Brooks and Brown to debut against St. George

[balmain boy]

If the kids come in and we win a game or two, will do them a world of good. Even if we lose they can't be blamed for it as we were already losing without them.

We can only gain by playing them in NRL a little bit. There would still be Moses and Mulcahy for NYC which is still a very good combo at that level. Brooks could still play in the finals in any case so it might just be one or two weeks that he plays in NRL.

Brown has a lot of O'Meley about him. Much much prefer him to Spence (who's very average and leaving in any case!)

 

[bigcat]

FROM NRL.com today at 2:37pm
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"Tigers youngersters set for NRL debut

Wests Tigers have been granted permission from the NRL for exciting youngsters Luke Brooks and Nathan Brown to make their first grade debuts this weekend.

NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert on Wednesday granted the Tigers permission to breach the second-tier salary cap by allowing the talented pair to play against St George Illawarra at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday.
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Brooks and Brown haven't been named in the squad for the match, but the decision on whether they'll play will be made by coach Mick Potter on Friday.

The permission granted by Schubert was made under special circumstances given that neither team can make the finals.

18-year-old Brooks is a halfback and 20-year-old Brown is a prop, both of whom have played in the Tigers' under-20s team."

 

[alexaki]

yeehaaa..

Benji to Centre; Sirronen to 5/8; Anasta & Thompson to bench,

 

[monkey]

Great news good luck to the boys hopefully the senior players pick up their games to match the youngsters up . As for spence he is very ordinary . Seem better park footballers better than this guy

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[robbo1037]

Robbo I totally disagree.

Should just keep picking the same team till the end of the year.

Unless we are in finals contention what's the point of playing guys that are not going to play next year? Might as well blood the youngens.

Make those highly paid useless players deal with the embarrassment they have bought on themselves this year.

But they are embarrassing us as a team and as fans too! Stuff that! It would be more embarrassing for them if they were dropped.

Makes no sense to bring in some poor kids to try and fix the problem.

What problem? The problem that we are out of finals contention? Don't see that as a problem re getting them a start. Or maybe you're talking about the problem that we are crap? or the Benji problem? or the halves problem in general? If so, let's give them a head start for next year! Aren't we supposed to do that for our kids?

Let them make debut next year with a fresh start and a better team.

Why wait? Rip it off like a band-aid! It may hurt a bit, but the fresh start begins right now!

That's your opinion bigsiro and you are certainly entitled to it. I would just prefer those boys had a full offseason building their bodies and training full time with the NRL squad before being thrown to the wolves. I know it's only the Dragons so not really wolves more like poodles.

Hopefully they both come out unscathed and go back and win the NYC.

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[innsaneink]

Brooks has Already had a small taste of first grade in a trial or two at the start of the year.

Get the debut out of the way, Brooks & Brown wont have to spend all summer thinking about it….a bit like a boxers first fight I imagine.

Too bad it couldnt have been a home game, we need all the attraction we can get

 

[phil1986]

Thank you bigcat, finally someone getting something right!

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[LaT]

NICE!

 

[weststigers]

Happy that Brooks is getting a run, but I think Benji will have a tough day in defence…

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[Black_n_White]

would be really handy for Brooks to have Robbie out there…

But good luck to the both of them!!!

 

[Love_the_WestsTigers]

yeehaaa..

Benji to Centre; Sirronen to 5/8; Anasta & Thompson to bench,

I'm an Anasta supporter but he adds even less off the bench. :frowning:
Sirro is dynamic off the Bench, would love to see him there for the rest of this year. No need for him to get battered and bruised for 80mins where the rest of the team is not putting in an effort.

Benji … ah well, hope for our sake and his, he can play half as well as his glory days. He needs to leave with some dignity..

 

[phil1986]

Channel 9 news, said benji trained at dummy half. Lol.

We're in trouble, his balls won't find the mark.

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[Love_the_WestsTigers]

Channel 9 news, said benji trained at dummy half. Lol.

We're in trouble, his balls won't find the mark.

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HAHAHAHA , its Doomsday unless he plans to run, shimmy, step from dummy half.. But … there aint no room for that there 😱pen_mouth:
but then again he hasnt been running when the space has been there.

