He was poor last night.

i wouldnt of called him poor, he was solid in defence and when he had the ball he tried to create, leeds did not let us do anything last night and sam will learn from that! I was delighted he played last night because these young lads need to be played in big games, imagine how sam feels this morning? played against leeds at headingley. the kid certainly does not look out of place in the super league.

I thought it was a great learning curve for Sam and it showed that he can meet the physical demands to plat against the toughest and hardest Super League teams.

Been reading this forum for a while, and here are my thoughts on this thread. I do agree that he is a great player and definitely has a great future in the game, but i think a lot of Wigan fans are expecting him to be a ready made replacement for Trent Barret. I think some of the fans need to take the pressure off him and let him progress to be the great player he can be in the future.

Disagree, he could not get involved in the game, but do not think he was poor.

Not a lot a half can do if the forwards don't lay the platform.

Did his share of work in the match though.

If Nobby decides to drop him on the basis that 'you don't want to overplay the young kids in relation to not burning them out and putting to many elemnets of pressure on them in relation to their development' then it will show the great difference between our attitudes and those in the NRL. There, if a kid is good enough he's old enough, including for state of origin and green and golds. We tend to be far more conservative up here.

Incorrect.

Our pack was poor last night.

He is a young lad playing against better opposition. It is a learning curve!

We wasn't poor. He must be doing something right becuase Leeds recognised him as a threat and marked him out of the game.

I thought last night showed Tomkins in a better light than the week before against Bradford.

Anyone can shine when you are winning easy and getting little resistance. Tomkins showed a bit of mettle last night, he never shirked in defence all night especially when Lautiti was running at him and when we actually got some ball probed very well.

Continue to show that effort, desire and most of all testicular fortitude and only great things lie ahead for him.

Yep, Feka & Hock recieved the same treatment. 4 men in every time. Credit to BM for that.

He's still one of the hottest prospects around imo and darren lockyer wouldn't of done much better behind that wigan pack last night and young ainscough outshone everyone in cherry and white last night,

full agree mate regarding ainscough! he is one hell of a talent on the wing and we have a star, nobby has realised it, he has some work to do especially on the defensive aspect of his game but that will come with experience

poor are you having a laugh he stood up to every tackle last night every single 1 i cant remember him missing 1 an has for creating leeds were very fast like every 1 say s its a learning curve an as for the comments about wigan fans putting him under preasure no there not cause if we was we would be saying he had a shocker he did this wrong he did this but were not he is learning an learning well , same as ainscough . i dont think they ll get a much tougther match in the super league than that leeds match i thought they were good last night an ainscough showed how much strength he s got running down that wing like ppl are saying our pack did nt help thing last night but i still think we did some good things last night it takes it out of you doing treble more tackles in 1 st 20 mins , some dodgey tries an dis aloud too not taking anything away from leeds they was hot in 1 st half

Obviously you were watching a different game. He never got the ball in a decent position to show his talents. We were playing out of our own half the entire game. There is not alot a Half Back can do when your forwards are getting pounded like ours did last night. Everytime wigan did try and build some pressure there was a stupid knock on. So no. He wasn't poor last night. He just didn't get an oppurtunity to show his skills. He was good in defence though. Or does that not count toward having a good game? If he had played for Leeds last night i'm sure Eddie, Stevo & All Leeds fans would be bigging him up as the greatest young half back in the history of ever.