diedpretty
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I hope he continues to do well. Its nice to see him playing in the position and the style he should have been playing in for the last 10 years.
Luke Brooks #167
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twentyforty
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Would Brooks have had a quality season at WT with DCE and Turbo in the team? imho, he will get better as the season progresses regardless.
GNR4LIFE
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Far too early, but if he has a strong year taking a back seat, you watch how fast people lament him not playing second fiddle to Luai next year.
twentyforty
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It was brilliant, fully deserving of a try.
Glad to see your heavily invested.
Answer1. Potter, Cleary, and Madge all said it’s brooks team now. Which indicates that they believe brooks has the intelligence to control a team!
Answer 2. Matty John’s, Tallis, Vossy, etc. more will come out of the woodwork!
Answer 3. I have nothing against brooks more so the incompetent coaches we have employed over the last decade. That could not see that brooks is clueless and can really only play eyes up footy.
Brooks wasn't alone suffering from the clubs inability to achieve success on the field but he was remunerated better than most (and a lot more than many others at more successful clubs) for the same poor results. WTs set him up for life so now he can just enjoy his footy in what is clearly a much better outfit.
Goldust
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Happy for Brooksy 🙏🏽
Tiger_Yoshi
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Agree, Brooks has NEVER had the IQ or the voice to be a controlling half....why WT persisted with him at 7 god only knows.
Jedi_Tiger
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all players kick on when they leave wests tigers apart from Woods
Even Pauga is playing well at Roosters when given a chance.
Brooks will have a huge year if DCE and Turbo stay fit
Even Pauga is playing well at Roosters when given a chance.
Brooks will have a huge year if DCE and Turbo stay fit
13 years.
Nothing like an exaggeration to enhance a point.
It was 11 and even then that 1st year was one solitary game.
Rob Lui was the half 13 years ago.
Worse thing is we have to listen to the knob jockeys go on and on about another one we let go!! God help us..,
twentyforty
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Sure, he wanted out the last 2 seasons, but then a wind of change may have had him reconsidering? Something Sheens said ‘you would think the coach should be able to get the halfback he wants,’ indicates some resistance from within the list committee, with board not willing to give ground in light of the Manly offer?
Water under the bridge now, but the talk about the Brooks move is that everyone wins Seibold, Manly, Tigers, crazy Tigers fans looking to lay blame for our 2 spoons as well as Brooks himself.
Do Tigers really have a win though?
Maybe Richo wanted the club to cut Brooks’ umbilical chord?
All I know is that for every player we lose who then improves at another club isn’t doing anything to improve our reputation as a destination for rising talent.
hank37w
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I've said all along that Brooksy would go pretty well over at Manly with some good players around him and the pressure of all the expectations lifted from his shoulders.
I thought he played well yesterday and the biggest mistake I saw him make was throwing a Benji like pass over the sideline which I thought at a pinch could have been on for Jaxson Paulo.
On a 3,2,1 basis I would have given Brooks at least 1 point while poor old Latrine for all his huffing and puffing and the sickening promotion he got in the media only got a LOL from me.
Edit:
Before yesterday I had no idea that Paulo was at Manly, pretty sure it was Paulo that the pass was intended for.
That is exactly it.
Look across the Tigers over the past 5 years and everyone has a hyper focus on Luke Brooks.
Why? Because he is the only player with half an ability to do anything.
Notice how he was the 3rd ranked profile in the spine. That’s not even including the impact of Koula outside him or Olakawatu on the adjacent side.
Manly have assembled the team we could only have dreamed about Luke being part of over the past 5 years..
GNR4LIFE
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How am I invested any more than you or anyone else?
Clearly they were idiots. No blame though?
They said he was useless? I find that neatly impossible to believe
So it is the clubs fault. Why are you so adamant that the club doesn’t deserve to be called out then?
Even sheens saw it when he came back was trying hard to get a controlling half, Pearce, etc. says more about the douche bag coaches we employed. Mind u Cleary got the best out of brooks. It’s obviously hard to get a controlling half in the market. But we would of been better to get an old hat like sezer ti partner brooks years ago. Dumb coaches with no idea trying to reinvent brooks as a controlling half.
By reports, He took 700 at Manly.
Anyone considering that overs for an NRL half at his age with his experience
hasn't really had a look at the Market, Or the void coming inside the next 3 years,
And the lack of kids coming through to replace it...
Tucker
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I said WE needed to pay overs
Jedi_Tiger
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well if players didn't fire after leaving us then they would have no story
innsaneink
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Thought all this talk of LB was "over the top" yesterday... Now you're chopping peoples posts on the topic
If you can't beat em.....?
