Funnily enough, he's lost it to another one of our old players who made the move over to Hudds at a similar time to Brough, Dale Ferguson.

It's amazing that some folk six months ago were on here chastising finn because he was past his best and only offered a useful kicking game.... Yet folk are also making a case for signing a guy who'll be 3 6 before the next game, because he offers a kicking game.....

The argument that brough would get a team over the line in a tight game at the end is probably true more often than not.... But would he be good enough at 36 to get a team INTO those positions to pinch games?

I'm sure it would be a more positive move to sign Hampshire on a long term deal, invest in the lad and show some commitment to developing him into a class half back. Wakefield have already given him game time to work towards that.

Signing brough for me would be a panic signing, which is completely unnecessary on Wakefields part. In a 1 up 1 down scenario, Wakefield have absolutely no chance of going down. Long term it'd be far more worth while to coach the younger pivots that they already have.

Brough is a risk to the squad, the coach, and the club as a whole. I personally don't see Wakefield as a club who need to take that risk.

If London, HKR or Salford were to sign him, I could see the value in that.... But not Wakefield.

Have you not thought that he's soon to be 36. How much older do you want to him be.

Brough’s kicking game is and always has been far superior to that of Finn. It certainly is not desperation stakes if we sign him, but an assessment that he could take us up a level. I trust the coaches.

Told tonight OP is correct, allegedly a testimonial next year swung the deal.

The way he upped sticks and left back in 2010, can't imagine many turning out for it.

Broughy coming soon

Good signingfor me if true, one year deal and show are younger halfbacks how its done.

would prefer Johnson

Still hoping it's a wind up because it would certainly be the 1st backward step the club has taken in about 4 years.

This is one of the strangest signings I can remember. Normally it would be heralded in order to boost ticket sales. However it may be kept secret for a while in order not to depress sales

My guess is that it is true and if so it one hell of a gamble by the person who decided to sign him. But if it pays off it could be a master stroke and take us to the next level.
However its a big IF !

It is a strange one if it still has any legs on it following the Reynolds signing, if the story had any legs at all.

That is, unless of course, we are also looking at the full back position. Like Hampshire, Reynolds can also play full back. Maybe Chessie seeing one of those as full back, with the other as back up to Miller and Brough.

Can't realistically see it myself though

Think Brough is a cracking signing looks like Hampshire will be at FB then. Brough behind our pack will be fantastic, still one of the best half backs in SL for me.

Agree, once Reynolds was signed I honestly thought that was the end of the Brough rumor, but no it's still going. Like you say what have we signed Renoylds for, where is Hampshire going to play, if he plays FB, what are we going to do with Jowitt and Hooley, that's presuming Grix is going. That is going to take some serious man management to keep everyone even remotely happy and I honestly don't know how it would work. With Halfbacks & FB's not getting hurt that often, there's potential for players to hardly get a game in that lot. Obviously, CC knows more than me so I'll let him get on with it if it happens and hopefully the risk pays off.