Neither pleased or displeased to be honest. He is a player with talent, who like others, got messed about and never had a chance to stake a claim for a permanent spot, Who knows if he would have done, he was as people have said short of pace, and for me pace of the mark is the first essential for a half, ( so he would never have played there for me ) MO only and I wish him well.

I was always slightly disappointed with Connor - he obviously had bags of talent, but I think he needs that little bit of humility that young players sometimes need.

In my opinion, for a young lad, his lack of pace and stamina is surprising. And when people say he's a good utility player, it normally means that there's better players in all of the positions he can play.

Good luck to him, but I won't live in fear when I see his name on the opposition team sheet

this will I think come back to haunt us. A young homegrown player with the potential to develop into a top class back. I'd rather have him than Murphy, as I think he is not just a better player but has the potential to be much better.

Not happy with this news for a number of reasons.

He's young.
He can cover a lot of positions.
He's fearless
He's homegrown so will have been discounted on our salary. (I think)

However, if we was still top four this season would he be leaving? Not sure keeping somebody on who has gone through our acamedy and been apart of our rise would abandom ship when the going gets tough is a good idea.

We've clearly had a lot of problems behind the scenes this season. I hope the departure of Anderson can sort this out and people will just enjoy playing for the Giants b

Took his try well on Friday night but hadn't improved as expected this year in my opinion and maybe the thoughts are we have better prospects in the academy coming through and Jake would have asked for a bigger chunk of salary as an established player.'

His attitude at times when he 'loses' it doesn't help good luck to him but he can be replaced.

Hes our second highest try scorer this season and third highest for try assists.
He's also second highest for missed tackles and top for errors and penalties.
He's not the paciest but he's no slouch- probably quicker than Ellis!
If he continued to learn to cut out the errors and penalties and works on his tackling, we could well be rueing Jake going.
On the opposite side we have Sam Wood knocking on the door- he's played a bit in the back row and can also play in the halves, can kick a bit too. He's a very determined young man- but has more humility than Jake. Let's hope we offer him another deal and he starts to make his mark-

We've seen some good things from Jake,and some not quite so good.Obviously got time on his side,but if a player wants to move on for whatever reason,no point getting in their way.

One thing I will miss is his feisty attitude.Not frightened by reputations.

Did we let him go, or was it the player decided he wanted to change?

For me he will be a big miss, yes he gives away too many penalties, so does Brough, it's the very thing that makes him a winner, take too much of that away and hes half the player he could be.

I think people forget how young Jake still is, very early 20s but seems to have been around forever, and we expect him to be the finished article. The truth is he hasn't had the chance. He has a great winning mentality and he will take a risk.

To me he was Broughs long term replacement, I hope this is the last of our young talent to leave.

I agree with the first part of your post-
But I think he was given s chance and has played most games this season and many last- this season he's been called upon in many different guises due to our injury problems. I'm not so sure that Connor was seen as a half back long term - he hadn't even been playing half back towards the end of his academy days.
Farrell I think is pencilled in there. - lets hope we keep him!

The new coach whoever he turns out to be, may see Brierley as the perfect partner for Brough, He has the pace and an eye for the gap, Not all coaches will have PA's approach to coaching and it's time we had some pace at half, I hope we make more use of Brierleys obvious try scoring abilities.

Couldnt make newcastle trip so watching on Sky - and if not wrong ( I may be Jools) thought one of the pundits said Sam HAD been given a contract which pleased me -with your contacts could be worth checking Pleased if its corrrect but as it seems to have slipped through the net on here I might be mistaken!