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Luke Brooks

Pezz70

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While it is fun to knock Brooks, deservedly so based on his salary, if we resign him for 400k and he plays outside SJ or (prays to the footy gods) Hunt it won’t be the worst option and given what is on the market with AD basically out for next year probably the best we could hope for
If Brooksy is the most overpriced half in the game, Hunt is a very close second. Brooksy is looking good now our forwards are finally in the game. He has finally learnt where to kick the ball and has been on point the last 4 or 5 games bar grubbers into the in goal which I think is a tool we can use if he gets that right. A little bit of confidence has gone a long way with Brooks, they should hold off until the last couple of rounds before talking contracts with him.
People will knock him, with some justification, and say last nights performance was a one off, but that performance was built off 5 weeks of pretty solid team footy, I could see that performance coming and said in another post I thought we’d beat the Cowboys comfortably, I was thinking more 30-10, but the boys really turned it on. Yeah cowboys were probably off but they were destroyed by real solid mistake free and relentless footy in the first 20 minutes of that game.
 
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Tigerm

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If Brooksy is the most overpriced half in the game, Hunt is a very close second. Brooksy is looking good now our forwards are finally in the game. He has finally learnt where to kick the ball and has been on point the last 4 or 5 games bar grubbers into the in goal which I think is a tool we can use if he gets that right. A little bit of confidence has gone a long way with Brooks, they should hold off until the last couple of rounds before talking contracts with him.
People will knock him, with some justification, and say last nights performance was a one off, but that performance was built off 5 weeks of pretty solid team footy, I could see that performance coming and said in another post I thought we’d beat the Cowboys comfortably, I was thinking more 30-10, but the boys really turned it on. Yeah cowboys were probably off but they were destroyed by real solid mistake free and relentless footy in the first 20 minutes of that game.
I think if they have made the decision to re-sign Brooks, then do it now, otherwise waiting to near the end of the season could see another club come in and scalp us.
But if they are not sure ( and I don’t think Sheens is) then yes wait.
I guess they would be thinking he has finally found his game though?
 

Phil Gould

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Reading all these comments it seems the key to Brooks’ success is me not watching or listening to his games.
 

Tigerm

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The big Brooks change that unshackled NRL’s most maligned $1m star​


For me, the only trouble with this is they blame everyone but the player himself?
But I hope if he is re-signed, he continues to go as good as he is going the past few games?
 
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The West Tigers have officially launched a bid to keep halfback Luke Brooks at the club for the next two seasons.

As reported by The Daily Telegraph, the Tigers have tabled a two-year deal worth more than $1 million to keep Luke Brooks at the club.


Thats quite a pay cut if true?
 

Shredder

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$1mln over two years or each year for two years?

Im getting to the stage with so few other halves off contract Im worried about us fronting up next year without anyone.
 

Fordy20

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The West Tigers have officially launched a bid to keep halfback Luke Brooks at the club for the next two seasons.

As reported by The Daily Telegraph, the Tigers have tabled a two-year deal worth more than $1 million to keep Luke Brooks at the club.


Thats quite a pay cut if true?
It’s not quite as bad as the Knights offering a Brian Smith a 1 year contract, but it goes close.
 

WA Tiger

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$1mln over two years or each year for two years?

Im getting to the stage with so few other halves off contract Im worried about us fronting up next year without anyone.
We think your strength lies more in pathways than recruitment. We’ll have the paperwork by lunchtime. Thank you

Hutchison would do us?
 

Tiger Ted

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Fordy20

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For this season it’s Will Smith and Dane Laurie. Could move Talau to 6 and bring Naden into the centres. Then there’s the younger blokes like Tannous, Camroux and the new signing Iverson Matai.

No idea how ready the young blokes are, but given the lack of halves on the market, it disappoints me that the club has been focusing on players like Pearce and Moses instead of shoring it up by signing blokes like Hawkins, Falls or some of those QLD Cup halves.
 
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Das Hassler

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I couldn't take the distress of having Talau in the halves "handling" the ball every set...Wakeham/ Smith and Laurie I would think and Naden straight back in. I guess now might be the time to give Da Silva his shot off the bench
 

Mr Angry

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He is crap, needs others better than him look half decent.

FFS bite bullet, sure no obvious replacement.

Another year and no finals for your 7.

but hey one less team to worry about, keep picking never play a final halfback.
 

Fordy20

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It's pretty clear the club doesn't want him, but after all the bullshit in the media saying they want him to stay and be a one club player, they had to offer him a contract. Although the terms seem pretty reasonable based on his past performance, it doesn't factor in market conditions, in that there aren't many halfbacks available at the moment. For mine, it's a token gesture and it won't surprise me if he ends up at another club, like the Knights or the Raiders.
 

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