Indeed. I'm happy we are not going above our best valuation, but really disappointed we couldn't get a deal going with him.
Hope we get a good deal but not sure about player exchanges.

Unless they are giving us a top player (who is not heading "alledgedly" for a stretch somewhere) we might as well get the cash and shop around.

Crabtree, Lunt and £100,000 is my first negotiation point. If they didn't like that I'm prepared to add Wild instead of Lunt.

Simple, no point having a player on board who doesn't want to play for you. Even with the most grounded of players that is hugely disruptive, in the case of a big personality like Brough it could be a disaster. Players are people and once you are compromised as in any job it's over. It was just about plausible to believe Ellis would have played his contract out but not Brough. He's far too abrasive to do that, just think you are a player, you have committed to the club for two years and you get a volley of abuse from a player who's already got a massive contract sorted elsewhere - nah.

Broughy been a great player and I thank him for that and wish him well but he is now damaged goods for us.

I agree.

Wanted him to stay, but if he doesn't want to then let him go. I think it is a positive move to let him go. The team is more important than the individual.

so true , we fell apart when he was off the field at KR.....oh hang on


Cooke will be fine all be it a different kind o0ff player but if king kear can wave his magic wand i think we are gonna get the very best out off Cooke.

I was just about to post the same.

Wait and see what happens. Its been stated that whatever happens will be in the best interest of Wakefield Trinity and I for one believe that will be the case.

I know its not like me but stop all this talk of "doom and gloom" - we will come out of this stronger.

That's a beauty!!!!

Of course we are poorer in the short term, but the reality is that Brough is no good to us if not committed. so yes we will need to compensate and players step forward but far from shafted. We have never been a one man team but it will take time to adjust.

It appears as if Danny has been playing us off against against Huddersfield regarding offers for a good while.

Nobody seems to have mentioned that Hudds are not allowed to offer him anything till the deadline in June/July (or whenever it is, can't quite remenber) unless we give them permission - which we obviously didn't seeing as we were doing our very best to persuade him to sign a new contract.

Could this be why we are in a strong negotiating position ... ?

Thats what I think and I also think we should get money/player(s) for an asset before it depriciates to nothing.

Whilst losing a great talent I feel like he is a bad influence. How he treated Morton on friday was a disgrace the pass was behind him and he turned away shaking his head and muttering to himself. He did this all threw the game and against the Giants. Morton the 1st 4 games he was exceptional he saved us tries and scored some hard ones. Its the lads first proper season in the first team and by no coincidence his form has now dropped and for me its probably because Danny is being a complete idiot with him. As a senior player of the team like Danny is, I think his behaviour the last 2 games is a disgrace he should be patting the lad on his back saying unlucky (help building his confidence) Instead of taking it away! We played better friday without MR BIGTIME on the field ! IF he does not want to sign we have offered him more than any other trin player in history. Fair enough let him go I don't blame Ted only thing is we should have got rid at the start of season and got a replacement. Brough won't be happy at Shudds as Brown won't take the crap that we have. Believe me. Brough = ££££££ bad egg