Luke Brooks

[Demps]


 

[cochise]

At the start of the year i was saying Maguire is going to throw his support behind Brooks come what may. The pressure Maguire was under coincided with Brooks's poor form. Rumours were around that the board were looking at other options.

How times have changed.

Brooks has been back to his best since coach removed Doueihi from the halves. It was exactly what Brooks needed to take control of the team.

Full credit to his form. I hope he can keep it up and imporve on his talk and on field leadership on the back of the renewed confidence.

My concern however is removing Doueihi a good young 5/8 improved his form. Last night when Moses went down Brooks played even better, took on more responsibility.

We are however playing this game to win a premiership. To do that and to beat top 4 sides you need two quality halves.

Can Luke still play this well with a dominant 5/8 outside of him. This is where i have my doubts and i hope we dont end up back at the start of this cycle where Luke is under pressure because his form drops again as we improve the 5/8 position.

Adding a Munster, Luai, Walker type 5/8 to this team is essential if we want to challenge for the comp. Can he handle that kind of presence on the field?

Im yet to see it and ill remain a critic until i see him play this well with a dominant 5/8 beside him.

Brooks hasn’t changed that much apart from form..

The difference between having Mbye and Doueihi is they are different 5/8 in the way they play... Mbye is a distributor 1st and foremost whilst Doueihi is give me the ball and I’ll do it myself runner which is great as well but often stops the flow of attack.. Doueihi needs to work on when to do that and when to simply distribute the ball like Mbye has been doing

Another interesting change has been Liddle playing 1st receiver in good ball range allowing Brooks to be wider of the ruck and the. Attack to stand deeper..re-uniting with Garner and having a Blore has added a new threat ...Brooks threw 6 short ball passes in the game all were caught and all put either back rower in space.. or drew extra defenders to cover...we are suddenly having options in attack,,

A very good post mate, I thought he also looked better when Seyfarth was on last night providing that link man pushing Brooks wider as well. He has been working on that play faking inside and then playing outside as well which is working a treat at the moment.

In regards to Doueihi, the way I look at is that he plays his best football as an individual at 5/8th, but that comes at the detriment of the players playing outside him.

I don't think Brooks and Doueihi in the halves was a huge failure.

I think moving Mbye to 5/8 was a temporary solution to get the ball to the centres and wing more often and Madge needed to try something new.

Hopefully Doueihi is getting some coaching on exactly how Madge wants him to play at 5/8 as well as when to run and when to pass.

Doueihi is a centre that is trying to transition to 5/8th, he may or may not make a successful transition.

 

[cochise]


I got sent that today lol

 

[Demps]


I got sent that today lol

Haha, classic aye

 

[TrueTiger]

At the start of the year i was saying Maguire is going to throw his support behind Brooks come what may. The pressure Maguire was under coincided with Brooks's poor form. Rumours were around that the board were looking at other options.

How times have changed.

Brooks has been back to his best since coach removed Doueihi from the halves. It was exactly what Brooks needed to take control of the team.

Full credit to his form. I hope he can keep it up and imporve on his talk and on field leadership on the back of the renewed confidence.

My concern however is removing Doueihi a good young 5/8 improved his form. Last night when Moses went down Brooks played even better, took on more responsibility.

We are however playing this game to win a premiership. To do that and to beat top 4 sides you need two quality halves.

Can Luke still play this well with a dominant 5/8 outside of him. This is where i have my doubts and i hope we dont end up back at the start of this cycle where Luke is under pressure because his form drops again as we improve the 5/8 position.

Adding a Munster, Luai, Walker type 5/8 to this team is essential if we want to challenge for the comp. Can he handle that kind of presence on the field?

Im yet to see it and ill remain a critic until i see him play this well with a dominant 5/8 beside him.

Brooks hasn’t changed that much apart from form..

The difference between having Mbye and Doueihi is they are different 5/8 in the way they play... Mbye is a distributor 1st and foremost whilst Doueihi is give me the ball and I’ll do it myself runner which is great as well but often stops the flow of attack.. Doueihi needs to work on when to do that and when to simply distribute the ball like Mbye has been doing

Another interesting change has been Liddle playing 1st receiver in good ball range allowing Brooks to be wider of the ruck and the. Attack to stand deeper..re-uniting with Garner and having a Blore has added a new threat ...Brooks threw 6 short ball passes in the game all were caught and all put either back rower in space.. or drew extra defenders to cover...we are suddenly having options in attack,,

A very good post mate, I thought he also looked better when Seyfarth was on last night providing that link man pushing Brooks wider as well. He has been working on that play faking inside and then playing outside as well which is working a treat at the moment.

