Although he has been a great servant to the club and provided me with many happy memories i believe the right time to dispense with Brough's playing services is when his current contract runs out. Top clubs know when to call time on even the best and most loyal of players careers (i.e. McGuire at Leeds) Brough has been as often bad as good recently, and as someone else pointed out, most veteran players replace agility and speed with experience and guile, Brough does not fit this category. He is still as easy to wind up (if not easier) and goes to pot in high pressure situations. We should spend the very large sum of money we will be spending on his wages to attract a marquee young half. Many will say there are not those players around to obtain, this may be true, but the situation will be the same when he does retire, and we will have taken a risk on him not deteriorating futher which can happen very quickly once a player gets to the mid thirties.
