LIVE GAME Trial 2 V Roosters..

[Demps]

If true, thats disgraceful and says a lot about the bloke

100%

 

[Geo]

For those who criticise Brooksy’s play, I’d really like to hear what your expectations are from your halfback. What KPI’s would you set for him? Feels like you want him to be Tommy Turbo/ DCE and Victor Radley all rolled into one. I’m pretty sure his coach would be asking him to make his tackles, get the team to the end of sets and get his hands on the footy. He ticks all these boxes most weeks. What we lack is the Turbo’s and the Radleys.

4 TRIES, 7 TRY ASSISTS, 16 Goals 14 LB Assists 12, Line Breaks185 Run Metres, 16 Tackle busts, 13 Repeat sets, 895 Kick Metres 53 Tackles 0 Misses, 7 FG per game minimum..

 

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For those who criticise Brooksy’s play, I’d really like to hear what your expectations are from your halfback. What KPI’s would you set for him? Feels like you want him to be Tommy Turbo/ DCE and Victor Radley all rolled into one. I’m pretty sure his coach would be asking him to make his tackles, get the team to the end of sets and get his hands on the footy. He ticks all these boxes most weeks. What we lack is the Turbo’s and the Radleys.

His biggest problem is his kicking game, it's pretty much sub-standard for an NRL player. Not sure why he can never get a short kick past a defender's legs. Or if he does it is booted so hard it dents the fence.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Olam and Coates....mmm....not gonna be preety come rd 1 me thinks

 

[Demps]

Olam and Coates....mmm....not gonna be preety come rd 1 me thinks

X. Should be top try scorer for the year.

 

[BAGNF05]

Easy answer …do what a halfback is supposed to do.

Gloriously ambiguous CK

 

[BAGNF05]

His biggest problem is his kicking game, it's pretty much sub-standard for an NRL player. Not sure why he can never get a short kick past a defender's legs. Or if he does it is booted so hard it dents the fence.

It’s definitely not his strongest attribute. Our attacking sets are very clunky as a team because we lack that bit of class or polish across the park. e.g other teams have that x-factor player who creates the try on tackle 2,3 or 4. Sometimes I pin it on Brooks but lots of times he’s under immense pressure due to the clunky nature of our attack.

 

[innsaneink]

Klein and his touchie miss a blatant forward pass from melb.... 2 tackles later penalty melb.... Few tackles later try melb
Still kissed on the date

 

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Doesn't like that the camera man is taking photos of his errors or mistakes and making him look bad.

He's probably got his own personal camera man that takes all the coconut-drink happy snaps by the pool.

 

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Klein and his touchie miss a blatant forward pass from melb.... 2 tackles later penalty melb.... Few tackles later try melb
Still kissed on the date

Yep, refereeing will be abysmal again by the looks. How did that touchie imbecile miss that?

 

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Copper Johns just went of injured wonder who storms next half back will be to start the season

He's a reserve-grader. I'm praying he is in their 17 in Round 1. Only gets a gig because his old man sniffs Bellamy's nether regions.

 

[tigerballs]

It’s definitely not his strongest attribute. Our attacking sets are very clunky as a team because we lack that bit of class or polish across the park. e.g other teams have that x-factor player who creates the try on tackle 2,3 or 4. Sometimes I pin it on Brooks but lots of times he’s under immense pressure due to the clunky nature of our attack.

Brooks and Hastings first hitout together. Can only improve. They'll be good.

 

[JC99]

For those who criticise Brooksy’s play, I’d really like to hear what your expectations are from your halfback. What KPI’s would you set for him? Feels like you want him to be Tommy Turbo/ DCE and Victor Radley all rolled into one. I’m pretty sure his coach would be asking him to make his tackles, get the team to the end of sets and get his hands on the footy. He ticks all these boxes most weeks. What we lack is the Turbo’s and the Radleys.

