Luke Brooks - Mega Thread

bigsiro said:
This post is mostly about the KICKING GAME.
And I'll preface this by saying that the whole spine were trash today, so were the forwards, and the backs, and that it is impossible to blame any one player for that disgusting performance.

Back to the kicking. I tagged all kicks with a time, description, kicker and basic judgment of
Very Good/Good/Average/Poor/Very Bad.

They are as follows:

1. Brooks 2 mins long Kick straight to fullback. Poor kick.
2. Brooks 13 mins bomb straight to fullback. Poor kick.
3. Brooks 15 min Penalty kick from centre field. Gained 10m. Very bad kick.
4. Brooks 17 min attacking position, bomb straight to fullback. Poor kick.
5. Brooks 22 min penalty kick. Gain of 5 metres. Very bad kick.
6. Brooks 25 min penalty kick. 1m gain. Very bad kick.
7. Brooks 26 min attacking bomb, straight to fullback. Poor kick.
8. Brooks 35 min cross field kick, gone wrong, straight to Gagai. Very bad kick.
9. - 27 min drop out (don’t know who took that, couldn't see on TV...was it Hastings?). Either way, it was out on the full. Very bad kick.
10. Hastings 43 min grubber dead in-goal. Poor kick.
11. Brooks 51 min “catastrophic” no kick at all. Positioning awful. Very bad no kick.
12. Brooks 64 min under pressure. Finds grass and easy for defenders. Average kick.
13. Brooks 71 min penalty kick. 10 min gain. Very bad kick.
14. Brooks 72 mins midfield bomb straight to defenders. Poor kick.
15. Simpkins 77 min. Solo grubber. Very bad kick.
16. Brooks 78 mins long kick (under pressure) straight to fullback. Poor kick.

The above is not making judgment of kicker but the kicks themselves. You can re-watch and judge how you like
.
Fact is, we did not put one single kick in which was effective. Brooks was responsible for 13/16.

For judgment of Brooks, need to look at his stats. Below is his contribution:

2 tackle infringements
6 missed tackles
0 try assists
0 line breaks
0 line break assists
0 effective runs
0 kicks for repeat sets.
4 hospital passes.
13 kicks for 303 metres - not one of them good kicks.
4 penalty kicks for total of 26 metres gained.

Not one kick from Brooks put any pressure on Newcastle. Rather, every single kick from Brooks relieved pressure. Again, I am not saying he is responsible for the loss, everyone sucked! Hastings was largely ineffective too, but at least he did a few good things. Brooks and Laurie were really just garbage. (It's no coincidence everyone has stopped waxing lyrical about the latter.)

Jake Clifford and Adam Clune completely outplayed both our halves (Adam Clune FFS!). Other than his general play, Clifford made 30 metres from nearly every penalty kick. In the kicking department alone he crapped all over Brooks. And all of us would have thought he was inferior. Fact is, he was far superior.

For all those that thought Newcastle were there for the taking, you were right.
But not by us.
Even as a Brooks critic it is undeniable that this was one horrendous team performance.

Having said that, I am 100% sure that the rest of the team's performance will be all the ammunition the Brooks army need for their excuses.

In the moments of being under the pump we needed our most experienced player to take the reigns, the one in the position of the general, the one with the kicking responsibility, the one who could pressurise the opposition, the one who is looked to to step up when we needed him most.
But once again he showed that his skills are weak, his experience counts for nought and that when the going gets tough he goes to water.

The coaching staff and management need to take decisive action. Now.
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sounds like your on the fence .lol..Jan;s r not happy
 
the problem is i don't think any side would be willing to take him on without us paying a huge chunk of his contract. We should have let him go to newcastle and given the reins to madden to see if he was up to it over a whole season. You would think with Kimmorley and to a lesser extent Marshall helping the halves there would be some improvement but realistically i think he has got worse.
 
diedpretty said:
the problem is i don't think any side would be willing to take him on without us paying a huge chunk of his contract. We should have let him go to newcastle and given the reins to madden to see if he was up to it over a whole season. You would think with Kimmorley and to a lesser extent Marshall helping the halves there would be some improvement but realistically i think he has got worse.
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Yep shit the bed on that. Newcastle would have been desperate pre-season and probably would have covered a lot of the freight and could have got us out of it for relatively cheaply. Easiest opportunity we would have had to have offloaded him and we thumbed our noses at it.

Absolute muppets at the helm at this club. I suppose that's why we're sponsored by Elmo.
 
Any thimble of talent this kid had has been slowly drained from him by shit coaches, and an inept club.
Best for him, and for us, to bugger off.
 
bigsiro said:
This post is mostly about the KICKING GAME.
And I'll preface this by saying that the whole spine were trash today, so were the forwards, and the backs, and that it is impossible to blame any one player for that disgusting performance.

Back to the kicking. I tagged all kicks with a time, description, kicker and basic judgment of
Very Good/Good/Average/Poor/Very Bad.