In regards to Doueihi, the way I look at is that he plays his best football as an individual at 5/8th, but that comes at the detriment of the players playing outside him.

I don't think Brooks and Doueihi in the halves was a huge failure.

I think moving Mbye to 5/8 was a temporary solution to get the ball to the centres and wing more often and Madge needed to try something new.

Hopefully Doueihi is getting some coaching on exactly how Madge wants him to play at 5/8 as well as when to run and when to pass.

Doueihi is a centre that is trying to transition to 5/8th, he may or may not make a successful transition.

I think mate that Mbye suits what we need atm playing 5/8,good ball distributor,lets Luke play his natural game and most of all AD getting ball to be able to work out wide...If anything AD is learning how to give the speed men out wide what they need,ball and space...

 

[cochise]

At the start of the year i was saying Maguire is going to throw his support behind Brooks come what may. The pressure Maguire was under coincided with Brooks's poor form. Rumours were around that the board were looking at other options.

How times have changed.

Brooks has been back to his best since coach removed Doueihi from the halves. It was exactly what Brooks needed to take control of the team.

Full credit to his form. I hope he can keep it up and imporve on his talk and on field leadership on the back of the renewed confidence.

My concern however is removing Doueihi a good young 5/8 improved his form. Last night when Moses went down Brooks played even better, took on more responsibility.

We are however playing this game to win a premiership. To do that and to beat top 4 sides you need two quality halves.

Can Luke still play this well with a dominant 5/8 outside of him. This is where i have my doubts and i hope we dont end up back at the start of this cycle where Luke is under pressure because his form drops again as we improve the 5/8 position.

Adding a Munster, Luai, Walker type 5/8 to this team is essential if we want to challenge for the comp. Can he handle that kind of presence on the field?

Im yet to see it and ill remain a critic until i see him play this well with a dominant 5/8 beside him.

Brooks hasn’t changed that much apart from form..

The difference between having Mbye and Doueihi is they are different 5/8 in the way they play... Mbye is a distributor 1st and foremost whilst Doueihi is give me the ball and I’ll do it myself runner which is great as well but often stops the flow of attack.. Doueihi needs to work on when to do that and when to simply distribute the ball like Mbye has been doing

Another interesting change has been Liddle playing 1st receiver in good ball range allowing Brooks to be wider of the ruck and the. Attack to stand deeper..re-uniting with Garner and having a Blore has added a new threat ...Brooks threw 6 short ball passes in the game all were caught and all put either back rower in space.. or drew extra defenders to cover...we are suddenly having options in attack,,

A very good post mate, I thought he also looked better when Seyfarth was on last night providing that link man pushing Brooks wider as well. He has been working on that play faking inside and then playing outside as well which is working a treat at the moment.

In regards to Doueihi, the way I look at is that he plays his best football as an individual at 5/8th, but that comes at the detriment of the players playing outside him.

I don't think Brooks and Doueihi in the halves was a huge failure.

I think moving Mbye to 5/8 was a temporary solution to get the ball to the centres and wing more often and Madge needed to try something new.

Hopefully Doueihi is getting some coaching on exactly how Madge wants him to play at 5/8 as well as when to run and when to pass.

Doueihi is a centre that is trying to transition to 5/8th, he may or may not make a successful transition.

I think mate that Mbye suits what we need atm playing 5/8,good ball distributor,lets Luke play his natural game and most of all AD getting ball to be able to work out wide...If anything AD is learning how to give the speed men out wide what they need,ball and space...

AD with the way he engages the line and the footwork he uses at the line looks very difficult to run off and get the timing right to me. He likes to pass once he has engaged the defence, I think he can still make a good 5/8th but think he needs to learn when to engage the line and when to give early ball. He also needs to improve his defence

 

[BZN]

At the start of the year i was saying Maguire is going to throw his support behind Brooks come what may. The pressure Maguire was under coincided with Brooks's poor form. Rumours were around that the board were looking at other options.

