Re: Sam Tomkins : Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:52 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

One thing I admire about this lad is he can take a hit, like against Leeds ablett( a big player) absolutely cleaned him out illegally, he just jumped straight back up

Jamie Foster is of a similar ilk.

Re: Sam Tomkins : Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:05 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Jamie Foster is of a similar ilk.

It may be a coincidence, but both these player have relatively low muscle mass, when compared to Kyle, gary wheeler, jonny lomax, etc. Who get injured relatively often. Perhaps putting too much muscle on young players is not such a great idea

Re: Sam Tomkins : Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:16 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

It may be a coincidence, but both these player have relatively low muscle mass, when compared to Kyle, gary wheeler, jonny lomax, etc. Who get injured relatively often. Perhaps putting too much muscle on young players is not such a great idea

Not sure Purple Aki would agree?

Re: Sam Tomkins : Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:43 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

I hope that's trolling, but on the wrong board?
One thing I admire about this lad is he can take a hit, like against Leeds ablett( a big player) absolutely cleaned him out illegally, he just jumped straight back up

Thats one thing that works against us as a team

IF Sam had stayed down that day, chances are Ablett would have been sent off there and then but because Sam got straight back up, The Referee (I think it was Ganson) assumed it musnt have been that bad of a challenge when in all honesty, it was one of the most cowardly challenges all year - straight out of Ryan Baileys textbook.

However in no way am I wanting him to start staying down and start pretending he is Didier Drogba or Ronaldo.

Re: Sam Tomkins : Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:22 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

It may be a coincidence, but both these player have relatively low muscle mass, when compared to Kyle, gary wheeler, jonny lomax, etc. Who get injured relatively often. Perhaps putting too much muscle on young players is not such a great idea

Not sure about foster, but Sam has a very simiar build to Roby, who manages to stay fit despite playing a very taxing role physically.

Mind you, Jammer also stay fits well , and I can't think to two plyaers that differ more in terms of build than him and Tomkins.

Re: Sam Tomkins : Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:38 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Not sure about foster, but Sam has a very simiar build to Roby, who manages to stay fit despite playing a very taxing role physically.

Mind you, Jammer also stay fits well , and I can't think to two plyaers that differ more in terms of build than him and Tomkins.

Jammer = physical freak, you see him around town and he's not particularly big, but what he can do on that pitch defies logic

Re: Sam Tomkins : Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:26 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

I think weve found a backrow version of james graham in engine and gingerness terms.

Re: Sam Tomkins : Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:57 pm  

Walter Neff wrote:

If he can turn it on Down Under for the 4 Nations,will you all hate him then?,,

aye, may put something on his cv your demi-gad will never have

Re: Sam Tomkins : Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:41 am  

I think Farrell's engine went into overdrive on Friday, 58 tackles.

There's probably some halfbacks who havent made that many tackles this season!

Re: Sam Tomkins : Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:31 am  

this thread makes me proud to be a fan of rugby league

lets hope eastmond will be fit for the final, and if we get there, we can have a special saints v wigan day out in mancsville