Quote Billinge Wires="Billinge Wires"What I saw was Tomkins loosing his cool on several occassions rather than Briers winding him up and in the matches I have seen him in , all on tv apart from the hj match and friendly is that he can give as good as he gets.
However I was disappointed with his performance, although behind a beaten pack , he does not look like half the player that Myler is imo.'"
Not really fair to compare Myler and Tomkins. Myler is an out and out 7, the team trust him and play to him letting him control the game from 1st receiver.
At Wigan with Tomkins it's a different matter. When he's on the field he plays as a true old fashioned stand off acting as a second receiver off Tommy or Tim who plays as a 7 in the first receiver spot. Tommy isn't a 7, he doesn't know how to play the position he doesn't know how to use his stand off (Sam) and how to create and organise, hence Sam has no one to play off.
When Sam plays with Tim we see a different Tomkins, Smith, does his best to control the team and throws the ball around from 1st receiver allowing Sam to run off the back of Tim as a running second receiver, just as McGuire does off the back of Burrow for Leeds.
For one reason or another neither Tommy or Tim are good enough to steer the team around the park, this combined with Sam's inexperience of playing 1st grade and playing behind a beaten pack is throwing disadvantage after disadvantage at Sam.
I've mentioned a few times about moving Sam to FB. I have on the signings thread explained my reasons for the move and will do it again if people want to hear my reasons.
totally agree with you
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