How times have changed.

Brooks has been back to his best since coach removed Doueihi from the halves. It was exactly what Brooks needed to take control of the team.

Full credit to his form. I hope he can keep it up and imporve on his talk and on field leadership on the back of the renewed confidence.

My concern however is removing Doueihi a good young 5/8 improved his form. Last night when Moses went down Brooks played even better, took on more responsibility.

We are however playing this game to win a premiership. To do that and to beat top 4 sides you need two quality halves.

Can Luke still play this well with a dominant 5/8 outside of him. This is where i have my doubts and i hope we dont end up back at the start of this cycle where Luke is under pressure because his form drops again as we improve the 5/8 position.

Adding a Munster, Luai, Walker type 5/8 to this team is essential if we want to challenge for the comp. Can he handle that kind of presence on the field?

Im yet to see it and ill remain a critic until i see him play this well with a dominant 5/8 beside him.

Brooks hasn’t changed that much apart from form..

The difference between having Mbye and Doueihi is they are different 5/8 in the way they play... Mbye is a distributor 1st and foremost whilst Doueihi is give me the ball and I’ll do it myself runner which is great as well but often stops the flow of attack.. Doueihi needs to work on when to do that and when to simply distribute the ball like Mbye has been doing

Another interesting change has been Liddle playing 1st receiver in good ball range allowing Brooks to be wider of the ruck and the. Attack to stand deeper..re-uniting with Garner and having a Blore has added a new threat ...Brooks threw 6 short ball passes in the game all were caught and all put either back rower in space.. or drew extra defenders to cover...we are suddenly having options in attack,,


Agreed on Liddle, has made a big difference now he is adding to it.

Do you really think we can win a comp without a dominat 5/8

Mate ..lets not get ahead of ourselves..

I'm more concerned with winning 1 NRL game in a row...

Willie Nelson song 'One in a row"...but I reckon you knew that eh @Geo

 

[tbones10]

Looks like we might just have ourselves a half back.

 

[twentyforty]

At the start of the year i was saying Maguire is going to throw his support behind Brooks come what may. The pressure Maguire was under coincided with Brooks's poor form. Rumours were around that the board were looking at other options.

How times have changed.

Brooks has been back to his best since coach removed Doueihi from the halves. It was exactly what Brooks needed to take control of the team.

Full credit to his form. I hope he can keep it up and imporve on his talk and on field leadership on the back of the renewed confidence.

My concern however is removing Doueihi a good young 5/8 improved his form. Last night when Moses went down Brooks played even better, took on more responsibility.

We are however playing this game to win a premiership. To do that and to beat top 4 sides you need two quality halves.

Can Luke still play this well with a dominant 5/8 outside of him. This is where i have my doubts and i hope we dont end up back at the start of this cycle where Luke is under pressure because his form drops again as we improve the 5/8 position.

Adding a Munster, Luai, Walker type 5/8 to this team is essential if we want to challenge for the comp. Can he handle that kind of presence on the field?

Im yet to see it and ill remain a critic until i see him play this well with a dominant 5/8 beside him.

Brooks hasn’t changed that much apart from form..

The difference between having Mbye and Doueihi is they are different 5/8 in the way they play... Mbye is a distributor 1st and foremost whilst Doueihi is give me the ball and I’ll do it myself runner which is great as well but often stops the flow of attack.. Doueihi needs to work on when to do that and when to simply distribute the ball like Mbye has been doing

Another interesting change has been Liddle playing 1st receiver in good ball range allowing Brooks to be wider of the ruck and the. Attack to stand deeper..re-uniting with Garner and having a Blore has added a new threat ...Brooks threw 6 short ball passes in the game all were caught and all put either back rower in space.. or drew extra defenders to cover...we are suddenly having options in attack,,

A very good post mate, I thought he also looked better when Seyfarth was on last night providing that link man pushing Brooks wider as well. He has been working on that play faking inside and then playing outside as well which is working a treat at the moment.

In regards to Doueihi, the way I look at is that he plays his best football as an individual at 5/8th, but that comes at the detriment of the players playing outside him.

