play for, if they can’t unlock the magic in him then he will go somewhere else.
stevied
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Brooks has been really good this season?? With respect, are you able to put your man crush aside for one moment and look at the reality of his overall performance? Most on here would agree that he has been really bad in 2023 which is why we're investigating securing a replacement. Having said that, you are spot on regarding Api being our best player.
Don Kershane
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The Knights trips to Bali for the bye round might attract Luke. Not sure I'd want to fly on Sid Fogg Airlines though.
NRL 2023: Every player off-contract at the end of this season | Sporting News Australia
Some of the NRL's biggest names still remain as free agents for next year following the November 1 trade window opening.
www.sportingnews.com
Corey Oates, Braidon Burns, Jayden Okunbor, Jake Averillo, Josh Reynolds, Jordan Rapana, Tesi Niu, Brian Kelly, Brad Parker, Ethan Bullemor, Kaeo Weekes, Dean Ieremia, George Jennings, Adam Pompey, Enari Tuala, Hymel Hunt, Brendan Elliot, Gehamat Shibasaki, Peta Hiku, Bailey Simonsson (CO 2024), Bryce Cartwright, Waqa Blake, Blake Taaffe, Dean Hawkins,Corey Allan, Daniel Tupou.
earl
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Watch the highlights from this year. He has thrown some pearler passes this season. No trolling.
Tucker
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Yes but the priority is the halfback so we can get him going before Api and co piss off.
Jake Clifford killing it in the UK Super League.
He has played many great games in the NRL but always seemed to get blamed ever time his team got beat.
In my opinion he’s definitely a decent quality NRL standard number 6, still young enough to have potential to take his NRL ability to a higher level in the right environment.
He has played many great games in the NRL but always seemed to get blamed ever time his team got beat.
In my opinion he’s definitely a decent quality NRL standard number 6, still young enough to have potential to take his NRL ability to a higher level in the right environment.
bathursttiger1
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We should have Scott Prince down here mentoring our junior halves.
tigerballs
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Too bad Momo isn't here now.
AdelaideTiger
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There's not heap I would get excited about in that list.Names include:NRL 2023: Every player off-contract at the end of this season | Sporting News Australia
Some of the NRL's biggest names still remain as free agents for next year following the November 1 trade window opening.
Corey Oates, Braidon Burns, Jayden Okunbor, Jake Averillo, Josh Reynolds, Jordan Rapana, Tesi Niu, Brian Kelly, Brad Parker, Ethan Bullemor, Kaeo Weekes, Dean Ieremia, George Jennings, Adam Pompey, Enari Tuala, Hymel Hunt, Brendan Elliot, Gehamat Shibasaki, Peta Hiku, Bailey Simonsson (CO 2024), Bryce Cartwright, Waqa Blake, Blake Taaffe, Dean Hawkins,Corey Allan, Daniel Tupou.
I would be fine if we grabbed any of the following for squad depth;
- Jake Averillo (suffered from being too adaptable, gets moved around far too much, looks at home in the centres right now).
- Brian Kelly (he's got talent and GC has never been good at developing raw talent)
- Peta Hiku (very solid centre does that job well most weeks)
- Bailey Simonsson (again, solid Wing/centre can do a job when called on)
HM for Bullemor, he's a decent player I just don't think we need anymore forward depth at the moment.
Kaito
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He has thrown some good passes for sure,
Earl. What concerns me is our conversion
rate when we're in the opps half/twenty...
We've had so many tackles and so much
field position with not much to show TBH.
I need to see a lot more from that backline
Mighty_Tiger
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500k and a penthouse apartment with a car.
