Luke Brooks

[TCL]

Great game from Brooks, but his biggest problem is backing it up. I'd love it for him if this is his turning point.

Enjoyed Mbye's work too. Love AD and he plays well almost anywhere other than fullback, but he just wouldn't let the ball go as often as he should when at 6. Mbye let it go wide often.

To be fair it’s the teams biggest problem, backing up a good performance or putting in several good performances has been our problem for some time.

 

[Demps]

Credit where credit is due.

Brooks played really well last night.
Looked like a real first grader.

Thank you Mr. Brooks

 

[Speed2burn]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

 

[Moh]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

 

[JC99]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

Exactly, brooks hasn't single handedly lost us a game all year - he's had some stinkers though. He provided literally nothing in the titans game but turned it around and was very involved yesterday, even his long kicking was good.

 

[Thebird]

Can't remember the last time there was a Brooks/Mybe halves combo - which seems ridiculous when you think about it - two highest paid players leading the team around worked well for both the most maligned players. Will be interested to see how it goes next week against more challenging opposition.

Round 1 Against the Raiders.

 

[Speed2burn]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

 

[JC99]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

Nah, he did nothing against titans. His kicking was 100 times better yesterday as was his running game.

Loved how we threw the ball around last night, we look so much more dangerous when we pass it around and players are pushing up onto the footy and it's all effort

 

[The_Patriot]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

Well said

 

[Speed2burn]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

Nah, he did nothing against titans. His kicking was 100 times better yesterday as was his running game.

Loved how we threw the ball around last night, we look so much more dangerous when we pass it around and players are pushing up onto the footy and it's all effort

Last night he played with freedom, it’s how he’s been playing the entire season but with no support. Last night (well atleast for half of it) is the first time this year I could say the entire team had a dig (apart from souffs) which in itself lifted Brook’s game that little bit extra

 

[Honkylips]

He played well last night. I would still love to see the back of him ASAP.

 

[JC99]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

Nah, he did nothing against titans. His kicking was 100 times better yesterday as was his running game.

Loved how we threw the ball around last night, we look so much more dangerous when we pass it around and players are pushing up onto the footy and it's all effort


Last night he played with freedom, it’s how he’s been playing the entire season but with no support. Last night (well atleast for half of it) is the first time this year I could say the entire team had a dig (apart from souffs) which in itself lifted Brook’s game that little bit extra

Sure, everyone else playing with effort helps but it's not that that was the big difference it was execution. He wasn't doing his silly dummy and step into forwards, his kicks weren't awful, individually he was miles better than most his games this year. For the first time this season he looked like he knew what he was doing and didn't doubt himself every time he touched the footy. Long kicking was noticeably better

 

[Speed2burn]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

Nah, he did nothing against titans. His kicking was 100 times better yesterday as was his running game.

Loved how we threw the ball around last night, we look so much more dangerous when we pass it around and players are pushing up onto the footy and it's all effort


Last night he played with freedom, it’s how he’s been playing the entire season but with no support. Last night (well atleast for half of it) is the first time this year I could say the entire team had a dig (apart from souffs) which in itself lifted Brook’s game that little bit extra

Sure, everyone else playing with effort helps but it's not that that was the big difference it was execution. He wasn't doing his silly dummy and step into forwards, his kicks weren't awful, individually he was miles better than most his games this year. For the first time this season he looked like he knew what he was doing and didn't doubt himself every time he touched the footy. Long kicking was noticeably better

And that is because we broke Newcastle. They were on the back foot the entire 1st half with no answer. It’s amazing how simplified the game is for your halfback when you are so dominant

 

[bbobb]

I cannot help thinking that the Doueihi-Mbye swap was more about Brooksy not being over called by Doueihi. The removal of Benji was meant to help him find his voice - little did they know, they got a louder one in AD.

I reckon AD might be the next to agitate for a release, the whole thing about $$$ for centre’s versus halves and his open desire to play 5/8.

 

[JC99]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

Nah, he did nothing against titans. His kicking was 100 times better yesterday as was his running game.

Loved how we threw the ball around last night, we look so much more dangerous when we pass it around and players are pushing up onto the footy and it's all effort


Last night he played with freedom, it’s how he’s been playing the entire season but with no support. Last night (well atleast for half of it) is the first time this year I could say the entire team had a dig (apart from souffs) which in itself lifted Brook’s game that little bit extra

Sure, everyone else playing with effort helps but it's not that that was the big difference it was execution. He wasn't doing his silly dummy and step into forwards, his kicks weren't awful, individually he was miles better than most his games this year. For the first time this season he looked like he knew what he was doing and didn't doubt himself every time he touched the footy. Long kicking was noticeably better


And that is because we broke Newcastle. They were on the back foot the entire 1st half with no answer. It’s amazing how simplified the game is for your halfback when you are so dominant

We had dragons on the back foot plenty of times and he stuffed up plenty of chances - was much more composed yesterday than previous games.