I don't think Brooks and Doueihi in the halves was a huge failure.

I think moving Mbye to 5/8 was a temporary solution to get the ball to the centres and wing more often and Madge needed to try something new.

Hopefully Doueihi is getting some coaching on exactly how Madge wants him to play at 5/8 as well as when to run and when to pass.

Doueihi is a centre that is trying to transition to 5/8th, he may or may not make a successful transition.

I think mate that Mbye suits what we need atm playing 5/8,good ball distributor,lets Luke play his natural game and most of all AD getting ball to be able to work out wide...If anything AD is learning how to give the speed men out wide what they need,ball and space...

Just a pity his good form of late didn’t quite convince the QLD selectors, his rising share price would have made him easier to sell.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

At the start of the year i was saying Maguire is going to throw his support behind Brooks come what may. The pressure Maguire was under coincided with Brooks's poor form. Rumours were around that the board were looking at other options.

How times have changed.

Brooks has been back to his best since coach removed Doueihi from the halves. It was exactly what Brooks needed to take control of the team.

Full credit to his form. I hope he can keep it up and imporve on his talk and on field leadership on the back of the renewed confidence.

My concern however is removing Doueihi a good young 5/8 improved his form. Last night when Moses went down Brooks played even better, took on more responsibility.

We are however playing this game to win a premiership. To do that and to beat top 4 sides you need two quality halves.

Can Luke still play this well with a dominant 5/8 outside of him. This is where i have my doubts and i hope we dont end up back at the start of this cycle where Luke is under pressure because his form drops again as we improve the 5/8 position.

Adding a Munster, Luai, Walker type 5/8 to this team is essential if we want to challenge for the comp. Can he handle that kind of presence on the field?

Im yet to see it and ill remain a critic until i see him play this well with a dominant 5/8 beside him.

Brooks hasn’t changed that much apart from form..

The difference between having Mbye and Doueihi is they are different 5/8 in the way they play... Mbye is a distributor 1st and foremost whilst Doueihi is give me the ball and I’ll do it myself runner which is great as well but often stops the flow of attack.. Doueihi needs to work on when to do that and when to simply distribute the ball like Mbye has been doing

Another interesting change has been Liddle playing 1st receiver in good ball range allowing Brooks to be wider of the ruck and the. Attack to stand deeper..re-uniting with Garner and having a Blore has added a new threat ...Brooks threw 6 short ball passes in the game all were caught and all put either back rower in space.. or drew extra defenders to cover...we are suddenly having options in attack,,

A very good post mate, I thought he also looked better when Seyfarth was on last night providing that link man pushing Brooks wider as well. He has been working on that play faking inside and then playing outside as well which is working a treat at the moment.

In regards to Doueihi, the way I look at is that he plays his best football as an individual at 5/8th, but that comes at the detriment of the players playing outside him.

I don't think Brooks and Doueihi in the halves was a huge failure.

I think moving Mbye to 5/8 was a temporary solution to get the ball to the centres and wing more often and Madge needed to try something new.

Hopefully Doueihi is getting some coaching on exactly how Madge wants him to play at 5/8 as well as when to run and when to pass.

Doueihi is a centre that is trying to transition to 5/8th, he may or may not make a successful transition.

I think mate that Mbye suits what we need atm playing 5/8,good ball distributor,lets Luke play his natural game and most of all AD getting ball to be able to work out wide...If anything AD is learning how to give the speed men out wide what they need,ball and space...

It’s really all to do with how AD engages the line IMO. Sure he’s dangerous running the ball , but it’s not the play and metres you get that’s the issue . It’s the one you miss out on .
Too often , whilst the run was on for him , the defence was showing it because they were shot on the outside .
I think he will get to origin class as a 6 , but hopefully with the way Mbye just feeds the outside men , AD will realise whilst it’s important for him to run , it’s equally important for him to get his outside men involved and into space . Sometimes , as weird as it sounds , just so they can get thier jerseys dirty . Otherwise you have a game where Nofa and The jet are chatting along the sidelines to the ball boy .
Sure that’s totally unprofessional, but there’s still onus on the spine for not recognising this .
This is something I notice Thurston and Cronk used to do a lot with just as flighty backs standing next to them .

