Patrick Brough has 'no idea' if he'll earn a new contract after 'tough' season
Patrick Brough has ‘no idea’ if he’ll stay at Cobblers beyond the end of this season after admitting it’s been a ‘tough’ second campaign at Sixfields.
Having racked up 41 appearances in his debut season at the club, Brough’s been limited to just four games this time around after breaking his leg against Huddersfield in September. The 29-year-old left-back, out of contract this summer, returned for the final few minutes at Crawley on Saturday and will hope to play again in this weekend’s final day fixture against Wigan, but beyond that his future is uncertain.
"I hope I get another opportunity at the weekend,” said Brough. “I can only control the controllables and there's only one game left. The lads have played 40 odd games and they're shattered but I'd love another 10, 15 games! But it's the way it works and hopefully I can impress the gaffer in training and then against Wigan at the weekend.
"I have no idea what will happen. The gaffer will make his decisions when the season is done and I'll just do what I can do and focus on myself and paint the best possible picture for him to look at me.”
Reflecting on a difficult season, Brough added: "I'm not going to lie, it has been tough. I like to think I'm mentally quite strong and I knew it was going to be a long lay-off with the injury I had when the results came back but it's part and parcel of your career.
"I've had 10, 12 year career so far and I haven't had a bad injury before this one. It was devastating at the time and I knew there wouldn't be much of the season left when I came back.
"But you've got to look at the positives and I enjoyed playing a few minutes at the end against Crawley. You put all that hard work in for six, seven months to get back out there so you've got to enjoy it.”