Seriously? That’s great news, we need him back no matter how well Patton is playing. At some point our first choice halves need rotating to give them a rest, especially if we end up in a cup run.

Maybe Price knew Brown wouldn’t be out for the season and that’s why he didn’t rush to sign someone on the cal space.

It comes to something when people want Brown back. If I had a quid for every time I’ve exclaimed “bloody hell Brown” when watching him.

Garbage IMO. I’d rather play Dec.

Of course I await my correction and abuse for holding this opinion.

A direct substitution scapegoat for scapegoat or have people forgotten that Kevin brown was recently our scapegoat? In all seriousness it would be good to have kev back, we need a bit more competition in the halves.

I know we got an exemption for Kevin browns wage on our salary cap but I'm not sure how that would work in brown comes back halfway through the season in terms of our cap space allocation. It must surely count in some capacity.

The exemption for Kevin browns wage on our salary cap was taken but we never signed anyone to take his place. So there is no problem. I don't know how Luther Burrell will fit into our salary cap. Maybe with the 6 months that Brown was not playing will take care of that.

Isn't the 1st season for Luther cap free returning after 5 years out of the game?

first 2 years of burrell's contract don't count at all on the salary cap. then 50% in the third year.

First season is zero on cap second season is 50% I'm not sure if 1st season counts as July to end of season.

he's exempt up until the end of his first full season, we've played a blinder on this in terms of cap management bringing him in partway through this year.

With some players absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Brown was slagged off for 2 years but since he has got injured his reputation has improved amongst the Wire faithful.

The same happens with Patton when he is out of the side. If Brown comes back in for Patton, after a few weeks this board will be full of posts slagging Brown off and hailing Patton as the home town wonderkid and future of the club being unfairly held back.

Truth is that neither are sufficiently good enough for us now.

In Brown's defense however he has played at the very top level in his career (World Cup Final as starting halfback in 2017) and has played for 340 Super League games, across 4 clubs, with 2 being top clubs.

I don't think Dec will achieve either of those.

It's a good shout and funny how it works in different ways for different players. Simon Grix was a terrific player for us, but whenever he got injured you would have folk on here saying 'send him to Widnes'.

On coming back, it would take a few months but people slowly came to appreciate him again.

It seemed to take a long time for our fans to appreciate Simon grix, Toby King seems to have suffered the same. We all see the game differently I suppose but the rugby brain and ability to test a defence was apparent in both early on for me. Don't get me wrong there are others I never saw anything from that others have rated.

Grixs (Wire) career ending injury is one of the biggest shames in my time watching the wire. He was probably one of our most important players in a team full of big names, potential captain material.

For me Grix was/is the last ball playing loose forward we have had.Seems we go with an extra prop these days.

I'm happy with a prop at 13. We've a spine of 1 6 7 9 11.

I like Matt Davis at 13, he brings speed and energy and hits above his size and weight. Great signing for us so far, not a world beater by any means but in the same mold as Philbin in he gives it his all

Agree with that. Every club needs a handful of players like Philbin and Davis. Great squad members.

I think Davis could develop into something special.

Well let's see who wants to rip Dec today for Austin's poor game.
Even for all of Patton's inability. I've never seen him as poor as Austin today.

Ever seen him step and score a try like that either?

Patton been took off for a Prop says enough

Patton was worse that Austin in the second half. Credit only if due.

Ratchford gone in the halves and Goodwin to fullback.
But all to late.

I hope we stick with this now.

Hooked off for a prop when we needed creativity to score. LOL

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