Brooks is tanking

So what the opposition just let’s you cross the line when you get in the red zone do they? It’s all on the little guy in the #7 to unlock the door? Dead set watch some other games and you might see the halfback just distributes it down there and it’s up to your attacking weapons to get over. Half the time ours drop it cold. Maybe just watch some Panthers highlights or something. You’re obsessed.

This has to be satire or trolling at this point?

What on earth are we paying him $1 million+ for? Why is any team paying a halfback over $1million or anything above minimum wage. I can throw a spiral pass 20m to my left and right, should I get $1m for this???

It's the forwards faults if we don't get good field position. It's the backs fault if we don't score tries? We're paying him $1 million to just get the ball and pass it on to the next guy?

The halves are meant to organise the team, give us structure and create opportunities for the backs and create the space for them to operate. So yes, it is absolutely on the little guy in the 7 to create points.

The point about not having a superstar... yes we don't have a superstar because the guy who we're paying like one is the guy we're talking about right now.
 
Man, Brooks has been shit for 10 years. AD was shit for one game and got punted from the halves. Which is good but doesn't give Brooks a pass on the years and years of rubbish we have watched from him.

This isn't true. AD has been significantly worse than Brooks for at least all of last season and this season. That is at least. AD kept getting picked in the halves and he isn't delivering. Now he gets moved to fullback. He has been moved to centre as well.

All I am going off is last season and this season. Brooks was our second best half last season behind Hastings and he has been our best half this season. It's too early to judge Wakeham.

I'm happy for them both to be gone but only if we get better.

I feel AD is as different story because I think his ego is ruining his career. I was a big fan. I think now he is looking like a worse version of Mbye.
 
Go back to the time and read all the articles about the Big 4! That’s truth.
the truth is Tedesco went on to become one of the best players in the world, Moses went on to become a top 5 halfback in the game, Woods the less said about him the better lol & Brooks well been nothing but mediocrity but as a fan base we’ve become accustomed to it having not made finals in over 10 years so I guess the Brooks love makes sense?
 
You blokes make shit up. Last year we couldn’t get within a length of the Flemington straight. We were horrible.

This year our attack is horribly disjointed but we have been in with a sniff. Improve the attack and this team will be much better than Noddy’s bloody debacle.
We’ve been in with a sniff because the 3 teams we’ve played have also been diabolical..
We just happen to be worse .
 
I don't care about the number on his back but he isn't a marquee player and he isn't a controlling halfback and he isn't a creative halfback. There was a player who played for Brisbane ages ago and he was a half. He was useless apart from his running game but his running game was superb. Brooks running game isn't as good but his overall game is better.

He ain't though Nathan Cleary or Andrew Johns.

I don't care if you get a Steve Mortimer half who is basically just a runner but they should be judged on how they play that role rather than being judged as a game controlling halfback.

To make it simpler I view Brooks as a 6 and they've been playing him that way for a while.
Other than the 10 minutes when Canterbury went to sleep .he was very ordinary. Passing was terrible .kicking was terrible and not being anywhere near your dummy half .he hasn't got any normal game instincts to see the plays 3 or 4 tackles ahead like any half or 5/8.
Yes and douehi was another level down .but time and time again Brooks just does the same bad things and takes the wrong options for a half.
 
All this only proves my point. The guys who went to teams full of good players had success. I only went to a public school but it can’t be that hard to get.

I disagree with this. I think the players played to their potential. Woods was great for us but he went backwards. It's just the way it is. Tedesco was always a star and a turd. Moses the same but not at Tedesco's level.

Brooks isn't as good as those guys. Atm though he is our best half.
 
Other than the 10 minutes when Canterbury went to sleep .he was very ordinary. Passing was terrible .kicking was terrible and not being anywhere near your dummy half .he hasn't got any normal game instincts to see the plays 3 or 4 tackles ahead like any half or 5/8.
Yes and douehi was another level down .but time and time again Brooks just does the same bad things and takes the wrong options for a half.

Just to be clear - I'm basically not arguing against this. I'm just also seeing the good stuff that he did and the fact (sorry to call it that but I think it is) he is our best half atm.

I wanted Wakeham at 7 last week and I'm glad he is in the team now. We can't state he is our best half though until he plays for at least 4 weeks and doesn't get cameo roles at the backend of the game.
 
He’s massively over paid. He’s a 650-700K half back who feels like he has to carry a whole team on his back. A bad team. Everyone knows I blame our management for putting him in that spot.
one thing we do agree on is how incompetent our management has been but at what point does the sword fall on Brooks? there has been two mainstays in our decade of failure… one of them got dropped this week & the other is our highest paid player who gets his 1000th chance
 
one thing we do agree on is how incompetent our management has been but at what point does the sword fall on Brooks? there has been two mainstays in our decade of failure… one of them got dropped this week & the other is our highest paid player who gets his 1000th chance

Mate - we should be really clear that he doesn't have a contract for next season. That 1 million dollar contract should never be entertained again.

I don't think he has been that bad this year. I don't think we owe him anything either. I think we need to determine if we have him as our secondary half on lesser dollars or not. There is no use keeping him if he doesn't perform well in the NRL. Let's see how he goes this season.
 
He is like teflon. Buggered if I can figure out what his aspirations are because you see very little difference from him whether we win or lose. The obsession is real and I often wonder if his team mates are equally confused by it.
 
Just to be clear - I'm basically not arguing against this. I'm just also seeing the good stuff that he did and the fact (sorry to call it that but I think it is) he is our best half atm.

I wanted Wakeham at 7 last week and I'm glad he is in the team now. We can't state he is our best half though until he plays for at least 4 weeks and doesn't get cameo roles at the backend of the game.
Yea it not an argument.
I still can't understand why some forumers hang on to Brooks playing good for 10 minutes a game when the games go for 80 minutes plus .that's my main point for the Brooks thing
 
I disagree with this. I think the players played to their potential. Woods was great for us but he went backwards. It's just the way it is. Tedesco was always a star and a turd. Moses the same but not at Tedesco's level.

Brooks isn't as good as those guys. Atm though he is our best half.
There was never the “ big 4” imo
That was just media BS as Brooks has always been crap ..
Of course Brooks was never going to leave as ..
1. He never wanted to leave his comfort zone
2. No other club wanted him back then
 
Maybe Brooksy can buy them a compass. They’re NRL players not cub scouts. The game is essentially about beating your opposite number with skill and strength.
They can't do anything unless the forwards lay the platform which they are, and the halves give them direction, which they're not.
 
If in 6 weeks our attacks still completely dysfunctional I’ll join the chorus. I still maintain that $1.4 million we have for Moses needs to be given to someone who can take the pressure off him, preferably not Moses.
Now that Wakeham is in the halves he will provide a vast improvement.
 
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