HUDDERSFIELD coach Jon Sharp has pin-pointed old team-mate Lee Jackson and young-gun Danny Brough as the two danger-men ahead of Sunday's quarter-final.

Sharp was at Hull with former Great Britain hooker Jackson for five seasons, while he has also known Brough for some time having coached the 21-year-old scrum-half in Wakefield Trinity Wildcats' junior set-up.

"I played with Lee Jackson for five years and he's an obvious threat from dummy-half," Sharp told the Evening Press. "He's still a quality player and he will ask questions of us.

"Danny Brough is also a threat. His kicking game is as good as anybody's, even in Super League.

"I coached him at Wakefield when he was a junior there and he's got a tremendous left boot.

"They're the two major threats and Scott Rhodes (stand-off) is a smart player as well. In fact they've got good players all over the park."

Sharp also revealed that he was an admirer of Knights' veteran Rich Hayes, who is due to step out of retirement one last time in Sunday's quart-er-final at the McAlpine Stadium.

Ventured the Giants' coach: "I actually tried to sign Rich Hayes for Batley while I was coach there (in 2000), which says what I think of him."

Updated: 10:41 Thursday, March 25, 2004