Rumours (signings, sackings & other NRL stuff)

[MugaB]

I still think Laurie is a keeper, but I’d like Charlie to get a shot at fb at some point.

Big brown staines needs to strengthen his wing spot, he is a great fullback, just hasn't got the bulk to break lines, whuch is why he ended up being overshadowed by T.May

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Big brown staines needs to strengthen his wing spot, he is a great fullback, just hasn't got the bulk to break lines, whuch is why he ended up being overshadowed by T.May

Dane hasn’t got any bulk, we wanted him to put massive kilos on last pre season, but with his broken leg recovery and doing donuts with your team, it was a bit hard.

Still, he had a go last season, all is forgiven.

Unlike Tesdesco for his racial slur. The Australian captain is a wanker. #notmycaptain.

 

[Tigerm]

Dane hasn’t got any bulk, we wanted him to put massive kilos on last pre season, but with his broken leg recovery and doing donuts with your team, it was a bit hard.

Still, he had a go last season, all is forgiven.

Unlike Tesdesco for his racial slur. The Australian captain is a wanker. #notmycaptain.

Can we have him, but not make him captain?

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Can we have him, but not make him captain?

No.

Hes vile racist slurring human garbage.

He never apologised.

He insults that girl on race, he insults me.

I don’t understand why it’s all swept under the carpet.

We have to have standards.

#notmycaptain.

 

[westerntiger]

to all the Luke brooks fan club. what has he actually given to the club? This 'highlights' vid pretty much sums up his career

 

[Phil Gould]

They paid way too much for a player that hasn’t delivered for far too long. The last thing they want to do is lose their last chance for him to come good so they don’t look so bad. Or even worse, watch him excel at another club and make it look like they were the problem all along. I don’t think either case is very likely and it’s definitely not worth the money, would have been nice to have offloaded the money…but here we are. Bring it on I suppose

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

More from my excursion last night for everyone here on our forum to enjoy:

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

They paid way too much for a player that hasn’t delivered for far too long. The last thing they want to do is lose their last chance for him to come good so they don’t look so bad. Or even worse, watch him excel at another club and make it look like they were the problem all along. I don’t think either case is very likely and it’s definitely not worth the money, would have been nice to have offloaded the money…but here we are. Bring it on I suppose

This.

The Brooksy Public Relations team are at it again as well.

Dusting off the old “Save Brooksy- 50 shades of fake” manual with the grubby fingerprints and coffee stains on most of the pages.

I’m afraid I have the Insider on the 2021 players revolution and the best player award to Brooksy was greeted with considerable dissent and even disbelief amongst several players.

I know our precious lot struggle to put a cogent thought together sometimes, but I don’t see a lot of confidence where it counts.

Tim, the board and the PR are the only ones partaking. The poisoned chalice of Brooksy, drink my Lords drink…

The great irony is that probably even Brooks feels he’s not up it, if last season was any measure. He had at least two public footy breakdowns if I recall correctly.

I mean it’s great we have a ready made cornflake packet king of the kids, in our Brooksy, but our kids are sick of having to repeat class for upteen years. Students in year 6 doing the Xmas school pantomime with beards, spiking their chocolate milk with vodka.

 

[Captain Apollo]

As an outsider looking in, your club has persisted with Luke Brooks in the first grade side for way too long. He turns 28 in December 2022 and next season will be his tenth season in first grade. In all that time, has he shown consistent growth? Nope. Has he been consistently good? Sometimes, but rarely for a whole season, let alone in successive seasons.

If he'd been a player at somewhere like the Storm, Roosters, Bulldogs, and not shown much development, would anyone seriously think any of those clubs would have persisted with him, or would they have moved him on? Sometime you have to look beyond potential and judge as to whether he is doing the job you want and will the player will continue to do so. I think your powers that be are unwilling to face reality and realise they over paid for a player who, whilst good, is not quite the top flight halfback that your club needs. You only need to look at my club when they realised it about Mitchell Pearce when they went out and signed Cooper Cronk.

By persisting with Brooks, you have had a number of promising young halves leave who, in the longer term, may have been a better fit for the side that Brooks.

As to halfbacks having pace, Peter Sterling was a rather slow runner. However he was a brilliant game manager, had a fantastic passing game, and a great long and short kicking game. With guys like Kenny, Ella, Cronin, Grothe outside him, he just needed to get them the ball when they could do something with it - he didn't need to do it all himself. Whilst Hastings may not be fast, he has better game management skill, in my opinion, than Brooks. He just needs a good ball runner at five eight to complement him. I think too many in your club's hierarchy are over doing it on the "Back to the Future" vibe that Sheens' appointment is giving off.

 

[Tigerm]

As an outsider looking in, your club has persisted with Luke Brooks in the first grade side for way too long. He turns 28 in December 2022 and next season will be his tenth season in first grade. In all that time, has he shown consistent growth? Nope. Has he been consistently good? Sometimes, but rarely for a whole season, let alone in successive seasons.

If he'd been a player at somewhere like the Storm, Roosters, Bulldogs, and not shown much development, would anyone seriously think any of those clubs would have persisted with him, or would they have moved him on? Sometime you have to look beyond potential and judge as to whether he is doing the job you want and will the player will continue to do so. I think your powers that be are unwilling to face reality and realise they over paid for a player who, whilst good, is not quite the top flight halfback that your club needs. You only need to look at my club when they realised it about Mitchell Pearce when they went out and signed Cooper Cronk.

By persisting with Brooks, you have had a number of promising young halves leave who, in the longer term, may have been a better fit for the side that Brooks.

