“I watched last week and I don’t think Adam understands the fullback role as well as he does at five-eighth - for him to play the best he can, five-eighth is his spot, and he’s a great five-eighth.”

Brasher watched Doueihi against the Broncos and said he needed to push up in support, get his hands on the ball at least once in the first three tackles of every set, and do more to organise the defensive line.

“All he was doing was waiting for a backline movement and then jumping in; I never saw him running off a forward [in attack]“, Brasher said.

“He’s got big guys who can offload. For me, I had Steve Roach and Paul Sironen. We’d talk to each other, and they knew I’d turn up.

Brasher played under Tim Sheens at North Queensland and remains a huge fan of the veteran coach. But with Benji Marshall to succeed Sheens, and Robbie Farah supporting Marshall, Brasher hoped only the one message was being relayed to the players. The club have no appetite to deviate from the original plan and parachute Marshall into the top job early.

“You’ve got three guys with three opinions, obviously they have one game plan, so hopefully they’re sticking to that,” Brasher said.

“I’m sure it’s hard if you’re a player and you have three coaches to answer to. I was flat out listening to one coach, let alone three.”

Meanwhile, Canberra on Tuesday officially tabled a four-year, $4.4m deal to make Jack Wighton a Raider for life.

The deal would take Wighton through until the end of 2027 when he is 34.

Redcliffe remain the biggest threat to luring Wighton away from the nation’s capital after he revealed last week he was prepared to test the open market for the first time in his career.

Wighton’s management sought interest from all NRL clubs, but given the representative’s love for country life, the cashed-up Dolphins are the only other club that fits the bill.

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