None. but an extra 200K will sugar the pill.

Great player? No. Good against lower table sides. Ineffective against top sides last year and this. And certainly not a leader.

He is a good player who wants the Widnes dollar. if that is where his head is, so be it.

Ashame as a good player and money talks.

A contract means you get a transfer fee compared to nothing at all.

Re watching the challenge cup game versus broncos on sky I did wonder if something was afoot.

i could not figure out why barrie and terry kept bigging up KB. They talked about him again and again. he had a sound game game but several of our lads were better. Then KB gets man of the match! awarded by...terry and barrie.



Why such a one eyed analysis?

I am sure that the fact that barrie and tez are close sky colleagues of Phil clark and Phil's brother is KB's agent has nothing to do with it....but it did make me think

Did he jump or was he pushed? I hope we know what we're doing. If Brough leaves too, it will be clear that we don't. Brown may not be as good a player as he promised to be I his early career but he's still a very good player and we NEED to replace him IMO.

Now now no need for that!

always makes me smile when players , football and rugby say they`re moving to be nearer their family . just how far is wigan from huddersfield , i know that every now and then the m 62 is blocked , but you`d think it was a weeks forced march to get home . anyway best of luck to the lad

Steady on everybody. Kevin has made this decision himself from a purely personal point of view. We know what he had been through to become a dad and so surely can't begrudge him putting his family first.
If kevin was still playing HB then I'd be more upset- personally I'd rather have fooey at loose on a regular basis.
We have decent players who can step in at LF - and we get a rather large transfer fee so it's a good move for all- most of all kevs family.

A pity.

But not a disaster and life goes on. There will be some quite exciting news before next season.

Think our next captain was at the gym this morning. Pity about his hamstring at the moment.

ok then. Don't embarrace yourself like the countless other times you think you know what's going on

lack of ambition on kevins part for me, as previous posters have posted does seem to bottle it in the bigger games, sorry to see him go but for us to take the next step probably needed, heard rumours 2 months ago he was looking to go back that way just suprised that its widnes hes going to. From what i hear though brough rumours unlikely to be true but u never know.
Lets hope that baloos trip down under resulted in him having spotted some players to replace kev.

^ This.

Let's go sign a top Aussie pivot now to take us to the next level.Someone a bit like B.Finch if at all possible.

Rumour has it that FC have the highest bid in for Finch at the minute outbidding a couple of teams. Wigans bid is a poor one apparently.

Really...give some examples.

Claiming thewlis 'forced Brown out' to get a transfer fee. You are sooo desperate. You want us to see KB as some 'slave' you are so dumb.

Brett Ferres to replace Brown?

This could mean there is salary space for some interesting signings. Forget Aussie journeymen - we only occasional strike gold, let's stick with the policy of young English players and promote from within. We have a fantastic crop of youngsters coming through who all went on the Australia tour a couple of seasons ago.

Spot on.



Sad some want to use this move as an excuse to besmirch the club.

great shout.

A shame, he's been a great servant to our club but he has a family to think about and there happiness is more important than our entertainment.
plus with a transfer fee hopefully we can replace him with someone of better quality in the halves.

Thank for the service Kev and good luck.

Couldn't agree more. We have far too much of an obsession with players from down under in this country.

Why, I wouldn't want to travel from Huddersfield to Wigan to work every day, whether I had a young kid or not.

My brother was offered a job in Liverpool but took demotion to the shop floor to stay in Huddersfield cos he didn't want to uproute his family. Can't see how it's any different for a footballer.

A few points on this

1) Kev Brown has been a good player for Giants and will be missed

2) Brent Finch (currently maybe not some years ago) is not as good as Brown as has been touted on this thread.

3) Browny has not been playing particularly well this season, a lot of this is down to the Tinkerman trying to turn him into a loose forward.

4) It's fair to say in the big games Browny has failed to show up.

5) No aussies please as a replacement. But which uk number 6 is better.

6) Clearly family comes before career for Kev as franky Widnes are S***te at the moment. Patrick Ah Van - gotta love him but not for the right reasons - comedy gold.

If Giants also let Broughy go then it says to me that it's back to mid table mediocrity, which would be a shame with all the young talent.

As for LOD as captain you must be joking, A great leader but I thank my lucky stars when he's fit to play. Big G has more minutes on the pitch.

Funniest post of the day.

Finch has been outstanding this season.

He's also played State of Origin and won NRL grand finals.

Brown would get no where near at NSW or QLD shirt.

I think it makes a refreshing change that players like Kevin Brown don't just want to stay at the top clubs but want to take the challenge of moving to a lower team and helping make them better. Same for Nathan Brown as well.