As good as Tomkins is, Robbie Paul was twice as good before his injuries.

Indeed not Wilks...since to go on to say "...it could be several years further down the line when we will have plummeted at least as low as Bradford did, in their late-noughties wilderness years before they started to get their shìt together again and the natural order of things was restored." - would have understandably be more pain than any self-respecting loiner could be expected to bear? So, in my ongoing aim to help those in need, I've written it for you. You now only need to nod your head in private, cos no-one need see you say it in public. No charge, either!



Hope its otherwise all going OK for you down under?

Sam Tomkins is the 2nd most talked-about player in SL (after TMFMISL), which tells you something.

He's a great talent, and some of the stuff he has been doing this season has been great to watch. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone do amazing things in attack as often as he does. I'm not going to blame him for the over-hyping, that's not his job and he doesn't control it. One think I have noticed, regarding his defence, is that while he's still not the best one-on-one defender, as a full back hae has started to apply his ability to read the game (which I sincerely believe he does better than anyone else in the league - one of those who doesn't have to try, he just sees things in a way his peers don't) to his defensive work. His reading of attacking kicks is superb.

I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do against the Aussies this autumn.

I am firmly in the camp that would like to see him go to Oz, not to prove anything, but because I think it would make him a better player. I think the defensive discipline on show in the NRL makes playmakers have to work a bit harder to make things happen. This leads them to learn new things, and avoids them developing one good trick and getting lazy. If your one trick keeps working, there's no real incentive to come up with any more. I have absolutely no doubt that Tomkins would be a massive hit in the NRL if he wants to be, and little doubt England would benefit from that.

However, hardly my place to tell the lad he has to up sticks and move to the other side of the world to work. I wouldn't, so that would be hypocritical in the extreme...

Quite, three times as good!!

And he didn't "go down like he'd been shot every time he got tackled" (Taken from a quote from Ben Thaler on Friday night.)

Yep definitely the most over-hyped player around.

The Superleagues best attacking player bombed at least three tries against the wires including one absolute beauty in the first half. That pass to his Brother's feet when he'd drawn the full back and had three men in space to his right was up there with the worst passes I've ever seen.