It certainly wasn’t Brooks’ fault Wests Tigers lost that game but it is absolutely on him that Wests Tigers didn’t win either.
That literally makes no sense. Lost and "didn't win" are the same thing. Either it's his fault, or it isn't.
No there is a difference, sorry you don't see it.
Just one more time, so you can understand.
Lost = didn't win. On that I think we can agree (ignoring draws).
"It certainly wasn’t Brooks’ fault Wests Tigers lost that game"
"It certainly wasn’t Brooks’ fault Wests Tigers didn't win that game"
If Luke Brooks isn't responsible for losing, then he can't be simultaneously responsible for not winning. It's just not physically possible.
You just don’t get it and that’s OK.
Is it certainly not my fault that I don't get it, or is it absolutely on me that I misunderstand?
I think he means that the loss cannot be entirely blamed on Brooks. But Brooks was definitely to blame for robbing the team the opportunity of winning by folding under pressure with the game on the line by dropping a simple kick off
Firstly it wasn't a simply kickoff, I sat right behind it, Kyle Feldt kicks them like Pat Richards used to and it swirled and moved late.
Secondly, ok Brooks dropped the football once. What about every other bloke who dropped the footy the other 79 minutes? They robbed us too, correct? Nofo on that kick restart, Stefano mid-field. Jimmy Jet trying to get around the side and getting tackled into touch. Liddle's forward pass. Also the missed tackles, Joffa missing that young fellow taking a crash ball, nobody cleaning up Drinkwater, Nofo letting Hammer get on his outside etc etc
Only a madman points the finger at a single player for a last-minute hail mary, when the whole team played like busteds for about 60 minutes.
Brooks simply fails in the big moments. Just another example 79th minute all on the line. Disappointmenting.
The game was over. Payten put it all over Maguire. Souths will murder us if we go in with five hitups, no offloads and a kick.