Who else was in competition for Thompson? I heard the Rabbitohs before they signed Arrow, possibly the Titans before they signed Tino and obviously St. Helens as they'd be able to offer more money (but obviously wants to test himself in the NRL). I'm hoping personally Tolman wants to stay in the NRL/Australia and takes a reduced contract for an extra one to two seasons while we're building.
Not all of our fans mate but it’s been extremely negative reading a lot of topics and posts here in the past few months. It’s been very hard to take for some of us who are close to the club and knew the work they were doing to make a signing like this. You are one of the only ones to admit you were wrong (when you said about Hill). More good times to come and hopefully this place cheers up a bit and the comedians death riding the club wake up to themselves
Titans (Holbrook was his coach) and Warriors were in it til the end, Souffs were in it for a good while, Bennett has big raps on him, gave him his first start for the Poms. Plenty of ESL interest too.
As supporters we all offer our views on what we perceive, based on what we see and hear or don't hear or see.
I bet the most relieved today would actually be Dogs management, I'm sure they must have been feeling the pressure of the fans expectations.
11 clubs and was down to 3 of us in the end (4 including St Helens) was the last report
Gary Connolly
Yes true. Makes you happy for them as well.
Watching St Helens in the superleague in 2020 wasn’t an option for me until I woke up this morning to this news
From what I have seen, strong ball runner, hard to tackle, often takes 4 to stop him, quick play the ball, good leg drive, makes plenty of post contact metres, is very mobile (ie; runs surprisingly fast), has a sidestep, effective tackler, can strip the ball, lots of upper body strength, not a lot of offloads that I have seen. With my limited viewing he looks like a young Sam Burgess in that he easily stands out from the other forwards in the ESL. Given a full preseason of NRL level training he's going to be hard for the opposition to handle.
My second team (for a year)haha.
You just described Superman
Looked like Graham on speed in that clip
In some ways he won't be able to get away with the same things in NRL that he does in SL. Things like dominating, running sideways etc. The things I do like is how he keeps his legs pumping after he hits the line and he makes the players tackle him, he doesn't give it to them easy. I believe he has a huge motor too. I think after about 2 years in the NRL we will see his best after he learns the lines etc. Great buy.
A young Sam Burgess?? Man that’s a big call. I can’t really argue because I haven’t seen much of this dude, but I hope you’re right!