Luke Brooks

[Krammy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-1fUbtwiAQ
What happened to Luke Brooks? He's now in the prime of his playing career. He hasnt lost his skill or desire for the game. How can such a good footy player lose skill over time? Its more likely that he has developed those skills. I think he is well worth $850 at his enthusiastic best.

Poor coaching.

Poor listening.

Not that hard to remember a coaching strategy of 5 hit ups and bomb

If he stays, there is hope, and that is the two new assistant coaches and Sheens. They need to revitalise the tactics and bring something fresh to the game. Madge needs to listen to the advice. We can't continue with his 2021 game plans in 2022.

 

[hobbo1]

Punt him

 

[rihannafan1]

Can we please close this thread? After 490 pages it is clear Luke is not as good or as bad as people think.

 

[Geo]

Can we please close this thread? After 490 pages it is clear Luke is not as good or as bad as people think.

When users stop posting in threads they generally close themselves..

 

[rihannafan1]

Can we please close this thread? After 490 pages it is clear Luke is not as good or as bad as people think.

When users stop posting in threads they generally close themselves..

Oh, so clever!

 

[gregjm87]

What happened to Luke Brooks? He's now in the prime of his playing career. He hasnt lost his skill or desire for the game. How can such a good footy player lose skill over time? Its more likely that he has developed those skills. I think he is well worth $850 at his enthusiastic best.

Since Tedesco left there has been zero threat 'out the back' to opposition defences and not much pushing up the inside in support (which Thompson was also good at tbf). Hes also never consistently had a strong lead runner outside him. So all his show and go highlights from that package just aren't an option in play anymore as there is no-one else taking the defence's eyes off him.

 

[gregjm87]

Adam Reynolds in 2021 - 9 Forced Drop Outs, Kicked Dead - 8, Kick Errors - 14, Try Assists- 14, Line Breaks -2 , Effective Offloads - 8, Run meters - 616, Line Engaged-265, General Play Passes -467

Luke Brooks 2021- 12 forced drop outs, Kicked Dead - 3 , Kick Errors - 7, Try Assists - 23, Line Breaks - 5, Effective Offloads - 23, Run meters - 1378 (2nd for HBs in comp), Line Engaged -354 (1st for HBs), General Play Passes-846 (1st for HBs)

Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good trolling

Yay we have the halfback who throws the most passes.

The significance of that shouldn’t be dismissed. We have a half with a high tackle rate, high possession rate. Why?
The team holding the trophy makes better use of their 7, with his forwards protecting him, and 13 at first receiver.
Game day commentators often describe how the good halves always have plenty of time. They don’t get that time by accident, or by constantly being under pressure.

Cleary get the ball a MILE behind the line on the last, Brooks always seems to get hit as soon as he catches it. It drives me crazy. I dont know if its Brooks fault, coaching, tactics or a result of the fact that we havent got their defence on the back foot in that set (all of the above?).

definitely all of the above.

 

[Camel2281]

One thing that surprised me late in the season with Brooks was that he actually has a very good spiral bomb which I think he used twice, resulting in two dropped catches from memory. Wish he used that more often as his kicking game is so predictable.

That nothing bomb he kicks over and over again with no real height on it annoys me. Hopefully Madge sees some sense and moves him on as if he doesn't get results he is gone.

Do you think that he would still be playing first grade every week if that wasn't at the direction of the coach?

Yep. It's the Tigers. We reward mediocrity and Brooks has always been a protected species

 

[Camel2281]

What happened to Luke Brooks? He's now in the prime of his playing career. He hasnt lost his skill or desire for the game. How can such a good footy player lose skill over time? Its more likely that he has developed those skills. I think he is well worth $850 at his enthusiastic best.

Since Tedesco left there has been zero threat 'out the back' to opposition defences and not much pushing up the inside in support (which Thompson was also good at tbf). Hes also never consistently had a strong lead runner outside him. So all his show and go highlights from that package just aren't an option in play anymore as there is no-one else taking the defence's eyes off him.

