Brooks

[Woodwardfan]

It is very easy to harp on about young players who don't make the grade as 99% never make it. Even playing professional youth football 95% don't make it. When you do get a couple with genuine ability it IS exciting for a club to have some home grown players in the team.
Why bring theses kids through the academy system at a cost and then bring in another player of equal ability?

He's one of our own...... is the loudest chant I hear about CW. So it does have an impact on the club when you have home grown players in the team or as manager.

Slagging off young players for not making the grade at our club is very very easy to do.
Certainly a couple on this forum seem to revel in doing this.

I have watched Brookes from the day he arrived on trial. He was weak, didn't work hard and left me very underwhelmed.
Over that season he improved. Still thought he would be released.

Morgan played him in a holding midfield role with the u21s and it didn't work. Binnion tried him in a number 10 role and BINGO.

From then on he has got better and better.

All young players need is the opportunity sometimes to sink or swim. A couple will swim, the magority will sink, but it's a poor effort to harp on about the ones that sink.......

Thankfully Brookes was given the opportunity and he has taken it.

 

[Woodwardfan]

Couldn't agree more. It appears I repeated above most of what you posted. Well said sir!

 

[robbiez666]

I don't want to worry anyone but just wandered downstairs and the Radio 2 sports news was on.

3 items

1. Ben Stokes
2. Deli Ali
3. David Brooks

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

In an interview on the back page of the Star, Leon Clarke talks about 'Brooko' having a great future. Does this mean:
a) the Star has printed another typo.
b) we all have it wrong calling him Brooksy.
c) Leon doesn't know what his team-mates are called.
d) Leon invents his own language.
e) Some other explanation.
We need to know.

 

[s4-blade]

In an interview on the back page of the Star, Leon Clarke talks about 'Brooko' having a great future. Does this mean:
a) the Star has printed another typo.
b) we all have it wrong calling him Brooksy.
c) Leon doesn't know what his team-mates are called.
d) Leon invents his own language.
e) Some other explanation.
We need to know.

Leon doesn't need to conform to the language of us mere mortals

 

[DJBlade]

Brooks will be an international footballer at senior level before the season is over!

Good call hes been called up for the Wales first team

 

[Salopian Blade]

Just found this on the BBC Wales FC website under the numerous comments
96. Posted by Harold Twerp
on 12 hours ago
Brooks is a promising talent, but doesn't play for a PL Team (yet) so England wouldn't pick him. I wonder if Wales have been watching him for a long time, or just called him up because he had a good (televised) game last Sunday. SUFC must surely have stuck a price tag on him, with opening bids of no less than £25m or £35m if he actually gets a run out with the Welsh !!

Hope we dont sell him think we have found a real gem.Has a real calmness about him,my only fear is that he gets injured as a result of an opponents frustation.

 

[Ricky]