Brooks was great tonight, my two favourites were when he ended up with the ball with a two on one on the sideline and instead of drawing and passing to the guy outside him to send him over the tryline, he looked up like a dear in headlights and threw the ball into row 10. My absolute favourite is when he couldn't find touch off the penalty in the first half. Wakeham and Talau were worse by far, but Brooks was nowhere near one of our best. He offered nothing, even the kick at the end of the set has no hang time, our guys can't get to it. You would think maybe he would try something different.
I’d keep him on the cheap for back up which is what we probably originally signed him for.
I think i remember reading/hearing somewhere that Simpkin has trained at 7. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up there to fill the gap. I know, it sounds awful.
I like him...but he has to take the leap and mature.
I think his lack of pace is a killer too. Our defensive structure fell apart tonight (maybe titans extra pace exposed us?) and he got caught out many times.
The honeymoon is over with this bloke. Showed the same at bulldogs, One reasonable game mingled with disasters. Never more than a second grader, much the same as Talau
That’s interesting. Don’t players push themselves to be the best they can every season?
No, he didn’t think he was going to be playing NRL because he didn’t have any contract from any team.
Yes I noticed Toa and totally agree with you. Not many minutes but they were good. Selective passing. Other changes, especially punting that meathead Talau are sound.
Don’t agree that he was that bad, not finding touch and the pass over the side line were both poor. But his kicking game was good from pretty bad field positions, he also ran the ball strongly and almost cut through in several occasions. Apart from a few errors he had a solid game.
He actually looked to me like he relished the change. Interesting eh, maybe he’s been harbouring designs on the 6 but never got a chance. Anyway, we’ll see.
