Thompson is a fraud !, He was impressive during the first half, make your mind up you bellendHe was impressive during the first half, second half was a level or two below. The big difference was that he wasn't getting slapped around in tackles and actually had some drive, managed a few offloads also. Still a long way from being the elite forward we're paying him to be, still doubt he will get there at all.
My opinion has not changed, he will not live up to his price tag unless he improves out of sight. I can still however say parts his performance were impressive last night.Thompson is a fraud !, He was impressive during the first half, make your mind up you bellend
Thompson could walk into any NRL team, remember we are paying him virtually nothing this season, I agree he dropped off in the second half he was blowing out of his arse and no wonder he’s only played 6 hrs rugby this year.
Big off season, new coaches and conditioners and he will do more than earn his salary next year !
Mark my words
He's played 16 games this year (6 super league, world club challenge, 9 NRL), that's more games than most of squad. Whilst he's played decently the last 2 games that needs to be the minimum standard to even come close to earning his salary.Thompson is a fraud !, He was impressive during the first half, make your mind up you bellend
Thompson could walk into any NRL team, remember we are paying him virtually nothing this season, I agree he dropped off in the second half he was blowing out of his arse and no wonder he’s only played 6 hrs rugby this year.
Big off season, new coaches and conditioners and he will do more than earn his salary next year !
Mark my words
Tolman had over 200m and more then 60 post contact metres, yet some still find a way to have a dig T him.A couple of glaring 1 on 1 misses that nearly resulted in tries BUT otherwise I thought he had an excellent game, seems to be warming to the task and also liked the confrontation in the middle...
A few of his runs in particular caught the eye, seems to have some real pace, Tolman got in his way a bunch of times I also noticed, was hogging the ball for his 3m ineffective runs...
I do admire your straight talking and I agree with a lot of your comments you post on here.My opinion has not changed, he will not live up to his price tag unless he improves out of sight. I can still however say parts his performance were impressive last night.
I understand all that and lowered my expectations because of Covid, mid season switch etc...but he's on huge money and he simply needs to be in that elite tier of forward. We have got our signings so wrong over the years and Thompson can't be another.I do admire your straight talking and I agree with a lot of your comments you post on here.
But he has come from the other side of the world from playing school boy rugby to join our NRL and thankfully he chose our team
He will improve and adjust with time
Because he's Gal like, needs to get the absolute fuck out of the way. There's time where he literally positions himself between the dh and first receiver so he can once again touch the ball, or even times when he comes in and pushes the other forward wide. No doubt he works hard as fuck and constantly had a crack, but if we're going to turn a corner it's going to be without him.Tolman had over 200m and more then 60 post contact metres, yet some still find a way to have a dig T him.