As to halfbacks having pace, Peter Sterling was a rather slow runner. However he was a brilliant game manager, had a fantastic passing game, and a great long and short kicking game. With guys like Kenny, Ella, Cronin, Grothe outside him, he just needed to get them the ball when they could do something with it - he didn't need to do it all himself. Whilst Hastings may not be fast, he has better game management skill, in my opinion, than Brooks. He just needs a good ball runner at five eight to complement him. I think too many in your club's hierarchy are over doing it on the "Back to the Future" vibe that Sheens' appointment is giving off.

Agree, imo Brooks is not a bad player except in the 2 key areas we need him to be good, game management and general kicking.
I don’t see why you need anybody around you, to not be able to do those things, if you are able to. If we don’t have those players to help him then, then get them.
But the persistence is painful, seems they want a local superstar and the poor bloke hasn’t been able to deliver, the pressure on him must be crushing.
If he doesn’t deliver next season and we punt him, what happens to him then?

 

[Tigerm]

No.

Hes vile racist slurring human garbage.

He never apologised.

He insults that girl on race, he insults me.

I don’t understand why it’s all swept under the carpet.

We have to have standards.

#notmycaptain.

Sorry, but I want to start winning first before I put my morality shirt on.
Then screw em to the highest yard arm

Yes, yes, I know it’s not politically correct, but just a couple of top 8 or top 4 (preferably) seasons before we fall off the planet.

He was one of us.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

As an outsider looking in, your club has persisted with Luke Brooks in the first grade side for way too long. He turns 28 in December 2022 and next season will be his tenth season in first grade. In all that time, has he shown consistent growth? Nope. Has he been consistently good? Sometimes, but rarely for a whole season, let alone in successive seasons.

If he'd been a player at somewhere like the Storm, Roosters, Bulldogs, and not shown much development, would anyone seriously think any of those clubs would have persisted with him, or would they have moved him on? Sometime you have to look beyond potential and judge as to whether he is doing the job you want and will the player will continue to do so. I think your powers that be are unwilling to face reality and realise they over paid for a player who, whilst good, is not quite the top flight halfback that your club needs. You only need to look at my club when they realised it about Mitchell Pearce when they went out and signed Cooper Cronk.

By persisting with Brooks, you have had a number of promising young halves leave who, in the longer term, may have been a better fit for the side that Brooks.

As to halfbacks having pace, Peter Sterling was a rather slow runner. However he was a brilliant game manager, had a fantastic passing game, and a great long and short kicking game. With guys like Kenny, Ella, Cronin, Grothe outside him, he just needed to get them the ball when they could do something with it - he didn't need to do it all himself. Whilst Hastings may not be fast, he has better game management skill, in my opinion, than Brooks. He just needs a good ball runner at five eight to complement him. I think too many in your club's hierarchy are over doing it on the "Back to the Future" vibe that Sheens' appointment is giving off.

Some good points.

5/8s also need the follow through and support either side.

Id like Doogie to work on his handling, shimmy’s and feints like Cody Walker instead of the usual telegraph.

Our attack has been a bit too one dimensional for awhile.

That’s ok when the forwards are anxious and willing but they’ve lacked the consistency, thus the fresh blood is welcome.

In theory, the new strike power should be a Godsend to the halves, but I’d just prefer Hastings as the beneficiary.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

The other thing I’d like the forwards to practice is their personal attacking skills.

I used to think highly of Dean Young, a ball playing forward. Loved his game

Defences should be second guessing as often as possible.

Im not talking Cleary-like atomic perfect bombs, but a sly chip and chase or some kind of chaos on the fourth or fifth if the gap presents itself.

Death to the one-out folks. Anyone caught doing a wilful soft and cheery one-out run will lose their spot in the side for the next three matches. Complain and you can take another week off for insubordination.

Enjoy:

Match Highlights: Eels v Wests Tigers

The Parramatta Eels host the Wests Tigers during Round 6 of the 2022 NRL Telstra Premiership

www.nrl.com

Simply terrible to let this maestro go without a fight:


“Clutch”

 

[macnaz]

Luke Brooks 2018 Daly M half back of the year. So here he was playing the best year of his career But we still only won 50% of our games.
Is it all on one player ? Just food for thought.

 

[Fordy20]

Agree, imo Brooks is not a bad player except in the 2 key areas we need him to be good, game management and general kicking.
I don’t see why you need anybody around you, to not be able to do those things, if you are able to. If we don’t have those players to help him then, then get them.
But the persistence is painful, seems they want a local superstar and the poor bloke hasn’t been able to deliver, the pressure on him must be crushing.
If he doesn’t deliver next season and we punt him, what happens to him then?

If you listen to most of the people here Newcastle will pick him up at reduced price to play 5/8 outside of Hastings and then once the albatross that is Brooks is removed from around the club’s neck, Sheens will deliver us a second premiership with Doueihi and Laurie as the halves.

 

[Tigerm]

If you listen to most of the people here Newcastle will pick him up at reduced price to play 5/8 outside of Hastings and then once the albatross that is Brooks is removed from around the club’s neck, Sheens will deliver us a second premiership with Doueihi and Laurie as the halves.

Pure Sheenius

 

[PJ@]

Brooks is shithouse. Punt him

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Brooks is shithouse. Punt him

Surely It’s not too late to swap him for Hastings.

Some kind of mistake with the paperwork.

 

[gordsy]

Newcastle will play Lachy Miller at fullback. As for Ponga, he is the definition of over rated.

 

[Captain Apollo]