I'm sure he was refreshing the forum all morning waiting for someone to post it
Jackson Hastings #251
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Exactly Earl, good halfbacks have a few strings to their bow... I'm hoping Brooks works on his kicking game in the offseason.
It's like we're scared of kicking 40/20's or kick to the corners and pin them down.
It would be good to see the opposition having to kick deep in their own territory off the 5th tackle and under pressure. Brooks has to own that.
Just a square peg/ round hole situation in the end. He’s a skilful player and a competitor but if he wasn’t a first choice half we couldn’t really justify playing him at lock. I would imagine he continues doing what he did here at Newcastle - moments of great play mixed in with periods of banality.
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I guess these journalists think because we're not successful yet they might just chew the meat off the bone.
Lol- like the 10 year old unchanged band aid applied here?
twentyforty
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I’m surprised that Hastings has gone from being our best player to having so many things wrong with his game. His slide seem to coincide with his move to Knights?
Harvey
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On his 5th club including a couple of one and done seasons. Where there is smoke......
He might have been a man of steel in the Superleague, but lets face it, he is no Luke Brooks.
He might have been a man of steel in the Superleague, but lets face it, he is no Luke Brooks.
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Who's Jacko?
finnzo
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We’re all guilty of it. When a player leaves us we find things that’s wrong with his game say we are better off without him. But let’s face it if Jackson resigned with us to play lock we would all be thrilled
Now Weidler joins the clown group of Buzz and Hooper...Battle of Hastings: Real reasons Tigers let halfback leave
By Danny Weidler
December 4, 2022 — 5.00am
The mystery behind the hurried exit of fan favourite Jackson Hastings can be put down to some petty and seemingly innocuous differences with new Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens.
After trying for a year to sign Luke Brooks and failing, the Knights turned their attention to Hastings – and the Tigers offered little if any resistance. Today we can explain why they were willing to let a star player go. We already knew of the club’s interest in Mitchell Moses, but there is more to the Hastings exit, which not all Tigers faithful will find palatable.
Jackson Hastings has been granted a release from the Tigers to join the Knights.Credit:Getty
Some at the Tigers are spreading the word that Hastings was hard to handle, but the issues he was having seem to be minor at best. The Tigers have copped plenty of flak for allowing Hastings – a quality performer last season – to leave the club after just one year and join Newcastle. Former Origin prop David Klemmer moved in the other direction at the same time.
On the surface, the problems appeared to start for Hastings when Sheens wanted him moved from halfback – the position the Knights have signed him to play. He was shifted to the No.13 role and, while Hastings was prepared to play anywhere, it’s not his preferred option. But there was more to his falling out with the club than that.
Hastings also showed strong support for former coach Michael Maguire after he was dumped by the Tigers in June, and that put noses out of joint.
Behind the scenes, Hastings also failed to fill in a welfare form that the club required its players to complete. That was held against him by some. It was viewed as an act of defiance. But it seems quite petty when other players can be involved in incidents that grab headlines and they are kept on.
Sources with knowledge of the situation also say the Tigers were upset with Hastings’ use of social media to track his rehabilitation from a broken ankle and syndesmosis injury, which ended his 2022 season. He was posting training and recovery updates, which fans lapped up, which old heads at the club frowned upon. Itwould appear to be a veryold-fashioned attitude fromthe club.
Sheens did not respond when asked for comment about the reasons for Hastings’ exit.
What a time wasting article and on Tigers of course for click baits..
Of course the media won't comment on the best recruitment we have had in like 15 years..
twentyforty
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😂 agreed.
You could tell there was some kind of relationship issue when he was given the 13 jersey, but continued to play half.
like the 10yr old festering wound it was on,
I think Brooks and whoever plays 5/8 will be advised to spend many hrs on their kicking games. It is such a crucial part of the game, all the good halves have it. And we need it.
Reading the news headlines, it was Hastings, Douehi, then even Laurie was referred to as a star.
Take your pick, i don't think anyone deserved those names. But Ofa never gave up.
twentyforty
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It was never Brooksy. Ofa and Twaly were the toilers imo also. I think they were both rewarded with decent contracts.
We have a forum that is biased, like kids that only see the try scorers, but not the ones who did the work. Hastings, AD, and Laurie were the darlings of the forum, and their effort was good. But who did the compare them to ? Not the top players in the comp, they were nowhere near that level,
And of course media meatheads ,read the forum, and pass it on in headlines. Best player, Star.etc etc. The same with Brooks, only he got the crap end of the deal. He also tried hard , but there has to be a villain. and of course the meatheads read the forums, and wallaaa!
Who cares. He's gone. I was a fan of his but no amount of pining brings him back.
twentyforty
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Well stop your pining CB mate and jump on the Brooksy bandwagon! He’s gonna have a season to remember 😜
Tucker
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We treated Hastings pretty poorly.
Good luck to him at the Knights, they need a good year.
As for us....we'll have some decent forward battles and win some games.
Good luck to him at the Knights, they need a good year.
As for us....we'll have some decent forward battles and win some games.
