Luke Brooks

[Curaeus]

With the right players around him, Brooks will be very dangerous to any opposition. If he does go to Newcastle I hope it doesn't come back to haunt us when we play them.

 

[diedpretty]

Luke Brooks has emerged as Newcastle’s lead target to replace Mitchell Pearce.

Proving just how unrelenting and fast-moving NRL roster management is, the Knights are aware of Pearce’s motivation to farewell the club for Catalans which has prompted the club to begin assessing a solution.

Pearce is poised to ask the Knights for a release from his 2022 contract so that he can move to France and play with Catalans in the English Super League for the next three years.



Brooks, the Wests Tigers 2021 Player of the Year, is the halfback who the Knights believe has the skillset to help drive the club to it’s first premiership in 21 years.

Ironically, it was in Brooks’ first season of NRL, that commentators said he had a similar playing style to Newcastle legend and rugby league immortal Andrew Johns.


The Knights will free-up $600,000 in their salary cap by releasing Pearce.

Newcastle have the option of running with Jake Clifford and Kalyn Ponga in the halves in 2022. Adam Clune, Kurt Mann, Phoenix Crossland and Simi Sasagi can also play in the halves.

However, the pursuit of Brooks would allow the club to leave the freakish Ponga at fullback.



A major factor in any hope the Knights have of tempting Brooks is the fact that the 2018 Dally M Halfback of the Year is managed by the same agent, Isaac Moses, as Newcastle coach Adam O’Brien.

Moses’ agency also manages Knights players David Klemmer, Suasao Sue, Kurt Mann, Hymel Hunt and Enari Tuala.

News Corp spoke to Tigers officials about Brooks’ future on Saturday. The Tigers had a clear message of “hands off” their halfback, who is contracted to the club until the end of 2023.

It’s not the first time the Tigers have had to defend themselves from the posturing of rival clubs towards Brooks.


Tigers management recently swatted away the Raiders interest in Brooks – before Canberra moved onto signing Titans halfback Jamal Fogarty.

A major reason why the Tigers won’t entertain letting Brooks go is due to their stressed depth chart of halves.

Influential five-eighth Adam Doueihi is expected to be out until May after undergoing the second ACL knee reconstruction of his career.

The Tigers are planning on starting the season with Jackson Hastings, signed from the UK Super League, alongside Brooks. Halfback Jock Madden, 21, is next in line.

Since making his debut with the Tigers in 2013, Brooks has never played finals football. He is the only halfback since 1980 without a finals match to his name.

Brooks would need to weigh up between the Knights and Tigers where he believes his best chance is to make the top eight – and also, which club is closer to winning a premiership.

Before that though, Pearce needs to land his release from the Knights – the full stop on his NRL career.

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

Maybe they named Brooks Player of the Year so that they can use it as a bargaining chip when offloading him.

1000 IQ move from the club. PoTY in a year like we had in 2021 is not a huge honour.

 

[tiger_one]

Will Wests Tigers get this half right?

 

[batboy]

Luke Brooks has emerged as Newcastle’s lead target to replace Mitchell Pearce.

Proving just how unrelenting and fast-moving NRL roster management is, the Knights are aware of Pearce’s motivation to farewell the club for Catalans which has prompted the club to begin assessing a solution.

Pearce is poised to ask the Knights for a release from his 2022 contract so that he can move to France and play with Catalans in the English Super League for the next three years.



Brooks, the Wests Tigers 2021 Player of the Year, is the halfback who the Knights believe has the skillset to help drive the club to it’s first premiership in 21 years.

Ironically, it was in Brooks’ first season of NRL, that commentators said he had a similar playing style to Newcastle legend and rugby league immortal Andrew Johns.


The Knights will free-up $600,000 in their salary cap by releasing Pearce.

Newcastle have the option of running with Jake Clifford and Kalyn Ponga in the halves in 2022. Adam Clune, Kurt Mann, Phoenix Crossland and Simi Sasagi can also play in the halves.

However, the pursuit of Brooks would allow the club to leave the freakish Ponga at fullback.



