BelleVueLifer wrote:
You're on the right lines.....
It appears to me that we havnt done enough to keep arguably the best half back in SL !!!!
So by definition he should be an international but isn't so that makes that part of your arguement flawed. He was over looked in favour of two teenager scrum halves (Myler & Eastmond) for last season's 4 nations. I am sure that Burrow would be ahead of him also. So to say he is the best half back in super league is a bold statement but (as much as I wish you were right) not a correct one. The best kicking game yes.
I would like to give people another scenario to think about.
We pay Brough £xyz to keep him and maybe next season's budget doesn't allow for us to stay under the salary cap, so we have to release say 3 maybe 4 promising youngsters that would have been promoted to the first team squad. They then go on to bigger and better things with other clubs.
Earlier this week people were bigging up Gledhill (and rightly so), but I bet if you asked at Cas honestly why he was up for grabs and not at their club anymore somewhere in the grand scale of things money would come into it.
People are so quick to praise Danny Brough, on his day he is a very good player, but he is not a great player. One of our great players (who is no longer with us) once said to me "A good player takes the praise when he gets it right, but it great player also turns it around when it goes wrong aswell."
Just look at the League Table and the Super League fixture lists, we are named as Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, not Danny Brough and the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.
Sometimes people buy into the hero worship stuff just a little too easily. When he first signed, it was I wouldn't pay him used washers and now people are for paying the equivalent of the national debt of mexico. I am with the club on this one you have to stand at some point.
As the saying goes: 'You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.'