Having watched ryan for several years at Leigh, he is not a creative player to drive a team around the pitch.
He is an excellent finisher, knows how to back up and get to the line with bags of pace. But creative half back he is not.
In retrospect, at Championship level, he was devasting, but at SL level, Leigh with brierley were a bit 1 dimensional and SL teams knew how to play us and neutralise him.
Brierley has talent but he needs a team that can play to his strengths. Judging from yesterday's game, Huddersfield aren't that team but then again you seem to have a few challenges Anyway and if you can fix those maybe ryan will flourish for you.
Huddersfield seem to have a tough conundrum- interesting to see what Stome can do about it.

Have to agree with Durham with most of that.

Regarding Mamo he will be our quickest player is a lot faster than Brierley and will add something new to our attack but I don't know if it will be enough to get us out of the .

Don't believe anything they are saying regarding his injury. Originally it was 2 weeks, 5 weeks in and still no real definite date of his return. My money is on that it will be May before he plays.

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I think he must have picked up another injury as the original was to his ankle, but in one injury update recently it said something else (shin? Possibly) I do hope folk aren't expecting mamo to be the messiah. Because he won't be.

it seems mamo is struggling with the flexibility/movement in his ankle but it has improved alot recently and he is now running and training

id say 2, 3 weeks but yes i hope people dont expect miracles straight away

may add to our attack which is much much needed though thats a bonus!

Was away with Broughs best mate last weekend, Toronto have made Brough a big offer for next season, has a good deal with Hudds including coaching, so will be interesting to see what happens as you might want him off your cap.

interesting indeed

his contract is up end of 2018

big decision if true

would be good to keep at the club for coaching though, depends how long he want to carry on playing and if he fancies the stays away in canada from the kids/wife

Re: Mamo, he put his boot's on for the 1st time and took part in a drills training session last week.

As for the Brough rumour, i would have no problem if this were to happen - Danny Brough has almost single handedly pulled this club through in the last 6/7 years, we've had his best years and in that time he's given us some wonderful memories, whenever or wherever he goes he will do it with my blessing.
We need to find his replacement 1st though.

I would be happy for Brough to call it a day playing wise at the end of this season and get him in a coaching role. If he wants to carry on playing for a year then let him go to Toronto.

In regards to a replacement Jamie Ellis is not the answer.

Gareth Widdop is looking for a move to super league next season by all accounts?

We almost signed Theo Fages before he went to saints - would of been ideal replacement for years to come.

Youve got to say whoever we get is going to be overseas as there are very few English half backs about especially good enough to replace Broughy. That would mean Rapira not getting a new contract as his is up this year.

If Brough is playing injured.....why?? Surely this is when we should be taking him out and getting him sorted for the possible/probable big play off games at the end. Gaskell into stand off and Mackintosh to full back. Broughs goalkicking has been off so is this due to the injury? Use Cudjoe/ Gaskell / Brierley.
I'm not sure we will be bottom 4 because apart from Wigan and Cas the rest of SL is poor, but need to find a way of scoring....we waste so many tackles ploughing at a narrow area by the posts, but often look dangerous when moving the ball.

equalled the record for consecutive goals kicked today 42

oh to have someone who can kick goals!

Thanks for loaning him to us he is doing really well

Got to take into account that HKR are scoring a lot more tries in that league.

still got to convert the tries

I'm glad for you, but you will find him wanting at S league level, He is capable of good games but not often enough, Then again it depends on what the rest of the team are doing as well.