 

[Speed2burn]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

Nah, he did nothing against titans. His kicking was 100 times better yesterday as was his running game.

Loved how we threw the ball around last night, we look so much more dangerous when we pass it around and players are pushing up onto the footy and it's all effort


Last night he played with freedom, it’s how he’s been playing the entire season but with no support. Last night (well atleast for half of it) is the first time this year I could say the entire team had a dig (apart from souffs) which in itself lifted Brook’s game that little bit extra

Sure, everyone else playing with effort helps but it's not that that was the big difference it was execution. He wasn't doing his silly dummy and step into forwards, his kicks weren't awful, individually he was miles better than most his games this year. For the first time this season he looked like he knew what he was doing and didn't doubt himself every time he touched the footy. Long kicking was noticeably better


And that is because we broke Newcastle. They were on the back foot the entire 1st half with no answer. It’s amazing how simplified the game is for your halfback when you are so dominant

We had dragons on the back foot plenty of times and he stuffed up plenty of chances - was much more composed yesterday than previous games.

I’ll let Madge and Doueihi take the reigns then ... post game interviews both of them pretty much said his game hadn’t really changed from previous weeks

 

[Snake]

We do understand the reason why Brooks looked ok last night was the opposition was non existent ...it will back to normal next week .
Seeing what could be is the killer !

 

[JC99]

Gotta be honest, I find it amusing that Brooks’ game only went up a notch, he’s been playing like that all season. The extra 10% was a reflection of the result of improved team performance. I know I keep banging on about this, but Brooks is the canary in the mine shaft, there’s so much focus on him that the other players don’t get scrutinised for their bad play.

Exhibit A last week

Cini drops 5 bombs and we concede 18 points in 15 mins on the opposite side to Brooks. Yet he was still the most talked about player because he messed up a kick when the game was lost anyways

The difference last night was our forwards actually laid a solid platform and ran with intent

I can't speak for everyone, but when I'm critical of Brooks it's not to say he costs us the game.

He rarely does, my point is usually we need better. And I'll stick by it.

As I've said in a recent post - I started to question Brooks only earlier this season, so I've been patient. And I WANT him to succeed. That's another assumption people have when someone is critical of him, that we don't want him to succeed. Far from it.

I hope he, and the rest of the team, can play the way they did for the majority of last night.

It wasn’t too dissimilar to his game against Saints & Titans imo. Only difference is he scored a try

Last night we had a stack of possession and the scoreline at half time reflected that. For the first time this year I thought our attack flowed, and yes I’ll give credit to mbye. Don’t get me wrong Doueihi is a fine 5/8 but he still has a lot to learn when it comes to knowing when to distribute the ball to his outside men

Nah, he did nothing against titans. His kicking was 100 times better yesterday as was his running game.

Loved how we threw the ball around last night, we look so much more dangerous when we pass it around and players are pushing up onto the footy and it's all effort


Last night he played with freedom, it’s how he’s been playing the entire season but with no support. Last night (well atleast for half of it) is the first time this year I could say the entire team had a dig (apart from souffs) which in itself lifted Brook’s game that little bit extra

Sure, everyone else playing with effort helps but it's not that that was the big difference it was execution. He wasn't doing his silly dummy and step into forwards, his kicks weren't awful, individually he was miles better than most his games this year. For the first time this season he looked like he knew what he was doing and didn't doubt himself every time he touched the footy. Long kicking was noticeably better


And that is because we broke Newcastle. They were on the back foot the entire 1st half with no answer. It’s amazing how simplified the game is for your halfback when you are so dominant

We had dragons on the back foot plenty of times and he stuffed up plenty of chances - was much more composed yesterday than previous games.

I’ll let Madge and Doueihi take the reigns then ... post game interviews both of them pretty much said his game hadn’t really changed from previous weeks

Well he played a whole lot better yesterday than other weeks, just think his overall execution was a lot better which is a compliment to him. Was doing everything right really

 

[tony soprano]

So happy for the man. But can’t believe he missed the penalty kick 😳

 

[izotope]

I cannot help thinking that the Doueihi-Mbye swap was more about Brooksy not being over called by Doueihi. The removal of Benji was meant to help him find his voice - little did they know, they got a louder one in AD.

I reckon AD might be the next to agitate for a release, the whole thing about $$$ for centre’s versus halves and his open desire to play 5/8.

I know who id be backing but god i hope we can snuff this out quickly.

After years of the Benji/Farah overcalls and who is dominant don't want to end up in the same situation.

Best game by Brooks in 2 years i reckon!