The Wests Tigers have been dealt a massive blow for the 2024 season with Luke Brooks signing for the Manly Sea Eagles on a four-year deal.
Despite dividing Tigers’ fans with his performances, Brooks leaving means the Tigers’ experience in the halves will be significantly reduced for next season.
With only Adam Doueihi and Starford To’a capable of playing the halves next year, SEN’s Mat Rogers and Scott Sattler backed the club to pursue a 2015 Premiership-winning Cowboy.
Sattler: “Just off-air we were talking about a Premiership winning that player Origin and Test match footy and you said, ‘They should go after him’.”
Rogers: “Michael Morgan, (he should) get fit, he would be a revelation. Sattler: “He’s 31, he’s had two years (off), he’s had no contact.
Rogers: “Yep, he’d be healed up, get him training now for next year, he’ll be amazing, imagine getting him there, he’s got three or four years of good footy left in him.
Sattler: “He knows what it takes to be a winner and they sort of lacked that leadership at the club, so they’ll get a genuine leader.
“But also, like you said with sports science these days and recovery, and rehabilitation, you’re not asking a guy like Michael Morgan to play 27 games in a season.
“You may want to get (him) to 20 games and it’s enough to register him for the finals and that’s when those players go to another level, I like it.”
Morgan called a day on an illustrious 12-year NRL career during the 2021 season after being on the backend of a horrid run of debilitating injuries.
The 31-year-old has recently come out and admitted he questioned the decision to retire at the time and would’ve liked to extend his career by a couple of years.
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