When JM was in discussions with O'Meley he was told that DB was signing next year. Does this mean the end for cookey ? can dobson and brough play together ?

I can see that tbh, Brough and Dobson both play the same role so the balance in the halves would not be great.

Oh please God no.. Danny Brough.

Its not that great at the moment

Who told him DB was signing? As coach wouldn't he be the one in the know already???

JM TOLD MO whilst in their discussions, obviously MO asked about other signings

obviously not, JM might have used it as a tactic when he asked for 170k p/year and mentioned his knee was knackered

I think the Jamie Rooney signing tipped things in your favour.

If true, I'd guess at the following answers:

Cooke - probably would go. Could play 13, with Murrell covering there and hooker, but I doubt it.

Dobson and Brough might work, perhaps as split halves (halfs?). The good thing would be that if either got injured, it wouldn't be season over. We've got players who can cover 6, but not really another 7 - though I guess Cooke did much of the traditional 7 role at Hull.

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it just yet.

I reckon brough and fisher would split the hooking role and everybody else would be unaffected.

He might be a gobby little but cracking player who could give cover at 6,7,9 and 13

Brough hasn't played at 9 for quite a while, and he wasn't that good there when he was with us. I'd say that Fisher would be the better hooker by some margin.

the way i see it if we played brough as an interchange hooker we would benefit from his speed at the play the ball. He would be much more effective than fitzhenry so it would be an improvement in the least. He can also kick the ball from dummy half which is becoming a very big part of the game. I'd like to see us give it a go if brough, as rumoured, does sign for us.