Confirmed this morning lads. Great news lads.

Will see us through the likely loss of jjb and Delaney over the next year or two so it's not bad.

Great news, hopefully we will finally gey to see the Ablett, Ferres, Ward backrow next year. should be good.

Ita been a tough year to judge but for me he hasn't been as effective as he was at Hudds. Would need to see more from him next year.

So we have signed up the penalty machine. I should be disappointed but now we are a bottom of the table team I guess I have to be satisfied we have someone of his stature willing to sign up to play for us.

He's given a lot of penalties away but it's looked like he has been almost trying too hard this year. Hopefully with a secured contract, he will be more relaxed and will see the Ferres we used to watch at Hudds return.

I'll ignore the embarrassing last part of your post.

I'm happy will this.

I think he's done alright. He's looked at times like a player trying to do too much himself rather than just slot into a pattern, but that's indicative of the general struggles of the team at times.

At Huddersfield he benefited from an almost telepathic understanding with Brough. It'll take time (and some consistency of selection in the halves) for him to develop that at Leeds.

Won't be an issue when we sign Brough at the end of the season.

that was the rumour. sadly

Believe that when I see it. He's the big fish in a small pond at Huddersfield, which suits his ego. He wouldn't be that at Leeds.

If we sign Brough when Soward is clearly available then its pure madness.

Purely tongue-in-cheek. We should be aiming higher than Brough, imo.

Good decision to keep him. Yes he's given away more penalties than we would like but that will happen in a struggling team who couldn't win collisions and slow PTB's down. But he's gives us over 100m in attack most games and not many back rowers about who can give you that. He can offload a bit but not seen it be effective too much again because of the teams struggles and he's starting to pop up with a few tries which we don't get many of from our backrowers.

Also with Ward, Ablett and Delaney missing a lot of games then he has had to do a lot more work than ideal. With other starting back rowers back to share the load then could help him play better.

He'd look far better in a Leeds team being led round by a decent half back.