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Hooper: 7 million reasons why the Tigers need to offload Brooks… now
WESTS TIGERS
August 31, 2020 5:30pm
JAMES HOOPER
Source: FOX SPORTS
There are seven million reasons why the Wests Tigers need to end the Luke Brooks experiment.
Brooks, 25, is the hot shot local junior who the Tigers have been paying on potential for the past seven seasons.
The Wests Tigers halfback is currently signed until the end of 2023 but the way he’s played this season the club should mitigate the damages and cut their losses.
The $7 million figure comes from the amount of money the Wests Tigers are estimated to have invested in Brooks being the playmaker who can get them near the promised land until the end of 2023.
Brooks currently holds the unwanted record of having played the most number of games in the NRL without featuring the finals.
The Tigers playmaker has played 145 NRL matches across seven seasons in the NRL but the best the Tigers have done with him steering the ship is three 9th placed finishes.
It’s true Brooks has been playing behind an inferior forward pack and has endured four different coaches being turned over.
Irrespective, when the Tigers signed him to a four-year deal worth an estimated $3.5 million, the deal was Brooks needed to evolve into a dominant playmaker in the prime of his career.
Granted, the Wests Tigers halfback surprisingly won the Dally M halfback of the year in 2018.
Given what Cooper Cronk did for the Sydney Roosters that season, we’re tipping the judges might like that decision over.
Brooks still has three years to run on his contract at Concord but after another season of failure the Tigers should put him up for sale.
This is what Michael Maguire said at the time of Brooks re-signing at the end of 2018: “Luke is a well experienced half now and at the prime of being able to take all of the leanings to this point to a whole new level.
“Sitting down and talking to him about his game he’s hungry to learn and hungry to improve on where he’s at. He prides himself on his defence and obviously he’s very keen to learn the different styles of play that I’ve had experience with working with a number of halfbacks over a number of years.”
This is nothing personal but the Tigers need to allow Maguire to get a tomahawk out and reshape a roster which has become mired in mediocrity.
They’ll need to chip in for another NRL club to be interested but surely that’s a better option than allowing Brooks to suit up for an eighth straight season and missing the finals – again.
WESTS TIGERS
August 31, 2020 5:30pm
JAMES HOOPER
Source: FOX SPORTS
There are seven million reasons why the Wests Tigers need to end the Luke Brooks experiment.
Brooks, 25, is the hot shot local junior who the Tigers have been paying on potential for the past seven seasons.
The Wests Tigers halfback is currently signed until the end of 2023 but the way he’s played this season the club should mitigate the damages and cut their losses.
The $7 million figure comes from the amount of money the Wests Tigers are estimated to have invested in Brooks being the playmaker who can get them near the promised land until the end of 2023.
Brooks currently holds the unwanted record of having played the most number of games in the NRL without featuring the finals.
The Tigers playmaker has played 145 NRL matches across seven seasons in the NRL but the best the Tigers have done with him steering the ship is three 9th placed finishes.
It’s true Brooks has been playing behind an inferior forward pack and has endured four different coaches being turned over.
Irrespective, when the Tigers signed him to a four-year deal worth an estimated $3.5 million, the deal was Brooks needed to evolve into a dominant playmaker in the prime of his career.
Granted, the Wests Tigers halfback surprisingly won the Dally M halfback of the year in 2018.
Given what Cooper Cronk did for the Sydney Roosters that season, we’re tipping the judges might like that decision over.
Brooks still has three years to run on his contract at Concord but after another season of failure the Tigers should put him up for sale.
This is what Michael Maguire said at the time of Brooks re-signing at the end of 2018: “Luke is a well experienced half now and at the prime of being able to take all of the leanings to this point to a whole new level.
“Sitting down and talking to him about his game he’s hungry to learn and hungry to improve on where he’s at. He prides himself on his defence and obviously he’s very keen to learn the different styles of play that I’ve had experience with working with a number of halfbacks over a number of years.”
This is nothing personal but the Tigers need to allow Maguire to get a tomahawk out and reshape a roster which has become mired in mediocrity.
They’ll need to chip in for another NRL club to be interested but surely that’s a better option than allowing Brooks to suit up for an eighth straight season and missing the finals – again.