Is also the only trick in his kit bag and doesn't have the footy IQ to evolve

 

[happy_tiger]

Luke Brooks 2021- statistical performance among halfbacks
Try Assists - 23 (4th best)
Try Contributions - 13 (4th best)
Runs - 161 (3rd best)
Run meters - 1378 (3rd Best)
Line Breaks - 5 (10th best)
Line Break Assists - 14 (6th Best)
Tackle Breaks - 45 (4th Best)
Effective Offloads - 23 (3rd Best)
Errors - 23 (5th worst but better then DCE, Hunt, Reynolds, Clifford)
Penalties - 14 (worst amongst halves)
Possessions - 1450 (most possessions of any half in the comp)
Line Engagements - 354 (most in comp)
General Play Passes - 846 (most in comp)
Line Drop Outs forced - 12 (7th best)
Kick Meters - 6862 (5th best)
Attacking Kicks - 127 (2nd most)
Kicks Dead -3 (12th most)
Kick Errors - 7 (equal 8th)
Try Causes - 16 (3rd worst)
LB Causes - 18 (equal 3rd worst) behind DCE, Dearden and equla with Reynolds
Tackle Effectiveness - 82% (20th worst) better then likes of Cleary, Harris Tevita, Moses,Walker, Townsend, Clifford, Hunt, Johnson

Now I'm not saying Brooks was perfect but given how week the team was around him these indicate that the problem to me isnt Brooks

When you actually break it all down when he has had the most touches .....and is 10th best and 6th best in line breaks and line break assists IN HIS STRONGEST AREA ...the figures are actually worst than that if you then break it down into %'s .....

 

[tigerap]

His work in the attacking 20 is horrible, most of his kicks are predictable and ineffective….

 

[cktiger]

Excuses never seem to stop.
If you can’t see the bloke is a bonehead your not looking too closely.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Excuses never seem to stop.
If you can’t see the bloke is a bonehead your not looking too closely.

Why the personal attack?

 

[Viking Warrior]

Excuses never seem to stop.
If you can’t see the bloke is a bonehead your not looking too closely.

Why the personal attack?

Lol you must have thin skin if you class that as personal? I think he sucks my opinion of course

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Excuses never seem to stop.
If you can’t see the bloke is a bonehead your not looking too closely.

Why the personal attack?

Lol you must have thin skin if you class that as personal? I think he sucks my opinion of course

You don’t spend a decade on this forum if you have thin skin. Bag his game all you like, but what has he done to warrant name calling?

 

[diedpretty]

NRL 2022: Wests Tigers should let Luke Brooks leave and link up with Andrew Johns at the Knights

Andrew Johns always raved about the talents of Luke Brooks, saying at one stage he was going to be a superstar, maybe it’s time for the eighth Immortal to work his magic on him at the Knights.
Brent Read
Brent Read
@brentread_7
5 min read
October 30, 2021 - 9:18AM
News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom



The story was told by News Corp seven years ago. It was a Friday night at Leichhardt Oval and Andrew Johns was tucking into his dinner with his Nine Network colleagues when Luke Brooks name cropped up.

Johns had watched Brooks leading his opposition on a merry dance in the under 20s the year prior. He couldn’t contain his excitement as he enthused about a kid who was going to be a superstar.

Johns apparently cut short his dinner that night so he could go and watch Brooks play in the curtain-raiser to the NRL. Since that fateful night, Brooks has played more than 150 games in the NRL and the jury remains out.

He could still be something special. Or, he could be remembered as a unique talent who never quite reached his potential. The outcome may be determined over this off-season as Brooks’ future comes under renewed scrutiny.

Let’s cut right to the chase. Luke Brooks needs to leave the Wests Tigers. And the Tigers need to let him go.

This has been an unhappy marriage for some time now. It hasn’t worked and chances are it won’t work, not while Michael Maguire continues to steer the ship at Concord.

Has the Tigers-Luke Brooks union reached the point of divorce?
Yes
85 %
No
15 %
279 votes

There’s something about Brooks and Maguire that hasn’t quite clicked. The relationship has a touch of oil and water about it. Brooks was a joint winner of the player of the year award for the club with Daine Laurie, but that owed as much to the lack of quality in the dressing room, as his own form.

