Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Same for me. Rads like Wellens at Saints were very good fullbacks and GREAT clubmen, but Sam had the x-factor. Some talk about his defence being poor but I remember him winning the game for us at Cas with three great tackles on Denny Solomona.'"
Correct
And I thought long and hard about extending my original post but didn't.
Because for every mistake Tomkins made, I could pick out one that Rads did and vice versa
And all we do then is criticise one or the other to deliegitimise the other, when the reality is at their time they were both the best this country had to offer.
Rads was very good, but just because Tomkins "Could" play somehwere else its a cop out to select him there. Rads probably played more games at centre for us than Tomkins did half back.
If you did pick Tomkins at FB you wouldn't have the response "But we have to get Rads in somehwere" because you don't.
But Tomkins has to be in
PS
On a 4hr flight recently me and another poster on here picked our best 17
As I went back a bit further (and deliberately to avoid the George Fairburn question) we went from 81/82
No1 - Sam Tomkins (Both massive fans of Rads) but Tomkins was Special
I'll reveal the full team later