Quote: vastman "No he isn't, get a grip, is there no end to some Wigan fans arrogance? Since when has TJ blown hot and cold, sop making up rubbish. He was dropped once early in the season big wow. Blowing hot and old with 25 tries, seriously don't think I've ever read a more stupid comment.'"
To be fair, I don't think we'd say that any of our other players (bar SO'L) are the best in their position. Gildart in the future perhaps, but we're very well off for wingers and a fully fit Manfredi is clearly the best of a very good bunch.
As others have said, he's just frighteningly well rounded, can score any kind of try but also defends & runs his weight as well as any outside-back in the comp. Pound-for-pound as hard as any player in the league, brilliant in the air with excellent footwork, phenomenal awareness. Wigan's attack hasn't been all that great going to our right hand side for a few years now, but he's the sort of player who can create tries for himself out of nothing.
Johnstone is a very, very good winger who deserves his place in the England set up in front of Dom seeing as he's only been fit for a couple of months. I don't accept that he's a better player though, or that any winger in SL is for that matter (on-form Ryan Hall probably was with his all-round game, but that's another debate).