HULL KR assistant coach Chris Chester says Rovers have a couple of plans in place to stop Danny Brough when Huddersfield visit MS3 Craven Park tomorrow.
Brough has been in superb form, helping the Giants go from perennial underachievers to real Super League contenders.
The Giants, now coached by Paul Anderson, are currently second in the table, three points behind leaders Wigan.
Chester and Brough were team-mates in 2005 when Hull FC beat Leeds to win the Challenge Cup and Chester says today's version of Brough is much better than the one he played alongside.
"In 2005, Danny was a really good player," Chester said.
"It was some off-the-field stuff that let him down. He has really settled down now with a wife and two kids."
Brough has one of the best kicking games in Super League and can unlock a defence in a split-second with one of his trademark kicks, having already kicked four 40/20s this season.
But Chester hopes the plans he and coach Craig Sandercock have been working on will be good enough to contain the scrum-half.
"Danny is the key," Chester said. "We have to somehow negate his kicking game.
"If we do that, we'll go a long way to winning, but that's easier said than done.
"I watched the game against St Helens and he's kicking on the second and third tackle. It's pretty hard to defend against and our back three have a big job on their hands as he will turn us around a lot. It will be difficult but we have to make sure we pressure him from the inside whenever he does get the ball.
"We have to make him kick early and to places he doesn't want to kick to."
For many people, Brough had played his way into England coach Steve McNamara's plans for the game against the Exiles at Warrington's Halliwell Jones Stadium on June 14.
Brough, though, is now available for Scotland, having said he wouldn't play for England earlier this week.
Chester, who will be assistant to Scotland coach Steve McCormack during the World Cup, is pleased by Brough's decision.
"Danny is probably the form player in Super League at the minute," Chester said.
"He is unlucky not to be in the England set-up, but that's Scotland's gain."
