Has he started a number of games against tough opposition yet where he has been under pressure to pull the strings like Black and Branighan are every week. He is decent in defence and a decent size i didn't mean physically, I'm sorry but if I was told to pick a stand-off for playing a game against Barrow/Widnes I would choose all of these above him:

Branighan
Gene
Beswick

If Bowman was given time to be able to boss the team, he would do ok. If Black & Penky are not in the side, he would take control, for the teams sake, in my opinion

To be fair to Tony Fax 2 his opinion is slightly biased afterall he only watches half of our games through the season and most sports teams do perform better at home. Now if he started attending the away games i might take his opinion with slightly more than a pinch of salt.