Give Tomkins one good winger to work with.
How can we trade them for 2014 when they're not contracted to us yet for 2014?
It would be like us trying to offer Taylor as a trade.
Now that could be an issue
@ the doubters: Tomkins owned us and the Aussies at the last four nations. He has a good reputation and many ppl say he would be one of the top fullbacks in the NRL if he came over.
I've never seem him play and yet I'll still blindly vouch for this.
I don't care how good he is in the ESL, the NRL is so far above it to the degree that almost every NRL club would comfortably thrash the best ESL club.
I expect him (if he comes here) to be decent at best, pretty much where Locke is. And if not that, worse.
Cant see any truth behind this.
If there is, you'd be looking at 3 of the star names of those off contract, Vatuvei probably, Mateo perhaps? Locke?
I find it funny people are suggesting Ropati, Mara, Steve Raprira and Fish.
You really think they'd let an international player go for either an injury prone centre and 2 bit part, non-regular 1st graders?
You are so naive and ignorant that you should really not try discuss this topic. You obviously have no knowledge on that matter.
Ok lets simplify then, is the NRL a tougher competition than the ESL? Yes.
Have ESL players who made the move down here been just as good as they were there? Barring few exceptions, no.
Do you dispute that?
The NRL players head over there in their career twilights or when they can't make the first cut into an NRL team. These guys make the starting 13 of the likes of Leeds and Wigan.
The world club challenge is a one off exhibition match almost always held in the UK and after the NRL grand final, that's not a basis for comparison between the leagues.
Maybe he's had strong games at the international level and is an ESL superstar, but that's not 26 weeks of high quality NRL standard footy. I'm making a very simple point here and that is however good he is there, it doesn't automatically equate to how good he will be here.
Never said he'd struggle, but he won't magically be another Slater. That's a huge assumption.
I'm not about to jump on the bandwagon for pulling ESL players no matter how good they are there.
Wigan vs Wakelfield from about a week ago... this is a highlight package for the whole game... not a Tomkins fan trailer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCs4IJ2Eozc
tomkins is the fullback.
he's a f**king upgrade from Locke...
Don't think it would happen. But..
1 Locke
2 Fishiahii
3 Hurrell
4 Nielson
5 Laumepe
6 Tomkins
7 Johnson
8 Rapira
9 Leuluai
10 Matulino
11 Mateo
12 Mannering
13 Lowrie
14 Godinet
15 Vatuvei
16 Lillyman
17 Packer
That's a mean team. They can have friend, Tupou and steve raps.