Brough - well he’s not the player he was- but replacing him would be difficult. Of those left there is only Hinchcliffe who I’d be sorry to see leave. The rest are easily replaceable with similar players.

Agree with this. Shame about Symonds , good player but clearly one injury away from retirement. Now is the time to start scouring upcoming talent for the Brough replacement. It will be very hard whenever we do it, but the end of this year is the right time to start fresh for me. We really can't change the way we play until Brough is replaced, time for the club to look upward and do the neccesary, but i fear they will play it safe and give him another year, prolonging the agony.

We should have looked after Connor properly and we would have been sorted. Worst decision we've made in recent years to try and get him on the cheap. Ironically we replaced him with older more expensive players, of a similar ability with less potential in gaskell and rankin.

Agree with all the above plus a change off the field as well

we could replace brough now with gaskell.

but brough is staying so we are stuck with poor attack and awful goal kicking for at least another season.

hinchcliffe will highly likely be going home.

Has Brough ever been dropped in his entire time at the club and if not what would he have to do get dropped

Wasn’t he dropped when he lost the captaincy?

Realistically though it's the Giants we're talking about here, more likely scenarios:

Symonds - he'll get fit and have a couple of decent games, get a 2 year deal deal of the back of it and then get injured.

Hinchliffe - New 2 year deal with Stone commenting "He's a well respected member of the squad"

Murphy - Similar scenario but a 3 year deal. "We're glad murph chose to end his career with the Giants, a hugely popular figure in the dressing room"

Wakeman - I think he'll 100% be going.

Brough - 1 year deal. "Important figure at the club who has still got it at 35 and great kicking game"

Mamo - I thought be would be going but after recent performances, no NRL could would have him. He'll end up in the NSW cup or get a 3 year deal here.

Ferguson - 3 year deal.

This is why the club don't need a marketing department, they can just copy and paste your comments, bang on.

Also, great news about Sam Wood signing up for the next few years, hope he gets some game time now!

You are right about Connor, it's sickening to see how well he is progressing at Hull, with his good hands and rugby brain he was always going to make a good half. He's not the quickest, but he has the x factor, especially near the oppositions line.

good news on sam wood, think he could be a good second rower for us

prob see him play centre tonight and never let us down.

we have lost jake connor, mullally and joe wardle in recent times... wasnt long ago we used to lose players and they werent much of a loss as they never went onto do anything but maybe we are losing a few now

cant keep them all though remember!!