Jeremy Brockie (Edgeworth FC | Australia)

I'm not that flexible. 

Looks like Brocks might be tho. Maybe he just needed a change of scene.

any one got a link where we can watch highlights of his matches?

http://talkingbrisbaneroar.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/q-and-with-jeremy-brockie.html?m=1

Slotted another one this morning. 4-1 at 65'

3 in 3

Does this prove it wasn't so much Brockie as a player but the tactics at the NIX which led to his drop off in form... he really didnt fit into our system under Merrick.

Funny that.

Could just prove that the opposition in the league he's playing in, is not as good as the A-League opposition. I mean you can only play as good as what the other team allows you to play.

37 HAL goals would disbunk that theory pretty quickly.

I think Brockie did not got the service. I thought he was very often in good goal scoring positions but nobody passed to him. He had some nice assists. Anyway, good for him that he scores over there.

Brocks is the 10th highest goal scorer of all time in the A-League. 

Had 2 goals and 5 assists from 10 games this season and last season he had 5 goals 4 assists from 24 games the season before that was his best of course with 16 goals and 2 assists from 24 games. Last season was a bit off for him but i'd say he was contributing enough to be worth bringing on every game from the bench and starting the few when one of the front 3 was out. No one outside Krishna, Burns and wee Mac were putting up the same stats in our first 10 games statistically it was as good as Krishna and Wee Mac were anyway although they were both in better form obviously. 

Don't miss him.

Patrick and link, your facts aren't welcome here. 

Brockie can't score goals and is crap. End of story. 

Educated, literate people always spoilers - But add to fun of this forum. 

How many of Brockie's assists were quality? One of them was a missed penalty. One of his goals was also a penalty. I like Brockie but let's not use revisionism here.

Whatever. Think I started writing disprove but changed half way through.

Brockie's scoring at a phenomenal rate in terms of the South African league which is one of the lowest-scoring pro leagues in the world.

The league's top scorer last season only scored 10 goals.

South African Premier League is at number 257 on this list of world leagues with an average of 2.31 goals per game.

http://www.soccervista.com/soccer_leagues_ordered_...

A-League is number 97 with 2.87 goals per game.

Our own ASB Premiership is number 16 in the world with 3.68 and is the highest-scoring top tier league of any country in the world. 

English Premier League is only number 176 with 2.58 goals per game.

It does contain a lot of very minor leagues - but is still indicative.

It has goal stats for 331 leagues.

I think Brockie just caved under the pressure he put on himself. After the Canada stint he fell away from the form that got him there. It's kind of 101 sports psych in a way - to start thinking externally rather than internally. It's hard for everyone to understand but it's so much harder for the athelete when they can't regather that form and it spirals downwards. For someone Brockie scoring goals comes naturally but if they over complicate it, it's quite suddenly not natural anymore.

For someone LIKE Brockie*

For those knocking Brocks, I think he'd have put away a fair few of the sitter passes that the front three have missed in the last few games.

Sure but if you pick Brockie then you probably drop Krishna or maybe Weemac and you create less chances.

Yeah - they both play,no matter what happens

i think you have hit it on the head.

Once the pressure lifted (when he signed for Super Sport), he scored one of the first "Bockie-esque" goals we had seen for ages in his final game.

Great to see him settling in over there and doing well- he always looks like he is enjoying his football, which is one of the things I really liked about him- even when it was not going so well.

Brockie was never a consistent goalscorer even in his youth. 

He scored a goal every two games for Nelson Suburbs in the Mainland League - but that doesn't mean much considering the relative weakness of that league. Michael White was a better goalscorer for Nelson and Canterbury United.

We Canterbury United supporters still remember the zero goals he scored in 15 games for Canterbury United in the 2004-5 national league.

Me and my mate used to yell "don't pass it to Brockie" because he'd even miss open goals.

Brocks scored only two goals in 21 games for Canterbury United.

He had a lot of weaknesses in his game back then. People noted he couldn't dribble either. It was a mystery to some what his role in a side was.

He happened to get lucky on his NZ Knights A-League debut and scored a couple in a poor side.

This created some buzz and he scored two more for the Knights (four in twelve appearances).

Sydney FC signed him from Canterbury United thinking they were getting a goalscorer but soon wised up that he was too raw a talent to be of use to them and off-loaded him after one season where he was poor in his seven appearances and failed to score.

He scored only three goals in fifteen appearances for Hawkes Bay united in the 2007-8 national league.

So, his final tally in the NZ national league was 36 games, 5 goals.

In 2009-10 he scored one goal in 14 appearances for North Queensland in the A-League.

Followed by 11 in 41 for Newcastle Jets.

So, before signing for the Phoenix his A-League record was 74 games, 16 goals.

Which is one goal every 4.62 games.

Only in his two and a half seasons with the Phoenix did he get his scoring boots on, ending on 23 goals in 58 games 

Which is a goal every 2.52 games. But 16 of those came in his first Phoenix season.

In summation, Brockie himself once admitted during his Newcastle Jets sojourn that goal scoring was something he'd had to work on.

He was far from being a "natural goalscorer."

Another goal. 4 from 4 now. SSU lost 5-2 to bottom of the tabel Amazulu.

Okay BP, I didn't watch him in the national league ten years ago but I saw him knock in a fair amount of goals in the A-League. I've also watched him train a fair bit and he knocks them in with ease without the pressure. No one else in the Nix squad looked anywhere near as natural as he did at training. I know training goals mean nothing but my point still stands.

I think its a bit unfair to have expected him to bang in tons of goals when he was mainly a AM and winger for the Jets and North Queensland were terrible as a team. That Jets return is  average for a A league AM and I would bet he had as many assists as goals but yeah none the less he isn't someone who will get us to a world cup but he is a decent player to have in a squad and to be bringing on in the later minutes. 

No goals for Brocks this morning in another loss for SuperSport

Sack Brockie

Any updates on Brockie?.

Assist last game to Grobler who must be one of the only white south Africans who play in the league he had a brace actually as well. Interesting to note his team are playing 4-4-2 seems to benefit not playing the one out role.

Just scored against Orlando in one of the knockout cups. Leading 1-0 with 10 to play

Dare To Brockie

Not bad that.