If that's the extent of your understanding then I'll be happy to ignore anything you've got to add for the foreseeable future.

Billy Slater anyone?



Er . . Ryan Hall?

Billy Slater is generally excellent under the high kick, and wouldn't exactaly call Hall slow either.

Slaters got a long rap sheet where the high ball is concerned, amongst his other high profile brain farts. Australia should have dropped him 10 years ago using your logic.

Hall, for a winger, is not fast anymore. He's bulked up too much and doesn't have the speed at International level anymore 'yet' he's still one of the best finishers in the game.

What a poor response. To be honest, if that is all you are capable of coming up with to disagree, then you can keep it on ignore, as your view would mean nothing anyway.

Ryan Hall is plenty fast enough and I would bet he is in the fastest 3/4 over 60 metres in the whole squad

I'll add a lack of originality to the list of your deficiencies!

It's your money to lose!

I don't think he's as slow as has been made out but I'd be very surprised if he can beat Charnley and J.Burgess for pace, touch and go with S.Tomkins, Hardaker and Watkins too I'd have thought

Joel Monaghan is pretty slow for a winger, but he scores a fair number of tries

Avenger please. Sam Tomkins does not offer a kick return! Not so much in the S/L and practically not at all in the NRL.
Those aspects are, along with his poor reading of high kicks, possibly the worst aspects of his F/Back playing ability.

Sam's worth and this is indisputable, is his brilliant slotting into the threequarters and the majesty of his accurate and almost perfect passes.
At that he is practically peerless.
Brave to a fault, but as an outstanding F/Back he is way beyond all, certainly most,of those within the NRL mentioned by the others making their comparisons on here.

He made 1.3 errors per NRL game last year and missed 1.5 tackles. Given we finished outside the 8, that's not bad, especially when compared to the high flying roosters Minichiello who comes in at 1.6 and 1.3 in the same area.

He's not my favourite player by any means, he is very suspect under the high bomb and he's a luxury I don't think we needed at the NZ Warriors, but he's not the worst.