before the season started souths forwards talked of being the best in the nrl

in their first game against last years wooden spooners they came out breathing fire for 20 mins, then got belted.

burgess is learning the nrl is more than putting one big hit in the quad nations

every week you will be tested in the forwards

Do you honestly think living up to the hype is the mark of a good player? It says in that article that he is tipped to be the best British import ever. Does that mean he will be a failure if he doesn't surpass Ellery Hanley?

by the standards set by the media, absolutely.

souths needs to make top 4. thats pretty much the test

@ Dally

I have watched all Souffs games this season and Burgess, with Tayloy, have been thier only 2 decent forwards before yesterday. In fact that was the tactics used. Give it to Sam and see what happens. He has been pushing 30 tackles a game and is making 120m + a game. The kids not superman. He's never going to score 2 tries a game every week. He will put on the occasional big hit though and make metres for fun. Seriously, watch him. He never gets dominated in tge tackle. He always finds his front and the majority of the time is stood looking for tge offload with 2 people hanging off him.

Unfortunately Aussies will always bag 'pomes'(that's the first time aussies will know how it's spelt) but if you talk to supporters of the players club you find out the truth.

Purlease. Up until this week "being Souffs best forward" has meant SFA. However, well done this week.


Aiden Tolman.
And frankly I wouldn't swap Tolman for Burgess and a new Porche.

rubbish, morley earned his praise here

ellis was good last year and so far has been average

you are aware the tigers defence is terrible? ellis is one of the worst suspects

the tigers have zero defence, thats the forwards fault

good call on tolman

after seeing his performance on friday, i was amazed the storm can just keep producing players like this

really? You'd have Tolman over Burgess? I'm a Storm fan and I'd swap them any day of the week. Come on Rusty you know it makes sense, well to dawn patrol anyway!

Tolman is a great young prop in the making, plenty of metres made and tackles where as Burgess is a great attacking 2nd row, featuring in offloads, try scorers and breaks top 20 stat lists.

Burgess has shown nothing so far except that he is a very good player in a pretty average team. To quote Monty Python's George Bernard Shaw; "He stands out like a shaft of gold when all around is ****".

Tolman, on the other hand, stands out in the best team in the world. Big difference.

Aussies are such merkins

sterling agrees that "potentially" burgess could be the best english import ever

He won't be,he'll be 2nd after the Black Pearl.