Eels star Mitchell Moses has thrown his help behind maligned halfback Luke Brooks who has been hit with waves of criticism after the Tigers 0-6 begin to the season.
Brooks is reportedly incomes north of $1 million this season and is and not using a contract for 2024, beforehand telling foxsports.com.au “there’s been talks” concerning an extension.
Moses and Brooks had been halves companions on the Tigers and are additionally shut buddies off the sphere.
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Moses, who reportedly signed a five-year deal value upwards of $1.2 million per-season in March, went in to bat for his former teammate.
“It’s really hard to be honest, I know the quality of player that he is,” Moses stated on SEN.
“To see the criticism that he cops, it’s very hard to see, I’ve grown up with Brooksy since I was 10 years old and played footy with him since then.
“It’s tough to watch him go through that and see the criticism that he gets, even when we lose games it’s one to 17 players that don’t perform, it’s not just one player where it’s their fault, I think he cops a lot of unwarranted criticism.”
Brooks has beforehand stated he’s “sort of used to” the barrage of criticism he receives every season.
However, Moses believes it could take an emotional toll on anybody and might’t imagine Brooks is ready to block out the exterior noise.
“He gives you nothing, I ask him, ‘How you going’, (he says), ‘Yeah I’m good, I’m good’, he doesn’t see it, he doesn’t look at it, he’s a pretty relaxed bloke,” Moses added.
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“It would take a toll on you, to be honest… he doesn’t really give much away if I’m getting nothing out of him, I don’t think anyone else, he’s pretty strong in this aspect.
“If it keeps going it might be tough, I don’t know how he does it to be honest.”
The Tigers have the bye in Round 7 and a few much-needed time away from the sphere might see a shift in type.
Speaking after their loss to the Broncos, head coach Tim Sheens was assured his crew will flip their fortunes round.
“Can’t worry about external noise. We will turn up and try and figure it out.
“I have faith in this group. Quality group of guys and they have talent. Coaching group’s job is putting them together instead of bringing them down. We all have to work a lot harder.
“I hope we beat the bye in a couple of weeks.”
Source: www.foxsports.com.au