Quote: giwildgo "I hope you're not an RL scout or have any association to the sport other than being a fan of Salford, otherwise the future of the sport and its youngsters is incredibly bleak. Clearly you can't spot a natural raw talent at a young age, that needs time and experience to develop, expecting miracles in a player's first season. Tomkins has shown flashes of the quality that will make him a fine player at the very least with a bit of luck avoiding injuries. Myler is also a potentially great player and is ahead in his development due to an increased amount of first team games that he's played and the lack of expectation at his club that allows him to express himself a little more than Sam. However I'd say Tomkins has the far higher ceiling as a player in the next decade because of his superior ability to read the game, to go along with his natural talents.
At Salford its no surprise that Myler, Ratchford, Turner and Adamson shine at a young age and good luck to them. But its because of the dross around them forcing them into a prominent role in the team, rather than them being in anyway superior to youngsters in the academy at Wigan, Saints, Leeds, Hull, etc, that struggle to establish themselves in the first team at such a young age because of the general higher quality of players and expectations at those clubs.'"
I hope you're not an RL scout either. You criticise cherrydevil (whose view I don't particulary agree with) for saying that the players around Tomkins make him look better than he is and then proceed to do pretty much the exact same thing about our younger players by strangely saying they look good because they're surrounded by garbage.
It's more difficult to look good in a crap team than it is to look good in a team full of quality players - look at Ste Tyrer, he was the next Jamie Lyon a couple of years ago.