I suspect its a smoke screen. Everyone one knows Benji in 9 is a april fools joke

 

[mtd]

Triple m posted article dragons are sooking about it an trying to get it overturned

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[Fraze23]

The Dragons are not happy that the Wests Tigers have been given a salary cap exemption, allowing Luke Brooks to play against St George this weekend.

The Wests Tigers yesterday wrote to NRL Salary Cap Auditor Ian Schubert asking for permission to breach the second tier salary cap by allowing the talented pair to play against St George-Illawarra Dragons at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday.

Official Statement
The St George Illawarra Dragons have requested a meeting with the NRL to discuss the application of the Salary Cap rules after receiving notification from the NRL of their endorsement of a salary cap breach at another Club on Thursday.

The NRL formally advised the Club of their endorsement of the Wests Tigers application to breach their Second-Tier salary cap by playing two NYC players in the NRL Round 24 clash against the Dragons at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Moore Park on Saturday.

The NRL advised that this is not the first breach by the Wests Tigers and the reasons given were due to their “extremely high injury toll” and “less than anticipated success rate in the competition”.

NRL Salary Cap Auditor Ian Schubert informally phoned Dragons CEO Peter Doust on Wednesday to discuss the merits of flexibility within the salary cap rules before making reference to a specific example in relation to the Wests Tigers ahead of this weekend.

“The Dragons have for a number of years been an advocate for ‘flexibility’ with respect to certain rules of the salary cap and their interpretation and are pleased that the Management of the NRL are prepared to consider this in the move forward sense," said Doust.

"However, we believe that any such ‘discretion’ applied by the NRL needs to be appropriately and widely considered.

“It was not until the end of the telephone conversation that this specific issue relating to the Wests Tigers seeking to play an additional player this weekend was raised.

“We ourselves as a Club have been faced with similar circumstances throughout this year and have followed the rules of the salary cap and I will certainly be sharing these examples.

"I am also aware of other Clubs who have also faced similar circumstances and have also complied with the rules as setout by the NRL."

The Dragons have sought the meeting to seek further information surrounding this process as the Club believes the application of such discretion has been ill conceived.

“This circumstance, from the information with which we have been provided and from what we can see, is an issue of roster management, not injury management and the fact that both teams are not in contention for the Finals should not be a consideration.

“We have eight NRL Players on the sidelines ourselves and from where we sit, the decision reached doesn’t seem to be a very equitable.

"We have expressed our disappointment to the NRL, asked for more specifics and believe the specifics should be assessed more fully.

“It is clearly too late in relation to this weekend as they have already made their determination to allow the Wests Tigers to breach the Salary Cap rules, but I would still have asked for a meeting even if it didn’t impact our Club this weekend as we definitely want clarity and definition for the future.

"I think any Club CEO would be interested in understanding what all this means … we may even need to adjust our strategies in relation to recruitment and roster management moving forward off the back of a determinations such as this."

 

[Demonborger]

Lol @ doust and the crybabies at St George.

Ayshford was injured in the Roosters game and so has played his last game for us. So we get another injury exemption, so we put Benchy at centre allowing us to bring in Brooks.

9/25 guys are out

NRL
Robbie Farah (hand), Rd 25
Eddy Pettybourne (ankle). rd 25
Blake Ayshford (eye), season
Aaron Woods (knee), season
Chris Lawrence (ankle), season
Joel Reddy (groin), season
Tim Moltzen (knee), season
Marika Koroibete (cheekbone), season
Matt Utai (jaw), season

 

[softlaw]

cry me a river arsehats

 

[crusader]

Oust Doust

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[innsaneink]

Id be inclined to start Brooks from the bench, until the sting goes out of the game somewhat

 

[Love_the_WestsTigers]

They choose to have their "once a on-fire" player Jamie SourHead play lower grades and block our young guns out and not get NRL FG exposure…
The extremes some clubs would go to to avoid the Wooden Spoon..
I could be wrong but if we were playing Eels this week with the same situation they would have just accepted it unlike the girls of St Georgia