Find the grass with his long kicks, organise the attack, force repeat sets and set some tries up with your passing. He did none of those in the trial game

Almost every other halfback I've watched in these trials has done at least a few of these things. He did some other good things but I just want to see him show some footy smarts...

 

[Demps]

Brooks and Hastings first hitout together. Can only improve. They'll be good.

7 Hastings
6 Brooks

 

[finnzo]

He's a reserve-grader. I'm praying he is in their 17 in Round 1. Only gets a gig because his old man sniffs Bellamy's nether regions.

Yeah but with Munster cheese and Harry all out for the first round he was looking likely for a starting spot now if he is out it’s probably going to be nikorima

 

[BAGNF05]

Find the grass with his long kicks, organise the attack, force repeat sets and set some tries up with your passing. He did none of those in the trial game

Almost every other halfback I've watched in these trials has done at least a few of these things. He did some other good things but I just want to see him show some footy smarts...

Find the grass with long kicks - always good if you can but you can’t control if the fullback is in good position. If the team chases the kick well this one won’t cost you games.

Organise the attack - attack should be organised throughout the week, I would argue guys should be in the right positions and Luke just needs to pick the right options. I seen him throw one real dusty pass in the trial which hit the deck. Not the end of the world though.

Set tries up passing - comes back to my earlier point, who are our x-factor players creating their own tries? Does Brooks need to create them all?

I’ll continue to argue he’s not a great player but we have far bigger holes in our squad, namely second row and centre.

 

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Have to laugh at all the Foxsports lackeys being so concerned that Johns injured himself today😂. You'd think he is a future Immortal the way they are blubbering on.

 

[hank37w]

You mean the props?

Actually, with Tamou not starting, wouldn't we go with Twal and Stefano at prop? Then Peachey at lock?

Sorry, I may have been a bit cryptic and too smart for my self with the comment that you are referring to.

I know what I was thinking at the time but sometimes it isn't expressed as well as you would like when you spit it out with the keyboard.

The comment I made was sort of an acknowledgement that our middle defense has stiffened up a bit but our edges are still open to all comers.

G'day @hank37w I've just finished having a look at the YouTube replay of Friday's game and imo Tamou had a very much improved game.
He was much more energetic than I had seen from him in any game last year, and I even noticed he was directing the players beside him at one stage.
In other words imo he played a much improved and much needed Captain's game.

 

[hobbo1]

4 TRIES, 7 TRY ASSISTS, 16 Goals 14 LB Assists 12, Line Breaks185 Run Metres, 16 Tackle busts, 13 Repeat sets, 895 Kick Metres 53 Tackles 0 Misses, 7 FG per game minimum..

He needs to make it through his banner 1st

 

[JC99]

Find the grass with long kicks - always good if you can but you can’t control if the fullback is in good position. If the team chases the kick well this one won’t cost you games.

Organise the attack - attack should be organised throughout the week, I would argue guys should be in the right positions and Luke just needs to pick the right options. I seen him throw one real dusty pass in the trial which hit the deck. Not the end of the world though.

Set tries up passing - comes back to my earlier point, who are our x-factor players creating their own tries? Does Brooks need to create them all?

I’ll continue to argue he’s not a great player but we have far bigger holes in our squad, namely second row and centre.

His long kicking stinks, a good halfback can find the grass at least once a game! Not only does he continually hit the wingers and fullback on the chest with his kicks, he doesn't put them high enough to give his chasers any chance to compete or make the tackle instantly.

Someone needs to guide the team out on the field - we should be working towards certain parts of the field at all times and should be setting up plays a lot more than we do near the tryline. If he's the halfback that is in fact up to him

A few times he had men open wide and went short to a marked player, when he did try throw a long ball it hit the floor (long passing is a big weakness of his). Hastings managed to put Seyfarth over, I can't recall Brooks even putting anyone in a little bit of space at all.

We definitely have other holes in the squad, our roster is average as but once fully fit I think Doueihi at 6 and Hastings 7 is the way to go as long as Hastings can perform at a good level himself