Luke Brooks

[The_Patriot]

Ive said it elsewhere and ill say it again.

Go out and sign Ronald Volkman.

We need a plan B because plan A will never work.

If not Volkman we need a replacement, its the only thing that matters right now for this club.

We need a halves leader, someone to make better decisions.

 

[earl]

Ive said it elsewhere and ill say it again.

Go out and sign Ronald Volkman.

We need a plan B because plan A will never work.

If not Volkman we need a replacement, its the only thing that matters right now for this club.

We need a halves leader, someone to make better decisions.

We need to target some quality halves. I suppose we are doing that with Madden but to me Brooks looks our best and only option at 7 right now. I'd stick with Brooks at 7 and AD at 6 for a while yet.

We do though need to start targeting a replacement 7.

 

[Geo]

I’d really like to know what @Geo ‘s thoughts are?

I thought I should have stayed home on the lounge where it was warm..

 

[Cairnstigers]

He couldn’t even break through his 150th banner, instead he had to go around it. Absolutely no smarts at all. He really needs to be elsewhere, he’d probably kill it at another club.

The people holding the banner didn’t pull it tight enough..
?

Maybe they didn't want him to take the field

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

 

[avocadoontoast]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

 

[avocadoontoast]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

 

[Speed2burn]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

Doueihi was worse, but IMO deserves a bit more leeway as it was his first proper crack in the halves for 80 mins

I agree with @Strongee though , unless we sign Munster and Cleary tomorrow, give them their time in the sun as we don’t exactly have blokes knocking on the door anyway

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

I don’t understand how you can say that . He was one of the only guys in our team who posed an attacking threat . The kicking game for sure is on him . But that’s not why we lost . It wasn’t because we didn’t build pressure , it was because BJ can’t tackle , and every time they went anywhere near him , it was linebreak city . I’m not in the business of blaming one person usually , but if say half those tries scored were stopped by decent defensive play , then it’s a 20-6 game or less . The confidence stuff , and lack of direction isn’t on brooks alone either . No one was hitting the line at speed , and no one was supporting . You can say that’s on him , maybe , but if you run a block play and your outside men are jogging through , all you can do is die with the ball or give early ball.

 

[avocadoontoast]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

Doueihi was worse, but IMO deserves a bit more leeway as it was his first proper crack in the halves for 80 mins

I agree with @Strongee though , unless we sign Munster and Cleary tomorrow, give them their time in the sun as we don’t exactly have blokes knocking on the door anyway

I am a massive Doueihi fan but he was absolutely terrible. But he hasn't played 150 games in the halves.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

Doueihi was worse, but IMO deserves a bit more leeway as it was his first proper crack in the halves for 80 mins

I agree with @Strongee though , unless we sign Munster and Cleary tomorrow, give them their time in the sun as we don’t exactly have blokes knocking on the door anyway

I am a massive Doueihi fan but he was absolutely terrible. But he hasn't played 150 games in the halves.

So because of 150 games you want the guy to solve miracles ? I don’t understand this argument . A good kicking game wasn’t changing Morris and teddy destroying BJ .

 

[avocadoontoast]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

I don’t understand how you can say that . He was one of the only guys in our team who posed an attacking threat . The kicking game for sure is on him . But that’s not why we lost . It wasn’t because we didn’t build pressure , it was because BJ can’t tackle , and every time they went anywhere near him , it was linebreak city . I’m not in the business of blaming one person usually , but if say half those tries scored were stopped by decent defensive play , then it’s a 20-6 game or less . The confidence stuff , and lack of direction isn’t on brooks alone either . No one was hitting the line at speed , and no one was supporting . You can say that’s on him , maybe , but if you run a block play and your outside men are jogging through , all you can do is die with the ball or give early ball.

I am saying that because I thought he was absolutely hopeless. He didn't seem to have any idea what he was doing and he's completely silent during the game. He's not cut out for it. He's played 150 games and Laurie, who's played 3, is 10 times more vocal. There are no more excuses for him imo.

 

[avocadoontoast]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

Doueihi was worse, but IMO deserves a bit more leeway as it was his first proper crack in the halves for 80 mins

I agree with @Strongee though , unless we sign Munster and Cleary tomorrow, give them their time in the sun as we don’t exactly have blokes knocking on the door anyway

I am a massive Doueihi fan but he was absolutely terrible. But he hasn't played 150 games in the halves.

