Always though he was severely under rated by some fans, he was our hardest working player and busted his gut for us most weeks. Its not his fault he was taking the ball up too much, maybe if we had more players as eagerly looking for work it wouldnt have happened. Maybe if our rubbish dummy halves stopped passing it to him all the time as they lacked imagination, it would have helped.
Nothing wrong with having a hard working no frills player in the pack, as long as you have some more creative players with offloads as well. You wouldn't want a full pack of Tolmans. I think hes been a bit of a scapegoat in recent years when the true problem we have had is reserve grade level halves and hooker. Only good player we had in those positions only played half the time. There is the real issue.