Fast Eddie
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I have no idea why you keep saying past 2 seasons. We had 1 bad season after making the grand final, this season could go either way.
my point was that he's entitled to his opinion... you obviously dont agree with it... but there are certainly some very valid reasons for him to advise Tomkins not to come to the Warriors outside of the fact that he's had a stink with Eric Watson.No doubt. And I do have to admit it was an all time low for the Warriors to lose to the Eels by 40 or whatever that was :lol:
okay then... how about we say a shit season and a half....
you finished 14th last season... and halfway through this season your sitting in 13th.
in that 1.5 seasons you have had 3 first grade coaches... you also managed to break a club record of losing 11 straight games in that period.
that's a pretty poor season and a half...
That's Souffs-like.. except extend that for about 30 years. Can you imagine Eric Watson rocking up to the North of England and in any way shape or form plant a seed of doubt in Sam Burgess about going to Souffs? Not a chance. That'd be highly unprofessional and probably more importantly, self righteous and immature. Can you imagine the media hoo-haa if Eric Watson did that? It'd be a P.R disaster.
Sam Tomkins denies a deal has been done with the New Zealand Warriors
“All I can say is that I’m playing for Wigan and haven’t signed for anyone else. I’m being honest.”
But your mother recently went on holiday to Auckland?
“Yes, she did.”
Reports suggested the Warriors funded her trip? “I’ll bring you a bank statement, I paid for that.”
But the Warriors say they did? “My mum has robbed me then.”
Cue laughter all round.
Sam Tomkins, the Super League’s reigning Man of Steel, is holding court at England’s training base at Loughborough University.
Steve McNamara’s men face the Exiles tonight but all the talk centres on Tomkins’ future. Rumours linking the Wigan full-back with a move to New Zealand continue to grow. He looks certain to be off to the Auckland-based NRL franchise after the World Cup later this year. He denies it all.
“It seems like everyone knows where I’m going apart from me,” said Tomkins. “I’m not signing for Sale, Bath or Manchester United… shall we just write a list of people I’m not signing for?
“But I’ve said it since I was 19 or 20 years old – one day I could see myself playing rugby union or in the NRL.
“We play the game for around 12 years on average and if you’ve got a few things you want to do then you haven’t got a massive window of time to do it in.”
The 24-year-old signed a five-year deal with Wigan in November 2011 but has an option to consider offers from NRL clubs.
Sydney Roosters and Gold Coast Titans are also in the market for Tomkins but it appears the Warriors are leading the battle to bring him Down Under, offering a lucrative two-year deal which could be worth up to £1million.
That his close friend and former Wigan team-mate Thomas Leuluai plays for the Warriors would smooth the transition.
“The Warriors have won their past three games,” said Tomkins, with telling enthusiasm. “Auckland is a nice part of the world and I went there with England in 2010. Tommy has got a really nice place there and he enjoys it.”
With Tomkins seemingly destined to move away at the end of the season, helping the national side to lift the World Cup would mark the perfect send-off. “Winning the World Cup would comfortably mean more than any club trophy,” he said. “I’m an England player first and a Wigan player second.”
This thread f**king sucks.
More interestingly:
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/rugbyleague/407372/Mother-of-all-deals-for-Sam-Tomkins
i think a telling part of that article was the fact that he knows that the Warriors have won 3 in a row.
i would doubt if many ESL players would normally keep tabs on results like that unless they had serious reasons for it.
i think a telling part of that article was the fact that he knows that the Warriors have won 3 in a row.
i would doubt if many ESL players would normally keep tabs on results like that unless they had serious reasons for it.
I simply cannot understand any mixed reactions to Tomkins.
1) The dude is clearly a superstar. Young with perhaps even more potential to be tapped... and he's performed not just at Super League level but in internationals against both New Zealand & Australia, and not always at fullback. Which leads me to my next point...
2) ...He's not just a fullback. And neither is Kevin Locke. Both of them could comfortably play in the halves - and it looks like one of them certainly will, to accomodate both. Fish looks like he might just be the winger we've been crying out for, with a little more development. We can fit all 3 in the side, easily. Tomkins is a fine ballplayer with great speed, and Locke - well, we've all seen enough of Locke at second receiver to know he can play that role, surely? It's where he often chimes in when playing his best footy.
3) We have all this room under the cap, why not use it? What's the downside - we don't sign a couple more average players on overs? Or we just don't spend the money at all? It's not like the club is skint, and there aren't many good players left on the market. There really isn't much of a downside, and the potential upside is massive.. Tomkins has the kind of ability to be the best signing we've ever made.