games for the Tigers after spending more than a decade at the club, but will now line up for the Sea Eagles in what will be the 29-year-old’s first game back at his former spiritual home ground in Sydney’s inner-west.
Brooks was celebrated as a hero the last time he played at Leichhardt, with Tigers fans chanting the playmaker’s name
after he left the field in his 200th match, following a 66-18 flogging of North Queensland. But the reception for Brooks
will be very different on Thursday night and Doueihi says his good mate should expect to be booed by those same fans who once sung his praises
It’ll be good, back at Leichhardt where he has played all his footy,” Doueihi said. Hopefully it is not a warm welcome for him.” Doueihi says there is no bad blood
between Brooks and any of his former teammates but the Tigers centre admitted he fully expects home fans to mercilessly boo the Manly five-eighth when he runs out for the Sea Eagles.
unwanted record of having the longest current run of games without playing finals footy but if his Manly side can knock off the last-placed Tigers on Thursday night, that drought will
officially come to an end. And Doueihi says he’s happy to see his mate flourishing at his new club and showing what most good judges have always thought he’s capable of.
