Luke Brooks #167

Glenji95 said:
That’s gonna be the key to victory. Manly have good outside backs. Halves they have one good one, one average at best and a fat mess who is out of puff quickly. Forwards apart from Haumole are average at best. Manly I don’t see finals bound next year.
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As long as Turbo is fit, they’ll always be thereabouts. They will win enough games against the weaker teams to keep them in the hunt. Just all revolves around how many games they can get out of Turbo.
 
earl said:
They completely smashed our pack last season. On paper we are better but our guys really didn't perform last season. I know someone will bring up the stat that we made decent metres but that argument is pretty weak when you consider Manly rolled us.
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Hard to compare really. The first time we played them we only lost by 6 points and we had more than 400 running metres then they did. Second game the club had given up by that point. If they still cared the score line probably wouldn’t have got as high as it did.
 
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Glenji95 said:
Hard to compare really. The first time we played them we only by 6 points and we had more than 400 running metres then they did. Second game the club had given up by that point. If they still cared the score line probably wouldn’t have got as high as it did.
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Our pack won the battle most weeks it was just our backs who couldn’t score points
 
I wouldn't think Brooks and Schuster would work on an edge. Brooks needs a hard running edge backrower outside him, while schuster plays like a 5/8 on the edge and benefits from early ball with space to create. Brooks doesn't have a great passing game, so playing the distributing 5/8 seems to eliminate his strength, while Schuster isn't a particularly good line runner.

Sort of opposite players to what you want playing next to each other and I'd guess they'd end up getting a bit muddled between each other.

Also, Brooks loves the at the line hospital bullet pass to his back rower. How many of those will Schuster cop before getting frustrated?

But I could be wrong.
 
watersider said:
I wouldn't think Brooks and Schuster would work on an edge. Brooks needs a hard running edge backrower outside him, while schuster plays like a 5/8 on the edge and benefits from early ball with space to create. Brooks doesn't have a great passing game, so playing the distributing 5/8 seems to eliminate his strength, while Schuster isn't a particularly good line runner.

Sort of opposite players to what you want playing next to each other and I'd guess they'd end up getting a bit muddled between each other.

Also, Brooks loves the at the line hospital bullet pass to his back rower. How many of those will Schuster cop before getting frustrated?

But I could be wrong.
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You could be.
Brooks could be a running 5/8 off the back of a ball playing Shuster and Shuster could be a ball playing backrower feeding his outside backs.
 
WestsEffTheRest said:
Our pack won the battle most weeks it was just our backs who couldn’t score points
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Our forward pack was not the problem, it was our halves and backs that didn’t fire. We had 7 games this year where we smashed the other team in running metres and lost. If we won those plus the 4 we did win we’d have 11 wins this year. Still not finals bound but certainty not last.
 
The_Patriot said:
Smart move by Seibold to tell him he can hide and avoid the pressure at Manly, Thats who he is so it resonated with him.
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Whack!

I like to use the term weak gutted dog when talking about Brooks.

I think there is even more pressure on him now because he has Turbo! Jurbo, DCE etc.

I look forward to the anti Brooks Manly brigade building at a sound pace. Mmmmmm
 
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