So because of 150 games you want the guy to solve miracles ? I don’t understand this argument . A good kicking game wasn’t changing Morris and teddy destroying BJ .

He has no killer instinct, he does all the little things wrong and he never, ever motivates his teammates. At the moment he is the worst halfback in the NRL.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

I don’t understand how you can say that . He was one of the only guys in our team who posed an attacking threat . The kicking game for sure is on him . But that’s not why we lost . It wasn’t because we didn’t build pressure , it was because BJ can’t tackle , and every time they went anywhere near him , it was linebreak city . I’m not in the business of blaming one person usually , but if say half those tries scored were stopped by decent defensive play , then it’s a 20-6 game or less . The confidence stuff , and lack of direction isn’t on brooks alone either . No one was hitting the line at speed , and no one was supporting . You can say that’s on him , maybe , but if you run a block play and your outside men are jogging through , all you can do is die with the ball or give early ball.

I am saying that because I thought he was absolutely hopeless. He didn't seem to have any idea what he was doing and he's completely silent during the game. He's not cut out for it. He's played 150 games and Laurie, who's played 3, is 10 times more vocal. There are no more excuses for him imo.

Not making excuses . I’m also not gonna say he was anywhere near our worst player . Last week he was . Outside of 1 moment of brilliance . This week , I don’t think that’s true . If people want to give madden a run , do it , but we will soon see the gulf between those 2 . He’s not ready either . The issue is that most of that roosters team are over 28 in key areas . So basically apart from a couple of players for us , in the spine it’s boys against men . And it showed with the crispness , of the play . If getting rid of brooks can fix that , well sign me up , but I’m not convinced that there is a better option , not just in the club but anywhere on the open market .

 

[Geo]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

Doueihi was worse, but IMO deserves a bit more leeway as it was his first proper crack in the halves for 80 mins

I agree with @Strongee though , unless we sign Munster and Cleary tomorrow, give them their time in the sun as we don’t exactly have blokes knocking on the door anyway

I am a massive Doueihi fan but he was absolutely terrible. But he hasn't played 150 games in the halves.

So because of 150 games you want the guy to solve miracles ? I don’t understand this argument . A good kicking game wasn’t changing Morris and teddy destroying BJ .

He has no killer instinct, he does all the little things wrong and he never, ever motivates his teammates. At the moment he is the worst halfback in the NRL.

I disagree he is currently 15th ahead of DCE at the moment..

 

[avocadoontoast]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

I don’t understand how you can say that . He was one of the only guys in our team who posed an attacking threat . The kicking game for sure is on him . But that’s not why we lost . It wasn’t because we didn’t build pressure , it was because BJ can’t tackle , and every time they went anywhere near him , it was linebreak city . I’m not in the business of blaming one person usually , but if say half those tries scored were stopped by decent defensive play , then it’s a 20-6 game or less . The confidence stuff , and lack of direction isn’t on brooks alone either . No one was hitting the line at speed , and no one was supporting . You can say that’s on him , maybe , but if you run a block play and your outside men are jogging through , all you can do is die with the ball or give early ball.

I am saying that because I thought he was absolutely hopeless. He didn't seem to have any idea what he was doing and he's completely silent during the game. He's not cut out for it. He's played 150 games and Laurie, who's played 3, is 10 times more vocal. There are no more excuses for him imo.

Not making excuses . I’m also not gonna say he was anywhere near our worst player . Last week he was . Outside of 1 moment of brilliance . This week , I don’t think that’s true . If people want to give madden a run , do it , but we will soon see the gulf between those 2 . He’s not ready either . The issue is that most of that roosters team are over 28 in key areas . So basically apart from a couple of players for us , in the spine it’s boys against men . And it showed with the crispness , of the play . If getting rid of brooks can fix that , well sign me up , but I’m not convinced that there is a better option , not just in the club but anywhere on the open market .

I would say that BJ was worst and then Brooks. Simply because he ruined any momentum with his kicking game and then failed to step up, yet again, when a halves leader was needed. He no longer has any positive facets to his game apart from above average defence.

