Great honour. He received the VB $1000 award from Andrew Johns who said " We love having you here and enjoy watching you play."

The commentators, especially Ray Warren, were raving about him throughout the match.

He and Sam Burgess and George Burgess are having a huge impact on the NRL, and are raising Australian awareness of English rugby league talent.

It will be interesting to see if Hock, Mossop and Casty can match the impact of those three, especially since Tom Burgess is due to burst on to the NRL scene very soon and form the Terrible Twins with identical brother George.

Dont think many people will be surprised at the impact burgess and graham have had on the nrl.hock has the potential to be a big hit but anything could happen with him,hes a complete hand granade.mossop and casty are good props and will do well similar to luke burgess but they cant be expected to have the same impact as burgess and graham who are a different level.

Glad to read that Jammer received the MoM award today. I've recorded the match and am looking forward to watching it tomorrow night when there is no Superleague on TV.

He's fantastic.

While we often hear Sam talk about how much he loved it here, I don't even know how Graham feels. He's probably spoken about it and I've just missed it, but I hope he's really enjoying himself because we'd love him to stick around.

Josh Reynolds should have got it

Graham and the Burgesses ought to be doing well as they are our best players

For once come the WC at least the Aussies and Kiwis will think that the Poms actually have some decent player which is different from the last few years

It's all in the mind........apparently

We have a great pack that can easily match the Aussies.

Its not all in the mind anymore but it is in the halves.

Which is rubbish IMO

We have options in the halves something which we've rarely had. Despite what the doom mongers say on here we actually have the strongest squad in a very long time, saying that so do the Aussies

I've heard rumors that he is homesick but I hope it isnt true because the Dogs are a different team with him in than they are when he isn't there. Just look at how our pick up of form coincided with his return to the side. Im sure since he came back theres only been 1 loss, and that was to Newcastle.

Agree about their halves, I sometimes forgot how lucky I've been to see the johns/Lockyer era, they were scarily good.

Cronk and thurston can be contained look at origin 1. I also don't think outr half backs are half as bad as people on here make out.

Johns and Lockyer only played 3 games together in the Halves, against New Zealand.
Johns career was nearly over when Lockyer was moved from Fullback to Stand Off.

And it was Brett Kimmorley at 7 (a Newcastle junior who had to go elsewhere because Joey Johns was in front of him!) who played alongside Lockyer when the destroyed Great Britain in the last two Ashes series.

The forwards haven't managed to get the bestter of their opposites no matter how often people try and 'big up' our pack and tell ourselves our pack is better than there's on paper it doesn't mean it will translate on to the field. The way the English pack has been almost mythologised over the last few years is very similar to how the English soccer team (the golden generation) was always held in the same regard as the best soccer teams in the world despite never managing to match them, especially when it really mattered.