I know we're not really supposed to talk about this, but I can't help thinking if the main problem is the ongoing investigation of so many Hudds players for an alleged criminal offence.

No professional sports team could maintain its levels of intensity with that kind of distraction in the background.

Without a doubt that will be affecting them. Look at Steven Gerrard this season over in the footy, hes been e by his standards and a lot of it is down to off the field shenanigans.

Of course it will have affected them, and if it is going to trial, it will continue to affect them.

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Kevin Brown as 2 years left on his contract with Giants and will be full filling them.I hope this clears things up for you thank you, All the best for the rest of your season. RT,

Good player who should never have been booted out of Wigan. Took dog's abuse.

I agree with Mugwump.

I'm not sure that I do.

Whilst he could have been given longer, I still believe that he bought in to his own hype at the time (mainly propagated by Stevo and "the watch" incident.

There's no doubt that he's improved as a player since leaving Wigan, but that could simply be down to growing up and realising that maybe he wasn't quite as good as he thought he was.

I'm still not convinced that we need him, nor that he would be anything other than a utility player if we did bring him back.

As I've said before though - I've not seen any reason to doubt the new management, so whatever they decide, I'm sure it will work out in the end.

Dave Parker said on the radio last night that Brown's agent was touting him around here and in the NRL. He thought the player may be more interested in going with Nathan Brown to an NRL club.

More interested in going the NRL than Wigan? Not a chance

I'd believe this if anyone other than Dave Parker had said it. During his Rugby Leaguer days, I never knew any columnist put pen to as many rumours that turned out to be nonsense.

Brown has been after a move to NRL for some time now, I guess alot depends on how keen Nathan Brown is on taking him with him to Cronulla. Should that not come about, I still feel he will not be at the Galpharm next season and it would seem quite likely that he would return to Wigan, a club which along with Stephen Wild he probably feels he has unfinished business at. The main difference being that it would appear that unfortunately Wildy's career is reaching it's conclusion whereas Brown's is going from strength to strength. As he is in contract for a further three years a deal involving a small fee and Goulding coming the other way should see that it happens, I would be delighted to see Goulding in the Claret and Gold....have been a fan for years.

Don't blame you he has been playing really well for us and still can't fathom out why he didn't get the nod last Saturday. KP has scored a few tries recently but doesn't offer what Goulding does for my money.
Always felt sorry about Kevin Brown leaving and he did get some stick off some on here but think that was as much to do with him being a gangly kid with a long neck at the time and a lot of un-necessary and personal remarks were made that clearly didn't do a lot for his confidence - you only need to read his bit in the book Match of My Life to know this. Obviously he has filled out now and looks more the finished product than he did and I for one would be happy to see him back at Wigan