Louis Mccarthy Scarsbrook looks big enough to develop into a quality prop, he certainly has a great pair of ball playing hands and pace. The last time he played for England he looked impressive, he`s always improving the more you see him. He looks to be going the Jamie Peacock route, a quality 2nd rower that looks just as comfortable at prop.

As for Sam Tomkins, he will improve a lot more when he doesn`t have to play 2nd fiddle to the likes of Thomas Leuluai at club level and Kevin Sinfield at international level, the more game time he has as an organiser and a 1st reciever then the more i think he`ll improve.

Wigan need a decent coach to bring the likes of Tomkins along and develop him as a better all round team player, he`s certainly an exciting prospect just like Eastmond with ball in hand, he just needs that raw youth coaching out of him which will help him mature as a player.

I think there's a few forwards kicking around that if they progress look to have decent futures.

I was surprised that Luke Burgess didn't make this squad to be honest, add to him LMS, Cooper, Prescott, Adamson, Harrison, Lunt, J.Tomkins and a few others, I think the future of the pack looks safe.

ok

Hate to say this but there was a HUGE mitake in selections under smith.

MYLER - Not ready/ little experience.

TOMKINS - paper thin (just look at ausies 6 and 7), tackled with ball too often, terrible kicking to hands of slater.

BRIDGE - Absolutely ludicrous.

to start.

6 and 7 were major failings in the team. Eastmond for me shows more than TOMKINS.

It should have been dare i say it.

BROUGH - He is an awesome place/goal kicker and slater would have been made to work, Has plenty experience, good defender and takes on the line well. About the best british hb re: goldthorpe last 2 years.


PRYCE - would be an ideal partner for brough and has more presence on the filed.

ATKINS - shame he was injured.

If it was on form Brough awould have been in and MYLER and BRIDGE nowhere near.

poor

If we had more young players of Tomkins' quality, the future of English Rugby League would look a lot brighter than it currently does.

seconded

Probably why Tim Sheens rates him. If only he'd checked with you first, eh?

may be he should....what this lad needs is to grow up and lose that chip on his shoulder then he may become better than average....

You? Saying someone needs to lose a chip on their shoulder? Now that is irony! Do you actually ever make a post or start a thread that isn't about Wigan?

Chip on his shoulder? Yeah alright then.

Personally i'm pretty happy with the lad whos not even had a full season yet, but got in the dream team as well as YPOTY.

I thought he did get caught with the ball a bit too much last night but he'll learn from it, thought he did a couple of decent things with ball in hand but definately had a better game last week against NZ.

So you're now surprised that you get replies from Wigan fans on a thread about Tomkins. Did you know that Monday follows Sunday too? Amazing isn't it! What's life like in a constant state of amazement? Mind you, you know what they say about small minds..

wink, see it's happening again, go away pie boy! some one ban this moron please!