Ask Tigers fans and chances are most would suggest he had a disappointing year, although that view is no doubt largely due to the high expectations that have been placed on his shoulders as a local junior who has long been earmarked for stardom.

At the same time, there is no question that he has stagnated under Maguire. Some would suggest he has regressed. He is yet to play a finals game, which also means he is yet to lead the Tigers to the promised land.

As the Tigers season was coming to another disappointing end, I was among the journalists who suggested something had to give. If it wasn’t Maguire, it had to be Brooks. They needed to go their separate ways.

The Tigers made their call on Maguire and retained faith in the coach. A penny for Brooks’ thoughts. The Tigers have dug in their heels amid talk that Brooks is wanted by Newcastle to potentially replace Mitchell Pearce.

The club took the extraordinary step of releasing a hands-off statement this week in which director of football Tim Sheens insisted Brooks was going nowhere.

Sheens, he said, had spoken to Brooks. He said Brooks was passionate about delivering success to the club. Sheens is one of the shrewdest minds in the business but he isn’t at Concord. He hasn’t been in the dressing room or on the training track.

He hasn’t seen how Maguire and Brooks respond to each other. He has been watching events from afar but he will touch down in Sydney soon and his first order of business should be to determine whether Brooks is the answer, or more pointedly whether Brooks and Maguire can finally click.

If the answer is no, he should pick up the phone, reach out to the Knights or Bulldogs for that matter, and cut a deal. By then, Newcastle will have hammered out an agreement with Catalans and severed ties with Mitchell Pearce.

The Knights are rightly holding out for a transfer fee. Pearce has a year to go on his contract and he is a crucial member of the squad. Catalans demanded a transfer fee for Israel Folau even though he was going to a side in the Gold Coast A grade competition.

They apparently even demanded a transfer fee for Brayden Wiliame before he joined St George Illawarra. Now general manager of football Alex Chan insists that a transfer fee shouldn’t go the other way. It doesn’t wash.

Regardless, Pearce has already checked out of the building and it is only a matter of time before he flies into the anonymity of the south of France.

The Knights will need a replacement and Brooks appears the perfect fit.

He would have Kalyn Ponga to ease the burden. Seven years after News Corp documented Johns’ enthusiasm for Brooks, they could be given the chance to work together.

Johns has landed in Newcastle as an assistant coach and would no doubt love to get his hands on a player who has long caught his eye.

The Tigers and Sheens will have the final say.

 

[Viking Warrior]

Excuses never seem to stop.
If you can’t see the bloke is a bonehead your not looking too closely.

Why the personal attack?

Lol you must have thin skin if you class that as personal? I think he sucks my opinion of course

You don’t spend a decade on this forum if you have thin skin. Bag his game all you like, but what has he done to warrant name calling?

What are you trying to say? Is your interpretation of Cktigers post saying it was personal because you have been here 10 years?? Sounds to me like you are trying to shoot down his opinion and make it something it's not to make yourself feel justified.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Excuses never seem to stop.
If you can’t see the bloke is a bonehead your not looking too closely.

Why the personal attack?

Lol you must have thin skin if you class that as personal? I think he sucks my opinion of course

You don’t spend a decade on this forum if you have thin skin. Bag his game all you like, but what has he done to warrant name calling?

What are you trying to say? Is your interpretation of Cktigers post saying it was personal because you have been here 10 years?? Sounds to me like you are trying to shoot down his opinion and make it something it's not to make yourself feel justified.

First off, my reference to being here 10 years was in response to you, not him. Second, he called him a bonehead, there was nothing to interpret. Nothing to do with the way he plays. He’s become so disliked by some that it’s no longer enough to bag him out for being a poor player. He now cops it for being an imp, an introvert and now a bonehead. I don’t think he’s ever done anything off the field to warrant any of that.

 

[tiger_one]

Gee Wiz!
We as a club get so much advice from everyone and everywhere.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

Gee Wiz!
We as a club get so much advice from everyone and everywhere.

It's a bit syrupy all this crap about cutting a deal. It would be nice for the Knights and Bulldogs to target another half.