A major factor in any hope the Knights have of tempting Brooks is the fact that the 2018 Dally M Halfback of the Year is managed by the same agent, Isaac Moses, as Newcastle coach Adam O’Brien.

Moses’ agency also manages Knights players David Klemmer, Suasao Sue, Kurt Mann, Hymel Hunt and Enari Tuala.

News Corp spoke to Tigers officials about Brooks’ future on Saturday. The Tigers had a clear message of “hands off” their halfback, who is contracted to the club until the end of 2023.

It’s not the first time the Tigers have had to defend themselves from the posturing of rival clubs towards Brooks.


Tigers management recently swatted away the Raiders interest in Brooks – before Canberra moved onto signing Titans halfback Jamal Fogarty.

A major reason why the Tigers won’t entertain letting Brooks go is due to their stressed depth chart of halves.

Influential five-eighth Adam Doueihi is expected to be out until May after undergoing the second ACL knee reconstruction of his career.

The Tigers are planning on starting the season with Jackson Hastings, signed from the UK Super League, alongside Brooks. Halfback Jock Madden, 21, is next in line.

Since making his debut with the Tigers in 2013, Brooks has never played finals football. He is the only halfback since 1980 without a finals match to his name.

Brooks would need to weigh up between the Knights and Tigers where he believes his best chance is to make the top eight – and also, which club is closer to winning a premiership.

Before that though, Pearce needs to land his release from the Knights – the full stop on his NRL career.

A typical Riccio opinion piece sold as hot news....
#thenewstortoise

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

If he goes, prepare yourself for an avalanche of hit pieces. It will be like nothing we've seen before. "How the Wests Tigers failed a generational talent" - headlines like that.

 

[Guest]

Unless Brooks spits the dummy and wants to leave the club certainly won't push him out. It will also be telling whether he's happy playing on madgeball.

 

[needsanewusername]

If he goes, prepare yourself for an avalanche of hit pieces. It will be like nothing we've seen before. "How the Wests Tigers failed a generational talent" - headlines like that.

We’ve lived through it and all know that it is incorrect garbage.

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

If he goes, prepare yourself for an avalanche of hit pieces. It will be like nothing we've seen before. "How the Wests Tigers failed a generational talent" - headlines like that.

We’ve lived through it and all know that it is incorrect garbage.

The truth never stopped Buzz/Hooper/STAFF WRITERS from writing whatever they feel like.

 

[needsanewusername]

I’ll only be angry it’s taken the club so long to wake up to how average he is.
I’ll fully support hit pieces along those lines.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

If he goes, prepare yourself for an avalanche of hit pieces. It will be like nothing we've seen before. "How the Wests Tigers failed a generational talent" - headlines like that.

No chance. If he goes, becomes a revelation and leads them to the finals then maybe. There’s no story there if he’s just going from one club to the other.

 

[hank37w]

Pearce likely to leave the Knights... ship Brooks up there

Staying until he plays 300 games for WT

Make the 300 game banner twice as thick as the 150 game banner.

Knock yourself out Luke.

 

[Tiger_Fanatic3]

Knights should just let Pearce go. They have Clune, if they didn’t think Clune was good enough for first grade, why did they sign him in the first place?

 

[innsaneink]

Best for both club and LB ...stale as 3 month old donuts

 

[WeststigsRdaBest]

Brooks for ponga seems fair to me if I’m being honest

 

[Snake]

Off season not much to write about it’s a good story and what is it Click Bait . It would be a good opportunity for Brooks to start afresh , just talk I say !

 

[TIGERPOWER]

in brooks we trust, also bring back tiger5150

This wasnt me, Im just saying

Hey, welcome back. I thought you were banned?

Cant keep a good man down ;-)

Hmm, I see you felt the need to whinge to Kul over an argument which you started and deservedly earnt a stint in the cooler. I trust you've learned your lesson.



