Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:26 am  

Catnap wrote:

Don't think we'll miss him at all, Sam Obst is a natural scrum half, that was his position before he came to us but the fact that he's been turned into a hooker for us means that most of his training would be related to the hooking role hence he sometimes looks rusty when being pressed into the halfback position, when he took the mantle on at HKR while DB was in the bin and again on Sunday he looked a better player than Brough to me so given a fair run of games at S/H I believe he will turn into one of the best in the league, add to that the arrival of Cooke who, IMO, has more class than Brough and the return of BJ later on and I personally think that we are in a better position player wise than when Brough was here.

An added bonus to all this is that we now have Korki at the club permanently and we won't have to go to Hudds at the end of the season to try and work out another loan deal for him which could have proved difficult had they had any problems with filling their propping positions.

IMO Brough going will help us move on in the same way that Solomona leaving did, someone will stand up and be counted, and we have got rid of the disruption in the camp.

IMO now that deal is done it's time to move on, both clubs got what they wanted out of the deal so there's no point arguing about who won, let's just forget Brough and enjoy watching the players that want to be here and are doing a damn good job of entertaining us so far this season.

I said before that season started that I thought we had a shot at top four this year, what's happened this week doesn't alter my views in the slightest.

Great post Catnap!

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:27 am  

MUTLEY CAT wrote:

and your saying huddersfield did?

Let's not answer that one on a public forum eh?

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:28 am  

I'd have thought that Shudds would have had a newer photo of Broughy than that one.

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:30 am  

Glad the whole matter is finally sorted. Sorry to see him go, but given the circumstances it was the right decision. I think Obst has done a great job at SH when he has played there, although I think we might miss DB's kicking game and genuine pace as I don't believe we have anyone who can go the length of the field as he did on a semi-regular basis. On the positive side it might actually bring the team closer together and the addition of Cooke will give us more kicking options, and by the sound of it we got a great deal for a player who would have walked away for nothing in a few months time.

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:32 am  

chissitt wrote:

I'd have thought that Shudds would have had a newer photo of Broughy than that one.

ouch

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:35 am  

newwildcat wrote:

Glad the whole matter is finally sorted. Sorry to see him go, but given the circumstances it was the right decision. I think Obst has done a great job at SH when he has played there, although I think we might miss DB's kicking game and genuine pace as I don't believe we have anyone who can go the length of the field as he did on a semi-regular basis. On the positive side it might actually bring the team closer together and the addition of Cooke will give us more kicking options, and by the sound of it we got a great deal for a player who would have walked away for nothing in a few months time.

BJ's not bad with daylight in front of him, Blanch can go the full length and Murphy has shown a fair bit of pace already this season.

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:44 am  

Glad the whole matter is sorted in effect we've got korky on our books now with hudds still paying some of his wages, Kirmond ive admired since he was on the wing vs fev and adds abit of size up top.

I do know danny wasn't the most liked person in the dressing room and that we have to move on quickly which is a real possibility with the form of obst and cooke and the targets we have for next year. However the assumption that we will not miss brough is frankly ludicrous imo, as brown himself finding a natural scrum half with pace and the best kicking game in the league is hard to come by, over recent seasons there has been no moaning about kicks on the 5 going into full backs hands. Alot of the time the opposistion have started making progress up the field from there own 20 making it easier for us to defend, his goal line drop outs reach 60metres.

How many try's have we scored from his kicks indeed how many try's has millard alone in 7games scored from his kicks....Gone where the days where when we scored a try on touchline it was more or less guaranteed to be a 4 pointer, with danny 90% of the time it was converted to 6 like it or not that won us games, cooke hasn't kicked for a while obst has done well so far, morrison hasn't kicked for yonks, and jeffries is ok. Anyone remember brough's kick vs bradford at murrayfield that lad has got us outta the brown stuff so many times.

Catnap well done on the motivational speach but he's a loss, I understand we were never likely to keep him and therefore in the long term how can he be construed as a loss, but imo losing the best kicker in SL will affect your team. AND NO ONE'S GONNA CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

Best of luck danny, you have significantly helped us in reaching the top part of the league and playoff's semi finals, a player of your ability deserves trophies unfortunately that couldn't be with us. Hope you do well at the giants (kill me now) apart from when you play us.

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:54 am  

chissitt wrote:

I'd have thought that Shudds would have had a newer photo of Broughy than that one.

Is this any better?

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:56 am  

mwildcats wrote:

Glad the whole matter is sorted in effect we've got korky on our books now with hudds still paying some of his wages, Kirmond ive admired since he was on the wing vs fev and adds abit of size up top.

I do know danny wasn't the most liked person in the dressing room and that we have to move on quickly which is a real possibility with the form of obst and cooke and the targets we have for next year. However the assumption that we will not miss brough is frankly ludicrous imo, as brown himself finding a natural scrum half with pace and the best kicking game in the league is hard to come by, over recent seasons there has been no moaning about kicks on the 5 going into full backs hands. Alot of the time the opposistion have started making progress up the field from there own 20 making it easier for us to defend, his goal line drop outs reach 60metres.

How many try's have we scored from his kicks indeed how many try's has millard alone in 7games scored from his kicks....Gone where the days where when we scored a try on touchline it was more or less guaranteed to be a 4 pointer, with danny 90% of the time it was converted to 6 like it or not that won us games, cooke hasn't kicked for a while obst has done well so far, morrison hasn't kicked for yonks, and jeffries is ok. Anyone remember brough's kick vs bradford at murrayfield that lad has got us outta the brown stuff so many times.

Catnap well done on the motivational speach but he's a loss, I understand we were never likely to keep him and therefore in the long term how can he be construed as a loss, but imo losing the best kicker in SL will affect your team. AND NO ONE'S GONNA CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

Best of luck danny, you have significantly helped us in reaching the top part of the league and playoff's semi finals, a player of your ability deserves trophies unfortunately that couldn't be with us. Hope you do well at the giants (kill me now) apart from when you play us.

I assume you attended on Sunday so tell me how many of either Sam's or Cookes kicks were caught on the full by the Salford defence, tell me that Brough could have put a better kick in than Sam did for Blanch's try, or the ones that made Salford drop out and then tell me that the squad has lost something for not having DB slating players for not only their mistakes but his own as well!
He's gone and we're better for it, live with it, christ anyone would think you're his love child after reading that post

Re: Finally Official Danny Brough Signs : Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:06 am  

Its marvelous what you can do now with computers' nowadays, things like touching up old photos' to make them look new. There is no telling how low some of the midgets fans will stoop to to try and belittle our club and the lies they tell to achieve their aim.