Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:32 pm  

rubber man wrote:

I suggest you get particularly worried about the threat of a player leaving if you feel they are a) irreplaceable or b) they are so pivotal to team performance that the remaining players could not operate to SL standard without him. In DB's case I do not believe he is irreplaceable (even within the budgetary parameters his departure would generate, although the time for recruitment would be a challenge if starting from scratch) and the experience last year showed me that our best team performances didn't involve DB.

Whatever the outcome of this issue, I come to the same conclusion as TRB, the club will certainly go on, and I would go as far to say may actually see an improvement in fortunes.

By the way, is it a nice BMW?

Didn't even realise they made minibuses.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:51 pm  

If we're giving him what he asked for, what's his problem.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:58 pm  

LyndsayGill wrote:

If we're giving him what he asked for, what's his problem.

I can understand him not signing up now, he'll wait and see if he can get a better offer elsewhere, thats how i would see it, of course he risks us finding another player and dropping the offer but he'll wait as long as he can.

No loyalty will be shown.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:57 pm  

Stayed out of this debate as the info I was given wont please anyone on here, not saying its concrete but just reporting the info relayed to me. A friend of mine who is related to someone on the coaching staff at hudds saidbthat there is a contract in their safe with danny broughs signature on it for next season. Suppose only time will tell whether this is true or not, could be a wind up for all i know but this type of underhand dealing does go on in our game and more frequently than you would like to imagine.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:14 pm  

Uptoncat wrote:

Stayed out of this debate as the info I was given wont please anyone on here, not saying its concrete but just reporting the info relayed to me. A friend of mine who is related to someone on the coaching staff at hudds saidbthat there is a contract in their safe with danny broughs signature on it for next season. Suppose only time will tell whether this is true or not, could be a wind up for all i know but this type of underhand dealing does go on in our game and more frequently than you would like to imagine.

Whatever will be will be, he's not the be all and end all of rugby league and our club. At least people understand he's been offered what he asked for so theres no chance of sniping at the club.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:19 pm  

If he is on his way do people think we will start the season without replacing him, make a move for a deal such as Cooke or will we have a bolt out of the blue?

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:24 pm  

BIGAL1 wrote:

Whatever will be will be, he's not the be all and end all of rugby league and our club. At least people understand he's been offered what he asked for so theres no chance of sniping at the club.

My sentiments exactly. The club have done their damndest to keep him whether he opts to stay is up to him.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:48 pm  

Uptoncat wrote:

Stayed out of this debate as the info I was given wont please anyone on here, not saying its concrete but just reporting the info relayed to me. A friend of mine who is related to someone on the coaching staff at hudds saidbthat there is a contract in their safe with danny broughs signature on it for next season. Suppose only time will tell whether this is true or not, could be a wind up for all i know but this type of underhand dealing does go on in our game and more frequently than you would like to imagine.

if that is true then I would expect Trinity to do everything in their power to expose that deal. They should lodge their suspicions with The RFL and then set about brokering a deal with any and every club except Huddersfield. If Broughy has a contract with the giants he will systematicaly turn each and every one of them down. When his contract is up and he suddenly announces that he's signed on at the Galpharm the RFL should investigate his agent, DB and the giants.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:07 pm  

As I said it may be a wind up, then again it might be true, only time will tell. I for one seriously hope its a wind up as DB is the one player at our club who we really could build a successful side around. Even if it is true how would it be proven? Also if it is true there is nothing to stop DB turning his back on them and signing with us or any other he club he may get offers from, its hardly like Hudds could come out and say we've got a contract with brough as they would be admitting to tapping up. I know of a player who (a couple of seasons ago) had a contract signed with Cas but then signed with his existing club after they upped their contract offer for him, nothing Cas could do about it as the contract in reality isn't worth the paper its written on until after the anti-tampering deadline day.

Re: Brough and Cash for Cooke? : Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:10 pm  

As long as the club set DB a date in the not so distant future to confirm his intentions, then I don't have an issue.

Scenario 1: DB wants to stay and signs his contract
Scenario 2: DB decides his future lies elsewhere, we keep him until his contract expires. In the interim period we have got plenty of time to secure a top class half back to replace him for 2011. If the stories are even vaguely accurate regading the size of the contract, then that kind of money would get us a better player than DB.

What I wouldn't want to see is the club panicking and looking for a replacement now, we have got plenty of time.