Wow. Are you serious Willow? Firstly you, as a MOD publicly discussing a PRIVATE email between myself and another person THAT ISNT YOU? IMO that is utterly disgraceful and without checking the terms and conditions of this forum I’d be very surprised that if someone else publicly exposed a private message, it would be ban worthy. But here we have a MOD publicly discussing a private email I had with a third party. Disgraceful.


Have I learned my lesson? My ban was apparently for a “personal attack on Compensate”. My last post wasn’t addressed to Compensate. I didn’t start anything with Compensate. I didn’t say anything that wasn’t a statement of fact. I was very careful. The final post I got banned for was not an attack on anyone. It was a simple statement of fact which simply repeated what Compensate said. It hasn’t even been deleted because there is/was nothing wrong.

As far as “whinging to Kul”. I was banned and genuinely had no idea what for because I was actually careful NOT to personally attack Compensate. The only avenue of communication provided is an email address which from memory is contact@weststigers.com. I had no idea that that is Kul, could have been you. I just assumed it was a mod. Last thing I ever thought would happen would be another mod then publishing what I said in a private email.

No doubt you will have your nose out of joint with this post, probably ban me again. I hope people see this before you do

@cochise

If a mod is leaking private information on the forum then they are not fit to be a mod. I’ve been banned in the past when this mods favourites have had a go and they haven’t been banned. For this mod to be engaging this out in the open is disgraceful. Unless we are in North Korea and this kind of behaviour is ok?

 

[needsanewusername]

in brooks we trust, also bring back tiger5150

This wasnt me, Im just saying

Hey, welcome back. I thought you were banned?

Cant keep a good man down ;-)

Hmm, I see you felt the need to whinge to Kul over an argument which you started and deservedly earnt a stint in the cooler. I trust you've learned your lesson.



Wow. Are you serious Willow? Firstly you, as a MOD publicly discussing a PRIVATE email between myself and another person THAT ISNT YOU? IMO that is utterly disgraceful and without checking the terms and conditions of this forum I’d be very surprised that if someone else publicly exposed a private message, it would be ban worthy. But here we have a MOD publicly discussing a private email I had with a third party. Disgraceful.


Have I learned my lesson? My ban was apparently for a “personal attack on Compensate”. My last post wasn’t addressed to Compensate. I didn’t start anything with Compensate. I didn’t say anything that wasn’t a statement of fact. I was very careful. The final post I got banned for was not an attack on anyone. It was a simple statement of fact which simply repeated what Compensate said. It hasn’t even been deleted because there is/was nothing wrong.

As far as “whinging to Kul”. I was banned and genuinely had no idea what for because I was actually careful NOT to personally attack Compensate. The only avenue of communication provided is an email address which from memory is contact@weststigers.com. I had no idea that that is Kul, could have been you. I just assumed it was a mod. Last thing I ever thought would happen would be another mod then publishing what I said in a private email.

No doubt you will have your nose out of joint with this post, probably ban me again. I hope people see this before you do

@cochise

If a mod is leaking private information on the forum then they are not fit to be a mod. I’ve been banned in the past when this mods favourites have had a go and they haven’t been banned. For this mod to be engaging this out in the open is disgraceful. Unless we are in North Korea and this kind of behaviour is ok?

Well said Tigerpower. Throw me into that same category.
This mod does whatever he likes on here and hands out bans like confetti, usually undeservedly or within the shadow of petty revenge.
There’s a reason many members are stepping back from these forums lately.
Ego’s are out of control with some in power currently. It is sad, it is pathetic and certainly not the way a man behaves.

 

[batboy]

Unless Brooks spits the dummy and wants to leave the club certainly won't push him out. It will also be telling whether he's happy playing on madgeball.

His position has never been under threat by my reckoning....
Another half putting the torch on him might be a bit of a different narrative for him.
Although, It won't be until Doueihi gets back - He's safe until then at least you'd reckon

 

[batboy]

Off season not much to write about it’s a good story and what is it Click Bait . It would be a good opportunity for Brooks to start afresh , just talk I say !

Like Gus said after Madge was announced to stay on - The media just pushes their agenda until their speculation becomes truth.