Luke Brooks

[avocadoontoast]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Brooks is 26.Thurston who i think is one of, if not the best,was ordinary at the dogs at the same age.Cronk playing in one of the best sides,the same,and he had Smith doing a lot of half back work and directing the side(some say game management) I think because he has been around for a long time we expected too much.With a decent side for the first time in years i think he is ready to roll.

Thurston was 22 when he played in the ‘05 grand final. Was also in Qld origin team that year.

 

[sleeve]

Brooks had 3 !!!!! try assists last year.

Yes 3

Yeah! Brilliant observation No go forward,no attacking FB. A DH that fed one side,a backline that was slow and never beat a man one on one,and a 5/8 that at times showed skill but could not tackle.JC himself would have thrown his hands up.What about the other 16 players that took the field ?

 

[sleeve]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Brooks is 26.Thurston who i think is one of, if not the best,was ordinary at the dogs at the same age.Cronk playing in one of the best sides,the same,and he had Smith doing a lot of half back work and directing the side(some say game management) I think because he has been around for a long time we expected too much.With a decent side for the first time in years i think he is ready to roll.

Thurston was 22 when he played in the ‘05 grand final. Was also in Qld origin team that year.

He was ordinary,and they were beaten.

 

[cktiger]

Brooks had 3 !!!!! try assists last year.

Yes 3

Yeah! Brilliant observation No go forward,no attacking FB. A DH that fed one side,a backline that was slow and never beat a man one on one,and a 5/8 that at times showed skill but could not tackle.JC himself would have thrown his hands up.What about the other 16 players that took the field ?

So blame everyone else who has ever been in the team in the last 6 years?
Ever thought maybe he’s the reason THEY look bad?

 

[Speed2burn]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Brooks is 26.Thurston who i think is one of, if not the best,was ordinary at the dogs at the same age.Cronk playing in one of the best sides,the same,and he had Smith doing a lot of half back work and directing the side(some say game management) I think because he has been around for a long time we expected too much.With a decent side for the first time in years i think he is ready to roll.

Thurston was 22 when he played in the ‘05 grand final. Was also in Qld origin team that year.

He was ordinary,and they were beaten.

Mate sorry but Thurston was a gun that year , the only player better was our very own Benji Marshall

I like Brooks but he won't reach that height ever

 

[avocadoontoast]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Brooks is 26.Thurston who i think is one of, if not the best,was ordinary at the dogs at the same age.Cronk playing in one of the best sides,the same,and he had Smith doing a lot of half back work and directing the side(some say game management) I think because he has been around for a long time we expected too much.With a decent side for the first time in years i think he is ready to roll.

Thurston was 22 when he played in the ‘05 grand final. Was also in Qld origin team that year.

He was ordinary,and they were beaten.

He won the Dally M player of the year. Andrew Johns came 2nd.

 

[JC99]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

I felt like he ran too much last year. Teams has him figured out, needed to give more ball to Luciano who was our best attacking weapon. 2018/2019 he had the perfect balance of running and passing, 2020 he didn't look comfortable at all constantly overplayed his hand and took the wrong option

 

[happy_tiger]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

I felt like he ran too much last year. Teams has him figured out, needed to give more ball to Luciano who was our best attacking weapon. 2018/2019 he had the perfect balance of running and passing, 2020 he didn't look comfortable at all constantly overplayed his hand and took the wrong option

Yeah the difference is he really isn't attacking the line at speed ,especially early in games ...you can really sit the defence on the back foot and create space and room for the outside men ...and was why I spent the whole season asking the question has he got a calf or hamstring issue ..

 

[JC99]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

I felt like he ran too much last year. Teams has him figured out, needed to give more ball to Luciano who was our best attacking weapon. 2018/2019 he had the perfect balance of running and passing, 2020 he didn't look comfortable at all constantly overplayed his hand and took the wrong option

Yeah the difference is he really isn't attacking the line at speed ,especially early in games ...you can really sit the defence on the back foot and create space and room for the outside men ...and was why I spent the whole season asking the question has he got a calf or hamstring issue ..

Just needs to mix his game up and do a bit of everything. Hopefully having a more attacking minded centre outside of him will draw defenders off him too. Can't just run into the defence line like a prop all game like he did last year

 

[cochise]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Please don't tell him that, he was running far too much last year, especially when it wasn't on.

 

[mike]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Please don't tell him that, he was running far too much last year, especially when it wasn't on.

Dummy and run straight into the opposition was a great play.