They are as follows:

1. Brooks 2 mins long Kick straight to fullback. Poor kick.
2. Brooks 13 mins bomb straight to fullback. Poor kick.
3. Brooks 15 min Penalty kick from centre field. Gained 10m. Very bad kick.
4. Brooks 17 min attacking position, bomb straight to fullback. Poor kick.
5. Brooks 22 min penalty kick. Gain of 5 metres. Very bad kick.
6. Brooks 25 min penalty kick. 1m gain. Very bad kick.
7. Brooks 26 min attacking bomb, straight to fullback. Poor kick.
8. Brooks 35 min cross field kick, gone wrong, straight to Gagai. Very bad kick.
9. - 27 min drop out (don’t know who took that, couldn't see on TV...was it Hastings?). Either way, it was out on the full. Very bad kick.
10. Hastings 43 min grubber dead in-goal. Poor kick.
11. Brooks 51 min “catastrophic” no kick at all. Positioning awful. Very bad no kick.
12. Brooks 64 min under pressure. Finds grass and easy for defenders. Average kick.
13. Brooks 71 min penalty kick. 10 min gain. Very bad kick.
14. Brooks 72 mins midfield bomb straight to defenders. Poor kick.
15. Simpkins 77 min. Solo grubber. Very bad kick.
16. Brooks 78 mins long kick (under pressure) straight to fullback. Poor kick.

The above is not making judgment of kicker but the kicks themselves. You can re-watch and judge how you like
.
Fact is, we did not put one single kick in which was effective. Brooks was responsible for 13/16.

For judgment of Brooks, need to look at his stats. Below is his contribution:

2 tackle infringements
6 missed tackles
0 try assists
0 line breaks
0 line break assists
0 effective runs
0 kicks for repeat sets.
4 hospital passes.
13 kicks for 303 metres - not one of them good kicks.
4 penalty kicks for total of 26 metres gained.

Not one kick from Brooks put any pressure on Newcastle. Rather, every single kick from Brooks relieved pressure. Again, I am not saying he is responsible for the loss, everyone sucked! Hastings was largely ineffective too, but at least he did a few good things. Brooks and Laurie were really just garbage. (It's no coincidence everyone has stopped waxing lyrical about the latter.)

Jake Clifford and Adam Clune completely outplayed both our halves (Adam Clune FFS!). Other than his general play, Clifford made 30 metres from nearly every penalty kick. In the kicking department alone he crapped all over Brooks. And all of us would have thought he was inferior. Fact is, he was far superior.

For all those that thought Newcastle were there for the taking, you were right.
But not by us.
Even as a Brooks critic it is undeniable that this was one horrendous team performance.

Having said that, I am 100% sure that the rest of the team's performance will be all the ammunition the Brooks army need for their excuses.

In the moments of being under the pump we needed our most experienced player to take the reigns, the one in the position of the general, the one with the kicking responsibility, the one who could pressurise the opposition, the one who is looked to to step up when we needed him most.
But once again he showed that his skills are weak, his experience counts for nought and that when the going gets tough he goes to water.

The coaching staff and management need to take decisive action. Now.
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It was the worst game I have seen him play. Sure the forwards were also atrocious but Brooks looked like a kid in the candy store who is allergic to sugar.

Even when Hastings was trying to lift, Brooks looked totally lost and had no idea - was out of position, wasn't supporting, made wrong decisions, didn't organise attack and he is 1 of our 5 captains, Hastings isn't.

Brook's kicking game was worst than you would see at an under 10s game, 4 miss kicks, 2 that went sideways/behind, flat not high and then just his mid field rubbish that went straight to players. Add to the fact Hastings took the slow tap twice shows confidence that Hastings had more confidence in finding more meters by doing a slow tap and run over Brooks kicking it.

Brooks got schooled by the Knights halves and he got totally dominated by Hastings on how to have a dig & try and lift the team.
 
Brooks' confidence is completely shot and has been for years.

You can see it in the way he plays:
- Afraid to put a grubber in because he usually puts it too deep or into defenders
- Afraid to kick early in the tackle count in case he screws it up with a mis-kick
- Doesn't attempt a spiral bomb because he's afraid to mess it up
- How many cut out passes does he throw in a game?

Yesterday didn't have much to do with his performance, but he's had the same issues for years.
 
There's always the chance that Moses the grub is getting into Brooky's ear and telling him to play shit.. Maybe he wants to get himself sacked
Just the way he did himself when Moses was at the Tigers.
Is Brooksy doing it on purpose??

-Unsuccessful conversions
-Kicks to touch
-On-field play
 
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Mighty_Tiger said:
It was the worst game I have seen him play. Sure the forwards were also atrocious but Brooks looked like a kid in the candy store who is allergic to sugar.

Even when Hastings was trying to lift, Brooks looked totally lost and had no idea - was out of position, wasn't supporting, made wrong decisions, didn't organise attack and he is 1 of our 5 captains, Hastings isn't.

Brook's kicking game was worst than you would see at an under 10s game, 4 miss kicks, 2 that went sideways/behind, flat not high and then just his mid field rubbish that went straight to players. Add to the fact Hastings took the slow tap twice shows confidence that Hastings had more confidence in finding more meters by doing a slow tap and run over Brooks kicking it.

Brooks got schooled by the Knights halves and he got totally dominated by Hastings on how to have a dig & try and lift the team.
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I've been called a Brooks fanboy. This is a pretty accurate assessment.
 
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