 

[pawsandclaws1]

There is no substitute for pace and Brooks getting on the outside of his opponent to put Garner into space was a highlight. The way also he put Blore into space by stepping back inside and then skipping to the outside was very clever. With Sheens coming onboard I have little doubt Brooks' game will come on further.

 

[TigerWest]

There is no substitute for pace and Brooks getting on the outside of his opponent to put Garner into space was a highlight. The way also he put Blore into space by stepping back inside and then skipping to the outside was very clever. With Sheens coming onboard I have little doubt Brooks' game will come on further.

I don't think Sheens will have anything to do with FG unless invited?

 

[pawsandclaws1]

There is no substitute for pace and Brooks getting on the outside of his opponent to put Garner into space was a highlight. The way also he put Blore into space by stepping back inside and then skipping to the outside was very clever. With Sheens coming onboard I have little doubt Brooks' game will come on further.

I don't think Sheens will have anything to do with FG unless invited?

Sheens has had a lot to do with Brooks. He visited his home to sign him up as a youngster. Perhaps it is my age but to me this is a not too subtle appointment.

 

[turkeytiger03]

Looks like we might just have ourselves a half back.

No it’s still to early to tell, let’s see after game 300 😜
Hopefully for Luke and the tigers our spin can stay together for multiple games. That would be a huge positive for me.

 

[TigerWest]

There is no substitute for pace and Brooks getting on the outside of his opponent to put Garner into space was a highlight. The way also he put Blore into space by stepping back inside and then skipping to the outside was very clever. With Sheens coming onboard I have little doubt Brooks' game will come on further.

I don't think Sheens will have anything to do with FG unless invited?

Sheens has had a lot to do with Brooks. He visited his home to sign him up as a youngster. Perhaps it is my age but to me this is a not too subtle appointment.

Maybe, but he would not interfere with the NRL team unless invited, he would know and understand this. In fact, I would think Kimmorley would be the sounding board for Brooks.
You are not thinking, he will be planning to oust Madge are you?
It won't happen.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

There is no substitute for pace and Brooks getting on the outside of his opponent to put Garner into space was a highlight. The way also he put Blore into space by stepping back inside and then skipping to the outside was very clever. With Sheens coming onboard I have little doubt Brooks' game will come on further.

I don't think Sheens will have anything to do with FG unless invited?

Sheens has had a lot to do with Brooks. He visited his home to sign him up as a youngster. Perhaps it is my age but to me this is a not too subtle appointment.

Maybe, but he would not interfere with the NRL team unless invited, he would know and understand this. In fact, I would think Kimmorley would be the sounding board for Brooks.
You are not thinking, he will be planning to oust Madge are you?
It won't happen.

I view it as a Maguire wake up.

 

[TigerWest]

There is no substitute for pace and Brooks getting on the outside of his opponent to put Garner into space was a highlight. The way also he put Blore into space by stepping back inside and then skipping to the outside was very clever. With Sheens coming onboard I have little doubt Brooks' game will come on further.

I don't think Sheens will have anything to do with FG unless invited?

Sheens has had a lot to do with Brooks. He visited his home to sign him up as a youngster. Perhaps it is my age but to me this is a not too subtle appointment.

Maybe, but he would not interfere with the NRL team unless invited, he would know and understand this. In fact, I would think Kimmorley would be the sounding board for Brooks.
You are not thinking, he will be planning to oust Madge are you?
It won't happen.

I view it as a Maguire wake up.

P&C you are dreaming, you obviously don't like Madge, not sure why, i thought you would have been tickled that he is giving the younger blokes a go?

Madge didn't need a wake up call, it was the players who did.

 

[BZN]

What I love about brooks is he plays better when players target him, he had fisher Harris trying to start him last week and he gets up and has push and shove with him, doesn’t give a Fk! Later on continues with a bit of a verbal towards fisher Harris. Love to see it!

A lot of players go into the shell after a hit and some dirty play towards them!

:+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:
Great to hear positive comments re Luke Brooks @TigerBlood93

 

[Spartan117]

Quite Simply - Luke Brooks has been outstanding the last few weeks.

 

[fibrodreaming]

I view it as a Maguire wake up.

I don't. Sheens and Madge are close. It is certainly possible that Madge suggested the appointment.