yeah I doubt it

Quote Trinity18="Trinity18"yeah I doubt it'" Might I recommend the player profiles on the Manly website or even wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Trbojevic Good enough to play twice for Australia last year.

Quote Trinity18="Trinity18"yeah I doubt it'" Might I recommend the player profiles on the Manly website or even wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Trbojevic Good enough to play twice for Australia last year.

Quote LyndsayGill="LyndsayGill"Might I recommend the player profiles on the Manly website or even wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Trbojevic Good enough to play twice for Australia last year.'" Thanks LyndsayGill, your point has been noted. However be careful when relying on Wikipedia for information, the information can be tampered with by the general public so therefore is not always accurate.

Quote LyndsayGill="LyndsayGill"Might I recommend the player profiles on the Manly website or even wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Trbojevic Good enough to play twice for Australia last year.'" Thanks LyndsayGill, your point has been noted. However be careful when relying on Wikipedia for information, the information can be tampered with by the general public so therefore is not always accurate.

When both in there prime barba was better but tomkins was still a very good player. Shame the injuries have really hurt him.

Seen him play.

With regard to wikipedia, at the age of 62 I'd sort of worked that out myself.

Doesn't look like he knew about [iTurbo[/i.

I'd take a young Tompkins over this years Barba. Both exceptional talents but Tompkins was exceptional for years. Tompkins this year is good from what I've seen but not a shadow of his pre NRL days. He was the one talent in the sport that was recognisable nationwide other than Burgess. Such a shame that he left when he did.

Tomkins’ displays this year are showing that he is still a class player, he may have lost a little pace but has compensated with increased creativity. I’d say Barba is the better player but not by as much as some are taking pleasure in claiming.

That said I’d still take Tomkins over Barba in my team on the grounds that I expect Barba to be back off to Australia sooner rather than later where as I’d hope for at least 3 more good seasons from Tomkins. Just for the record even though he plays for the old enemy I’d like Barba to stay in SL as the competition is better with players of his ilk.

Barba for me, purely based on his team play. Tomkins lacks this

If we are comparing now as Superleague Players then Barba has stats that Tomkins really struggles with as an overall impact game.

Barba wins for trys 8 v 1, tackle busts 45 v 19, clean breaks 7 v 2. Tomkins is level on try assists 7 v 7 and errors are even also. Surprisingly Tomkins is well down on metres with Barba double what Tomkins is achieving 600 metres Barba Tomkins 300 metres, obviously stats don't mean everything but the difference in ratios are hard to ignore.

Right now probably Barba. In 6 months time probably Tomkins (when Barba ditches Saints to go back to the NRL).

Don't mean now. When Barba was at his best he had the best FB in the world to compete with for that Jersey. Not forgetting there was also Jarryd Hayne on the scene.