I don't think Madden is ready either, but Brooks never will be.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

I don’t understand how you can say that . He was one of the only guys in our team who posed an attacking threat . The kicking game for sure is on him . But that’s not why we lost . It wasn’t because we didn’t build pressure , it was because BJ can’t tackle , and every time they went anywhere near him , it was linebreak city . I’m not in the business of blaming one person usually , but if say half those tries scored were stopped by decent defensive play , then it’s a 20-6 game or less . The confidence stuff , and lack of direction isn’t on brooks alone either . No one was hitting the line at speed , and no one was supporting . You can say that’s on him , maybe , but if you run a block play and your outside men are jogging through , all you can do is die with the ball or give early ball.

I am saying that because I thought he was absolutely hopeless. He didn't seem to have any idea what he was doing and he's completely silent during the game. He's not cut out for it. He's played 150 games and Laurie, who's played 3, is 10 times more vocal. There are no more excuses for him imo.

Not making excuses . I’m also not gonna say he was anywhere near our worst player . Last week he was . Outside of 1 moment of brilliance . This week , I don’t think that’s true . If people want to give madden a run , do it , but we will soon see the gulf between those 2 . He’s not ready either . The issue is that most of that roosters team are over 28 in key areas . So basically apart from a couple of players for us , in the spine it’s boys against men . And it showed with the crispness , of the play . If getting rid of brooks can fix that , well sign me up , but I’m not convinced that there is a better option , not just in the club but anywhere on the open market .

For me give them 10 weeks . If the spine hasn’t gelled by then , than it’s probably not going to happen . But I think it will . Laurie is a weapon , AD is a weapon as well . Liddle is a gun , chuck aumpkin in as the 14 . As for Luke , well , it’s now or never for him . Otherwise we will run with Madden and basically have this spine grow together no matter what . I don’t think Luci is good for him on his edge . He needs a hole runner , and I don’t understand why Madge has persisted for 2 years with these 2 next to each other .

 

[851]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

Doueihi was worse, but IMO deserves a bit more leeway as it was his first proper crack in the halves for 80 mins

I agree with @Strongee though , unless we sign Munster and Cleary tomorrow, give them their time in the sun as we don’t exactly have blokes knocking on the door anyway

I am a massive Doueihi fan but he was absolutely terrible. But he hasn't played 150 games in the halves.

So because of 150 games you want the guy to solve miracles ? I don’t understand this argument . A good kicking game wasn’t changing Morris and teddy destroying BJ .

He has no killer instinct, he does all the little things wrong and he never, ever motivates his teammates. At the moment he is the worst halfback in the NRL.

If there are 2 options, you can guarantee Brooks will take the wrong one, almost every single time, he is not a first grade 7, 150 games and still no idea, time to cut our losses

 

[851]

Brooks and Laurie were theonly ones who looked likely on Sunday . Just saying ! Doesn’t excuse his kicking game , As that’s just A grade at this point , but things like “he’s the worst footballer to play 150 games “ really show the irrationality of the person saying it , than reality . But yes his kicks are garbage . There’s no defending that .

He's not the worst player to play 150 games but I can't think of a less inspiring halfback playing NRL at the moment.

Yep , that’s fair . But it can change from week to week . Like I’ve said , I’ll reserve judgment until we play teams that don’t have 8-10 internationals. As there’s 2 competitions. The top 4-5 and everyone else .

Honestly he could have played against an under 10's team team yesterday and would have been outclassed. He's done. He's just not up to it anymore.

Doueihi was worse, but IMO deserves a bit more leeway as it was his first proper crack in the halves for 80 mins

I agree with @Strongee though , unless we sign Munster and Cleary tomorrow, give them their time in the sun as we don’t exactly have blokes knocking on the door anyway

I am a massive Doueihi fan but he was absolutely terrible. But he hasn't played 150 games in the halves.

So because of 150 games you want the guy to solve miracles ? I don’t understand this argument . A good kicking game wasn’t changing Morris and teddy destroying BJ .

He has no killer instinct, he does all the little things wrong and he never, ever motivates his teammates. At the moment he is the worst halfback in the NRL.

I disagree he is currently 15th ahead of DCE at the moment..

DCE is a great halfback, Brooks isn't fit to tie his boots, DCE may not be a top bloke, but he is a hell of a player