 

[cochise]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Brooks is 26.Thurston who i think is one of, if not the best,was ordinary at the dogs at the same age.Cronk playing in one of the best sides,the same,and he had Smith doing a lot of half back work and directing the side(some say game management) I think because he has been around for a long time we expected too much.With a decent side for the first time in years i think he is ready to roll.

What? Thurston wasn't 26 at the Dogs?

 

[cochise]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Please don't tell him that, he was running far too much last year, especially when it wasn't on.


Dummy and run straight into the opposition was a great play.

It appears to me that he has been told for too long that his best play is to run and now it is his 1st option every time.

 

[BAGNF05]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

I felt like he ran too much last year. Teams has him figured out, needed to give more ball to Luciano who was our best attacking weapon. 2018/2019 he had the perfect balance of running and passing, 2020 he didn't look comfortable at all constantly overplayed his hand and took the wrong option

Yeah the difference is he really isn't attacking the line at speed ,especially early in games ...you can really sit the defence on the back foot and create space and room for the outside men ...and was why I spent the whole season asking the question has he got a calf or hamstring issue ..

When your forwards are getting bashed the defensive line is attacking you. Not the other way around.

 

[happy_tiger]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Please don't tell him that, he was running far too much last year, especially when it wasn't on.

He was hitting the line at our pace ...that was the problem

 

[Tim Sheens]

Unpopular opinion possibly, but a few things and starting with his debut, one which has been salivated over and referred to on here since as some God like performance. It was a good debut, sure, though nothing out of the ordinary, just a good one.

The guy then took out the rookie of the year award in 2014 and been middle of the road or above that level since, deservedly taking out the club's player of the year consecutively in 18/19 and gaining the half of year whilst missing the DallyM by a whisker.
Watched a bit of a few recorded games from back then in the past days before letting go of Foxtel and the difference between a lot of last season was often stark, especially of the seven and the middle.

Happy to eat my own words if proven wrong, though quite confident that even sans Grant, no I'll just say it, particularly because he is no longer here, both Brooks and our forwards will be back and likely better than in those years.

 

[cochise]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Please don't tell him that, he was running far too much last year, especially when it wasn't on.

He was hitting the line at our pace ...that was the problem

Na, the predictable dummy and step back inside was the problem. The defence knew what he was going to do every time.

 

[happy_tiger]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Please don't tell him that, he was running far too much last year, especially when it wasn't on.

He was hitting the line at our pace ...that was the problem

Na, the predictable dummy and step back inside was the problem. The defence knew what he was going to do every time.

You play to your strengths and the rest of his game should rise off that confidence ....but it is who you target as well ...you find a target you can beat laterally ..get on their outside ...then straighten ..you create numbers

Scott Prince was brilliant at it ...Tedesco destroyed Cartwright in a thrashing v Penrith as well .....

Its a simple game ...you target the oppositions weaknesses in D and you can pull any defence apart

 

[cochise]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Please don't tell him that, he was running far too much last year, especially when it wasn't on.

He was hitting the line at our pace ...that was the problem

Na, the predictable dummy and step back inside was the problem. The defence knew what he was going to do every time.

You play to your strengths and the rest of his game should rise off that confidence ....but it is who you target as well ...you find a target you can beat laterally ..get on their outside ...then straighten ..you create numbers

Scott Prince was brilliant at it ...Tedesco destroyed Cartwright in a thrashing v Penrith as well .....

Its a simple game ...you target the oppositions weaknesses in D and you can pull any defence apart

Agreed, you play to your strengths, but you have to at least have other options or teams know it is coming. His best aspect his is running game, but he was doing it too much and it has started to become a weakness as he is overplaying it.

 

[Cairnstigers]

Matty Johns apparently at WT'S training mentoring Brooksy

We didn't need to get a mentor

I can do it

Luke RUN and RUN HARD

Problem solved


Thats it!!!!

Run Brooksy, just run!!!!

and give BJ & JTJ early ball!!!! YEah

So just RUN!!!! When your not giving early ball!! Or both...

I hope Brooksy never visits this place

He is a runner 1st and foremost ...if he gets the confidence to back his running game everything else will fit into place

Brooks is 26.Thurston who i think is one of, if not the best,was ordinary at the dogs at the same age.Cronk playing in one of the best sides,the same,and he had Smith doing a lot of half back work and directing the side(some say game management) I think because he has been around for a long time we expected too much.With a decent side for the first time in years i think he is ready to roll.

What? Thurston wasn't 26 at the Dogs?

I think he is getting Thurston mixed up with Mbye
Its very easy to do