Luke Brooks - Mega Thread

[batboy]

Surely Madden would be demanding more than 250k to be the first string half back if that was to some how come off.

Yeah and I know, "Don't call me Shirley."

The common problem with these "Fantasy Football" times....
Anyone can assume a player is worth whatever they decide they're worth at that time.

In one breath - All and Sundry here will tell you Madden is a First Grade NRL Superstar Half
In the next, They'll tell you he'll sign for 3 years for 300k...

When were NRL Superstar Halves getting paid less anything than 500k

 

[das tigers]

If it wasn't obvious last week which way we need to go,well...

We need to part ways with brooks and give madden the keys.

 

[PJ2]

I heard on the vine today he is 100% gone.
I did just wake up from a nap tho so I could have dreamed it...

 

[das tigers]

I heard on the vine today he is 100% gone.
I did just wake up from a nap tho so I could have dreamed it...

Brooks aye?

 

[PJ2]

Brooks aye?

Yes sir

 

[Lukic]

250-300k for Brooks at absolute most.

He is not a first grader ... which serious nrl team does he actually make first grade for? Not a hope in hell of playing for any of the teams currently in the top 8, nor most of the bottom 8.

Seriously Newcastle might be the only other side he plays first grade at currently. Possibly the Titans. Every other team has 2 or more halves that are better than him.

 

[1eyedmel]

I heard on the vine today he is 100% gone.
I did just wake up from a nap tho so I could have dreamed it...

Please tell me 100% this is true and you were not dreaming.

 

[batboy]

250-300k for Brooks at absolute most.

He is not a first grader ... which serious nrl team does he actually make first grade for? Not a hope in hell of playing for any of the teams currently in the top 8, nor most of the bottom 8.

Seriously Newcastle might be the only other side he plays first grade at currently. Possibly the Titans. Every other team has 2 or more halves that are better than him.

Depends which half you play him as, But the Dogs 7 Isn't better than him

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

250-300k for Brooks at absolute most.

He is not a first grader ... which serious nrl team does he actually make first grade for? Not a hope in hell of playing for any of the teams currently in the top 8, nor most of the bottom 8.

Seriously Newcastle might be the only other side he plays first grade at currently. Possibly the Titans. Every other team has 2 or more halves that are better than him.

gold Coast
Titans
Bulldogs
Newcastle
Souths he is better than Ilias
Dragons if Hunt went to 9
He is better than all the 7's in those teams to start with

Ask why Madden has not been picked up by any nrl club they could have spoken to him all year for 2023

 

[batboy]

gold Coast
Titans
Bulldogs
Newcastle
Souths he is better than Ilias
Dragons if Hunt went to 9
He is better than all the 7's in those teams to start with

Ask why Madden has not been picked up by any nrl club they could have spoken to him all year for 2023

Exactly......
Those that say he's not an "NRL Player" Don't know the arse from the elbow...

A bloke doesn't get to almost 200 games if he doesn't belong - No matter what team he plays for.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

The Club faces a conundrum in that

Doueihi - 6 games back from a second knee recon - good player
Brooks - signed until end of 2023 - good player
Madden - unsigned - good young player but still learning
Hastings - a 13 with long rehab ahead of him -? about how he will return

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Exactly......
Those that say he's not an "NRL Player" Don't know the arse from the elbow...

A bloke doesn't get to almost 200 games if he doesn't belong - No matter what team he plays for.

exactly
can't see why in 2023 we can't have Hastings Brooks and douhie all in the starting 13
Madden may be a good player down the track who knows, I have my doubts but if he was this prodigious talent that some on here claim him to be someone would have snapped him up last November.
As for Brooks he keeps getting mentioned by other teams because he is a good solid 7

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

The Club faces a conundrum in that

Doueihi - 6 games back from a second knee recon - good player
Brooks - signed until end of 2023 - good player
Madden - unsigned - good young player but still learning
Hastings - a 13 with long rehab ahead of him -? about how he will return

in an ideal world Madden stays on for a further 3 years and Brooks gets an extension to take hom to end of 2025/26
who knows how douhie's knees hold up and Hastings too

 

[pawsandclaws1]

in an ideal world Madden stays on for a further 3 years and Brooks gets an extension to take hom to end of 2025/26
who knows how douhie's knees hold up and Hastings too

I'd be giving Cayne Nicholas in the Flegg side as much game time as possible. His ball playing and impact from the interchange is impressive. Seems he could perform a role in the 13 jumper.

 

[Lukic]

Exactly......
Those that say he's not an "NRL Player" Don't know the arse from the elbow...

A bloke doesn't get to almost 200 games if he doesn't belong - No matter what team he plays for.

Brooks is proof that you can.

You also don't play 200 games without playing finals footy ... until Brooks came along.

Learn a thing or two about footy before you speak champ.

 

[batboy]

Brooks is proof that you can.

You also don't play 200 games without playing finals footy ... until Brooks came along.

Learn a thing or two about footy before you speak champ.

I've forgotten more about football than you'll ever know

Champ.

 

[Demps]

I've forgotten more about football than you'll ever know

Champ.

Maybe you have forgotten how many poor performances he's had over the years and are just remembering his good debut.

 

[batboy]

Maybe you have forgotten how many poor performances he's had over the years and are just remembering his good debut.

Doubtful.....
Very doubtful.
Unlike you blokes - I can see when he does good stuff.

You're all experts - But there's more than a few blokes here in the game that rate him.

I just hope we don't get caught paying too much freight if he goes...
Then you blokes will have something else to kick into him - when we're paying him to play decent footy somewhere else.
Funny the halves have a decent game when there's a back rower that actually does something in the team.

 

[Demps]

Doubtful.....
Very doubtful.
Unlike you blokes - I can see when he does good stuff.

You're all experts - But there's more than a few blokes here in the game that rate him.

I just hope we don't get caught paying too much freight if he goes...
Then you blokes will have something else to kick into him - when we're paying him to play decent footy somewhere else.
Funny the halves have a decent game when there's a back rower that actually does something in the team.

The halves had a decent game when he wasn't in the halves 🤣

It's been talked about so much.
I find it seriously concerning there's some that think he's a gun player - Sheens included.

The evidence is there, of the last 9 years to show enough to rule against it, imo.

 

[batboy]

The halves had a decent game when he wasn't in the halves 🤣

It's been talked about so much.
I find it seriously concerning there's some that think he's a gun player - Sheens included.

The evidence is there, of the last 9 years to show enough to rule against it, imo.

I find it moreso concerning that you rate the opinion of yourself and half a dozen idiots here over blokes that have spent their lives in the game....