Brooks' public plea to million-dollar Eels star

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Luke Brooks is making nary concealed of his tendency to lure Mitchell Moses backmost to Wests Tigers.

Brooks admitted to reporters connected Monday that helium was nagging his large mate astir a instrumentality to Concord, which Moses departed for Parramatta erstwhile helium was granted an contiguous merchandise during the 2017 NRL season.

Moses is contracted to the Eels for the 2023 season, but helium has an enactment successful his favour for the 2024 run and is yet to determine connected his future.

A instrumentality to the Tigers would spot Moses reunite with Tim Sheens and Benji Marshall, and play alongside Brooks, with whom helium played inferior footy.

"Obviously played a batch of footy increasing up unneurotic and had a fewer years successful archetypal people (together)," Brooks said.

"I would emotion to play with him again.

"I deliberation erstwhile we came successful we were young and didn't truly cognize however to play successful archetypal grade, and present that we've learned a batch I deliberation we'd beryllium bully together."

Moses played 67 games with the Tigers, but he's since piled up 131 matches with the Eels and guided Parramatta to the 2022 expansive final.

The Tigers mislaid Moses, James Tedesco and Aaron Woods successful 2017.

Tigers large and Moses' uncle Ben Elias told Wide World of Sports successful December that helium would impulse his nephew to debar returning to the Tigers.

"I should beryllium screaming from the extortion for the Tigers, but I erstwhile upon a clip got him implicit to the Tigers, and they fto him go," Elias said.

"How bash you merchantability that backmost to him? I've been there, done that. Move on.

"It wasn't a beauteous exit, you know. He near with Aaron Woods and James Tedesco. All 3 of them near unneurotic ... and it's hard to spell back.

"Fool maine once, I tin bull that, but fool maine twice."

Moses rockets distant for aureate try

As the Tigers effort to drawback an 11-year finals drought, they are hoping to replicate the flashy footy that propelled the nine to the 2005 title.

Sheens, who was astatine the helm for that premiership run, has been successful Brooks' receptor astir taking power this season.

"He has spoken to maine astir that (being greedy), particularly adjacent to the enactment ... moving the shot a spot more, trying to people myself," Brooks said.

"He's into maine astir scoring tries, truthful I conjecture I've conscionable got to tally the shot a spot more.

"Playing down immoderate large boys who are going to get a speedy play-the-ball — that opens up my moving game.

"Api (Koroisau), arsenic good — helium volition instrumentality a batch of unit disconnected me."

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