Embattled Tigers coach Michael Maguire has declared his halfback Luke Brooks to still be capable of the NRL and rep football success that has eluded him so far in his career.
“One thing Brooksy does is he keeps turning up, he’s one of our best trainers, he goes about everything he does to be at his best,” he told reporters on Thursday.
The Tigers were blown off the park on Sunday by Newcastle, and it will well and truly be panic stations if they can’t lift tonight against a winless Warriors team, at Campbelltown Stadium.
”You need certain things to go on in the game. We were on the back foot [against Newcastle], our forward pack, we made so many errors, and as a halfback, you need a few things to go your way,” Maguire said.
Brooks has had to deal with the tag of being the next big thing in the NRL since he debut season all the way back in 2012 – but his coach thinks it’s never too late for him to hit the heights many expected.
”I can see him [playing representative football], and I’ve said that every year since I’ve been here. We need to make sure as a team we’re all performing because you tend to find most players who make rep teams are in those teams that are fairly successful and up the top. We need to fight to make sure we can achieve that.”
