S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:56 am  

Whinos fan here.
The lad looks back to his best this season. Brilliant player.
Do you think he was allowed to leave too soon?
Are the Marquee players he was replaced with any better?
I'm genuinely interested......

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:17 am  

He wanted to leave. Personally I'd have kept him and he would still be the England/GB #1

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:21 am  

I’d love to have had him as our 7.

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:50 am  

I would have kept him but he was ready to move on a try something else, fair play to him

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:03 am  

Still the best english fullback in Superleague.

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:06 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Still the best english fullback in Superleague.

Yeah by a mile too. Can't believe the likes of Widdop and Ratchford were picked ahead of him......

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:39 am  

At the time I was worried about investing so much in someone with such a poor injury record. In hindsight we would have been better keeping him on. That's true on the field at least, I can't imagine it would have helped us businesswise (we already made a loss even after getting him off the books).

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:41 am  

Grimmy wrote:

At the time I was worried about investing so much in someone with such a poor injury record. In hindsight we would have been better keeping him on. That's true on the field at least, I can't imagine it would have helped us businesswise (we already made a loss even after getting him off the books).

Players like Sam put bums on seats and win trophies.

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 12:01 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Players like Sam put bums on seats and win trophies.

It's a nice theory about big names increasing ticket sales but realistically I don't think that happens for us. We just signed the reigning Man of Steel and another big name marquee player yet attendances and season ticket sales appear to be static. Granted if he had helped us make a final, that would have helped financially.

Re: S Tomkins : Wed Feb 19, 2020 12:08 pm  

We start winning games and crowds will increase